different between gaze vs perceive

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)

1. (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?

2. (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)

1. 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.

2. (archaic) The object gazed on.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)

3. (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.

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)

1. gauze

Etymology 2

Verb

gaze

1. first-person singular present indicative of gazer
2. third-person singular present indicative of gazer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of gazer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of gazer
5. 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)

1. gauze (thin fabric with open weave)
2. gauze (cotton fabric used as surgical dressing)

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??aze]

Noun

gaze n

1. indefinite plural of gaz

English

Alternative forms

• perceave (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English perceiven, borrowed from Old French percevoir, perceveir, from Latin percipi?, past participle perceptus (“take hold of, obtain, receive, observe”), from per (“by, through”) + capi? (“to take”); see capable. Compare conceive, deceive, receive.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p??si?v/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /p??siv/
• Rhymes: -i?v
• Hyphenation: per?ceive

Verb

perceive (third-person singular simple present perceives, present participle perceiving, simple past and past participle perceived)

1. (transitive) To become aware of, through the physical senses or by thinking; to see; to understand.

Synonyms

• ken

Related terms

• perception
• percept

Translations

References

• perceive in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.