Drifted vs Stirred - What's the difference?
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(drift)
(label) Movement; that which moves or is moved.
# (label) A driving; a violent movement.
#* 1332 , (King Alisaunder) (1332)
# Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting.
#* (Richard Hakluyt) (c.1552-1616)
# That which is driven, forced, or urged along.
#*{{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)
, chapter=5, title= # Anything driven at random.
#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
# A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., especially by wind or water.
#* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
#* Kane
# The distance through which a current flows in a given time.
# A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds.
#* (Thomas Fuller) (1606-1661)
# A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the retreat of continental glaciers, such as that which buries former river valleys and creates young river valleys.
#* 1867 , E. Andrews, "Observations on the Glacial Drift beneath the bed of Lake Michigan," American Journal of Science and Arts? , vol. 43, nos. 127-129,
# Driftwood included in flotsam washed up onto the beach.
The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.
* (Robert South) (1634–1716)
A place (a ford) along a river where the water is shallow enough to permit crossing to the opposite side.
The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or meaning of a sentence or discourse; aim.
* 1977 , (w), (The Canterbury Tales) , Penguin Classics, p. 316:
* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
* Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
(architecture) The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.
(label) A tool.
# A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it; a broach.
# A tool used in driving down compactly the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework.
A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to oblong projectiles.
(label) A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.
(label) Movement.
# The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting.
# The distance to which a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes.
# The place in a deep-waisted vessel where the sheer is raised and the rail is cut off, and usually terminated with a scroll, or driftpiece.
# The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.
# The difference between the size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven.
(label) A sideways movement of the ball through the air, when bowled by a spin bowler.
(label) To move slowly, especially pushed by currents of water, air, etc.
*, chapter=11
, title= (label) To move haphazardly without any destination.
(label) To deviate gently from the intended direction of travel.
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, title= (label) To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body.
(label) To drive into heaps.
(label) To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps.
To make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prospect.
To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.
To oversteer a vehicle, causing loss of traction, while maintaining control from entry to exit of a corner. See .
(stir)
To change the place of in any manner; to move.
*(rfdate), (Sir William Temple)
*:My foot I had never yet in five days been able to stir .
(lb) To disturb the relative position of the particles of, as of a liquid, by passing something through it; to agitate.
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*(rfdate), (William Shakespeare)
*:My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirred .
(lb) To agitate the content of (a container) by passing something through it.
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(lb) To bring into debate; to agitate; to moot.
*(rfdate), (Francis Bacon)
*:Stir not questions of jurisdiction.
(lb) To incite to action; to arouse; to instigate; to prompt; to excite.
*(rfdate) (Chaucer)
*:To stir men to devotion.
*(rfdate), (William Shakespeare)
*:An Ate, stirring him to blood and strife.
*(rfdate), (John Dryden)
*:And for her sake some mutiny will stir .
*1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
*:That night he was almost too happy to sleep, and so much love stirred in his little sawdust heart that it almost burst.
(lb) To move; to change one’s position.
*(rfdate) (Byron)
*:I had not power to stir or strive, But felt that I was still alive.
(lb) To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy oneself.
*(rfdate) (Byron)
*:All are not fit with them to stir and toil.
*(rfdate) (Charles Merivale)
*:The friends of the unfortunate exile, far from resenting his unjust suspicions, were stirring anxiously in his behalf.
(lb) To become the object of notice; to be on foot.
*(rfdate), (Isaac Watts)
*:They fancy they have a right to talk freely upon everything that stirs or appears.
To rise, or be up and about, in the morning.
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*:"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! "
The act or result of stirring; agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements.
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* (rfdate), .
Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar.
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Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions.
(lb) Jail; prison.
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*: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. Most lone wolves had a moll at any rate—women were their ruin—but if the Bat had a moll, not even the grapevine telegraph could locate her.
As verbs the difference between drifted and stirred
is that drifted is past tense of drift while stirred is past tense of stir.drifted
English
Verb
(head)drift
English
Noun
(en noun)- The dragon drew him [self] away with drift of his wings.
- Our drift was south.
The Lonely Pyramid, passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.
- Some loga useless drift .
- Drifts of rising dust involve the sky.
- We got the brig a good bed in the rushing drift [of ice].
- cattle coming over the bridge (with their great drift doing much damage to the high ways)
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- It is there seen that at a distance from the valleys of streams, the old glacial drift usually comes to the surface, and often rises into considerable eminences.
- A bad man, being under the drift of any passion, will follow the impulse of it till something interpose.
- 'Besides, you lack the brains to catch my drift . / If I explained you wouldn't understand.'
- He has made the drift of the whole poem a compliment on his country in general.
- Now thou knowest my drift .
- (Knight)
Derived terms
* driftage * driftal * drift-anchor * drift-bolt * drift-current * drift ice * driftland * driftless * drift-mining * drift-net * drift-sail * driftway * driftweed * driftwood * driftyVerb
(en verb)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=One day I was out in the barn and he drifted in. I was currying the horse and he set down on the wheelbarrow and begun to ask questions.}}
Man City 4-3 Wolves, passage=Midway through the half, Argentine Tevez did begin to drift inside in order to exert his influence but by this stage Mick McCarthy's side had gone 1-0 up and looked comfortable.}}
Derived terms
* bedrift * drift along * drift apart * drift offstirred
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*stir
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) stiren, from (etyl) styrian, from (etyl) .Verb
(stirr)Usage notes
* In all transitive senses except the first, (term) is often followed by (up) with an intensive effect; as, (term); (term).Synonyms
* (to move) incite; awaken; rouse; animate; stimulate; excite; provoke.Derived terms
* stir-fry * stirrer * stir up * straw that stirs the drinkNoun
- Why all these words, this clamor, and this stir ?
- ''Consider, after so much stir about genus and species, how few words we have yet settled definitions of.
- Being advertised of some stirs raised by his unnatural sons in England.