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Stan vs Stat - What's the difference?

stan | stat |

As nouns the difference between stan and stat

is that stan is tin while stat is state.

As a verb stan

is to stare.

stan

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An extremely loyal and obsessed fan, particularly one whose fixation with a celebrity is unhealthy or intrusive.
  • * 2011 , Vanessa Spates, " Whether in Britney's Army or Rihanna's Navy, stans need to surrender to sanity", The Lantern (Ohio State University), Volume 132, Number 16, 11 October 2011, page 9A:
    • I know the in-depth detailed life of a stan because I am one. I'm one of those Lady Gaga fans,
  • * 2013 , " Selena Gomez: She Is My Queen", Sunday Tribune (South Africa), 17 March 2013:
    • I am the biggest stan for Selena because she is my queen. She made Disney interesting and I have always watched her.
  • * 2013 , Jake Folsom, " Stans take dedication to extreme heights online, in real life", Washington Square News , Volume 41, Number 104, 5 December 2013, page 11:
    • Incidents have occurred with stans showing up to pop stars' residences, as has happened with Madonna, Taylor Swift and others.

    Hypernyms

    * megafan, superfan, trufan, uberfan ----

    stat

    English

    (wikipedia stat)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Immediately; now; usually used in medical situations, to connote extreme urgency.

    • Etymology 2

    Abbreviation.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Short for statistic.
  • Short for statistics.

    • Verb

  • (slang, gaming, transitive) To assign statistics to (a monster, etc. in a game).
    • If you stat it, they will kill it.

    Anagrams

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