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Staying vs Staring - What's the difference?

staying | staring |

As verbs the difference between staying and staring

is that staying is while staring is .

As nouns the difference between staying and staring

is that staying is a stay or visit while staring is the act of one who stares.

staying

English

Verb

(head)

    • Derived terms

    * staying power

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A stay or visit.
  • * 1907 , The National Review (volume 48, page 135)
    • The years that follow are chiefly noteworthy for his intercourse with four clever girl cousins called Southall, and sundry stayings at Moseley with a cheery, literary old grandmother

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    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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