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# stirring

«stirring» in Mova's school dictionary: **moving a spoon or stick round and round in a liquid or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb form (stir, stirs, stirred, stirring); adjective (stirring); noun (a stirring)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (verb) Stirring is moving a spoon or stick round and round in a liquid or mixture to mix it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stirring/#m1)

2) (verb) Moving slightly, or starting to wake up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stirring/#m2)

3) (adjective) Stirring music or words make you feel strong emotion, like pride or excitement. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stirring/#m3)

4) (informal) Stirring trouble is trying to make people argue. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stirring/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

Used in cooking and science: stirring helps sugar dissolve faster in water (a fair test variable). In stories: "something was stirring in the bushes", "a stirring speech". Phrase: "stirring up trouble".

### examples

- Keep stirring the soup so it doesn't burn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stirring/#x1)
- Stirring helps the sugar dissolve faster. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stirring/#x2)
- Something was stirring in the dark. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stirring/#x3)
- The baby is stirring; she will wake soon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stirring/#x4)
- The captain gave a stirring speech before the match. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stirring/#x5)
- Stop stirring up trouble between your friends. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stirring/#x6)
- We sang a stirring song at assembly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stirring/#x7)
- "Aye," says she, and went on stirring. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stirring/#x8)

### note

-ing form of "stir": the r is doubled (stirred, stirring). In science investigations, stirring or not stirring is one variable to change.

### In the corpora

- [Toad: «Glorious, stirring sight! ...](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/32-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze/20/)
- [Heat, stirring and small grains all make dissolving faster, which is why loose sugar vanishes before a sugar cube does.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/6-mixing-and-dissolving/4/)
- [Small grains dissolve faster than a lump, because they have more surface for the water to touch; stirring helps too.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/6-mixing-and-dissolving/11/)
- [Hot water dissolves sugar faster than cold water, and fine sugar dissolves faster than a lump; stirring helps too.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/36-olympiad-kitchen-chemistry-puzzles/14/)
- [Put a fire out by drowning it with water, stirring, and drowning again until it is cold to the touch.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/231-campfires-and-rivers/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «stirring» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stirring/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.