What's the difference between stare and store?

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.

Store


Definition:

  • (v. t.) That which is accumulated, or massed together; a source from which supplies may be drawn; hence, an abundance; a great quantity, or a great number.
  • (v. t.) A place of deposit for goods, esp. for large quantities; a storehouse; a warehouse; a magazine.
  • (v. t.) Any place where goods are sold, whether by wholesale or retail; a shop.
  • (v. t.) Articles, especially of food, accumulated for some specific object; supplies, as of provisions, arms, ammunition, and the like; as, the stores of an army, of a ship, of a family.
  • (a.) Accumulated; hoarded.
  • (v. t.) To collect as a reserved supply; to accumulate; to lay away.
  • (v. t.) To furnish; to supply; to replenish; esp., to stock or furnish against a future time.
  • (v. t.) To deposit in a store, warehouse, or other building, for preservation; to warehouse; as, to store goods.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Multiple stored energy levels were randomly tested and the percent successful defibrillation was plotted against the stored energy, and the raw data were fit by logistic regression.
  • (2) As the requirements to store and display these images increase, the following questions become important: (a) What methods can be used to ensure that information given to the physician represents the originally acquired data?
  • (3) Based on our results, we propose the following hypotheses for the neurochemical mechanisms of motion sickness: (1) the histaminergic neuron system is involved in the signs and symptoms of motion sickness, including vomiting; (2) the acetylcholinergic neuron system is involved in the processes of habituation to motion sickness, including neural store mechanisms; and (3) the catecholaminergic neuron system in the brain stem is not related to the development of motion sickness.
  • (4) We’re learning to store peak power in all kinds of ways: a California auction for new power supply was won by a company that uses extra solar energy to freeze ice, which then melts during the day to supply power.
  • (5) Irradiation of stored red blood cells (RBC) is increasingly utilized for patients who are immunosuppressed or on chemotherapeutic regimens.
  • (6) This study was designed to examine the effect of the storage configuration of skin and the ratio of tissue-to-storage medium on the viability of skin stored under refrigeration.
  • (7) Although the relative contributions of different fuels varies greatly in different organisms, in none is there a simple reliance on stored ATP.
  • (8) John Lewis’s marketing, advertising and reputation are all built on their promises of good customer services, and it is a large part of what still drives people to their stores despite cheaper online outlets.
  • (9) Since iron from fortified formulas is well absorbed during the first three months of life, even if it is not immediately used for hemoglobin formation, an inccrease in the iron stores will occur...
  • (10) The hypothesis that experimentally determined survival times of Treponema pallidum in stored donor blood could be related to the number of treponemes initially present in the treponeme-blood mixtures was investigated by inoculating rabbits with three graded doses of treponemes suspended in donor blood and stored at 4 degrees C for various periods of time.
  • (11) Paired tolbutamide and glucose infusions using a square wave technique demonstrated that although early phase insulin secretion is dimished in the fetus, this is not due to an absolute deficiency of stored insulin.
  • (12) Ten weeks of iron therapy was not, however, long enough to increase iron stores.
  • (13) The first source attended was a private practitioner for 53 % of the patients, another private medical establishment for 4 %, a Government chest clinic for only 11 % and another Government medical establishment for 17 %, 9 % went first to a herbalist and 5 % went to a drug store or treated themselves.
  • (14) In order to maintain its activity, the enzyme was always stored in 1.0-ml aliquots at temperatures below -20 degrees C and each aliquot when thawed was used immediately; any left over enzyme was never reused.
  • (15) The present results suggest that TMB-8 blocks twitches by preventing the release of Ca++ ions bound to the intracellular surface of the t-tubular membrane which is often called the store of 'trigger-calcium' ions.
  • (16) The dermatan and keratan sulfate-storing diseases have corneal clouding.
  • (17) The immobilized enzyme preparations were stable when stored at 4 degrees C and pH 7.5 for periods up to eight months.
  • (18) Just a few months ago, a director-level position job for Sears was floated by me from the department store chain's headquarters in Chicago.
  • (19) These results suggest that bPAG is probably synthesized by trophoblast binucleate cells and stored in granules prior to delivery into the maternal circulation after cell migration.
  • (20) With the most recent unit, up to ten images can be taken and stored.

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