different between gaze vs peruse
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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peruse
English
Etymology
From per- +? use, from either Medieval Latin (peruti, perusitare (“wear out”)) or Anglo-Norman (peruser (“use up”)), originally leading to two concurrent meanings, but only those derived from "to examine" survive today.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /p???u?z/
- Rhymes: -u?z
Verb
peruse (third-person singular simple present peruses, present participle perusing, simple past and past participle perused)
- (transitive) To examine or consider with care.
- (transitive) To read completely.
- (transitive, informal) To look over casually; to skim.
- (intransitive, regional) To go from place to place; to wander.
Usage notes
- The sense of "skimming" is proscribed by some authorities on usage, including the Oxford American Dictionary. The shift, however, is not dissimilar to that found in scan, and thus, interestingly, peruse and scan are a synonym pair in which each is a contranym meaning either "to read carefully" or "to read hastily". To avoid ambiguity—and reader annoyance—careful writers may prefer skim when skimming is meant or scrutinize when care is meant. The Oxford English Dictionary further notes that the word peruse was used as a general synonym for read as far back as the 16th century.
Derived terms
- perusable
- perusal
- peruser
Translations
Noun
peruse (plural peruses)
- An examination or perusal; an instance of perusing.
- 2008, Dave Robson, "Hi-tea, low cost!", Evening Gazette online, September 12,
- A peruse of the website looked promising […]
- 2008, Dave Robson, "Hi-tea, low cost!", Evening Gazette online, September 12,
Translations
Anagrams
- persue, purees, purées, rupees
Latin
Participle
peruse
- vocative masculine singular of perusus
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