ST areとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: stâr
• (General American) IPA: /stɛɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /stɛə/
• (General Australian) IPA: /steː/
• (New Zealand, without the cheer–chair merger) IPA: /steə/
• (New Zealand, cheer–chair merger) IPA: /stiə/
• (Scotland) IPA: /steɹ/
• (Lancashire, fair–fur merger) IPA: /stɜː(ɹ)/
• 韻: -ɛə(ɹ)
• 異形同音異義語: stair; steer (cheer–chair merger); stir (fair–fur merger)

語源 1

From 中期英語 staren, from 古期英語 starian (“to stare”), from Proto-West Germanic *starēn, from Proto-Germanic *starjaną, *starāną (“to be fixed, be rigid”), from Proto-Indo-European *ster-.

Cognate with Dutch staren (“to stare”), German starren (“to stare”), German starr (“stiff”). More at start.

動詞

stare (third-person singular simple present stares, present participle staring, simple past and past participle stared)

1. (intransitive, followed by "at") To look fixedly (at something).

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:stare

   She found him staring with raised eyebrows at her.

   • 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:

     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; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, 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.
   • 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:

     Makest my blood cold, and my hair to stare.

   • 1707, John Mortimer, The whole Art of Husbandry, in the way of Managing and Improving of Land:

     Take off all the staring straws, twigs and jags in the hive.

Troponyms

• gaze, to stare intently or earnestly
• ogle, to stare covetously or amorously

派生語

名詞

stare (plural stares)

1. A persistent gaze.

   the stares of astonished passers-by

   • 1997, “Sex and Candy”, performed by Marcy Playground:

     Who's that lounging in my chair? / Who's that casting devious stares in my direction?

派生語

語源 2

From 中期英語 star, ster, from 古期英語 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 古期英語 stearn (“a type of bird, starling”).

名詞

stare (plural stares)

1. (now archaic) A starling. [from 9th c.]

   Synonyms: common starling, European starling

   • 1634, William Wood, “Of the Birds and Fowles both of Land and Water”, in New Englands Prospect. A True, Lively, and Experimentall Description of that Part of America, Commonly Called New England; […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Bellamie, […], →OCLC, 1st part, page 29:

     The Stares be bigger than thoſe in England, as blacke as Crovves, being the most troubleſome, and injurious bird of all others, pulling up the cornes by the roots, vvhen it is young, […]

参考

• stare decisis

Further reading

• “stare”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “stare”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, pages 5906–5907.

アナグラム

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