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Stir
- noun - a prominent or sensational but short-lived news event; "he made a great splash and then disappeared"
- a rapid active commotion
- affect emotionally; "A stirring movie"; "I was touched by your kind letter of sympathy"
- agitate
- emotional agitation and excitement
- mix or add by stirring; "Stir nuts into the dough"
- move an implement through; "stir the soup"; "stir my drink"; "stir the soil"
- move very slightly; "He shifted in his seat"
- Slang term for prison, in UK
- stir feelings in; "stimulate my appetite"; "excite the audience"; "stir emotions"
- stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of; "These stories shook the community"; "the civil war shook the country"
- summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic; "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the air"; "call down the spirits from the mountain"
- to begin moving, "As the thunder started the sle
Stoa
- unknown - 1) A classical portico or covered colonnade
2) (the Stoa) Great hall, in Athens, where Zeno (Greek philosopher) gave lectures on Stoic philosophy.
Stob
- noun - a short straight stick of wood
Stop
- noun -
- (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes;
- a brief stay in the course of a journey;
- a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it;
- a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens;
- a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations;
- a restraint that checks the motion of something;
- a spot where something halts or pauses;
- an obstruction in a pipe or tube;
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical;
- stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments;
- the act of stopping something;
- the event of something ending;
- the state of inactivity following an interruption;
Stor
- - Strong; powerful; hardy; bold; audacious.
Stot
- - A horse.
- bounce
- dialect word for bullock, young ox, steer
Stow
- verb - fill by packing tightly; "stow the cart"
- Julian Randolph Stow (28 November 1935 – 29 May 2010) was an Australian-born writer, novelist and poet.
Stub
- noun - a short piece remaining on a trunk or stem where a branch is lost
- a small piece; "a nub of coal"; "a stub of a pencil"
- a torn part of a ticket returned to the holder as a receipt
- clear of weeds by uprooting them; "stub a field"
- extinguish by crushing; "stub out your cigarette now"
- pull up (weeds) by their roots
- strike (one's toe) accidentally against an object; "She stubbed her toe in the dark and now it's broken"
- the part of a check that is retained as a record
- the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking)
Stud
- noun - a man who is virile and sexually active
- adult male horse kept for breeding
- an upright in house framing
- ornament consisting of a circular rounded protuberance (as on a vault or shield or belt)
- poker in which each player receives hole cards and the remainder are dealt face up; bets are placed after each card is dealt
- provide with or construct with studs; "stud the wall"
- scatter or intersperse like dots or studs; "Hills constellated with lights"