Definitions for gaze
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.8 / 4 votes

1. gaze, regardverb

   a long fixed look

   "he fixed his paternal gaze on me"

2. gaze, stareverb

   look at with fixed eyes

   "The students stared at the teacher with amazement"

WiktionaryRate this definition:2.8 / 6 votes

1. gazenoun

   A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention.

2. gazenoun

   The object gazed on.

3. gazenoun

   In Lacanian psychoanalysis, the relationship of the subject with the desire to look and awareness that one can be viewed.

4. gazeverb

   To stare intently or earnestly.

5. gazeverb

   To stare at.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Gazenoun

   Etymology: from the verb.

   1. Intent regard; look of eagerness or wonder; fixed look.

   Being light’ned with her beauty’s beam,
   And thereby fill’d with happy influence,
   And lifted up above the worldis gaze,
   To sing with angels her immortal praise. Edmund Spenser.

   Do but note a wild and wanton herd,
   If any air of musick touch their ears,
   You shall perceive them make a mutual stand,
   Their savage eyes turn’d to a modest gaze,
   By the sweet power of musick. William Shakespeare, Merch. of Venice.

   Not a month
   ’Fore your queen dy’d, she was more worth such gazes
   Than what you look on now. William Shakespeare, Winter’s Tale.

   With secret gaze,
   Or open admiration, him behold,
   On whom the great Creator hath bestow’d
   Worlds. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. iii.

   Pindar is a dark writer, wants connexion as to our understanding, soars out of sight, and leaves his readers at a gaze. John Dryden, Ovid. Preface to.

   After having stood at gaze before this gate, he discovered an inscription. Joseph Addison, Freeholder, №. 27.

   2. The object gazed on.

   I must die
   Betray’d, captiv’d, and both my eyes put out;
   Made of my enemies the scorn and gaze;
   To grind in brazen fetters, under task,
   With my heav’n-gifted strength. John Milton, Agonistes.

2. To GAZEverb

   To look intently and earnestly; to look with eagerness.

   Etymology: ἀγάζεσϑαι, or rather gesean, to see, Sax.

   What see’st thou there? King Henry’s diadem,
   Inchas’d with all the honours of the world:
   If so, gaze on. William Shakespeare, Henry IV. p. ii.

   From some she cast her modest eyes below;
   At some her gazing glances roving flew. Edward Fairfax, b. iv.

   Gaze not on a maid, that thou fall not by those things that are precious in her. Ecclus. ix. 5.

   A lover’s eyes will gaze an eagle blind. William Shakespeare.

   Strait toward heav’n my wond’ring eyes I turn’d,
   And gaz’d a while the ample sky. John Milton, Paradise Lost.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Gaze

   In critical theory, sociology, and psychoanalysis, the gaze (French le regard), in the philosophical and figurative sense, is an individual's (or a group's) awareness and perception of other individuals, other groups, or oneself. The concept and the social applications of the gaze have been defined and explained by existentialist and phenomenologist philosophers. Jean-Paul Sartre described the gaze (or "the look") in Being and Nothingness (1943). Michel Foucault, in Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (1975), developed the concept of the gaze to illustrate the dynamics of socio-political power relations and the social dynamics of society's mechanisms of discipline. Jacques Derrida, in The Animal That Therefore I Am (More to Come) (1997), elaborated upon the inter-species relations that exist among human beings and other animals, which are established by way of the gaze.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. gaze

   Gaze refers to a steady and intent look or a fixed intent look in a particular direction. In human context, it is a powerful form of nonverbal communication through which a person expresses their attention, interest, attraction, dominance, or other social factors. In a broader sense, it may refer to the act or manner of looking steadily or intently.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. Gazeverb

   to fixx the eyes in a steady and earnest look; to look with eagerness or curiosity, as in admiration, astonishment, or with studious attention

2. Gazeverb

   to view with attention; to gaze on

3. Gazenoun

   a fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention

4. Gazenoun

   the object gazed on

WikidataRate this definition:1.0 / 2 votes

1. Gaze

   Gaze is a psychoanalytical term brought into popular usage by Jacques Lacan to describe the anxious state that comes with the awareness that one can be viewed. The psychological effect, Lacan argues, is that the subject loses a degree of autonomy upon realizing that he or she is a visible object. This concept is bound with his theory of the mirror stage, in which a child encountering a mirror realizes that he or she has an external appearance. Lacan suggests that this gaze effect can similarly be produced by any conceivable object such as a chair or a television screen. This is not to say that the object behaves optically as a mirror; instead it means that the awareness of any object can induce an awareness of also being an object.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:2.0 / 2 votes

1. Gaze

   gāz, v.i, to look fixedly.—n. a fixed look: the object gazed at—(Spens.) Gaze′ment.—adj. Gaze′ful (Spens.), looking intently.—ns. Gaze′-hound, a hound that pursues by sight rather than scent; Gaz′er, one who gazes; Gaz′ing-stock, a person exposed to public view, generally in a bad sense.—At gaze, in the attitude of gazing. [Prob. cog. with obs. gaw, to stare, Ice. gá, to heed. Some compare the Sw. gasa, to stare.]

Military Dictionary and GazetteerRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. gaze

   In heraldry, when a beast of the chase is represented as affronté, or full-faced, it is said to be at gaze.

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1. gaze

   Song lyrics by gaze -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by gaze on the Lyrics.com website.

2. GAZE

   What does GAZE stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the GAZE acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. GAZE

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Gaze is ranked #118853 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Gaze surname appeared 146 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Gaze.
   
   85.6% or 125 total occurrences were White.
   6.1% or 9 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   3.4% or 5 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

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British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'gaze' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4154

2. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'gaze' in Nouns Frequency: #1747

3. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'gaze' in Verbs Frequency: #659

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How to pronounce gaze?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say gaze in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of gaze in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of gaze in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of gaze in a Sentence

1. Marcus Tullius Cicero:

   Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas. (No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars.)

2. Eugène Ionesco:

   The universe seems to me infinitely strange and foreign. At such a moment I gaze upon it with a mixture of anguish and euphoria; separate from the universe, as though placed at a certain distance outside it; I look and I see pictures, creatures that move in a kind of timeless time and spaceless space, emitting sounds that are a kind of language I no longer understand or ever register.

3. Heather Lydia Thornhill:

   If I could capture love in a butterflies wings I would seal it in a window so you could gaze at it with every sunrise and sunset.

4. Dejan Stojanovic:

   It is beautiful to talk about beautiful things and even more beautiful to silently gaze at them.

5. Jean Nathan Miller:

   Through his mastery of storytelling techniques, he has managed to separate his character, in the public mind, from his actions as president. ... He has, in short, mesmerized us with that steady gaze.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=gaze
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gaze
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=gaze
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaze
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gaze
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=gaze
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=gaze
9. ^ Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59563/pg59563-images.html
10. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
    https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html
11. ^ Usage in printed sources
    https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=gaze