stirとは

語源 1

From Middle English stiren, sturien, from 古期英語 styrian (“to be in motion, move, agitate, stir, disturb, trouble”), from Proto-Germanic *sturiz (“turmoil, noise, confusion”), related to Proto-Germanic *staurijaną (“to destroy, disturb”). Cognate with Old Norse styrr (“turmoil, noise, confusion”), German stören (“to disturb”), Dutch storen (“to disturb”).

動詞

stir (三人称単数 現在形 stirs, 現在分詞 stirring, 過去形および過去分詞形 stirred)

1. (transitive) To incite to action

   Synonyms: arouse, instigate, prompt, excite

   • late 14th century, Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, “The Pardoner’s prologue” (1868 edition):

     And in latin I speke wordes a fewe / To sauer with my predication / And for to stere men to devocion.

     (And in Latin I speak a wordës few, / To saffron with my predicatión, / And for to stir men to devotión.)

   • c. 1595, William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of King John, I.2:

     An Ate, stirring him to bloud and strife […]

   • c. 1670, John Dryden, Tyrannick Love, or the Royal Martyr, III.1:

     The Soldiers love her Brother’s Memory; / 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.

2. (transitive) To disturb the relative position of the particles of, as of a liquid, by passing something through it; to agitate.

   She stirred the pudding with a spoon.

   • 1602, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, III.3:

     My minde is troubled, like a Fountaine stir'd, / And I my selfe see not the bottome of it.

3. (transitive) To agitate the content of (a container), by passing something through it.

   Would you please stand here and stir this pot so that the chocolate doesn't burn?

4. (transitive) To bring into debate; to agitate; to moot.
   • 1613, Francis Bacon, The Essaies, London 1613, chap. 8: “Of Great Place”:

     Preserue the rights of thy place, but stirre not questions of Iurisdiction : and rather assume thy right in silence, and de facto, then voice it with claimes, and challenges.

5. (transitive, dated) To change the place of in any manner; to move.
   • 1677, Sir William Temple, “An Essay upon the Cure of Gout by Moxa”, in: Miscellanea. The First Part, London 1705, p. 209

     […] notwithstanding the swelling of my Foot, so that I had never yet in five days been able to stir it, but as it was lifted.

6. (intransitive) To move; to change one’s position.
   • 1816, Byron, The Prisoner of Chillon:

     I had not strength to stir or strive, / But felt that I was still alive— […]

7. (intransitive) To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy oneself.
   • 1818, Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III, stanza LXIX:

     All are not fit with them to stir and toil.

   • 1850, Charles Merivale, A History of the Romans under the Empire, vol. 1:

     Meanwhile, the friends of the unfortunate exile, far from resenting his unjust suspicions, were stirring anxiously in his behalf.

8. (intransitive) To become the object of notice; to be on foot.
   • 1741, Isaac Watts, The Improvement of the Mind:

     And especially if they happen to have any superior character or possessions in this world, they fancy they have a right to talk freely upon everything that stirs or appears […]

9. (intransitive, poetic) To rise, or be up and about, in the morning.
   • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter IV, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 24962326:

     “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!”

For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:stir.

使用する際の注意点

• In all transitive senses except the dated one (“to change the place of in any manner”), stir is often followed by up with an intensive effect; as, to stir up fire; to stir up sedition.

同意語

• (to move): incite; awaken; rouse; animate; stimulate; excite; provoke.

派生語

名詞

stir (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 stirs)

1. The act or result of stirring; agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements.
   • (Can we date this quote?), Sir John Denham.

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

   • (Can we date this quote?), John Locke.

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

   • 1967, Sleigh, Barbara, Jessamy, 1993 edition, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 7:

     When the long, hot journey drew to its end and the train slowed down for the last time, there was a stir in Jessamy’s carriage. People began to shake crumbs from their laps and tidy themselves up a little.

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:stir.
2. Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar.
   • (Can we date this quote?), Sir John Davies.

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

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:stir.
3. Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions.

語源 2

From Romani stariben (“prison”), nominalisation of (a)star (“seize”), causative of ast (“remain”), probably from Sanskrit आ-तिष्ठति (ā-tiṣṭhati, “stand または remain by”).

名詞

stir (uncountable)

1. (slang) Jail; prison.

   He's going to spendin' maybe ten years in stir.

   • 1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart; Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, OCLC 20230794, page 01:

     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.

派生語

• stir-crazy

アナグラム

• ISTR, Rist, TRIS, Tris, rits, sirt, tris, tris-