Stared vs Staired - What's the difference?

stared | staired |

As a verb stared

is past tense of stare.

As an adjective staired is

having (a specified kind or number of) stairs.

stared

English

Verb

(head)

(stare)

Anagrams

stare

English

(wikipedia stare)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) . More at (l).

Verb

(star)

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 .

* John Mortimer (1656?-1736)

*:Take off all the staring straws and jags in the hive.

Troponyms

* gaze, to stare intently or earnestly * ogle, to stare covetously or amorously

Derived terms

* stare someone in the face

Noun

(en noun)

A persistent gaze.

the stares of astonished passers-by

Etymology 2

(etyl)

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) A starling.

(Webster 1913)

Anagrams

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staired

English

Adjective

(-)

Having (a specified kind or number of) stairs.

* 1961 , Canadian Patent Office record (volume 89, page 7750)

In a device of the kind described, a plurality of platforms normally horizontally disposed in staired arrangement, each of said platforms comprising a pair of elongated platform elements

* 1968 , William David Thornbury, Principles of geomorphology (page 358)

They are variously described as simple, compound, hanging, tandem or two-staired , intersecting and nivation cirques.

* 2010 , Lynn A. Levine, Frommer's Istanbul (page 147)

There is also speculation that the name Galata comes from the Italian word for descent (calata ), an appropriate description of the steep and staired streets that slope down the hill from Beyoglu to the Golden Horn.