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Definition: Gaze |
GazeNoun1. A long fixed look; "he fixed his paternal gaze on me". Verb1. Look at with fixed eyes; "The students stared at the teacher with amazement". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "gaze" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Note: Gaze \Gaze\, intransitive verb [imperfect & past participle. Gazed; Gazing.]. (references) |
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Literature | Gaze (1 syl., g hard). To stand at gaze. To stand in doubt what to do. A term in forestry. When a stag first hears the hounds it stands dazed, looking all round, and in doubt what to do. Heralds call a stag which is represented full-faced, a "stag at gaze." "The American army in the central states remained wholly at gaze." - Lord Mahon: History. "As the poor frighted deer, that stands at gaze, Wildly determining which way to fly." Shakespeare: Rape of Lucrece, 1149-50. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: GazeSynonyms: regard (n), stare (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Gaze |
| English words defined with "gaze": At gaze, aversion, averting ♦ blase, bored ♦ fasten, fastened, fix, fixed, fixedness ♦ Gaure, Gazed, Gazing, gloat ♦ Kyke ♦ leer, look, look away ♦ masterfully ♦ Outgaze, Overgaze ♦ regard ♦ secure, stare ♦ unalterability, Upgaze, Uplook. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "gaze": Badaud, Black Tom ♦ MARCEL ♦ Nose Literature ♦ OPHTHALMIC PHOTOGRAPHER, Ostrich Eggs in Churches ♦ Questa Gentilissima. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "gaze": Ghole. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Gaze" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (gauze, gauzy, gossamer), German (gauze, mesh), Portuguese (cheesecloth, gauze, gossamer, lint, veiling). |
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Screenplays | Concealed within his fortress, the lord of Mordor sees all. His gaze pierces cloud, shadow, earth, and flesh (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; writing credit: Frances Walsh) You're gaze used to be direct, open, and without any disguise (Viskningar och rop; writing credit: Ingmar Bergman) My dear you've set your gaze upon the quintessential frontier type (Tombstone; writing credit: Kevin Jarre) And she did it all with that, that, you know, steely gaze thing, you know the one I mean (Xena: Warrior Princess; writing credit: Serge Rodnunsky) | |
Lyrics | They never say forever gaze, if only (Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely; performing artist: Backstreet Boys) And as I gaze into your eyes (The Earth, The Sun, The Rain; performing artist: Color Me Badd) Do you gaze at your doorstep and picture me there (Are You Lonesome Tonight?; performing artist: Elvis Presley) I watched as fear took the old man's gaze (The Prophet's Song; performing artist: Queen; writing credit: Brian May) You're blue in the face from navel gaze, (Bittersweet Me; performing artist: R.E.M.) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Gaze (1974) Film Gaze (1970) | |
Song Titles | The Everlasting Gaze (performing artist: Smashing Pumpkins) | |
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 | A Sailor and a WAVE gaze out over the beach at a Gulf Coast Naval Air Station, circa 1945. Credit: NAVY. |  | Morley let his gaze follow that of Captain Fred. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Be patient! just gaze upon what we've done to France!. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, in wedding dress and dress military uniform, gaze at each other as they pose for a full-length wedding portrait. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Cat's gaze" by Li Enxin Commentary: "A stray cat in my neighbourhood. I love the gaze in its eyes." |
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Alphonse De Lamartine | If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul. |
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Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | She saw her own face, glowing with girlish beauty, and illuminating all the interior of the dusky mirror in which she had been wont to gaze at it. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Under this frightful gaze the bishop still slept in profoundest peace |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The eyes, too, were reptilelike in glint and gaze. |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Had you such leisure in the time of death To gaze upon these secrets of the deep |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | PSP patients have trouble voluntarily shifting their gaze downward, and also can have trouble controlling their eyelids. (references) | |
Generally, there is no decline in cognition, communication, or hand skills in stage IV. Repetitive hand movements may decrease, and eye gaze usually improves. (references) | ||
Another symptom, apraxia — the inability to perform motor functions — is perhaps the most severely disabling feature of Rett syndrome, interfering with every body movement, including eye gaze and speech. (references) | ||
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Warren G. Harding | 1921-1923 | We have seen the world rivet its hopeful gaze on the great truths on which the founders wrought. |
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| "Gaze" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 86.38% of the time. "Gaze" is used about 2,032 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 86.38% | 1,755 | 4,793 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 9.69% | 197 | 21,803 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.79% | 77 | 37,929 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.15% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,032 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "gaze": at gaze ♦ gaze à bluter ♦ gaze adoringly at ♦ gaze after ♦ gaze at ♦ gaze at in wonder ♦ gaze into space ♦ gaze into the distance ♦ gaze into vacancy ♦ gaze on ♦ gaze round ♦ gaze up on ♦ gaze upon ♦ lower one's gaze. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "gaze": eye-gaze. | |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
gaze | 47 | ulysses gaze | 3 |
doom gaze | 20 | board fish gaze | 3 |
horizontal gaze nystagmus | 13 | gaze nystagmus | 3 |
doom gaze trainer | 12 | gaze sky | 2 |
diablo doom gaze trainer | 11 | gaze horizontal nystagmus test | 2 |
andrew gaze | 9 | download font gaze | 2 |
star gaze | 7 | eternal gaze | 2 |
gaze male | 7 | gaze zoe | 2 |
font gaze | 6 | 2 diablo doom gaze trainer | 2 |
the everlasting gaze | 6 | female gaze | 2 |
diablo doom gaze | 4 | the tourist gaze | 2 |
eye gaze | 4 | everlasting gaze lyrics | 2 |
gaze seed | 2 | ||
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| Language | Translations for "gaze"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vështroj ngultas (gloat, pore), vështrim i ngulët (stare), ia ngul sytë (stare). (various references) | |
Arabic | نظرة (blush, cast, catch sight, eye, gander, glimpse, look, manhole), نظر (behold, consider, consideration, discernment, foresight, look, rumble, seeing, sight, theorize), حدق (eye, look, stare), تفرس (stare). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | гледам втренчено (outface, stare), втренчвам се, втренчен поглед (stare), поглед (blush, eye, eyewink, look, peek, regard, sight, view, vision). (various references) | |
Chinese | 瞻 (glass, view), 睞 (stare), 盯 (stare), 注视 (Gazed, Gazing), 凝視 . (various references) | |
Czech | zírat (goggle, peer), upřený pohled, upřenì se dívat, hledìt (face, look), dívat se upřenì (stare). (various references) | |
Danish | visuel spasme (gaze spasm). (various references) | |
Dutch | turen (peer, stare), staren (peer, stare), aanstaren (peer, stare). (various references) | |
Esperanto | rigardi fikse (peer, stare). (various references) | |
Farsi | نگاه خیره (Glower), چشم دوختن , زل زل نگاه کردن , خیره نگاه کردن (Gape, Glare, Gloat, Glower, Stare), بادقت نگاه کردن (Pry). (various references) | |
Finnish | tuijottaa (glare, glower, stare), pälyillä (give a sidelong glances, glance, peer), katse (glance, look). (various references) | |
French | regarder longuement, regarder, regard, fixer son regard. (various references) | |
German | starren (be stiff, glare, goggle, jut out, peer, scowl, stare), anstarren (gaze at, goggle at, peer, stare, stare at, to gaze (at), to stare). (various references) | |
Greek | βλέμμα (glance, look), ατενίζω (contemplate, face, gaze at, gloat, stare, stare at). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מבט (aspect, glance, glimpse, look, regard, view), להתבונן (contemplate, eye, look, observe), להביט (behold, consider, look, regard, see), להציץ (glance at, peek, peep, peer, pry, squint), להסתכל (consider, look, observe, regard). (various references) | |
Hungarian | bámulás (admiration, gape, stare, star-gazing, staring), nézés (eye, look, regard). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pandang, merenung (contemplate), memandang (contemplate, envisage, view). (various references) | |
Italian | fissare (affix, appoint, arrange, assess, assign, attach, be fixed, bind, block, book, designate, destine, determine, establish, eye, fasten, fix, implant, make, make fast, make firm, name, peer, pin, pin down, plant, reserve, rivet, root, schedule, secure, set, settle, stare, stipulate). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 凝視 (fixation, stare). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぎょうし (fixation, looking up to, revering, solidified oil, stare). (various references) | |
Korean | 시선. (various references) | |
Manx | lheeartaghey. (various references) | |
Norwegian | stirre (goggle). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | azegay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | gauze, pasmar (amaze, flabbergast, mope, stupefy), olhar pasmado, olhar fixo (stare), olhar fixamente (glare, regard, touch upon), olhar (consider, deem, eye, eye-beam, inspect, keek, look, look at, pore, regard, see, view, watch), ficar pasmado, ficar embasbacado, contemplação (contemplation, rumination). (various references) | |
Romanian | se uita lung, privire fixã (glare, stare), privi (appertain to, behold, concern, consider, give a look at, glance, have a look at, look, look on, regard, see, touch, view), contempla (contemplate, view), cãutãturã (appearance, glance, glare, look, peep, regard, stare, view), a-şi pironi privirea pe. (various references) | |
Russian | вглядываться (peer), взор (look), пялиться (stare), пристальный взгляд (stare), пристально смотреть (stare), пристально глядеть. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zuriti (stare), zurenje (staring). (various references) | |
Spanish | mirar con fijeza, mirada (eagerness, glance, look, peek, regard), contemplación (consideration, contemplation, deliberation, examination, meditation). (various references) | |
Swedish | stirra (gaw, gawp, gloat, Ogle, peer, pore, stare), snegla (leer, squint), glo (gape, gawp, glare, gloat, goggle, stare). (various references) | |
Thai | เพ่ง, การเพ่งมอง. (various references) | |
Turkish | gözünü dikmek (fasten, fix, gaze at, gaze on, gaze upon, pore, pore over, stare), gözünü dikme (stare), dik dik bakmak (fix, gaze at, gaze on, gaze up on, glare, stare, stare at), dik dik bakış. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | витріщатися, вдивлятися (see into), пильний погляд (scan, stare). (various references) | |
Welsh | tremio (look), syllu. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | ug. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | conspectis, conspecto, conspectu, conspectum, conspecturi, conspectus, conspexerit, conspexit, conspice, conspicere, conspicias, conspiciensque, conspicis, conspicit, conspiciuntur, obtutus. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | paiti-dîti. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Exodus Chapter 19, Verse 21 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai eipen o qeoV proV mwushn legwn katabaV diamarturai tw law mhpote eggiswsin proV ton qeon katanohsai kai peswsin ex autwn plhqoV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Dixit ad eum descende et contestare populum ne forte velint transcendere terminos ad videndum Dominum et pereat ex eis plurima multitudo |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | He seide to hym, Descende, and as with ooth charge the puple, lest perauenture it wole passe ouer the termes to se the Lord, and of hem perisshe a myche multitude; |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And the Lorde sayde vnto Moses: go doune and charge the people that they prease not vp vnto the Lorde for to se hi, ad so many off the perissh. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And the LORD said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And the LORD said to Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through to the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And the Lord said to Moses, Go down and give the people orders to keep back, for fear that a great number of them, forcing their way through to see the Lord, may come to destruction. |
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| Language | Exodus Chapter 19, Verse 21 |
| Cebuano | Ug si Jehova miingon kang Moises: Lumugsong ka ug sugoon mo ang katawohan tingali unya molabang sila sa utlanan sa pagtutok kang Jehova, ug mangamatay ang daghanan kanila. |
| Chinese | 耶 和 華 對 摩 西 說 、 你 下 去 囑 咐 百 姓 、 不 可 闖 過 來 到 我 面 前 觀 看 、 恐 怕 他 們 有 多 人 死 亡 。 |
| Croatian | Sad Jahve reèe Mojsiju: "Siði i opomeni narod da ne bi provalio prema Jahvi da ga vidi. Mnogo bi ih poginulo. |
| Danish | Da sagde HERREN til Moses: "Stig ned og indskærp Folket, at de ikke må trænge sig frem til HERREN for at se ham, at der ikke skal ske et stort Mandefald iblandt dem. |
| Dutch | En de HEERE zeide tot Mozes: Ga af, betuig dit volk, dat zij niet doorbreken tot den HEERE, om te zien, en velen van hen vallen. |
| Finnish | Niin Herra sanoi Moosekselle: "Astu alas ja varoita kansaa tunkeutumasta lähelle Herraa, häntä nähdäkseen, sillä silloin heistä monta kaatuu. |
| French | L`Éternel dit à Moïse: Descends, fais au peuple la défense expresse de se précipiter vers l`Éternel, pour regarder, de peur qu`un grand nombre d`entre eux ne périssent. |
| German | Da sprach der HERR zu ihm: Steig hinab und bezeuge dem Volk, daß sie nicht durchbrechen zum HERRN, ihn zu sehen, und viele aus ihnen fallen. |
| Haitian Creole | Seyè a di Moyiz konsa: -Desann, avèti pèp la pou yo pa depase limit la, paske yo ka pran kouri vin gade mwen. Lè sa a, anpil ladan yo ta kapab mouri. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | dan TUHAN berkata kepadanya, "Turunlah dan ingatkan orang-orang itu bahwa mereka tak boleh melewati batas untuk datang melihat Aku. Kalau mereka melanggarnya juga, banyak di antara mereka akan mati. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka firman Tuhan kepada Musa: Turunlah engkau, suruhlah orang banyak itu jangan memecahkan pagar akan menghampiri Tuhan hendak melihat-lihat, supaya jangan beberapa orang mereka itu binasa. |
| Italian | Poi il Signore disse a Mosè: «Scendi, scongiura il popolo di non irrompere verso il Signore per vedere, altrimenti ne cadrà una moltitudine! |
| Maori | Na ka mea a Ihowa ki a Mohi, Heke atu, kauwhautia te iwi ra, kei wahi ake ratou ki a Ihowa ki te matakitaki, a he tokomaha o ratou e hinga. |
| Norwegian | Og Herren sa til Moses: Stig ned og advar folket, så de ikke trenger sig frem til Herren for å se ham, for da kommer mange av dem til å falle. |
| Portuguese | Então disse o Senhor a Moisés: Desce, adverte ao povo, para não suceder que traspasse os limites até o Senhor, a fim de ver, e muitos deles pereçam. |
| Rumanian | Domnul a zis lui Moise: ,,Pogoarq-te wi poruncewte poporului cu totdinadinsul sq nu dea busna spre Domnul, ca sq se uite, pentru ca nu cumva sq piarq un mare numqr dintre ei. |
| Spanish | Jehovah dijo a Moisés: --Desciende y advierte al pueblo, no sea que traspasen el límite para ver a Jehovah y mueran muchos de ellos. |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "gaze": gazebo, gazeboes, gazebos, gazed, gazehound, gazehounds, gazelle, gazelles, gazer, gazers, gazes, gazette, gazetted, gazetteer, gazetteers, gazettes, gazetting. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "gaze": agaze, begaze, stargaze, upgaze. (additional references) | |
Words containing "gaze": begazed, begazes, stargazed, stargazer, stargazers, stargazes, upgazed, upgazes. (additional references) | |
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"Gaze" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Agaza, gaae, gace, gadze, gae, ga-ee, gaie, gaise, gaiz, gaize, gaje, gake, Gamza, ganz, ganze, gasa, gase, gasea, gaset, gaso, gawe, gaxe, gaz, gaza, gazan, gazea, gazeet, gazen, gazey, gazi, Gazil, gazy, Gazzie, Gazzo, gazzy, Genzken, gese, geza, geze, ghazal, Ghazzah, giez, giz, Gizaw, gize, gizz, gnaz, goaze, goize, goxe, goza, goze, Gozem, gozle, guaze, Guazu, Guzev, gyzo, Gzhel, Ngbase, Ngeze, Ngwazi, tazze. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "gaze" (pronounced gā"z) |
| 3 | g ā" z | gays. |
| 2 | -ā" z | ablaze, allays, amaze, appraise, arrays, conveys, baize, ballets, bays, berets, betrays, blase, blaze, bouquets, braise, cabernets, cafes, chaise, chalets, clays, cliches, communiques, craze, dais, days, daze, decays, defrays, delays, dismays, displays, dossiers, essays, faze, filets, glaze, Grays, graze, Hays, haze, jays, Kays, lase, lays, leis, leys, Lyonnaise, Maes, maize, malaise, Mays, maze, morays, nays, obeys, okays, pays, phase, phrase, plays, polonaise, portrays, praise, prays, preys, raise, Rase, rays, raze, reappraise, repays, rephrase, replays, Res, shays, sprays, stays, strays, surveys, sways, todays, trays, urokinase, ways, weighs, yeas. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-z" | |
-1 letter: age, gae, zag. | |
-2 letters: ae, ag. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-z" | |
+1 letter: agaze, gauze, gazed, gazer, gazes, glaze, graze. | |
+2 letters: agnize, begaze, gauzes, gazebo, gazers, glazed, glazer, glazes, grazed, grazer, grazes, upgaze, zagged, zeugma. | |
+3 letters: agatize, agenize, agnized, agnizes, agonize, begazed, begazes, deglaze, feazing, gauzier, gazebos, gazelle, gazette, ghazies, glazers, glazier, grazers, grazier, reglaze, tzigane, upgazed, upgazes, zeugmas, zingare, zooglea. | |
+4 letters: agatized, agatizes, agenized, agenizes, agonized, agonizes, azygoses, begazing, cozenage, deglazed, deglazes, gauziest, gazaboes, gazeboes, gazelles, gazetted, gazettes, gazogene, gazumped, gazumper, glaziers, glaziery, glaziest, graecize, grazable, graziers, legalize, magazine, organize, paganize, razeeing, reglazed, reglazes, stargaze, teazling, tziganes, unglazed, zoogleae, zoogleal, zoogleas, zoogloea. | |
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