Stairs vs Stare - What's the difference?
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(label) A contiguous set of steps connecting two floors.
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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 nouns the difference between stairs and stare
is that stairs is a contiguous set of steps connecting two floors while stare is a persistent gaze.As a verb stare is
to look fixedly (at something).stairs
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Noun
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Synonyms
* (contiguous set of steps ): stairway, staircaseAnagrams
* * English pluralsstare
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(wikipedia stare)Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
(star)John Mortimer(1656?-1736)