(v. t.) To change the place of in any manner; to move.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To bring into debate; to agitate; to moot.
(v. t.) To incite to action; to arouse; to instigate; to prompt; to excite.
(v. i.) To move; to change one's position.
(v. i.) To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy one's self.
(v. i.) To become the object of notice; to be on foot.
(v. i.) To rise, or be up, in the morning.
(n.) The act or result of stirring; agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements.
(n.) Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar.
(n.) Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions.
Example Sentences:
(1) I'm married to an Irish woman, and she remembers in the atmosphere stirred up in the 1970s people spitting on her.
(2) Koons provoked a bigger stir with the news that he would be showing with gallery owner David Zwirner next year in an apparent defection from Zwirner's arch-rival Larry Gagosian, the world's most powerful art dealer.
(3) The apparent Km for K+-ATP was 2.1 mM when the incubation mixture was vigorously stirred, and the effect of stirring indicated that the kinetics of K+-ATP hydrolysis are limited by external diffusion.
(4) The last time Republic of Ireland played here in Dublin they produced a performance and result to stir the senses.
(5) This modification facilitated a wider range of application of the Kedem-Katchalsky equations to systems in which the solutions were stirred or unstirred.
(6) Sheryl Sandberg gave the commencement speech at UC Berkeley last weekend, during the course of which she said many stirring things about the future awaiting the class of 2016.
(7) In a sign of deep unease among senior Tories at some of the party’s tactics, Forsyth accused the prime minister of having “shattered” the pro-UK alliance in Scotland and stirring up English nationalism after the Scottish independence referendum last year.
(8) Additionally, in 12 of 15 cases examined by Short-TI-IR (STIR) image, the trabecular structures and fluid collections in the subcutaneous tissue were shown more definitely in high signal intensity than by T2-weighted image.
(9) Add the onion, cook for three minutes, stirring, until softened, then add the wine, sage, lemon peel, lemon juice and 150ml water.
(10) We examined the effect of ethylene glycol (EG) concentration, in water, on O2 sensitivity, stirring effect, in vitro drift, in vitro response time, behaviour on the skin of newborn infants and in vivo response time.
(11) Stirring of the sample induced a significant decrease of neutrophils (P less than 0.001) but no changes of red blood cell (RBC) and platelet count.
(12) There was no potentiation when A119 alone was pre-stirred or left standing for several days in the presence of divalent cations prior to use.
(13) I drive past buildings that I know, or assume, to house bedsits, their stucco peeling like eczema, their window frames rattling like old bones, and I cannot help myself from picturing the scene within: a dubious pot on an equally dubious single ring, the female in charge of it half-heartedly stirring its contents at the same time as she files her nails, reads an old Vogue, or chats to some distant parent on the telephone.
(14) 3) After stirring for 1 and 5 minutes, there was a negative correlation (Spearmann's rank correlation coefficient test) between the pH values of the sport drinks and the amounts of Ca2+ released into them.
(15) Simmer for 2 minutes then stir in the orange zest, orange blossom water and vanilla extract.
(16) And after stirring for 10 and 20 minutes, there was a negative correlation between the Ca concentrations of the sport drinks and the amounts of Ca2+ released into them.
(17) Having stirred the viewer's emotional responsiveness, the art work provides a reliable "container" for the objectification of latent emotions.
(18) The inversion recovery sequence with short inversion time (STIR) will suppress signal from fat tissue and this is of particular value in differentiating dermoid from hemorrhagic cyst.
(19) At different intensities of medium stirring the lysins synthesizing activity was directly related to the activity of tricarboxylic acid cycle dehydrogenases.
(20) The experimental result of the quantitative determination of magnolol in Cortex Magnoliae Officinalis and its processed samples by HPLC has shown that the stir-fried sample has the highest content of magnolol among all sample and so does the ginger-fried sample among all ginger-processed samples.
Sway
Definition:
(v. i.) To move or wield with the hand; to swing; to wield; as, to sway the scepter.
(v. i.) To influence or direct by power and authority; by persuasion, or by moral force; to rule; to govern; to guide.
(v. i.) To cause to incline or swing to one side, or backward and forward; to bias; to turn; to bend; warp; as, reeds swayed by wind; judgment swayed by passion.
(v. i.) To hoist; as, to sway up the yards.
(v. i.) To be drawn to one side by weight or influence; to lean; to incline.
(v. i.) To move or swing from side to side; or backward and forward.
(v. i.) To have weight or influence.
(v. i.) To bear sway; to rule; to govern.
(n.) The act of swaying; a swaying motion; the swing or sweep of a weapon.
(n.) Influence, weight, or authority that inclines to one side; as, the sway of desires.
(n.) Preponderance; turn or cast of balance.
(n.) Rule; dominion; control.
(n.) A switch or rod used by thatchers to bind their work.
Example Sentences:
(1) By adjustment to the swaying movements of the horse, the child feels how to retain straightening alignment, symmetry and balance.
(2) It is proposed that microoscillations of the eye increase the threshold for detection of retinal target displacements, leading to less efficient lateral sway stabilization than expected, and that the threshold for detection of self motion in the A-P direction is lower than the threshold for object motion detection used in the calculations, leading to more efficient stabilization of A-P sway.
(3) The influence of vestibular dysfunction upon the vestibulospinal reflex (VSR) in two common peripheral syndromes was investigated by two types of posturographic examination: "static" posturography, recording and analyzing the postural sway in stance, and "kinetic" posturography, recording the stepping in place test.
(4) A sweet-talking man in a suit who enlists the most successful barrister in town holds remarkable sway, I’ve learned.
(5) Few in Moscow are likely to be swayed by that explanation, however.
(6) His balancing pole swayed uncontrollably, nearly tapping the sides of his feet.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump ‘sways malevolently’ behind Hillary Clinton Instead, he began the night by assembling a group of women in a press conference to revisit alleged sexual assaults by Bill Clinton, before confronting his opponent hardest on her private email server.
(8) Diane Abbott , part of Ed Miliband's senior team, has accused Labour of being swayed by populist Tory attacks on immigration instead of standing up for diversity.
(9) In analogy to tip-toeing movements, it is concluded that the coactivation pattern is typical for stance conditions with a restricted area of support in order to reduce body sway.
(10) In these phases, it was necessary to compensate for sway induced by body inertia.
(11) If any donor held such sway over the Tories as Unite has over Labour, there would deservedly be an outcry.
(12) A sine wave current stimulus, applied between electrodes placed about one ear and an indifferent electrode, produced a cyclical sway predominantly in the coronal plane.
(13) When we meet him again in the film, he’s still working at the police station, still able to be swayed by a good slice of pizza.
(14) However, an important relationship between sway and falls was revealed.
(15) Despite spending a record amount of money to sway the mid-term US elections, environmental groups and high-profile donors failed to avert a sweeping Republican victory last week, in which candidates opposing the regulation of greenhouse gases and championing the expansion of tar sands pipelines won big.
(16) (c) Motion aftereffect had no direct and immediate influence on sway path, but rather a latent and long-term effect.
(17) The results showed unstable body sway in the condition with eyes closed until at least 4 months after the operation.
(18) On the other hand, information on the direction of the expected body sway given in the visual fixation condition resulted in a considerable and approximately equal decrease of the two components (by 70-80 percent).
(19) Neuropsychologic and postural sway test performance improved following Ca(++)-EDTA chelation in a bridge worker with persistent central nervous system (CNS) symptoms 2 years after an episode of subacute lead intoxication.
(20) Sway activity was found to be significantly higher in the CCI group as compared with that of the normal controls.