What's the difference between snare and stare?

Snare


Definition:

  • (n.) A contrivance, often consisting of a noose of cord, or the like, by which a bird or other animal may be entangled and caught; a trap; a gin.
  • (n.) Hence, anything by which one is entangled and brought into trouble.
  • (n.) The gut or string stretched across the lower head of a drum.
  • (n.) An instrument, consisting usually of a wireloop or noose, for removing tumors, etc., by avulsion.
  • (v. t.) To catch with a snare; to insnare; to entangle; hence, to bring into unexpected evil, perplexity, or danger.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Extraction tools included flexible, telescoping sheaths advanced over the lead to dilate scar tissue and apply countertraction, deflection catheters, and wire basket snares.
  • (2) The effects of coronary reperfusion on the uptake of digoxin by ischemic myocardium were studied in 17 open chest dogs undergoing anterior wall infarction produced by snaring confluent branches of the left coronary arterial system.
  • (3) Was Snare genuine, was the painting stolen, was he making it up?
  • (4) Different grades of stenoses were created by snares.
  • (5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Laura Cumming beside Velázquez’s Portrait of a Man at Apsley House, where John Snare would also have seen it.
  • (6) With the venae cavae snared, temperatures in the right atrial septum were not significantly different from those measured simultaneously in the right ventricle.
  • (7) In this artificial vessel (but not in a glass model) a snare stenosis caused reduction in flow when outflow pressure was lowered.
  • (8) Atrial preservation was ensured by combining systemic (24 degrees C) and topical hypothermia with snared double caval cannulation during arrest.
  • (9) In 2 patients the tumor was excised by snare, in 4 patients a surgical resection was carried out.
  • (10) So we looped them into the reel-to-reels and crowded round the speakers to hear what their album sounded like – but all we got was the clang of a snare drum.
  • (11) Our method of ER is endoscopic double snare polypectomy.
  • (12) But the experience of Royal Mail, which underwent a similar regime change some years ago, provides a chilling precedent of what aggressive regulators can do, and also of the snare that European competition laws potentially lay for public services when they are transformed into players in a market.
  • (13) Sky's snaring of Lumsden, holder of the most powerful job in British television comedy, and its move into a genre which is traditionally expensive and risky, follows bids by Sky1's director of programmes, Stuart Murphy, a former controller of BBC3, for established hits and talent from its terrestrial rivals.
  • (14) Occluding snares at T-13 limited the effect of raised pressure on the brain.
  • (15) Snare describes the portrait quite clearly: the young Charles with his large liquid eyes and pale face, appearing in three-quarter view without rigidity or outline, the painting as airy as mist (and the prince too young for Van Dyck, who only portrayed Charles in his 30s).
  • (16) After chest closure the common carotid arteries were exposed and immediately ligated or else catheter snares were installed to induce ischemia at a later date.
  • (17) A snare placed around the IA was used to unilaterally decrease renal arterial perfusion pressure (RAPP) for the experimental kidney.
  • (18) Mean aortic pressure was kept nearly constant during the interventions by manipulation of an aortic clamp or a vena caval snare.
  • (19) Graded reductions in uterine and umbilical blood flows were achieved by a hypogastric artery snare and a balloon cuff encircling the umbilical cord.
  • (20) During MVR with complete chordal preservation, snares were placed around the anterior and posterior papillary muscles.

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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