different between stir vs meander
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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meander
English
Alternative forms
- mæander (archaic)
Etymology
From Latin Maeander, from Ancient Greek ????????? (Maíandros) – a river in Asia Minor (present day Turkey) known for its winding course. (Turkish Büyük Menderes Nehri)
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /mi?ænd?(?)/
- (US) IPA(key): /mi?ænd?/
Noun
meander (plural meanders)
- One of the turns of a winding, crooked, or involved course.
- 1712, Sir Richard Blackmore, "Creation: A Philosophical Poem":
- See, how the streams advancing to the main, / Through crooked channels draw their crystal train! / While lingering thus they in meanders glide, / They scatter verdant life on either side.
- 1712, Sir Richard Blackmore, "Creation: A Philosophical Poem":
- A tortuous or intricate movement.
- (geography) one of a series of regular sinuous curves, bends, loops, turns, or windings in the channel of a river, stream, or other watercourse
- Fretwork.
- Perplexity.
- Synonym of Greek key, a decorative border.
- (mathematics) A self-avoiding closed curve which intersects a line a number of times.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
meander (third-person singular simple present meanders, present participle meandering, simple past and past participle meandered)
- (intransitive) To wind or turn in a course or passage; to be intricate.
- (transitive) To wind, turn, or twist; to make flexuous.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryton to this entry?)
Translations
Further reading
- meander on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Büyük Menderes River on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
- The Chambers Dictionary (1998)
Anagrams
- Merenda, amender, enarmed, reamend, reedman, renamed
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin Maeander, from Ancient Greek ????????? (Maíandros)
Noun
meander m (definite singular meanderen, indefinite plural meandere or meandre or meandrer, definite plural meanderne or meandrene)
- a meander (in a river)
Derived terms
- meandersjø
- meandrere
References
- “meander” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “meander” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Latin Maeander, from Ancient Greek ????????? (Maíandros)
Noun
meander m (definite singular meanderen, indefinite plural meandrar, definite plural meandrane)
- a meander (in a river)
Derived terms
- meandersjø
References
- “meander” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish
Etymology
From German Mäander, from Latin Maeander, from Ancient Greek ????????? (Maíandros) – a river in Asia Minor (present day Turkey) known for its winding course.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /m??an.d?r/
Noun
meander m inan
- meander (one of a series of regular sinuous curves, bends, loops, turns, or windings in the channel of a river, stream, or other watercourse)
- Synonym: zakole
- meander, meandros (decorative border constructed from a continuous line, shaped into a repeated motif)
Declension
Derived terms
- (adjectives) meandrowy, meandryczny, meandrowaty
- (nouns) meandryczno??
- (verb) meandrowa?
Further reading
- meander in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- meander in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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