different between refreshing vs stirring

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???f?????/
• Rhymes: -????
• Hyphenation: re?fresh?ing

Adjective

refreshing (comparative more refreshing, superlative most refreshing)

1. That refreshes someone; pleasantly fresh and different; granting vitality and energy.
2. Serving to refresh, particularly with respect to an electronic screen, or a browser window or similar computer application.

Derived terms

• refreshingly
• refreshingness

Translations

Noun

refreshing (plural refreshings)

1. The action of refresh; refreshment given or received.
2. That which gives refreshment.

Verb

refreshing

1. present participle of refresh

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?st???/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?st?????/

Adjective

stirring

1. invigorating or inspiring

   • As he had said, his voice was hoarse, but he sang well enough, and it was a stirring tune, something between 'Clementine' and 'La Cucaracha'.

   • 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games[2]

     The opening crawl (and a stirring propaganda movie) informs us that “The Hunger Games” are an annual event in Panem, a North American nation divided into 12 different districts, each in service to the Capitol, a wealthy metropolis that owes its creature comforts to an oppressive dictatorship.

Translations

Verb

stirring

1. present participle of stir

Noun

stirring (countable and uncountable, plural stirrings)

1. (gerund of stir) An occasion on which something stirs or is stirred