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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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shift
English
Etymology
From Middle English schiften, from Old English s?iftan (“to divide, separate into shares; appoint, ordain; arrange, organise”), from Proto-Germanic *skiftijan?, *skiptijan?, from earlier *skipatjan? (“to organise, put in order”), from Proto-Indo-European *skeyb- (“to separate, divide, part”), from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to cut, divide, separate, part”). Cognate with Scots schift, skift (“to shift”), West Frisian skifte, skiftsje (“to sort”), Dutch schiften (“to sort, screen, winnow, part”), German schichten (“to stack, layer”), Swedish skifta (“to shift, change, exchange, vary”), Norwegian skifte (“to shift”), Icelandic skipta (“to switch”). See ship.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) enPR: sh?ft, IPA(key): /??ft/
- (Canada)
- Rhymes: -?ft
Noun
shift (countable and uncountable, plural shifts)
- (historical) A type of women's undergarment, a slip.
- Just last week she bought a new shift at the market.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 47
- Some wear black shifts and flesh-coloured stockings; some with curly hair, dyed yellow, are dressed like little girls in short muslin frocks.
- A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.
- We'll work three shifts a day till the job's done.
- An act of shifting; a slight movement or change.
- There was a shift in the political atmosphere.
- c. 1620-1626, Henry Wotton, letter to Nicholas Pey
- My going to Oxford was not merely for shift of air.
- (US) The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.
- Does it come with a stick-shift?
- Alternative spelling of Shift (“a modifier button of computer keyboards”).
- If you press shift-P, the preview display will change.
- (computing) A bit shift.
- (baseball) The infield shift.
- Teams often use the shift against this lefty.
- (Ireland, crude slang, often with the definite article, usually uncountable) The act of kissing passionately.
- (archaic) A contrivance, a device to try when other methods fail.
- 1596, Shakespeare, History of King John
- If I get down, and do not break my limbs,
- I'll find a thousand shifts to get away:
- As good to die and go, as die and stay.
- 1596, Shakespeare, History of King John
- (archaic) A trick, an artifice.
- 1593, Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew
- And if the boy have not a woman's gift
- To rain a shower of commanded tears,
- An onion will do well for such a shift
- Little souls on little shifts rely.
- 1593, Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew
- (construction) The extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
- (mining) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
- (genetics) A mutation in which the DNA or RNA from two different sources (such as viruses or bacteria) combine.
- (music) In violin-playing, any position of the left hand except that nearest the nut.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
shift (third-person singular simple present shifts, present participle shifting, simple past and past participle shifted)
- (transitive, sometimes figuratively) To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
- (transitive, figuratively) To change in form or character; swap.
- 2008, June Granatir Alexander, Ethnic Pride, American Patriotism (page ix)
- As a result, I shifted my approach to focus on group-generated activities and broadened the chronological time frame.
- 2008, June Granatir Alexander, Ethnic Pride, American Patriotism (page ix)
- (intransitive) To change position.
- (intransitive, India) To change residence; to leave and live elsewhere.
- Synonym: move
- (obsolete, transitive) To change (clothes, especially underwear).
- , II.ii.2:
- 'Tis very good to wash his hands and face often, to shift his clothes, to have fair linen about him, to be decently and comely attired […].
- , II.ii.2:
- (obsolete, transitive, reflexive) To change (someone's) clothes; sometimes specifically, to change underwear.
- c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, Act V, Scene 5,[3]
- As it were, to ride day and night; and […] not to have patience to shift me.
- 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, I.21:
- The first thing he did was to secure a convenient lodging at the inn where he dined; then he shifted himself, and according to the direction he had received, went to the house of Mrs. Gauntlet […] .
- c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, Act V, Scene 5,[3]
- (intransitive) To change gears (in a car).
- (typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters and special characters.
- (computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters and special characters.
- (transitive, computing) To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate.
- (transitive, computing) To remove the first value from an array.
- (transitive) To dispose of.
- (intransitive) To hurry; to move quickly.
- (Ireland, vulgar, slang) To engage in sexual petting.
- (archaic) To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage.
- 1692, Roger L’Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists with Morals and Reflexions, London: R. Sare et al., Fable 83, Reflexion, p. 81,[4]
- […] men in distress will look to themselves in the First Place, and leave their Companions to Shift as well as they can.
- 1743, Robert Drury, The Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar, London, p. 112,[5]
- My Fellow-Slaves were […] as courteous to me as I could well-expect; and as they had Plantations of their own, they gave me […] such Victuals as they had; especially on dark Nights, and at such Times as I could not shift for myself.
- 1692, Roger L’Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists with Morals and Reflexions, London: R. Sare et al., Fable 83, Reflexion, p. 81,[4]
- To practice indirect or evasive methods.
- 1614, Walter Raleigh, History of the World, London: Walter Burre, Part 1, Chapter 3, Section 7, p. 45,[6]
- But this I dare auow of all those Schoole-men, that though they were exceeding wittie, yet they better teach all their Followers to shift, then to resolue, by their distinctions.
- 1614, Walter Raleigh, History of the World, London: Walter Burre, Part 1, Chapter 3, Section 7, p. 45,[6]
- (music) In violin-playing, to move the left hand from its original position next to the nut.
Synonyms
- (to change, swap): interchange, swap; See also Thesaurus:switch
- (to move from one place to another): relocate, transfer; See also Thesaurus:move
- (to change position): reposition
- (to dispose of): get rid of, remove; See also Thesaurus:junk
- (to hurry): hasten, rush; See also Thesaurus:rush
- (to engage in sexual petting): fondle, grope; see also Thesaurus:fondle
Antonyms
- (computing): unshift
Derived terms
- ever-shifting, evershifting
- preshift
- unshift
Translations
Portuguese
Noun
shift m (plural shifts)
- shift (button on a keyboard)
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