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Starting vs Staring - What's the difference?

starting | staring |

As verbs the difference between starting and staring

is that starting is present participle of lang=en while staring is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between starting and staring

is that starting is the act of something that starts while staring is the act of one who stares.

starting

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of something that starts.
    • constant startings and stoppings

    staring

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who stares.
  • * (Herman Melville), Pierre
    • Then the bewilderingness of the old starings of the solitary old man and old woman, by the cracked hearth-stone of the desolate old house, in the desolate, round, open space

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