Flip vs Stir - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between flip and stir

is that flip is (slang|chiefly|derogatory|ethnic slur) a filipino; a person who is of filipino background while stir is scorpion.

flip

English

Etymology 1

Alteration of earlier fillip, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

A maneuver which rotates an object end over end.

We'll decide this on a flip of a coin.

The diver did a couple of flips before landing in the pool.

A complete change of direction, decision, movement etc.

Derived terms

* backflip

Verb

To throw (as in to turn over).

You need to flip the pancake onto the other side.

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To put into a quick revolving motion through a snap of the thumb and index finger.

If you can't decide which option to go for, flip a coin.

(slang) To go berserk or crazy.

I'd flip if anyone broke my phone.

To buy an asset (usually a house), improve it and sell it quickly for profit.

(computing) To invert a bit (binary digit), changing it from 0 to 1 or from 1 to 0.

Derived terms

* backflip * flip phone * flipside * flipper * flip out * flip off * flip over

Synonyms

* turn, turn over * (to put into a quick revolving motion) toss

Etymology 2

Apparently a euphemism for (fuck).

Interjection

(en interjection)

(UK, mildly, vulgar) used to express annoyance, especially when the speaker has made an error.

* 1967 , Peter Shaffer, Black comedy, including White lies: two plays

Impossible. He's dining out and coming on here after. He can't be reached. / Oh, flip !

* 2000 , Susan McKay, Northern Protestants

"Oh flip , don't come near this place," she said. It was dangerous. The Catholics had banners up on the Garvaghy Road saying, 'No Protestants here'.

Synonyms

* damn

Etymology 3

From , by shortening.

Adjective

(flipper)

(British, informal) Having the quality of playfulness, or lacking seriousness of purpose.

I hate to be flip, but perhaps we could steal a Christmas tree.

sarcastic

Etymology 4

Compare English dialect .

Noun

A mixture of beer, spirit, etc., stirred and heated by a hot iron (a flip dog ).

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stir

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) stiren, from (etyl) styrian, from (etyl) .

Verb

(stirr)

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.

*(rfdate), (William Shakespeare)

*:My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirred .

(lb) To agitate the content of (a container) by passing something through it.

(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.

*:"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! "

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 drink

Noun

The act or result of stirring; agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements.

* (rfdate), .

Why all these words, this clamor, and this stir ?

* (rfdate), .

''Consider, after so much stir about genus and species, how few words we have yet settled definitions of.

Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar.

* (rfdate), .

Being advertised of some stirs raised by his unnatural sons in England.

Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions.

Etymology 2

(en)

Noun

(-)

(lb) Jail; prison.

*: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.

Anagrams

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