Unstarred vs Instarred - What's the difference?
unstarred | instarred |
(unstar)
Not marked with a star.
(instar)
Any one of the several stages of postembryonic development which an arthropod undergoes, between molts, before it reaches sexual maturity.
An arthropod at a specified one of these stages of development.
* 2005 , Nematodes as biocontrol agents (edited by Parwinder S. Grewal, Ralf-Udo Ehlers, David I. Shapiro-Ilan), page 133:
(by extension) A stage in development.
* 1955 , Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita :
(archaic) To stud with stars.
* 1882 , Frederick Randolph Abbe, The temple rebuilt: a poem , page 125:
* 1893 , in The Atlantic Monthly , volume 72, page 507:
* 1896 , Mary Noailles Murfree (pseudonym Charles Egbert Craddock) In the Tennessee mountains , edition 14, page 209:
As verbs the difference between unstarred and instarred
is that unstarred is (unstar) while instarred is (instar).As an adjective unstarred
is not marked with a star.unstarred
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)Synonyms
* unasteriskedinstarred
English
Verb
(head)instar
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) , which is of obscure origin.Noun
(en noun)- In A. orientalis'', first and second instars''' were more susceptible than third '''instars to ''H. bacteriophora TF strain,
- We avoided Tourist Homes, country cousins of Funeral ones, old-fashioned, genteel and showerless, with elaborate dressing tables in depressingly white-and-pink little bedrooms, and photographs of the landlady’s children in all their instars .
Etymology 2
Verb
- Yet mark with shining steps the humbler way;
- And, as angelic feet instar the sky,
- Drop the bright sparks along the wilderness.
- Espey could distinguish through the clear darkness the fringed branches of a pine-tree clinging to the heights above and waving against the instarred sky, and below a vague moving whiteness
- He was dreaming, surely; or were those deep, instarred eyes really fixed upon him with that wistful gaze which he had seen only twice before?