English

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stare

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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

   • 1749, [John Cleland], Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: Printed [by Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] [...], OCLC 731622352:

     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

   • 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, OCLC 7780546; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., 55 Fifth Avenue, [1933], OCLC 2666860, page 0016:

     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.

   staring windows or colours

4. (intransitive, obsolete) To stand out; to project; to bristle.
   • William Shakespeare (c.1564-1616)

     Makest my blood cold, and my hair to stare.

   • John Mortimer (1656?-1736)

     Take off all the staring straws 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

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 those in England, as blacke as Crowes, being the most troublesome, and injurious bird of all others [...].

Anagrams

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

Dutch

Pronunciation

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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?-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /'sta.re/, ['sta:.re]

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• Rhymes: -are

Verb

stare

1. (intransitive) to stay, remain

   stare attenti (a) - to pay attention (to)

   (Lui/Lei/Egli/Ella/Esso/Essa) starà a casa. - He/She/It will stay/remain at home.

2. (intransitive, followed by a) to keep, stick
3. (intransitive, followed by a gerund) to be doing something (present continuous)

   (Io) sto andando. - I am going.

   (Io) sto andando via/me ne sto andando. - I am leaving.

4. (intransitive, followed by a) to be up to

   Sta a te decidere. - It's up to you to decide.

5. (intransitive, followed by per) to be about to

   (Io) sto per andare via. - I am about to leave.

6. (intransitive, mathematics, followed by a) to be to

   4 sta a 8 come 5 sta a 10. - 4 is to 8 as 5 is to 10.

7. (intransitive, regional) to live

   Mia sorella sta a Roma. - My sister lives in Rome.

8. to be in a certain condition

   come stai (tu)?

   how are you?

   stare a dieta significa ridurre le calorie di ingresso e aumentarne il consumo con il movimento

   being on a diet entails reducing calorie intake and increasing calories burned through exercise

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)

Related terms

Anagrams

• resta, sarte, tersa

Latin

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stare decisis

Wikipedia

Verb

st?re

1. present active infinitive of st?

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /'star?/, ['star?]

Adjective

stare

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

Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

stare

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

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

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

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stare

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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