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Stare vs Deadeye - What's the difference?

stare | deadeye |

As nouns the difference between stare and deadeye

is that stare is : starlings while deadeye is (nautical) a wooden disk having holes through which the lanyard is passed, used for tightening shrouds.

As an adjective deadeye is

very accurate with shooting or throwing.

stare

English

(wikipedia stare)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) . More at (l).

Verb

(star)
  • To look fixedly (at something).
    • {{quote-Fanny Hill, part=2 , 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}}
  • *
  • *: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.
  • To be very conspicuous on account of size, prominence, colour, or brilliancy.
  • :staring windows or colours
  • (obsolete) To stand out; to project; to bristle.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:Makest my blood cold, and my hair to stare .
  • * John Mortimer (1656?-1736)
  • *:Take off all the staring straws and jags in the hive.
    • Troponyms
    * gaze, to stare intently or earnestly * ogle, to stare covetously or amorously
    Derived terms
    * stare someone in the face

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A persistent gaze.
    • the stares of astonished passers-by

    Etymology 2

    (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A starling.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

    * ----

    deadeye

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Very accurate with shooting or throwing.
  • * {{quote-news, year=1961, date=November 2, author=Jerry Green, title=Gross Dwarfed, But Not in Ability, work=The Milwaukee Sentinel citation
    • , passage=Gross, only a 20-year-old junior, is a deadeye passer, a poised runner and a quick-thinking field general.}}
  • * {{quote-news, year=1999, date=November 15, author=Alan Shipnuck, title=10 Ucla, work=Sports Illustrated citation
    • , passage=Help in that department should come from highly touted freshman Jason Kapono, a 6'7" deadeye shooter who made 211 threes in high school.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=2008, author=Gerald Vizenor, title=Father Meme, publisher=University of New Mexico Press, isbn=978-0-8623-4515-8 citation
    • , passage=The old man was a natural sniper, a deadeye shooter even as a boy, and he served with my great uncle in the First World War.}}
  • About a stare: cold; unfriendly.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2004, date=July 28, author=Emma Field, title=Sons and Daughters / The Archie Bronson Outfit, ICA, London, work=The Independent citation
    • , passage=The deadeye stare of the bassist was enough to make any normal person run.}}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=September 10, author=Manohla Dargis, title=The real Jodie Foster, 100 percent professional, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Outlandish in its violence and its conceit, "The Brave One" would be an interesting addendum to Foster's career even without its biographical frisson, without the image of Erica holding a gun with a deadeye stare

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nautical) A wooden disk having holes through which the lanyard is passed, used for tightening shrouds.
  • A very accurate marksman.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1989, author=Tobias Wolff, title=This Boy's Life: A Memoir citation
    • , passage=He taught both my mother and me to shoot, taught my mother so well that she became a better shot than he was--a real deadeye .}}
  • (uncommon) A penchant for noticing a particular thing, or a person who has such a penchant.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1990, author=Ron Chernow, title=The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance citation
    • , passage=He examined the cash balance daily, boasted he could pay off all debts in two hours, had a deadeye for fake figures in scanning a ledger, and personally audited the books each New Year's Day.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1999, author=Ann Rowe Seaman, title=Swaggart: The Unathorized Biography of an American Evangelist citation
    • , passage=Thirty-four years later, she was a tough CEO who went after Jimmy's detractors with a deadeye for the jugular.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=2002, author=Lilly Paige White, title=Manny Lesko: The Erotic History of Estelle Antoinette Francine Chevalier, publisher=iUniverse, isbn=978-0595223923 citation
    • , passage=Manny's memory had always been an arch-phenomenon of mimcry (SIC); he was a deadeye for all the destructive details.}}