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stirring

stirring

1 1.0
Mixing a liquid using a spoon or stick
  • noun
  • /ˈstɜrɪŋ/
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  • It needs those days of simple, you know, my therapist calls it just simple stirring the oatmeal kind of morning.

Examples

  • In addition, you can complete to cook without stirring, without flipping and without cleaning inside the grill.

  • I've just been doing some mixing, stirring, all that good stuff.

  • Do like half a box and start stirring your pasta.

  • And then once it's been boiling for a bit and stirring, you take it off.

  • So I have a stir bar, a little swizzle stick or something, and stirring that around so it's moving.

  • So the solubility on that, it's going to need a lot of stirring there and it might have to add some more water too to make that work.

  • Stirring is performed either with a rod or rotating bar, or any kind of pumping agitation, for about 30 minutes at each event during the life of the extract.

    Academic text (1996)
  • She began the process of stirring the soup gently to mix in all the ingredients.

  • The recipe calls for stirring the batter until it is smooth and creamy.

  • After stirring the oil and vinegar together, the salad dressing is ready to use.

Synonyms

mixing
vsstirring
51 1.8

Putting different things together so they become one

uses a hand tool such as a spoon or stick to move the substance
churning
vsstirring
8 3.7

The act of shaking cream to make butter

uses a hand tool for general mixing, not long butter making
agitation
vsstirring
1 4.8

Moving something quickly to mix or clean it

uses gentler hand motion rather than forceful shaking
succussion
vsstirring
1 9.9

Shaking a bottle to mix the liquid inside

uses a hand tool rather than shaking to combine liquids
blending
vsstirring
1 2.7

Mixing different things together until they form an even mixture

uses a hand tool and focuses on motion rather than element fusion

How Vigorous

to whisk
38 2.8
blending
1 2.7
stirring
1 1.0
to swirl
120 2.7

Surface Forms

stirring singular
stirrings plural

Morphology

stirring = stir (transparent) = stir + ing

A straightforward gerund/nominalization of the verb 'stir' meaning the physical action of mixing, directly derivable by learners.

Etymology

Stirring comes from an old word meaning 'to move'. So it literally means moving a liquid or ingredient around with a spoon, which is why stirring is the act of mixing.