Stir vs Undefined - What's the difference?
stir | undefined |
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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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.
Lacking a definition or value.
(mathematics, computing) That does not have a meaning and is thus not assigned an interpretation.
As a noun stir
is scorpion.As an adjective undefined is
lacking a definition or value.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.
Etymology 2
(en)Noun
(-)Anagrams
* * English ergative verbs ----undefined
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Adjective
(wikipedia undefined) (-)- The result of division by zero is undefined .