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gaze
English
Etymology
Akin to Swedish dialectal gasa and Gothic ???????????????????????????????? (usgasjan, “to terrify”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?e?z/
- Rhymes: -e?z
- Homophone: gays
Verb
gaze (third-person singular simple present gazes, present participle gazing, simple past and past participle gazed)
- (intransitive) To stare intently or earnestly.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses Chapter 13
- Gerty MacDowell who was seated near her companions, lost in thought, gazing far away into the distance was, in very truth, as fair a specimen of winsome Irish girlhood as one could wish to see.
- They gazed at the stars for hours.
- In fact, for Antonioni this gazing is probably the most fundamental of all cognitive activities ... (from Thinking in the Absence of Image)
- Why stand ye gazing up into heaven?
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses Chapter 13
- (transitive, poetic) To stare at.
Synonyms
- gape, stare, look
Troponyms
- (to stare intently): ogle
Derived terms
- at gaze
- begaze
- foregaze
- gazer
Translations
Noun
gaze (plural gazes)
- A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention.
- Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.
- (archaic) The object gazed on.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)
- (psychoanalysis) In Lacanian psychoanalysis, the relationship of the subject with the desire to look and awareness that one can be viewed.
- 2003, Amelia Jones, The feminism and visual culture reader, p.35:
- She counters the tendency to focus on critical strategies of resisting the male gaze, raising the issue of the female spectator.
- 2003, Amelia Jones, The feminism and visual culture reader, p.35:
Derived terms
- foregaze
- male gaze
- white gaze
Translations
References
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??z/
- Homophones: gaz, gazes, gazent
Etymology 1
From Arabic ????? (qazz, “silk”) (pronounced in the dialects with /?/), less likely from ??????? (?azza, “Gaza”), a city associated with silk production.
Noun
gaze f (plural gazes)
- gauze
Etymology 2
Verb
gaze
- first-person singular present indicative of gazer
- third-person singular present indicative of gazer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of gazer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of gazer
- second-person singular imperative of gazer
Further reading
- “gaze” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Portuguese
Noun
gaze f (plural gazes)
- gauze (thin fabric with open weave)
- gauze (cotton fabric used as surgical dressing)
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??aze]
Noun
gaze n
- indefinite plural of gaz
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discern
English
Etymology
From Middle English discernen, from Old French discerner, from Latin discernere (“to separate, divide, distinguish, discern”), from dis- (“apart”) + cernere (“to separate”); see certain.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -??(?)n
(modern pronunciation)
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??s??n/
- (US) IPA(key): /d??s?n/
(older pronunciation)
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??z??n/
- (US) IPA(key): /d??z?n/
Verb
discern (third-person singular simple present discerns, present participle discerning, simple past and past participle discerned)
- (transitive) To detect with the senses, especially with the eyes.
- (transitive) To perceive, recognize, or comprehend with the mind; to descry.
- (transitive) To distinguish something as being different from something else; to differentiate.
- (intransitive) To perceive differences.
Synonyms
- (detect with the senses): See also Thesaurus:perceive
- (especially with the eyes): behold, see; see also Thesaurus:see
- (perceive, recognize, or comprehend with the mind): ken, spy; see also Thesaurus:spot
- (distinguish something as being different): discriminate, distinguish; see also Thesaurus:tell apart
Derived terms
- discernible
- discernment
- indiscernible
Related terms
Translations
Anagrams
- Cinders, cinders, rescind
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