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Definition: GAZING |
GAZINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Gaze |
Date "GAZING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Prediction | Noun: prediction, announcement; program, programme; (plan); premonition; (warning); prognosis, prophecy, vaticination, mantology, prognostication, premonstration; augury, auguration; ariolation, hariolation; foreboding, aboding; bodement, abodement; omniation, omniousness; auspices, forecast; omen; horoscope, nativity; sooth, soothsaying; fortune telling, crystal gazing; divination; necromancy. |
Divination by oracles, Theomancy; by the Bible, Bibliomancy; by ghosts, Psychomancy; by crystal gazing, Crystallomancy; by shadows or manes, Sciomancy; by appearances in the air, Aeromancy, Chaomancy; by the stars at birth, Genethliacs; by meteors, Meteoromancy; by winds, Austromancy; by sacrificial appearances, Aruspicy (or Haruspicy), Hieromancy, Hieroscopy; by the entrails of animals sacrificed, Extispicy, Hieromancy; by the entrails of a human sacrifice, | |
World | Astronomy; uranography, uranology; cosmology, cosmography, cosmogony; eidouranion, orrery; geodesy. (measurement); star gazing, star gazer; astronomer; observatory; planetarium. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: GAZING |
| English words defined with "GAZING": Agazed, At gaze ♦ counterbalance, crystal ball ♦ Gapesing, Gazeful ♦ longingly ♦ Omphalopsychite, oppose ♦ searchingly ♦ turn the scales ♦ with longing ♦ yearningly. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "GAZING": Alpue, Alpieu ♦ Christian ♦ Gunpowder ♦ Ostrich Eggs in Churches ♦ Portrait. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "GAZING": Gazeful. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Sisters, don't stand there gazing. This good Catholic needs our help (Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes; writing credit: Ken Annakin; Jack Davies) Gazing at you I get the heat (Tommy; writing credit: Pete Townshend; Ken Russell) I had no idea how much until I found myself gazing longingly at the Washington Monument (The Naked Truth; writing credit: Scott Bank; Jenny Banks) | |
Lyrics | Gazing at people, some hand in hand, (Nights In White Satin; performing artist: The Moody Blues) A lonely mother gazing out of her window (Waterfalls; performing artist: TLC) | |
Clever | Love is not just gazing at each other, but looking together in the same direction. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Star Gazing (1935) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Gazing to the far reaches of space and time, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope identified the ... Credit: NASA. |  | Gazing upward in a giant kelp forest. Credit: Sanctuaries. |
 | Nineteenth Century Doctor - still water gazing. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Man with globe, compass, and books gazing over landscape. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Goat in bedroom gazing at sleeping person. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Shepherd with bagpipes gazing at heavens, with sheepdogs, sheep and wolf. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Newlyweds Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Shevlin gazing at one another while seated at a table at El Morocco restaurant in New York City. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Ravi Shankar, full-length portrait, seated, gazing down at sitar he is playing] / Jitendra Arya, London. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Tourists gazing at Old Man of the Mountain, White Mountains, N.H. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Sarasota County court house, Sarasota, Florida. Reflections in gazing pools III. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Bronze Face" by Matt Williams Commentary: "These three-foot tall, alien-like sky gazing sculptures are dotted all over one area of Birmingham's Botanical Gardens, in amongst the bushes plants and shrubs. He looks happy enough though." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Author | Quotation |
Alexander Smith | A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | When we overtook him he was climbing a gate, and was gazing earnestly into the field, where a horse, a cow, and a kid were browsing amicably together |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Hester repelled the offered medicine, at the same time gazing with strongly marked apprehension into his face |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | She heard a breathing near her bed, drew aside the curtain, and saw Monsieur Madeleine standing gazing at something above his head |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | And for ages men had gazed upward as he was gazing at birds in flight |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | She looked at Pa and Uncle John standing helplessly gazing at the sick man. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted. By most writers the invention of gunpowder is ascribed to the Chinese, but not upon very convincing evidence. Milton says it was invented by the devil to dispel angels with, and this opinion seems to derive some support from the scarcity of angels. Moreover, it has the hearty concurrence of the Hon. James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture. Secretary Wilson became interested in gunpowder through an event that occurred on the Government experimental farm in the District of Columbia. One day, several years ago, a rogue imperfectly reverent of the Secretary's profound attainments and personal character presented him with a sack of gunpowder, representing it as the sed of the Flashawful flabbergastor, a Patagonian cereal of great commercial value, admirably adapted to this climate. The good Secretary was instructed to spill it along in a furrow and afterward inhume it with soil. This he at once proceeded to do, and had made a continuous line of it all the way across a ten-acre field, when he was made to look backward by a shout from the generous donor, who at once dropped a lighted match into the furrow at the starting-point. Contact with the earth had somewhat dampened the powder, but the startled functionary saw himself pursued by a tall moving pillar of fire and smoke and fierce evolution. He stood for a moment paralyzed and speechless, then he recollected an engagement and, dropping all, absented himself thence with such surprising celerity that to the eyes of spectators along the route selected he appeared like a long, dim streak prolonging itself with inconceivable rapidity through seven villages, and audibly refusing to be comforted. "Great Scott! what is that?" cried a surveyor's chainman, shading his eyes and gazing at the fading line of agriculturist which bisected his visible horizon. "That," said the surveyor, carelessly glancing at the phenomenon and again centering his attention upon his instrument, "is the Meridian of Washington." H |
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| "GAZING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 99.64% of the time. "GAZING" is used about 843 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 99.64% | 840 | 8,369 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.24% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.12% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 843 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "GAZING": by crystal gazing ♦ crystal gazing. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "GAZING": gazing-stock. | |
Ending with "GAZING": navel-gazing, shoe-gazing. | |
Containing "GAZING": shoe-gazing-infatuated. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "GAZING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 注视 (gaze, Gazed). (various references) | |
German | starrend (scowling, staring), anstarrend (gazing at). (various references) | |
Greek | κρυσταλλομαντεία (crystal gazing). (various references) | |
Hebrew | הסתכלות (contemplation, looking, observation). (various references) | |
Hungarian | bámulás (admiration, gape, gaze, stare, star-gazing, staring). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 瞠目 (gazing at), 目送 (following with ones eyes, gazing after), 注視 (gazing steadily at, observingclosely). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | どうもく (gazing at), もくそう (following with ones eyes, gazing after, meditation, silent contemplation), ちゅうし (Central China, discontinuance, gazing steadily at, interruption, middle finger, observingclosely, resident in China, stoppage, suspension). (various references) | |
Korean | 지켜봄. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | azinggay.(various references) | |
Russian | рассеянность (absence of mind, absentmindedness, absent-mindedness, abstractedness, abstraction, preoccupation, star-gazing, wool gathering, woolgathering). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Acts Chapter 1, Verse 11 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Oi kai eipon andreV galilaioi ti esthkate embleponteV eiV ton ouranon outoV o ihsouV o analhfqeiV af umwn eiV ton ouranon outwV eleusetai on tropon eqeasasqe auton poreuomenon eiV ton ouranon |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Qui et dixerunt viri galilaei quid statis aspicientes in caelum hic Iesus qui adsumptus est a vobis in caelum sic veniet quemadmodum vidistis eum euntem in caelum |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Hi sægdon, "Menn of Galileam, for hwy standað ge her and seoð on heofon? Þes ilc Iesus, þe is fram eow in heofon gefered, cirreð in þam ilcan wege þe ge hæfð him ferian gesewen." |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Men of Galile, what stonden ye biholdinge in to heuene? This Jhesu, which is takun vp `fro you in to heuene, schal come, as ye seyn hym goynge in to heuene. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Which also sayde: ye men of Galile why stonde ye gasinge vp into heave? This same Iesus which is taken vp fro you in to heaven shall so come even as ye haue sene him goo into heaven. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Who also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up to heaven? this same Jesus who is taken from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And said, O men of Galilee, why are you looking up into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken from you into heaven, will come again, in the same way as you saw him go into heaven. |
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| Language | Acts Chapter 1, Verse 11 |
| Albanian | dhe thanë: ''Burra Galileas, pse qëndroni e shikoni drejt qiellit? Ky Jezus, që u është marrë në qiell nga mesi juaj, do të kthehet në të njëjtën mënyrë, me të cilën e keni parë të shkojë në qiell''. |
| Cebuano | ug miingon kanila, "Mga tawong Galileanhon, nganong nagatindog man kamo dinhi ug nagatutok sa langit? Kining maong Jesus nga gikuha gikan kaninyo ngadto sa langit, mobalik ra unya sa paagi nga sama sa inyong nakita sa iyang pagsaka sa langit." |
| Chinese | 加 利 利 人 哪 、 你 們 為 甚 麼 站 著 望 天 呢 ． 這 離 開 你 們 被 接 升 天 的 耶 穌 、 你 們 見 他 怎 樣 往 天 上 去 、 他 還 要 怎 樣 來 。 |
| Croatian | i rekoše im: "Galilejci, što stojite i gledate u nebo? Ovaj Isus koji je od vas uznesen na nebo isto æe tako doæi kao što ste vidjeli da odlazi na nebo." |
| Danish | og de sagde: "I galilæiske Mænd, hvorfor stå I og se op imod Himmelen? Denne Jesus, som er optagen fra eder til Himmelen, skal komme igen på samme Måde, som I have set ham fare til Himmelen." |
| Dutch | Welke ook zeiden: Gij Galilese mannen, wat staat gij en ziet op naar den hemel? Deze Jezus, Die van u opgenomen is in den hemel, zal alzo komen, gelijkerwijs gij Hem naar den hemel hebt zien heenvaren. |
| Finnish | ja nämä sanoivat: "Galilean miehet, mitä te seisotte ja katsotte taivaalle? Tämä Jeesus, joka otettiin teiltä ylös taivaaseen, on tuleva samalla tavalla, kuin te näitte hänen taivaaseen menevän." |
| French | et dirent: Hommes Galiléens, pourquoi vous arrêtez-vous à regarder au ciel? Ce Jésus, qui a été enlevé au ciel du milieu de vous, viendra de la même manière que vous l`avez vu allant au ciel. |
| German | welche auch sagten: Ihr Männer von Galiläa, was stehet ihr und sehet gen Himmel? Dieser Jesus, welcher von euch ist aufgenommen gen Himmel, wird kommen, wie ihr ihn gesehen habt gen Himmel fahren. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | "Hai, orang-orang Galilea," kata kedua orang itu, "mengapa kalian berdiri saja di situ memandang ke langit? Yesus, yang kalian lihat terangkat ke surga itu di hadapan kalian, akan kembali lagi dengan cara itu juga seperti yang kalian lihat tadi." |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | yang berkata, "Hai kamu orang Galilea, apakah sebabnya kamu berdiri menatap ke langit? Adapun Yesus yang dinaikkan ke surga dari hadapan kamu itu, begitu juga akan turun pula seperti kamu lihat Ia pergi ke surga itu." |
| Maori | E mea ana, E nga tangata o Kariri, he aha ta koutou e tu, e matakitaki atu na ki te rangi? ko tena Ihu kua tangohia atu na i a koutou ki te rangi, ka pera ano tona haerenga mai me ia i tirohia atu na e koutou e haere ana ki te rangi. |
| Norwegian | og de sa: I galileiske menn! hvorfor står I og ser op mot himmelen? Denne Jesus som er optatt fra eder til himmelen, skal komme igjen på samme måte som I så ham fare op til himmelen. |
| Rumanian | wi au zis: ,,Bqrbayi Galileeni, de ce stayi wi vq uitayi spre cer? Acest Isus, care S`a knqlyat la cer din mijlocul vostru, va veni kn acelaw fel cum L-ayi vqzut mergknd la cer.`` |
| Shuar | Nu aishmansha Jesusa akatramurin tiarmiayi "Kariréanmaya aishmanka, ¿urukamtai nayaimpinmaani Imiá iimprum? Ju Jesusak Atumíya nayaimpiniam wea Wáinkiarumna Núnisan ataksha winittiawai" tiarmiayi. |
| Spanish | y les dijeron: --Hombres galileos, ¿por qué os quedáis de pie mirando al cielo? Este Jesús, quien fue tomado de vosotros arriba al cielo, vendrá de la misma manera como le habéis visto ir al cielo. |
| Swahili | wakasema, "Enyi wananchi wa Galilaya! Mbona mnasimama mkitazama angani? Yesu huyu ambaye amechukuliwa kutoka kwenu kwenda mbinguni atakuja tena namna hiyohiyo mliivyomwona akienda mbinguni." |
| Swedish | Och dessa sade: "I galileiske män, varför stån I och sen mot himmelen? Denne Jesus, som har blivit upptagen från eder till himmelen, han skall komma igen på samma sätt som I haven sett honom fara upp till himmelen." |
| Uma | Ra'uli' to rodua toera: "Ee to Galilea! Napa pai' ntora mengoa' -koi hi langi'? Yesus to nihilo te'ongko' hilou hi suruga toei lou, wae wo'o-i mpai' nculii' tumai ngkai suruga hewa to nihilo-e we'i." |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "GAZING": begazing, stargazing, upgazing. (additional references) | |
Words containing "GAZING": stargazings. (additional references) | |
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"GAZING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: agazan, azing, gabing, Gaczyna, gaiiing, gasing, gazan, gazen, gazi, gazin, gesangk, Geseng, gesenge, Gesing, Gisanga, guzzini. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "GAZING" (pronounced gā"zing) |
| 4 | -ā" z i ng | appraising, amazing, blazing, glazing, grazing, hazing, phasing, phrasing, praising, raising, razing. |
| 3 | -z i ng | antagonizing, apologizing, appeasing, appetizing, arising, abusing, accusing, advertising, advising, aggrandizing, agonizing, amortizing, amusing, analyzing, arousing, authorizing, boozing, bowsing, browsing, bruising, brutalizing, bulldozing, buzzing, cannibalizing, capitalizing, carousing, categorizing, causing, centralizing, characterizing, chastising, choosing, cleansing, closing, colorizing, commercializing, composing, comprising, compromising, computerizing, confusing, criminalizing, criticizing, cruising, crystallizing, customizing, decentralizing, decomposing, decriminalizing, deemphasizing, defusing, dehumanizing, demilitarizing, democratizing, demonizing, demoralizing, denationalizing, desensitizing, destabilizing, devising, diffusing, digitizing, disclosing, disguising, disposing, downsizing, dozing, dramatizing, easing, economizing, editorializing, emphasizing, enclosing, energizing, enterprising, equalizing, espousing, excusing, exercising, exposing, fantasizing, federalizing, fertilizing, finalizing, foreclosing, formalizing, franchising, fraternizing, freezing, fusing, galvanizing, generalizing, glamorizing, harmonizing, hosing, housing, humanizing, hydrolyzing, idolizing, immobilizing, immortalizing, immunizing, imposing, improvising, industrializing, infusing, institutionalizing, ionizing, ironizing, itemizing, jeopardizing, legalizing, legitimizing, liberalizing, losing, marginalizing, materializing, maximizing, memorizing, merchandising, mesmerizing, minimizing, misusing, mobilizing, modernizing, monopolizing, moralizing, musing, nationalizing, neutralizing, normalizing, nosing, oozing, opposing, organizing, overgrazing, overusing, oxidizing, paralyzing, paraphrasing, patronizing, pausing, penalizing, personalizing, perusing, pleasing, polarizing, politicizing, popularizing, posing, predisposing, prioritizing, privatizing, proposing, proselytizing, publicizing, quizzing, rationalizing, realizing, reauthorizing, recapitalizing, recognizing, recusing, refusing, reimposing, reorganizing, reusing, revising, revitalizing, revolutionizing, rising, romanticizing, Rosing, sanitizing, satirizing, schmoozing, scrutinizing, securitizing, seizing, sensationalizing, sizing, sneezing, snoozing, socializing, specializing, squeezing, stabilizing, standardizing, sterilizing, stigmatizing, strategizing, subsidizing, summarizing, supervising, supposing, surprising, symbolizing, sympathizing, synthesizing, tantalizing, teasing, televising, temporizing, terrorizing, theorizing, tranquilizing, trivializing, unappetizing, uncompromising, unionizing, unsurprising, uprising, using, utilizing, vandalizing, verbalizing, victimizing, visualizing, warehousing, wheezing, whizzing, womanizing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-g-i-n-z" | |
-1 letter: aging. | |
-2 letters: agin, gain, gang, giga, nazi, zing. | |
-3 letters: ain, ani, gag, gan, gig, gin, nag, zag, zig, zin. | |
-4 letters: ag, ai, an, in, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-g-i-n-z" | |
+1 letter: glazing, grazing, zagging. | |
+2 letters: agnizing, begazing, glazings, grazings, upgazing. | |
+3 letters: agatizing, agenizing, agonizing, deglazing, gazetting, gazumping, reglazing. | |
+4 letters: aggrandize, graecizing, legalizing, organizing, paganizing, stargazing, zigzagging. | |
+5 letters: aggrandized, aggrandizer, aggrandizes, agonizingly, analogizing, anglicizing, apologizing, dogmatizing, gallicizing, galvanizing, germanizing, glamorizing, globalizing, jargonizing, magnetizing, overgrazing, signalizing, sloganizing, stargazings, vulgarizing. | |
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