# stim
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /stɪm/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪm

### Etymology 1

Clipping of stimulation and stimulate.

#### Noun

stim (plural stims)
* (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. […] ”
* (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: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.

##### Derived terms

* e-stim
* self-stim
* stim board
* stim toy

##### Translations
#### Verb

stim (third-person singular simple present stims, present participle stimming, simple past and past participle stimmed)
* (psychology, transitive) To perform such a repetitive self-stimulatory action.
** 2021, Erin Felepchuk, Disability Studies Quarterly‎: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.

##### Derived terms

* self-stim
* stimmer

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

Clipping of stimulant.

#### Noun

stim (plural stims)
* (slang) Synonym of stimulant (“drug”).

##### Derived terms

* stimfap
* stim pack

##### Translations
### Etymology 3

Unknown; earlier dictionaries describe it as meaning a ray or glimmer of light.

#### Noun

stim (plural stims)
* (rare, Ireland, chiefly in the negative) A whit or jot; the least amount.
    That boy hasn't a stim of common sense.

### Anagrams

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

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Old Norse stím.

### Noun

stim m (definite singular stimen, indefinite plural stimer, definite plural stimene)
stim n (definite singular stimet, indefinite plural stim, definite plural stima or stimene)
* a school or shoal (group of fish)

#### Derived terms

* fiskestim

### References

* “stim” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Old Norse stím.

### Noun

stim m (definite singular stimen, indefinite plural stimar, definite plural stimane)
* a school or shoal (group of fish)

#### Derived terms

* fiskestim

### References

* “stim” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Swedish
### Etymology

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

### Noun

stim n
* a school (a group of fish)
* (uncountable) bustle, buzz ((excited activity with) loud noise of many blended voices)

#### Derived terms

* fittstim
* torskstim

#### Related terms

* stimma
* stimmig

#### See also

* STIM

### References

* stim in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* stim in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
* ↑ “stim”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy]‎ (in Swedish), 1937

### Anagrams

* mist

## West Frisian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /stɪm/

### Noun

stim c (plural stimmen, diminutive stimke)
* voice
* vote

#### Further reading

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