Stored vs Stared - What's the difference?
stored | stared |
(store)
A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.
A supply held in storage.
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(label) A place where items may be purchased.
*{{quote-book, year=1899, author=(Stephen Crane)
, title=, chapter=1
, passage=There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. “Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin' in front of his store , an' them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot 'em up […].”}}
Memory.
A large amount of information retained in one's memory.
A great quantity or number.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
(transitive) To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1 (computing) Write (something) into memory or registers.
(intransitive) To remain in good condition while stored.
(stare)
To look fixedly (at something).
{{quote-Fanny Hill, part=2
, 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.
As verbs the difference between stored and stared
is that stored is (store) while stared is (stare).stored
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* * * *store
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(en noun)- By late summer a sufficient store of stone had accumulated, and then the building began, under the superintendence of the pigs.
- With store of ladies, whose bright eyes / Rain influence, and give the prize.
Synonyms
* (supply held in storage) stock, supply * (place from which items may be purchased) boutique, shop (UK); see also * (in computing) memoryDerived terms
* company store * drugstore * general store * variety store * give away the store * in store * mind the store * put store in * set store by * storage * storebought * storefront * storehouse * storekeeper * storeroomVerb
(stor)citation, passage=The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.}}
Derived terms
* store away * store upSee also
* ("store" on Wikipedia)Anagrams
* * 1000 English basic words ----stared
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*stare
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(wikipedia stare)Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
(star)John Mortimer(1656?-1736)
