Spotted vs Stared - What's the difference?
spotted | stared |
Discoloured by spots; stained.
(no comparative or superlative ) Characterized by spots (used especially of animals and plants).
(spot)
(stare)
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.
As verbs the difference between spotted and stared
is that spotted is (spot) while stared is (stare).As an adjective spotted
is discoloured by spots; stained.spotted
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Adjective
(en adjective)- the spotted hyena
Synonyms
* (discoloured by spots ): blotched, blotchy, stained, spottyVerb
(head)Derived terms
* spotted bowerbird * spotted cucumber * spotted dick * spotted dolphin * spotted eagle ray * spotted fever * spotted nothura * spotted redshank * spotted treestared
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(head)Anagrams
*stare
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(wikipedia stare)Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
(star)John Mortimer(1656?-1736)