英和和英

語源 1

Clipping of stimulation or stimulate.

名詞

stim (plural stims)

1. (informal, uncountable) Sensory stimulation.
   • 1986 January, Joan Fox, “Can You Get Tanned and Trim Without Sun or Exercise?”, in Cincinnati, volume 19, number 4, →ISSN, page 102:

     “Electric therapy has been used in medicine for thousands of years,” says Ken Rusche, director of Wellington Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation Center, a physical therapist and athletic trainer. “ […] Electrical stim is being used in the field of medicine for rehabilitation and strengthening after injuries. […] ”

2. (psychology, autism) Any repetitive self-stimulatory behavior (e.g. hand flapping, head banging, repeating noises or words), frequent in autistic people.

   Synonyms: self-stimulation, self-stim

   • 2021, Erin Felepchuk, “Stimming, Improvisation, and COVID-19: (Re)negotiating Autistic Sensory Regulation During a Pandemic”, in Disability Studies Quarterly‎, volume 41, number 3, archived from the original on 22 January 2022:

     Autistic people often stim with the help of technologies such as music and stim toys or tools to mediate between inner worlds and outer environments that may over/underwhelm us. […] At the beginning of March 2020, I discovered that many of the stims I regularly turned to were no longer accessible.

3. (pharmacology, obstetrics, countable) Any drug that stimulates a woman's ovaries to produce eggs.

派生語

動詞

stim (third-person singular simple present stims, present participle stimming, simple past and past participle stimmed)

1. (psychology, intransitive) To perform such a repetitive self-stimulatory action.
   • 2021, Erin Felepchuk, “Stimming, Improvisation, and COVID-19: (Re)negotiating Autistic Sensory Regulation During a Pandemic”, in Disability Studies Quarterly‎, volume 41, number 3, archived from the original on 22 January 2022:

     Autistic people often stim with the help of technologies such as music and stim toys or tools to mediate between inner worlds and outer environments that may over/underwhelm us.

派生語

語源 2

Clipping of stimulant.

名詞

stim (plural stims)

1. (slang) Synonym of stimulant (“drug”).

派生語

語源 3

Likely related to Scots stime; both perhaps from 古期英語 scima (“shine”).

名詞

stim (plural stims)

1. (rare, Ireland, chiefly in the negative) A whit or jot; the least amount.

   That boy hasn't a stim of common sense.

アナグラム

• ISTM, ITSM, MIST, MiST, Smit, TIMS, TIMs, TMIs, Tims, mist, smit