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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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peek
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: p?k, IPA(key): /pi?k/
- Homophones: peak, peke, pique
- Rhymes: -i?k
Alternative forms
- peak, peke (obsolete)
Etymology 1
From Middle English *peken, piken (“to peep”), probably a fusion of peep and keek.
Verb
peek (third-person singular simple present peeks, present participle peeking, simple past and past participle peeked)
- (informal) To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep.
- (informal) To be only slightly, partially visible, as if peering out from a hiding place.
- (computing, transitive) To retrieve (a value) from a memory address.
- 2006, Gary Willoughby, PureBasic: A Beginner's Guide to Computer Programming (page 279)
- We are peeking the value from the first index's memory location.
- 2006, Gary Willoughby, PureBasic: A Beginner's Guide to Computer Programming (page 279)
Translations
Related terms
- peekable
- sneak peek
Etymology 2
Noun
peek
- Misspelling of pique.
Anagrams
- Ekpe, Keep, Peke, keep, kepe, peke
Basque
Noun
peek
- ergative plural of pe
Hlai
Etymology
From Proto-Hlai *p?a?k (“high”), from Pre-Hlai *pa?k (Norquest, 2015).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Hlai) IPA(key): /p?e?k?/
Adjective
peek
- high
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