What's the difference between stir and whirl?

Stir


Definition:

  • (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.

Whirl


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To turn round rapidly; to cause to rotate with velocity; to make to revolve.
  • (v. t.) To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch; to harry.
  • (v. i.) To be turned round rapidly; to move round with velocity; to revolve or rotate with great speed; to gyrate.
  • (v. i.) To move hastily or swiftly.
  • (v. t.) A turning with rapidity or velocity; rapid rotation or circumvolution; quick gyration; rapid or confusing motion; as, the whirl of a top; the whirl of a wheel.
  • (v. t.) Anything that moves with a whirling motion.
  • (v. t.) A revolving hook used in twisting, as the hooked spindle of a rope machine, to which the threads to be twisted are attached.
  • (v. t.) A whorl. See Whorl.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the box the atmosphere is whirled round by a fan and hereby led over a layer of catalyst.
  • (2) Water contaminated by Myxosoma cerebralis was disinfected with ultraviolet irradiation to control whirling disease.
  • (3) But then this isn’t really a team yet, more a working model conjured out of the air by Klopp’s whirling hands on the touchline.
  • (4) It's tempting to see all this layering as a painstaking effort on Green's part to understand her husband's death, but it's clear she sees it more as an expression of the absence of meaning that has resulted from it, the wild and whirling words of grief.
  • (5) Antonio Valencia raced around like the winger of a few seasons ago; Danny Welbeck discovered an extra yard of pace and an ability to spin opponents; Wayne Rooney was once more the whirling team totem, the closest to Roy Keane the club has had since the Irishman departed nine years ago.
  • (6) In contrast to the more uniform localization of antigens 01 through 010 over the whole cell surface, antigens 011 and 012 are less strongly detectable on cell bodies than on processes and membranous whirls.
  • (7) The not yet solved and serious uncertainities which need priority in the research are, according to the speaker, the control of the amebiasis of hatchery rainbow trout, the incysted icthyophtiriasis of various fresh water fishes, the rainbow trout myxosomiasis (Whirling disease), and the argulosis of eel reared in brackish water lagoons.
  • (8) Pape Souaré’s substitution at half-time was presumably so Palace’s left-back could have his neck iced, so many times did he find himself whirling around in a funk trying to work out exactly where Mahrez had shimmied off to now.
  • (9) That it should take a young Anglo-Lebanese barrister, recently married to a Hollywood star, to reanimate the debate (in a whirl of camera-clicks and flash bulbs), says much about the times we live in.
  • (10) That’s when all the wealthy widows who live elsewhere the rest of the year flock to their Florida mansions and get caught up in a whirl of charity balls and dinners.
  • (11) The numerous internal membranous bodies, some of which arise from the plasma membrane of the vegetative hypha, may be vesicular, whirled, or convoluted.
  • (12) Based in the Netherlands, where he is artistic director of Toneelgroep Amsterdam , the country's foremost theatre company, he frequently whirls his productions through European cities.
  • (13) Eukaryotic cell structures have been detected consisting of lamella layers whirled around the intact rickettsiae.
  • (14) The frequency with which the word whirling and similar words (whirlall words) were used in Rorschach tests administered to 1154 medical students 20 to 35 years ago has been counted by computer.
  • (15) This angelic whirling is a perfect counterpoint to the earthly chanting.
  • (16) In addition, a high incidence 1) of micronodular hepatocellular whirling lesions with increased basophilia, 2) of other proliferative areas of altered cellularity and 3) of precancerous nodules was found in the livers of schistosome-infected mice treated with hycanthone.
  • (17) The main subjective complaint was vertigo (whirling; 93%).
  • (18) So the studios made sure that those who appeared on screen could not be perceived as gay, marrying them off in a whirl of publicity if necessary.
  • (19) Give the Aussie Eggs a whirl: poached free range eggs on toast with tomato, garlic and fresh basil.
  • (20) Typical alterations are the vascular lesions of the conjunctiva, the whirl-like opacities of the cornea, the wedge-shaped anterior opacities and the branching spokes of the lens, as well as the vascular lesions of the retina.