Stare vs Haze - What's the difference?
stare | haze |
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.
. (uncountable) Very fine solid particles (smoke, dust) or liquid droplets (moisture) suspended in the air, slightly limiting visibility.
* 1772 December, James Cook, , vol. 1 ch. 2:
* 1895 , H.G. Wells, :
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, title= (uncountable) A reduction of transparency of a clear gas or liquid.
An analogous dullness on a surface that is ideally highly reflective or transparent.
(uncountable, figuratively) Any state suggestive of haze in the atmosphere, such as mental confusion or vagueness of memory.
* 1957 , (Daphne du Maurier), [http://books.google.com/books?id=cf4-iVG03pEC], ISBN 081221725X, page 218:
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(uncountable, engineering, packaging) The degree of cloudiness or turbidity in a clear glass or plastic, measured in percent.
* 1998 , Leonard I. Nass and Charles A. Heiberger, Encyclopedia of PVC [http://books.google.com/books?id=mDe7EidmglIC&], ISBN 0824778227, page 318:
(countable, brewing) Any substance causing turbidity in beer or wine.
* 1985 , Philip Jackisch, Modern Winemaking [http://books.google.com/books?id=Zf-24UvvT4oC], ISBN 0801414555, page 69:
To be hazy, or thick with haze.
(US, informal) To perform an unpleasant initiation ritual upon a usually non-consenting individual, especially freshmen to a closed community such as a college or military unit.
To oppress or harass by forcing to do hard and unnecessary work.
* 1920 , , The Understanding Heart , Chapter I:
As nouns the difference between stare and haze
is that stare is : starlings while haze 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
* ----haze
English
(wikipedia haze)Alternative forms
* haseEtymology 1
* The earliest instances are of the latter part of the 17th century. * Possibly * Compare (etyl).
Noun
(en-noun)- Our hopes, however, soon vanished; for before eight o'clock, the serenity of the sky was changed into a thick haze , accompanied with rain.
- A blue haze , half dust, half mist, touched the long valley with mystery.
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- In my haze of alcohol, I thought for one crazy instant that he had plumbed my secret.
- Haze is listed as a percent value and, typically, is about 1% for meat film.
- Various clarifying and fining agents are used in winemaking to remove hazes .
Derived terms
* haze over * hazyVerb
(haz)- (Ray)