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111stir one's stumps — To move, be active • • • Main Entry: ↑stump * * * [often in imperative] Brit., informal, dated (of a person) begin to move or act …
112stir up a hornet's — ● hornet …
113stir up a hornet's nest — stir up a hornet’s nest phrase to cause a situation that makes people very angry or upset Thesaurus: to cause problems for someone or somethingsynonym Main entry: hornet …
114stir|a|bout — «STUR uh BOWT», noun. British. a porridge made with corn meal or oatmeal …
115Stir|ling cycle — «STUR lihng», Thermodynamics. a modified form of the Carnot cycle in which all the heat is added and rejected at the highest and lowest temperatures reached. ╂[< Robert Stirling, a Scottish engineer of the 1800 s, who first proposed it] …
116Stir|ling's formula — «STUR lihngz», Mathematics. a formula for approximating the value of higher factorials, using transcendental numbers pi and e. ╂[< James Stirling, 1692 1770, a Scottish mathematician] …
117stir somebody up — ˌstir sbˈup derived to encourage sb to do sth; to make sb feel they must do sth Main entry: ↑stirderived …
118stir the blood — stir the ˈblood idiom to make sb excited Main entry: ↑stiridiom …
119stir your stumps — stir your ˈstumps idiom (old fashioned, BrE, informal) to begin to move; to hurry Main entry: ↑stiridiom …
120Stir bar — A stir bar (or flea) is a magnetic bar used to stir a mixture or solution in a laboratory. The stir bar rotates (and thus stirs) in synch with a separate rotating magnet located beneath the vessel containing the reaction.cite web |url=… …
