different between gaze vs squint

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

Etymology

Derived from asquint (“obliquely, with a sidelong glance”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skw?nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt

Verb

squint (third-person singular simple present squints, present participle squinting, simple past and past participle squinted)

1. (intransitive) To look with the eyes partly closed, as in bright sunlight, or as a threatening expression.

   • “A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; […]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.

2. (intransitive) To look or glance sideways.
3. (intransitive) To look with, or have eyes that are turned in different directions; to suffer from strabismus.
4. (intransitive, figuratively) To have an indirect bearing, reference, or implication; to have an allusion to, or inclination towards, something.
   • The Forum

     Yet if the following sentence means anything, it is a squinting toward hypnotism.

5. (intransitive, Scotland) To be not quite straight, off-centred; to deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
6. (transitive) To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely.

Synonyms

(quick glance):

• skelly

Translations

Noun

squint (plural squints)

1. An expression in which the eyes are partly closed.
2. The look of eyes which are turned in different directions, as in strabismus.

   He looks handsome although he's got a slight squint.

4. A quick or sideways glance.
5. A short look.
6. A hagioscope.
7. (radio transmission) The angle by which the transmission signal is offset from the normal of a phased array antenna.

Derived terms

• squintless
• squinty

Translations

Adjective

squint

1. Looking obliquely; having the vision distorted.
2. (Scotland) askew, not level

Related terms

• cross-eyed

Anagrams

• quints