Suburb vs Stared - What's the difference?
suburb | stared |
The area on the periphery of a city or large town.
* Hallam
(by extension) The outer part; the environment.
* Jeremy Taylor
* Milton
(AU, NZ) Any subdivision of a conurbation, not necessarily on the periphery.
(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 a noun suburb
is the area on the periphery of a city or large town.As a verb stared is
(stare).suburb
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Noun
(en noun)- [London] could hardly have contained less than thirty or forty thousand souls within its walls; and the suburbs were very populous.
- the suburbs of sorrow
- the suburb of their straw-built citadel
Derived terms
* suburbia * suburbian * suburban * burbstared
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*stare
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(wikipedia stare)Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
(star)John Mortimer(1656?-1736)