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Unstarred vs Instarred - What's the difference?

unstarred | instarred |

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)
  • (unstar)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Not marked with a star.

    • Synonyms

    * unasterisked

    instarred

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (instar)

    • instar

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) , which is of obscure origin.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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:
    • In A. orientalis'', first and second instars''' were more susceptible than third '''instars to ''H. bacteriophora TF strain,
  • (by extension) A stage in development.
  • * 1955 , Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita :
    • 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

  • (archaic) To stud with stars.
  • * 1882 , Frederick Randolph Abbe, The temple rebuilt: a poem , page 125:
    • Yet mark with shining steps the humbler way;
    And, as angelic feet instar the sky,
    Drop the bright sparks along the wilderness.
  • * 1893 , in The Atlantic Monthly , volume 72, page 507:
    • 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
  • * 1896 , Mary Noailles Murfree (pseudonym Charles Egbert Craddock) In the Tennessee mountains , edition 14, page 209:
    • 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?

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