What's the difference between gawk and stare?

Gawk


Definition:

  • (n.) A cuckoo.
  • (n.) A simpleton; a booby; a gawky.
  • (v. i.) To act like a gawky.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) CCB-LI was produced in large amounts in SCLC cell lines as compared to PST- and GAWK-LIs.
  • (2) This peptide, denoted GAWK, could originate from chromogranin B following specific cleavage at the basic amino acids flanking both termini of GAWK.
  • (3) The complete sequence of this 74 amino acid polypeptide, called GAWK, has been determined.
  • (4) A quiet word, a hushed farewell and a bowing out – without the Commonwealth gawking.
  • (5) Production of chromogranin (Cg)A and B derived peptides [pancreastatin (PST), GAWK, CCB] was studied using human lung carcinoma derived cell lines.
  • (6) GAWK (chromogranin-B 420-493) is a 74 amino acid peptide recently isolated from human pituitaries.
  • (7) Endocrine cells containing GAWK-like immunoreactivity were found also to be immunoreactive for chromogranin B.
  • (8) In a manner reminiscent of the relationship between pancreastatin and chromogranin A, it is proposed that both GAWK and CCB are produced from chromogranin B after specific processing at basic amino acids.
  • (9) Using two different antibodies (directed against GAWK [1-17] and [20-38] fragments) GAWK-LI was measured in tumors from 194 patients and in the plasma of 434 patients by RIA.
  • (10) PST, GAWK and CCB-LIs, secreted by these cell lines, consisted of several peaks, and these peaks were different among cell lines.
  • (11) We must “stop China’s cyber attacks, stop their territorial expansion into international waters,” stop Russia from “[encountering] mush” and “pushing” with bayonets, make sure Israel isn’t having a sad, cripple Iran with sanctions and ignore everything about climate change because “the greatest threat to future generations is radical Islamic terrorism and we need to do something about it.” The great thing about ignoring science and practicality while threatening to go to war against more than 1.5bn people around the globe is that, if there are any enemy survivors after the bombing stops, they can sail to the port city of Orlando and gawk enviously at all the free people queuing up for their mandatory drug tests atop a natural gas pipeline But don’t sell Walker short on his zero foreign policy experience.
  • (12) Plasma concentrations of GAWK-LI were found to be elevated in patients with endocrine tumor, but more so in those with pancreatic tumors than with pheochromocytomas.
  • (13) GAWK is a recently discovered peptide isolated from extracts of human pituitary gland and subsequently shown to be identical to sequence 420-493 of human chromogranin B.
  • (14) Our results show that 7B2 and the two fragments of secretogranin 1 (GAWK and CCB) are the best biochemical markers of neuro-endocrine differentiation in human lung tumours.
  • (15) High concentrations of GAWK-LI were also found in other types of endocrine tumors including carcinoid, medullary carcinoma of thyroid, pancreatic, and ACTH-producing lung tumors.
  • (16) So the powerful, by definition, deserve to be gawked at.
  • (17) A previously reported CgB-derived pituitary peptide, GAWK, was further processed at a conserved internal dibasic site to yield fragment 6, indicating alternative processing in different tissues.
  • (18) "You'd want to be one heck of a man to do it though, as there is huge windows at the front of the shop so passer-bys can gawk in and shame the menly-men knitting 'til their hearts content."
  • (19) Anyone old enough to have gawked at Diana’s progress, from uneducated 19-year-old target of a secretive thirtysomething, into a wildly competitive, ungovernable celebrity, will surely agree that her achievements merit something more personal, especially considering the steadily declining quality of royal entertainment.
  • (20) He took up a position at the front of the crowd, which gawked at him.

Stare


Definition:

  • (n.) The starling.
  • (v. i.) To look with fixed eyes wide open, as through fear, wonder, surprise, impudence, etc.; to fasten an earnest and prolonged gaze on some object.
  • (v. i.) To be very conspicuous on account of size, prominence, color, or brilliancy; as, staring windows or colors.
  • (v. i.) To stand out; to project; to bristle.
  • (v. t.) To look earnestly at; to gaze at.
  • (n.) The act of staring; a fixed look with eyes wide open.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
  • (2) Seventeen patients had type I complex partial seizures (CPS) with three consecutive phases: initial motionless staring, oral-alimentary automatisms, and reactive quasipurposeful movements during impaired consciousness.
  • (3) An average of 241,273 viewers gathered round the television (hospital bed) clutching the remote (bag of grapes) staring at the small screen (out of the window).
  • (4) You're staring at the five-figure pay cheque you'll get… if… If!
  • (5) And so I would stare at a discarded popcorn box, a spilled drink or simply the darkness that disappeared into the seat ahead of me – listening carefully to quickening breaths – allowing the film’s soundscape to caress me.
  • (6) He stares down Cain, and works the count full after laying off some tricky pitches outside the zone that were trailing away from the righty.
  • (7) On Friday 10 June, five men charged with keeping Britain in the European Union gathered in a tiny, windowless office and stared into the abyss.
  • (8) Or are we too immature to see what is staring us in the face?
  • (9) Nobody is sure what dangerous chemical imbalance this would create but the Fiver is convinced we'd all be dust come October or November, the earth scorched, with only three survivors roaming o'er the barren landscape: Govan's answer to King Lear, ranting into a hole in the ground; a mute, wild-eyed pundit, staring without blinking into a hole in the ground; and a tall, irritable figure standing in front of the pair of them, screaming in the style popularised by Klaus Kinski, demanding they take a look at his goddamn trouser arrangement, which he has balanced here on the platform of his hand for easy perusal, or to hell with them, for they are no better than pigs, worthless, spineless pigs.
  • (10) Who can complain of physical fear, of the nightmare of a baby eating its way out of your abdomen, of the loss of professional autonomy, staring at a stranger's idiotic grin?
  • (11) More than a third of children in Sweden's cities complain that their parents spend too much time staring at phones and tablet computers, leading doctors in the country to warn that children may be suffering emotional and cognitive damage.
  • (12) We’d get recognised when we went out, and I developed a bad crick in my spine because I was staring at the pavement so much.
  • (13) If someone you know from around the corner says it’s great, you get food, a roof over your head, you’ve got a radio and your friends can come and visit any time they like - it suddenly makes it a different picture.” Down on the seafront, Banjo Bai Koroma, the harbourmaster, stares out to sea, watching the Chinese fishing boats with little to do.
  • (14) What she should have said: An assertive interviewee would have fixed Paxman with a cold-eyed stare and said simply and unsmilingly: "No."
  • (15) A Tumblr page succinctly called Fuck Yeah, Cillian Murphy's Eyes consists of pages and pages of photographs of the actor, looking up, down, left, right, blinking, winking, staring, gazing – you name it.
  • (16) No initial staring or postictal confusion was noted.
  • (17) No clear heart rate and respiration patterns were noted during staring.
  • (18) Seizures often occur in clusters, consisting of motion arrest, decreased responsiveness, staring or blank eyes mostly with simple automatisms, and mild convulsive movements associated with focal paroxysmal discharges, most frequently in the temporal area.
  • (19) I have just written one about 50 "great" books, the research for which involved staring at lines of words on pages until first the lines, and subsequently the pages, ran out, and then thinking about them until I knew what I wanted to commit to paper.
  • (20) He's staring into the middle distance, clearly trying to process what's just happened to him.

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