stir : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: stir	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for stir
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
stir n a prominent or sensational but short-lived news event; "he made a great splash and then disappeared" Synonym(s): stir, splash emotional agitation and excitement a rapid active commotion Synonym(s): bustle, hustle, flurry, ado, fuss, stir v move an implement through; "stir the soup"; "stir my drink"; "stir the soil" move very slightly; "He shifted in his seat" Synonym(s): stir, shift, budge, agitate stir feelings in; "stimulate my appetite"; "excite the audience"; "stir emotions" Synonym(s): stimulate, excite, stir stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of; "These stories shook the community"; "the civil war shook the country" Synonym(s): stimulate, shake, shake up, excite, stir affect emotionally; "A stirring movie"; "I was touched by your kind letter of sympathy" Synonym(s): touch, stir summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic; "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the air"; "call down the spirits from the mountain" Synonym(s): raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, evoke, stir, call down, arouse, bring up, put forward, call forth to begin moving, "As the thunder started the sleeping children began to stir" Synonym(s): arouse, stir mix or add by stirring; "Stir nuts into the dough"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Stir \Stir\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stirred}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Stirring}.] [OE. stiren, steren, sturen, AS. styrian; probably akin to D. storen to disturb, G. st[94]ren, OHG. st[d3]ren to scatter, destroy. [fb]166.] 1. To change the place of in any manner; to move. My foot I had never yet in five days been able to stir. --Sir W. Temple. 2. To disturb the relative position of the particles of, as of a liquid, by passing something through it; to agitate; as, to stir a pudding with a spoon. My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirred. --Shak. 3. To bring into debate; to agitate; to moot. Stir not questions of jurisdiction. --Bacon. 4. To incite to action; to arouse; to instigate; to prompt; to excite. [bd]To stir men to devotion.[b8] --Chaucer. An Ate, stirring him to blood and strife. --Shak. And for her sake some mutiny will stir. --Dryden. Note: In all senses except the first, stir is often followed by up with an intensive effect; as, to stir up fire; to stir up sedition. Syn: To move; incite; awaken; rouse; animate; stimulate; excite; provoke.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Stir \Stir\, v. i. 1. To move; to change one's position. I had not power to stir or strive, But felt that I was still alive. --Byron. 2. To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy one's self. All are not fit with them to stir and toil. --Byron. The friends of the unfortunate exile, far from resenting his unjust suspicions, were stirring anxiously in his behalf. --Merivale. 3. To become the object of notice; to be on foot. They fancy they have a right to talk freely upon everything that stirs or appears. --I. Watts. 4. To rise, or be up, in the morning. [Colloq.] --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Stir \Stir\, n. 1. The act or result of stirring; agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements. Why all these words, this clamor, and this stir? --Denham. Consider, after so much stir about genus and species, how few words we have yet settled definitions of. --Locke. 2. Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar. Being advertised of some stirs raised by his unnatural sons in England. --Sir J. Davies. 3. Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions.