stirring
- noun
- /ˈstɜrɪŋ/
- It needs those days of simple, you know, my therapist calls it just simple stirring the oatmeal kind of morning.
Examples
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In addition, you can complete to cook without stirring, without flipping and without cleaning inside the grill.
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I've just been doing some mixing, stirring, all that good stuff.
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Do like half a box and start stirring your pasta.
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And then once it's been boiling for a bit and stirring, you take it off.
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So I have a stir bar, a little swizzle stick or something, and stirring that around so it's moving.
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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.
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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.
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The recipe calls for stirring the batter until it is smooth and creamy.
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After stirring the oil and vinegar together, the salad dressing is ready to use.
Synonyms
Putting different things together so they become one
The act of shaking cream to make butter
Moving something quickly to mix or clean it
Shaking a bottle to mix the liquid inside
Mixing different things together until they form an even mixture
How Vigorous
Surface Forms
Morphology
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.