"Rotating with one hand"

English translation: swirl

12:04 May 16, 2002

English language (monolingual) [PRO]

English term or phrase: "Rotating with one hand"

In medicine and pharmacy, powdered products are mixed with a solvent for injection.

What is the precise term for the kind of movement involved to dissolve the powder?

What I'm after is a circular movement while holding the container in one hand.

Shaking seems to violent (and prine to causing bubbling). Rotating? Agitating?

Jan Liebelt KudoZ activity Questions: 200 (1 open) (4 without valid answers) (15 closed without grading) Answers: 205 France
Local time: 20:16

Selected answer:swirl

Explanation:
unless utensil is used too (e.g. spoon)

Selected response from:

Cilian O'Tuama
Germany
Local time: 20:16

Grading comment

That's the one! Thanks y'all.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED

4 +2

swirl

Cilian O'Tuama

4 +1

to shake gently

jerrie

swishing in a circular motion with one hand

airmailrpl

to stir/mix

Piotr Kurek

to agitate

Klaus Herrmann

Discussion entries: 1

Answers

11 mins confidence:

to stir/mix

Explanation:
e.g. to move a spoon around in a liquid to mix up the ingredients/constituents

Piotr Kurek
Local time: 20:16
PRO pts in pair: 4

15 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

swirl

Explanation:
unless utensil is used too (e.g. spoon)

Cilian O'Tuama
Germany
Local time: 20:16
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in pair: 455

Grading comment

That's the one! Thanks y'all.

19 mins confidence:

to agitate

Explanation:
I think 'to agitate' is fine. (That's what I remember faintly from chemistry classes)

Depending on the context, you might want to add an 'manually' to make sure the container is not placed on an agitator.

Reference: http://www.nsm.smcm.edu/Chemistry/chem-gchemlab/WebLab/TechS...
Reference: http://www.radsafe.com/nrc_lung/append9.htm

Klaus Herrmann
Germany
Local time: 20:16
Native speaker of:

German
PRO pts in pair: 147

25 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

to shake gently

Explanation:
The movement you're describing is a kind of 45 degree movement of hand holding the bottle.
Agitate is again a violent movement, a violent shaking.
Rotating suggest a 360 degree movement...to me anyway.
So, I would say shake gently to mix/dissolve....

jerrie
United Kingdom
Local time: 19:16
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in pair: 773

8 hrs confidence:

swishing in a circular motion with one hand

Explanation:
"Rotating with one hand"

airmailrpl
Brazil
Local time: 15:16
Native speaker of:

English,

Portuguese
PRO pts in pair: 1195

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