If you stare at someone or something, you look at them for a long time. Tamara stared at him in disbelief, shaking her head Mahoney tried not to stare. Stare is also a noun. Hlasek gave him a long, cold stare
If a situation or the answer to a problem is staring you in the face, it is very obvious, although you may not be immediately aware of it. Then the answer hit me. It had been staring me in the face ever since Lullington. when you look at something for a long time in a steady way
Acronym for Southern Tropical Atlantic Regional Experiment, a project within BIBEX STARE is an aircraft- and ground-based measurement program initiated in May 1990 by a committee of scientists from Europe, Brazil and the U S to investigate the sources of trace gases, their atmospheric transport, and the chemical processes in the atmosphere which lead to elevated levels of O3, CO, and other trace gases over the southern tropical Atlantic Ocean The field campaigns conducted under STARE were TRACE-A, SAFARI, and SA'ARI See Andreae et al (1996)
[ 'star, 'ster ] (verb.) before 12th century. Middle English, from Old English starian; akin to Old High German starEn to stare, Greek stereos solid, Lithuanian starinti to stiffen.