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stir
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /st??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /st?/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
Etymology 1
From Middle English stiren, sturien, from Old English styrian (“to be in motion, move, agitate, stir, disturb, trouble”), from Proto-Germanic *sturiz (“turmoil, noise, confusion”), related to Proto-Germanic *staurijan? (“to destroy, disturb”). Cognate with Old Norse styrr (“turmoil, noise, confusion”), German stören (“to disturb”), Dutch storen (“to disturb”).
Verb
stir (third-person singular simple present stirs, present participle stirring, simple past and past participle stirred)
- (transitive) To incite to action
- Synonyms: arouse, instigate, prompt, excite; see also Thesaurus:incite
- (transitive) To disturb the relative position of the particles of, a liquid of suchlike, by passing something through it
- Synonym: agitate
- (transitive) To agitate the content of (a container), by passing something through it.
- (transitive) To bring into debate; to agitate; to moot.
- (transitive, dated) To change the place of in any manner; to move.
- (intransitive) To move; to change one’s position.
- (intransitive) To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy oneself.
- (intransitive) To become the object of notice; to be on foot.
- (intransitive, poetic) To rise, or be up and about, in the morning.
- Synonyms: arise, get up, rouse; see also Thesaurus:wake
- “Mid-Lent, and the Enemy grins,” remarked Selwyn as he started for church with Nina and the children. Austin, knee-deep in a dozen Sunday supplements, refused to stir; poor little Eileen was now convalescent from grippe, but still unsteady on her legs; her maid had taken the grippe, and now moaned all day: “Mon dieu! Mon dieu! Che fais mourir!”
For more quotations using this term, see Citations:stir.
Usage notes
- In all transitive senses except the dated one (“to change the place of in any manner”), stir is often followed by up with an intensive effect; as, to stir up fire; to stir up sedition.
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
stir (countable and uncountable, plural stirs)
- The act or result of stirring (moving around the particles of a liquid etc.)
- agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements.
- 1668, John Denham, Of Prudence (poem).
- Why all these words, this clamour, and this stir?
- .
- Consider, after so much stir about genus and species, how few words we have yet settled definitions of.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:stir.
- 1668, John Denham, Of Prudence (poem).
- Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar.
- 1612, Sir John Davies, Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued
- Being advertised of some stirs raised by his unnatural sons in England.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:stir.
- 1612, Sir John Davies, Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued
- Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions.
Derived terms
- cause a stir
- stirless
- upstir
Translations
Etymology 2
From Romani stariben (“prison”), nominalisation of (a)star (“seize”), causative of ast (“remain”), probably from Sanskrit ???????? (?ti??hati, “stand or remain by”), from ??????? (ti??hati, “stand”).
Noun
stir (countable and uncountable, plural stirs)
- (slang) Jail; prison.
- 1928, Jack Callahan, Man's Grim Justice: My Life Outside the Law (page 42)
- Sing Sing was a tough joint in those days, one of the five worst stirs in the United States.
- The Bat—they called him the Bat. […]. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.
- 1928, Jack Callahan, Man's Grim Justice: My Life Outside the Law (page 42)
Derived terms
- stir-crazy
Anagrams
- ISTR, RTIs, Rist, TRIS, TRIs, Tris, rits, sirt, tris, tris-
Danish
Verb
stir
- imperative of stirre
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dispose
English
Etymology
From French disposer.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /d?s?po?z/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d??sp??z/
- Rhymes: -??z
Verb
dispose (third-person singular simple present disposes, present participle disposing, simple past and past participle disposed)
- (intransitive, used with "of") To eliminate or to get rid of something.
- To distribute or arrange; to put in place.
- 1600, William Shakespeare, Henry V, act 4, scene III
- Now, dear soldiers, march away: / And how thou pleasest, God, dispose the day!
- 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, chapter 6
- Marianne’s pianoforte was unpacked and properly disposed of, and Elinor’s drawing were affixed to the walls of their sitting rooms.
- 1934, Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance, 1992 Bantam edition, ?ISBN, page 47:
- I sat down within three feet of the entrance door, and I had no sooner got disposed than the door opened and a man came in […] .
- 1600, William Shakespeare, Henry V, act 4, scene III
- To deal out; to assign to a use.
- 1818 (first published), John Evelyn, diary entry for 1634
- what he designed to bestow on her funeral, he would rather dispose among the poor
- 1818 (first published), John Evelyn, diary entry for 1634
- To incline.
- (Used here intransitively in the passive voice)
- Endure and conquer; Jove will soon dispose / To future good our past and present woes.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Suspicion
- They [suspicions] dispose kings to tyranny, husbands to jealousy, and wise men to irresolution and melancholy.
- At twilight in the summer […] the mice come out. They […] eat the luncheon crumbs. Mr. Checkly, for instance, always brought his dinner in a paper parcel in his coat-tail pocket, and ate it when so disposed, sprinkling crumbs lavishly […] on the floor.
- (obsolete) To bargain; to make terms.
- (obsolete) To regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine.
- the knightly forms of combat to dispose
Synonyms
- incline
- discard
Antonyms
- indispose
- disincline
Derived terms
- disposition
- disposal
- dispose of
Translations
Noun
dispose
- (obsolete) The disposal or management of something.
- (obsolete) Behaviour; disposition.
French
Verb
dispose
- first-person singular present indicative of disposer
- third-person singular present indicative of disposer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of disposer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of disposer
- second-person singular imperative of disposer
Italian
Verb
dispose
- third-person singular past historic of disporre
Anagrams
- dispeso
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