different between stare vs behold

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /st???/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /st??(?)/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophone: stair

Etymology 1

From Middle English staren, from Old English starian (“to stare”), from Proto-Germanic *starjan?, *star?n? (“to be fixed, be rigid”), from Proto-Indo-European *stere-, *str?- (“strong, steady”). Cognate with Dutch staren (“to stare”), German starren (“to stare”), Norwegian stare (“to stare”), German starr (“stiff”). More at start.

Verb

stare (third-person singular simple present stares, present participle staring, simple past and past participle stared)

1. (intransitive, construed with at) To look fixedly (at something).

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:stare

   • 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.

2. (transitive) To influence in some way by looking fixedly.

   to stare a timid person into submission

3. (intransitive) To be very conspicuous on account of size, prominence, colour, or brilliancy.

4. (intransitive, obsolete) To stand out; to project; to bristle.
   • 1707, John Mortimer, The whole Art of Husbandry, in the way of Managing and Improving of Land

     Take off all the staring straws, twigs and jags in the hive.

Troponyms

• gaze, to stare intently or earnestly
• ogle, to stare covetously or amorously

Derived terms

• stare someone in the face
• upstaring

Translations

Noun

stare (plural stares)

1. A persistent gaze.

   the stares of astonished passers-by

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English star, ster, from Old English stær (“starling”), from Proto-Germanic *starô (“starling”), from Proto-Indo-European *stor- (“starling”). Cognate with German Star (“starling”), Danish stær (“starling”), Swedish stare (“starling”), Norwegian Nynorsk stare (“starling”), Icelandic stari (“starling”). Compare also Old English stearn (“a type of bird, starling”).

Noun

stare (plural stares)

1. (now archaic) A starling. [from 9th c.]
   • 1634, William Wood, New Englands Prospect, I:

     The Stares be bigger than tho?e in England, as blacke as Crowes, being the most trouble?ome, and injurious bird of all others […].

Anagrams

• 'earts, -aster, Aters, Sater, TASer, Taser, Tesar, arets, arste, aster, earst, rates, reast, resat, setar, stear, tares, tarse, taser, tears, teras

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

stare

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of staren

Anagrams

• Aster

Italian

Etymology

From Latin st?re, present active infinitive of st?, from Proto-Indo-European *steh?-. Cognate with Spanish estar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sta.re/
• Rhymes: -are

Verb

stàre (first-person singular present (with following syntactic gemination) stò, first-person singular past historic stètti or (popular) stièdi, past participle stàto, first-person singular future starò, first-person singular present subjunctive stìa, first-person singular imperfect subjunctive stéssi, second-person singular imperative stai or sta' or (with following syntactic gemination) sta, auxiliary essere) (intransitive)

1. to stay, remain

2. to keep, stick [+ a (object)]
3. (followed by a gerund) to be doing something (present continuous)

4. to be up to [+ a (object)]

5. to be about to [+ per (object)]

6. (mathematics) to be to [+ a (object)]

7. (regional) to live

8. to be in a certain condition

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (to stay): essere, restare, rimanere
• (to remain): restare, rimanere
• (to be): essere
• (to live): vivere, abitare
• (to keep, etc.): attenersi (a)
• (to be up to): toccare (a), spettare (a)

Derived terms

Related terms

Anagrams

• resta, sarte, tersa

Latin

Verb

st?re

1. present active infinitive of st?

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?star?/, [?star?]

Adjective

stare

1. inflection of stary:
   1. neuter nominative/accusative singular
   2. nominative/accusative plural

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• star

Etymology

From Old Norse stari.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²st??r?/

Noun

stare m (definite singular staren, indefinite plural starar, definite plural starane)

1. a starling (a songbird, Sturnus vulgaris)

See also

• stær (Bokmål)

References

• “stare” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sta.r?/

Adjective

stare

1. inflection of stary:
   1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
   2. nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Romanian

Etymology

From the verb sta.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -are

Noun

stare f (plural st?ri)

1. status, standing, situation, position, condition
2. state

Derived terms

• în stare

See also

• stat

Serbo-Croatian

Adjective

stare

1. inflection of star:
   1. masculine accusative plural
   2. feminine genitive singular
   3. feminine nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Swedish

Noun

stare c

1. starling (a bird)

Declension

Anagrams

• arets, etsar, raset, reats, retas, treas

Tarantino

Etymology

From Latin st?re, present active infinitive of st?, from Proto-Indo-European *steh?-.

Verb

stare

1. (intransitive) to stay, remain
2. (intransitive) to be

Conjugation

• Full conjugation needed.
• Present tense:- stoche, sté or stéje, sté or stéje, stáme, státe, stonne

English

Etymology

From Middle English beholden, from Old English behealdan (“to hold, have, occupy, possess, guard, preserve, contain, belong, keep, observe, consider, behold, look at, gaze on, see, signify, avail, effect, take care, beware, be cautious, restrain, act, behave”), from Proto-West Germanic *bihaldan? (“to hold with, keep”), equivalent to be- +? hold. Cognate with Saterland Frisian behoolde (“to keep”), Dutch behouden (“to keep, restrain, preserve”), German behalten (“to keep, restrain, remember”), Danish and Norwegian beholde (“to keep”) and Swedish behålla (“to keep”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /b??h??ld/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /b??ho?ld/

Verb

behold (third-person singular simple present beholds, present participle beholding, simple past beheld, past participle beheld or (rare) beholden)

1. (transitive) To see or look at, esp. appreciatively; to descry, look upon.
   • 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 532:

     […] Alaeddin ate and drank and was cheered and after he had rested and had recovered spirits he cried, "Ah, O my mother, I have a sore grievance against thee for leaving me to that accursed wight who strave to compass my destruction and designed to take my life. Know that I beheld Death with mine own eyes at the hand of this damned wretch, whom thou didst certify to be my uncle; […]
2. (intransitive) To look.
3. (transitive) To contemplate.

Usage notes

Rarely used in informal speech. The past participle beholden now has a meaning detached from the other forms of the word.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:look

Derived terms

• beholder
  • eye of the beholder

Translations

Interjection

behold

1. look, a call of attention to something
2. lo!

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:lo

Translations

References

• behold in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• behold in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [b?e?h?l?]

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German beholt, behalt, from the verb beholden; see also Danish beholde.

Noun

behold c (uninflected)

1. (archaic) haven, refuge

   in the phrases i behold (“intact”) and i god behold (“safe”)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

behold

1. imperative of beholde

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

behold

1. imperative of beholde