Peek vs Stare - What's the difference?
peek | stare |
To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep.
To be only slightly, partially visible, as if peering out from a hiding place.
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(computing) To retrieve (a value) from a memory address.
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To look fixedly (at something).
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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.
As verbs the difference between peek and stare
is that peek is to look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep while stare is to look fixedly (at something).As an acronym PEEK
is polyetheretherketone.As a noun stare is
a persistent gaze.peek
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Alternative forms
* (l), (l) (obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) *, probably a fusion of peep and keek.Verb
(en verb)- A pale strip of white skin peeked out from under his waistband.
- Her brown skin peeked through the empty gap in her clothing.
- We are peeking the value from the first index's memory location.
Etymology 2
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* * *stare
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(wikipedia stare)Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
(star)John Mortimer(1656?-1736)
