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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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explore
English
Etymology
From Middle French explorer, from Latin expl?r?re (“to investigate, search out”), itself said to be originally a hunters' term meaning "to set up a loud cry", from ex- (“out”) + pl?r?re (“to cry”), but the second element is also explained as "to make to flow" (from pluere (“to flow”)).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?ksplô?, IPA(key): /?k?spl??/
- (General American) enPR: ?ksplôr?, IPA(key): /?k?spl??/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: ?kspl?r?, IPA(key): /?k?splo(?)?/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /?k?splo?/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
- Hyphenation: ex?plore
Verb
explore (third-person singular simple present explores, present participle exploring, simple past and past participle explored)
- (intransitive, obsolete) To seek for something or after someone.
- (transitive) To examine or investigate something systematically.
- (transitive) To travel somewhere in search of discovery.
- (intransitive, medicine) To examine diagnostically.
- (transitive) To (seek) experience first hand.
- (intransitive) To be engaged exploring in any of the above senses.
- (intransitive) To wander without any particular aim or purpose.
- (transitive) To seek sexual variety, to sow one's wild oats.
Synonyms
- (examine or investigate systematically): delve into, research
Derived terms
- explorer
Related terms
- exploration
- explorative
- exploratory
Translations
Noun
explore (plural explores)
- (colloquial) An exploration; a tour of a place to see what it is like.
- 2008, John Watters, Bonza Voyage
- Daylight was fading quickly, but I was still keen to have a little explore of the town and beach.
- 2008, John Watters, Bonza Voyage
French
Verb
explore
- first-person singular present indicative of explorer
- third-person singular present indicative of explorer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of explorer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of explorer
- second-person singular imperative of explorer
Portuguese
Verb
explore
- first-person singular present subjunctive of explorar
- third-person singular present subjunctive of explorar
- first-person singular imperative of explorar
- third-person singular imperative of explorar
Spanish
Verb
explore
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of explorar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of explorar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of explorar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of explorar.
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