Usually means: Mix ingredients together in circular motion.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. stir: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. stir, stir: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. stir, stir: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Stir, stir: Collins English Dictionary
  5. stir: Vocabulary.com
  6. Stir, stir: Wordnik
  7. stir, stir (yourself): Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. stir: Wiktionary
  9. stir: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. stir: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. stir: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. stir: Dictionary.com
  13. stir (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. stir: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. STIR (radar), STIR, Stir (TV series), Stir (band), Stir (film), Stir: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Stir: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. stir: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. stir: Rhymezone
  19. stir: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. stir: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. stir: Free Dictionary
  22. stir: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Stir, stir: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. stir: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. STIR: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  2. Stir (band), stir: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stir: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. STIR: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. stir: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. stir, stir, stir, stir: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Stir: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  3. stir: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See stiring as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To disturb the relative position of the particles of (a liquid or similar) by passing an object through it.
verb:  (transitive) To disturb the content of (a container) by passing an object through it.
verb:  (transitive) To emotionally affect; to touch, to move.
verb:  (transitive) To incite to action.
verb:  (transitive) To bring into debate; to agitate.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To disturb, to disrupt.
verb:  (transitive, dated) To change the place of in any manner; to move.
verb:  (intransitive) To begin to move, especially gently, from a still or unmoving position.
verb:  (intransitive) Of a feeling or emotion: to rise, begin to be felt.
verb:  (intransitive) To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy oneself.
verb:  (intransitive) To rise from sleep or unconsciousness.
noun:  The act or result of stirring (moving around the particles of a liquid etc.)
noun:  agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements.
noun:  Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar.
noun:  Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions.
noun:  (slang) Jail; prison.
noun:  (finance) Acronym of short-term interest rate, often referring to a short-term interest rate future or option.

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