nm. stimulus, something which incites to action; something which quickens a physical or mental process

v. stimulate, arouse, invigorate; spur, goad, motivate

n. impulse, motivation; animation; incitement; stimulant, stimulus

v. stimulate, inspire; actuate, awake, impel; arouse, incite; exhort; accelerate; energize

(n.) = boost ; incentive ; leaven ; prodding ; spur ; stimulation ; stimulus [stimuli, -pl.] ; encouragement ; enhancer ; facilitator ; prod ; kick-start [kickstart] ; kick-start [kickstart] ; word of encouragement ; nudge ; titillation ; driving force ; stimulant ; pick-me-up.
Nota: Generalmente referido a una bebida.
Ex: Consequently, Leforte came to expect -- perhaps even take for granted -- the periodic boosts of ego and income that the evaluations provided.
Ex: This article considers the strengths of a pay scale as a work incentive.
Ex: But the leaven of the principles, promulgated by the International Federation, has not yet penetrated into more than half the lump of documentary material.
Ex: Computers are quite adroit at such simple yes/no response without much prodding.
Ex: This was a spur to several other London boroughs who set up shop-front consumer advice centres from 1972.
Ex: The reader of this work can relive with some degree of verisimilitude the excitement and stimulation created by these institutes and such colloquies as the Kilgour-Lubetzky exchange.
Ex: This was not intended as a criticism of their hard working colleagues but simply as an admission that they needed additional support and stimulus.
Ex: Nevertheless my debts are real, and I particularly want to thank David Foxon for his illuminating commentary on the final sections, and D. F. McKenzie for his encouragement throughout.
Ex: The low regard that many publishers have shown for indexers as enhancers of book sales and profitability may well have been justified in the past.
Ex: Information technology may have acted as a catalyst or facilitator for some of the changes which have occurred.
Ex: She sat back in her chair and considered her supervisor's gentle prods.
Ex: That would be a great kick-start to raising awareness of IFLA 2002.
Ex: That would be a great kick-start to raising awareness of IFLA 2002.
Ex: This he knew happens to employees who are not given a word of encouragement, some recognition.
Ex: Results showed that student teachers needed additional support, either via nudge or overt expectations, to actually apply what they had learned.
Ex: At heart, it is a smirkingly adolescent pursuit of cheap laughs and mild titillation, with a surfeit of jokes involving breasts and bums and with new extremes of scatological humiliation.
Ex: On-line services have been one of the most powerful driving forces moving information away from its traditional definition and towards the commodity view.
Ex: The system consequently retrieves any record in which the term 'stimulants' appears.
Ex: Maybe it's just a passing mood or maybe it's a particularly bad string of events, but sometimes in this hectic life we just need a pick-me-up.
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* dar estímulo = provide + a boost.
* estímulo excesivo = overstimulation.
* estímulos visuales = visual stimuli.
* ofrecer estímulo = provide + an stimulus.
* recibir un estímulo = get + a boost.
* ser un estímulo = be motivating.

(v.) = encourage ; give + a boost ; prompt ; provide + a boost ; spur ; spur on ; stimulate ; whip up ; provide + an stimulus ; set + Nombre + off ; abet ; buoy ; prod ; egg on ; stir up ; nudge ; reawaken [re-awaken] ; kick-start [kickstart] ; pep up ; hearten ; incite ; light + the fire under ; bolster ; ginger up.
Ex: A common catalogue encourages users to regard the different information carrying media as part of range of media.
Ex: CD-ROM has given the library a public relations boost but this has led to higher expectations of the library by users at a time of budgetary restraint.
Ex: An earlier leakage had prompted library staff to make arrangements with a nearby firm of book conservation specialists in the event of a further disaster.
Ex: Merely having the materials available will not provide the desired boost to the library's stature unless the collection is exceptional.
Ex: Spurred by press comments on dumping of withdrawn library books in rubbish skips, Birkerd Library requested the Ministry of Culture's permission to sell withdrawn materials.
Ex: The paper-makers, spurred on by the urgent need to increase their supply of raw material, eventually mastered the new technique.
Ex: An alertness to work in related fields may stimulate creativity in disseminating ideas from one field of study to another, for both the researcher and the manager.
Ex: The ALA and some of its members seem to have taken in upon themselves to whip up a frenzy of public relations style fantasy that market reality simply cannot match.
Ex: The effort involved in creating an hospitable niche is repaid by the stimulus such courses provide to staff members.
Ex: This local tale could have been used to set me and my classmates off on a search for other similar stories that litter the area up and down the east coast of Britain.
Ex: This article questions the pricing policies of some publishers for journals suggesting that librarians have inadvertently aided and abetted them in some cases.
Ex: 'Well,' recommenced the young librarian, buoyed up by the director's interest, 'I believe that everybody is a good employee until they prove differently to me'.
Ex: Science Citation Index (SCI) depends for intellectual content entirely on citations by authors, who are sometimes prodded by editors and referees.
Ex: In the novel, residents of the drought-plagued hamlet of Champaner, egged on by a salt-of-the-earth hothead leader, recklessly accept a sporting challenge thrown down by the commander of the local British troops.
Ex: The goal of this guidebook is to help writers activate their brains to stir up more and better ideas and details.
Ex: By the 1980s, leftist philosophies had fallen into disfavor, & globalization & neoliberalism nudged the unions to seek other alliances.
Ex: The first weeks are vital, and after that the shop must be constantly on the lookout for ways of stimulating further interest and re-awakening those who lapse.
Ex: Shock tactics are sometimes necessary in order to expose injustice and kick-start the process of reform.
Ex: Soccer ace David Beckham has started wearing mystical hippy beads to pep up his sex life.
Ex: We are heartened by the fact that we are still so far a growth story in the midst of this global challenge.
Ex: It is illegal to operate websites inciting terrorism under the Terrorism Act.
Ex: Too bad it took a breast cancer diagnosis to light the fire under me.
Ex: Bibliometric studies used to bolster the subjective opinions of librarians are not always useful for specialized areas.
Ex: She does not strike me as the sort either who would frighten easily, or who would ginger up her story for effect.
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* estimular el debate = provoke + discussion ; prompt + discussion ; pepper + debate ; stimulate + the discussion.
* estimular el desarrollo de = stimulate + the development of.
* estimular la economía = stimulate + the economy ; spur + the economy.
* estimular la imaginación = spark + the imagination ; stimulate + Posesivo + imagination ; catch + Posesivo + imagination ; capture + the imagination ; grip + the imagination.