What's the difference between starer and stater?

Starer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who stares, or gazes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Photograph: Christa Holka Fun with Cancer Patients, on show now at mac Birmingham , documents 10 areas of cancer treatment including food intake and appetite, the relationship between the starer and the person being looked at, the questions that cancer patients are always asked, and the sounds associated with treatment.

Stater


Definition:

  • (n.) One who states.
  • (n.) The principal gold coin of ancient Grece. It varied much in value, the stater best known at Athens being worth about £1 2s., or about $5.35. The Attic silver tetradrachm was in later times called stater.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The important conjoint variables may well be the instruction giver (rule stater), any of their other systematic characteristics that have occasioned functional consequences for compliance in the past, and the topography of the response requested.
  • (2) There were, he said, "three competing tendencies within Israel's ruling coalition: annexationists (who want to formally take over the West Bank), status quo merchants (who wink at the notion of two states while expanding settlements), and Bantustan two-staters (who want the Palestinians to accept 50% of the West Bank as constituting a state)."
  • (3) Penn Staters for Responsible Stewardship, a group formed in the wake of the scandal to oust board members who voted to fire Paterno, released a statement calling for Penn State officials to produce all records related to the insurance case “so that they may be evaluated fairly and fully in an environment of complete transparency.” Paterno had an unparalleled coaching career at Penn State but was fired in the months between Sandusky’s November 2011 arrest and his own death of lung cancer in January 2012.
  • (4) Paterno’s “Grand Experiment”, which placed emphasis on academics and proved athletes could also be top students, is a source of pride for Penn Staters who credit Paterno for giving the university an identity to be proud of.
  • (5) Whether it was the 2012 omnibus bill , or the highway and student loan funding bill of 2012 , outsiders such as blue-staters Michele Bachmann and Marco Rubio voted alongside southerner Rand Paul and westerner Mike Lee.
  • (6) Generalization of compliance across people, settings, and topography can occur; this generalization can extend to self-instruction, and can fail to extend to certain topographies ("Thou shalt not kill"), certain rule staters (nonpeers who say "Don't use drugs" when peers say it is fun), and certain settings ("Don't play with John in class").

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