The privilege process: How doctors get privileges at hospitals. Patients, naturally, want good, qualified doctors. But so do hospitals. That means that simply being a licensed physician does not guarantee doctors will be granted hospital privileges, area hospital executives say.
Stirring is a more gentle technique for mixing cocktails and is used to delicately combine the drinks with a perfect amount of dilution from the ice. Many gin and whiskey cocktails are stirred because shaking is said to bruise the spirit (though that is also up for debate).
1. shake (v.) 1  move or cause to move back and forth. 2  move with or as if with a tremor. 3  shake or vibrate rapidly and intensively. 4  undermine or cause to waver. 5  move back and forth or sideways. 6  stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of. 7  bring to a specified condition by or as if by shaking. 8  get rid of.