different between stare vs stere

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 French stère, from Ancient Greek ??????? (stereos, “solid”), because the unit was used for solid commodities such as firewood.

Noun

stere (plural steres)

1. (obsolete) A measure of volume used e.g. for cut wood, equal to one cubic metre.
   • 1814, Peter Barlow, A New Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary:

     It will be observed, that in this system it is only necessary to remember the metre, are litre^[sic], and stere, all the others having certain relations to these, being equal to them taken 10, 100, 1000, &c. times, […]

Translations

See also

• cord

Anagrams

• Ester, Reset, Steer, ester, estre, re-est., reest, reset, retes, seter, steer, teers, teres, terse, trees

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English st?or (“steer”), from Proto-Germanic *steuraz.

Alternative forms

• steor, ster, steer

Pronunciation

• (Early ME) IPA^(key): /stø?r/
• IPA^(key): /ste?r/

Noun

stere (plural steres)

2. steer, young bull

Descendants

• English: steer
• Scots: ster, stere, steir

References

• “st??r(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.

Etymology 2

From Old English st?or (“rudder”), from Proto-Germanic *stiurij?.

Alternative forms

• ster, steor, steer, steere, stiere

Pronunciation

• (Early ME) IPA^(key): /stø?r/
• IPA^(key): /ste?r/

Noun

stere (plural steres)

2. rudder, tiller, steering mechanism
3. control, correction

Descendants

• English: steer

References

• “st??r(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.

Etymology 3

From Old English st?ora.

Alternative forms

• steere, sterre

Pronunciation

• (Early ME) IPA^(key): /?stø?r?/
• IPA^(key): /?ste?r(?)/, /?st??r(?)/

Noun

stere (plural steres)

1. leader, controller

References

• “st??re, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.

Etymology 4

From Old English steorra.

Noun

stere (plural steres)

1. Alternative form of sterre