stim

• IPA^(key): /stɪm/

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• Rhymes: -ɪm

Clipping of stimulation and stimulate.

stim (plural stims)

1. (informal, uncountable) Sensory stimulation.
   • 1986 January, Joan Fox, “Can You Get Tanned and Trim Without Sun or Exercise?”, in Cincinnati, volume 19, number 4, →ISSN, page 102:

     “Electric therapy has been used in medicine for thousands of years,” says Ken Rusche, director of Wellington Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation Center, a physical therapist and athletic trainer. “ […] Electrical stim is being used in the field of medicine for rehabilitation and strengthening after injuries. […] ”

2. (psychology, autism) Any repetitive self-stimulatory behavior (e.g. hand flapping, head banging, repeating noises or words), frequent in autistic people.

   Synonyms: self-stimulation, self-stim

   • 2021, Erin Felepchuk, Disability Studies Quarterly‎^[2]:

     Autistic people often stim with the help of technologies such as music and stim toys or tools to mediate between inner worlds and outer environments that may over/underwhelm us.

stim (third-person singular simple present stims, present participle stimming, simple past and past participle stimmed)

1. (psychology, transitive) To perform such a repetitive self-stimulatory action.
   • 2021, Erin Felepchuk, Disability Studies Quarterly‎^[3]:

     Autistic people often stim with the help of technologies such as music and stim toys or tools to mediate between inner worlds and outer environments that may over/underwhelm us.

Clipping of stimulant.

stim (plural stims)

1. (slang) Synonym of stimulant (“drug”).

Likely related to Scots stime; both perhaps from Old English scima (“shine”).

stim (plural stims)

1. (rare, Ireland, chiefly in the negative) A whit or jot; the least amount.

   That boy hasn't a stim of common sense.

• ISTM, ITSM, MIST, MiST, Smit, TIMS, TIMs, TMIs, Tims, mist, smit

From Old Norse stím.

stim m (definite singular stimen, indefinite plural stimer, definite plural stimene)

stim n (definite singular stimet, indefinite plural stim, definite plural stima or stimene)

1. a school or shoal (group of fish)

• fiskestim

• “stim” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse stím.

stim m (definite singular stimen, indefinite plural stimar, definite plural stimane)

1. a school or shoal (group of fish)

• fiskestim

• “stim” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old Swedish stim, from Old Norse stím, ultimately from a root meaning "to hang together, stand," from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand”).^[1]

stim n

1. a school (a group of fish)
2. (uncountable) bustle, buzz ((excited activity with) loud noise of many blended voices)

• fittstim
• torskstim

• stimma
• stimmig

• stim in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• stim in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• mist

From Old Frisian stemme, from Proto-Germanic *stamnijō.

• IPA^(key): /stɪm/

stim c (plural stimmen, diminutive stimke)

1. voice
2. vote

• “stim”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011