different between naze vs gaze

English

Etymology

From Old English næs; cognate with Icelandic nes, Swedish näs, Danish næs. Related to ness.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ne?z/

Noun

naze (plural nazes)

1. A promontory or headland.

   Synonym: ness

2. A cape at the southern tip of Norway (also known as The Lindesnes)

References

• "naze" in the Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, MICRA, 1996, 1998.
• "naze" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.

Anagrams

• Anez, Zane, zean

French

Alternative forms

• nase

Etymology

Apocopic form of argot nazi or nasi (“syphilis”), probably from dialectal nase (“snot”), from German Nase (“nose”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /naz/

Adjective

naze (plural nazes)

1. (informal) worthless; useless; lame

   Synonyms: nul, pourri, nul de chez nul, nul à chier, à chier, merdique

2. (informal) knackered; beat; exhausted

   Synonyms: crevé, claqué, mort

Noun

naze m (plural nazes)

1. (informal) loser, moron

   Synonym: nul

Further reading

• “naze” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Japanese

Romanization

naze

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French nager

Verb

naze

1. to swim

References

• Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français

Seychellois Creole

Etymology

From French nager

Verb

naze

1. to swim

References

• Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français

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