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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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- what stores are open near me
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stur
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -??(r)
Verb
stur (third-person singular simple present sturs, present participle sturring, simple past and past participle sturred)
- (largely obsolete) Alternative spelling of stir
Anagrams
- RTUs, Rust, UTRs, rust, ruts, turs
Aromanian
Alternative forms
- sturu
Etymology
Uncertain. Possibly from Latin stylus, stilus. Compare Romanian stur. Cf. also Albanian shtyllë.
Noun
stur n
- pillar, column
- post
Derived terms
- sturusescu
See also
- stil, durec
Dalmatian
Etymology
From Latin st?re, present active infinitive of st?.
Verb
stur (past participle stut)
- to be, it's past participle is used as an auxiliary verb with saite
Elfdalian
Etymology
From Old Norse stórr, from Proto-Germanic *st?raz. Cognate with Swedish stor.
Adjective
stur
- big, large
Antonyms
- litn
German
Etymology
Via German Low German st?r from Middle Low German st?r, st?re. The word is first attested in standard German in the 19th century, but speedily became part of the core vocabulary. Cognate with Dutch stoer (itself a form of dialectal origin), Swedish stursk and with Old High German st?r, st?ri, stiuri (“strong, big, stately, proud”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?tu???/
- Rhymes: -u???
Adjective
stur (comparative sturer, superlative am stursten)
- stubborn
Declension
Synonyms
- dickköpfig
- eigensinnig
Derived terms
- Sturheit
- Sturkopf
Related terms
- Steuer
Further reading
- “stur” in Duden online
Norn
Etymology
From Old Norse stórr, from Proto-Germanic *st?raz.
Adjective
stur
- big
- tall
Romanian
Etymology
Uncertain. Possibly from Latin stylus, stilus.
Noun
stur m (plural sturi)
- (rare, dated) icicle
- (rare, dated, regional) low quality salt that is disposed of
- (rare, dated, regional) soot, lampblack
- (rare, dated, regional) slag, dross
Declension
Synonyms
- (icicle): ?ur?ur
- (soot): funingine
- (slag): zgur?
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