stir /st'ɚ/
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資料來源(1): pydict data [pydict]
stir
騷動,轟動,攪動,監獄(vt.)動,移動,搖動,激起,惹起,攪和(vi.)走動,傳播
資料來源(2): 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["o]ren, OHG.
st[=o]ren to scatter, destroy. [root]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. ``To stir men to devotion.'' --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.
資料來源(3): 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.
資料來源(4): 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.
資料來源(5): WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]
stir
n 1: a disorderly outburst or tumult; "they were amazed by the
furious disturbance they had caused" [syn: {disturbance},
{disruption}, {commotion}, {flutter}, {hurly burly}, {to-do},
{hoo-ha}, {hoo-hah}, {kerfuffle}]
2: emotional agitation and excitement
3: a rapid bustling commotion [syn: {bustle}, {hustle}, {flurry},
{ado}, {fuss}]
v 1: move an implement through with a circular motion; "stir the
soup"; "stir my drink"
2: move very slightly; "He shifted in his seat" [syn: {shift},
{budge}, {agitate}]
3: stir feelings in; "stimulate my appetite"; "excite the
audience"; "stir emotions" [syn: {stimulate}, {excite}]
4: stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of; "These stories
shook the community"; "the civil war shook the country"
[syn: {stimulate}, {shake}, {shake up}, {excite}]
5: affect emotionally; "A stirring movie"; "I was touched by
your kind letter of sympathy" [syn: {touch}]
6: evoke or call forth, with or as if by magic; "raise the
specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the
air"; "stir a disturbance"; "call down the spirits from
the mountain" [syn: {raise}, {conjure}, {conjure up}, {invoke},
{evoke}, {call down}, {arouse}, {bring up}, {put forward},
{call forth}]
7: to begin moving, "As the thunder started the sleeping
children began to stir" [syn: {arouse}]
8: mix or add by stirring; "Stir nuts into the dough"
[also: {stirring}, {stirred}]