Stare vs Glaring - What's the difference?
stare | glaring |
To look fixedly (at something).
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, Her sturdy stallion had now unbutton'd, and produced naked, stiff, and erect, that wonderful machine, which I had never seen before, and which, for the interest my own seat of pleasure began to take furiously in it, I star'd at with all the eyes I had}}
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*:A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire. In fact, that arm-chair had been an extravagance of Mrs. Bunting. She had wanted her husband to be comfortable after the day's work was done, and she had paid thirty-seven shillings for the chair.
To be very conspicuous on account of size, prominence, colour, or brilliancy.
:staring windows or colours
(obsolete) To stand out; to project; to bristle.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Makest my blood cold, and my hair to stare .
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*:Take off all the staring straws and jags in the hive.
Reflecting with glare.
Blatant, obvious.
The act of giving a glare.
* (Herman Melville), Moby-Dick
(rare) A group of cats.
* 2010 , The Big Bang Theory , episode “
As nouns the difference between stare and glaring
is that stare is : starlings while glaring is the act of giving a glare.As an adjective glaring is
reflecting with glare.As a verb glaring is
.stare
English
(wikipedia stare)Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
(star)John Mortimer(1656?-1736)
Troponyms
* gaze, to stare intently or earnestly * ogle, to stare covetously or amorouslyDerived terms
* stare someone in the faceEtymology 2
(etyl)Anagrams
* ----glaring
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- How could you miss this glaring error? It's right on page one!
Derived terms
* glaringly * glaringnessVerb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Take off thine eye! more intolerable than fiends' glarings is a doltish stare!
The Zazzy Substitution”
- Leonard : You’re clearly upset about Amy being gone, and you’re trying to replace her with a bunch of cats.
- Sheldon : Clowder.
- Leonard : What?
- Sheldon : A group of cats is a clowder. Or a glaring . It’s the kind of thing you ought to know now that we have one.