What is the difference between Stare and Stair?
What is the difference between Stare and Stair? :
Stare : (verb)
( 1 ) Look with the eyes wide open in a fixed gaze
Do not stare at the old woman.
They all stared in amazement.
Do you like being stared at?
( 2 ) Bring or force someone into a specified condition by staring
I stared her into silence.
Stare : (noun)
( 1 ) Long fixed gaze
Staring look
I gave him a rude stare.
We received a number of curious stares from passers by.
Stair : (noun)
( 1 ) Any one of the series of fixed steps from one floor to another floor of a building
I passed her on the stairs.
The stairs need cleaning.
( 2 ) Any one of these steps
The child was sitting on the bottom stair.