Meaning of "gaze" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD GAZE

From Swedish dialect gasa to gape at.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF GAZE

gaze  [ɡeɪz]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GAZE

Gaze is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb gaze in English.

WHAT DOES GAZE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Gaze

Gaze is a psychoanalytical term brought into popular usage by Jacques Lacan to describe the anxious state that comes with the awareness that one can be viewed. The psychological effect, Lacan argues, is that the subject loses a degree of autonomy upon realizing that he or she is a visible object. This concept is bound with his theory of the mirror stage, in which a child encountering a mirror realizes that he or she has an external appearance. Lacan suggests that this gaze effect can similarly be produced by any conceivable object such as a chair or a television screen. This is not to say that the object behaves optically as a mirror; instead it means that the awareness of any object can induce an awareness of also being an object.

Definition of gaze in the English dictionary

The definition of gaze in the dictionary is to look long and fixedly, esp in wonder or admiration. Other definition of gaze is a fixed look; stare.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO GAZE

PRESENT

Present

I gaze

you gaze

he/she/it gazes

we gaze

you gaze

they gaze

Present continuous

I am gazing

you are gazing

he/she/it is gazing

we are gazing

you are gazing

they are gazing

Present perfect

I have gazed

you have gazed

he/she/it has gazed

we have gazed

you have gazed

they have gazed

Present perfect continuous

I have been gazing

you have been gazing

he/she/it has been gazing

we have been gazing

you have been gazing

they have been gazing

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I gazed

you gazed

he/she/it gazed

we gazed

you gazed

they gazed

Past continuous

I was gazing

you were gazing

he/she/it was gazing

we were gazing

you were gazing

they were gazing

Past perfect

I had gazed

you had gazed

he/she/it had gazed

we had gazed

you had gazed

they had gazed

Past perfect continuous

I had been gazing

you had been gazing

he/she/it had been gazing

we had been gazing

you had been gazing

they had been gazing

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will gaze

you will gaze

he/she/it will gaze

we will gaze

you will gaze

they will gaze

Future continuous

I will be gazing

you will be gazing

he/she/it will be gazing

we will be gazing

you will be gazing

they will be gazing

Future perfect

I will have gazed

you will have gazed

he/she/it will have gazed

we will have gazed

you will have gazed

they will have gazed

Future perfect continuous

I will have been gazing

you will have been gazing

he/she/it will have been gazing

we will have been gazing

you will have been gazing

they will have been gazing

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would gaze

you would gaze

he/she/it would gaze

we would gaze

you would gaze

they would gaze

Conditional continuous

I would be gazing

you would be gazing

he/she/it would be gazing

we would be gazing

you would be gazing

they would be gazing

Conditional perfect

I would have gaze

you would have gaze

he/she/it would have gaze

we would have gaze

you would have gaze

they would have gaze

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been gazing

you would have been gazing

he/she/it would have been gazing

we would have been gazing

you would have been gazing

they would have been gazing

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you gaze
we let´s gaze
you gaze

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to gaze

Past participle

gazed

Present Participle

gazing

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «GAZE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «gaze» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of gaze

contemplate · eyeball · gape · look · ogle · regard · stare · view · watch

TRANSLATION OF GAZE

Find out the translation of gaze to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of gaze from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «gaze» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 凝视
• Translator English - Spanish: mirar fijamente
• English: gaze
• Translator English - Hindi: टकटकी
• Translator English - Arabic: يُحَدِّقُ
• Translator English - Russian: пристально глядеть
• Translator English - Portuguese: olhar fixamente
• Translator English - Bengali: স্থির দৃষ্টি
• Translator English - French: contempler
• Translator English - Malay: Pandangan
• Translator English - German: starren
• Translator English - Japanese: 見つめる
• Translator English - Korean: 응시하다
• Translator English - Javanese: Ndeleng
• Translator English - Vietnamese: nhìn chằm chằm
• Translator English - Tamil: கூர்ந்து
• Translator English - Marathi: टक लावून पाहणे
• Translator English - Turkish: dik dik bakmak
• Translator English - Italian: fissare con lo sguardo
• Translator English - Polish: przyjrzeć się
• Translator English - Ukrainian: вдивлятися
• Translator English - Romanian: a privi lung
• Translator English - Greek: ατενίζω
• Translator English - Afrikaans: blik
• Translator English - Swedish: stirra
• Translator English - Norwegian: betrakte

10 QUOTES WITH «GAZE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word gaze.

1

Diane Ackerman

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

2

Buzz Aldrin

Whenever I gaze up at the moon, I feel like I'm on a time machine. I am back to that precious pinpoint of time, standing on the foreboding - yet beautiful - Sea of Tranquility. I could see our shining blue planet Earth poised in the darkness of space.

3

Julian Barnes

Iconic Paris tells us: here are our three-star attractions, go thou and marvel. And so we gaze obediently at what we are told to gaze at, without exactly asking why.

4

Nellie Bly

I have watched patients stand and gaze longingly toward the city they in all likelihood will never enter again. It means liberty and life; it seems so near, and yet heaven is not further from hell.

5

Herb Caen

A city is where you can sign a petition, boo the chief justice, fish off a pier, gaze at a hippopotamus, buy a flower at the corner, or get a good hamburger or a bad girl at 4 A.M. A city is where sirens make white streaks of sound in the sky and foghorns speak in dark grays. San Francisco is such a city.

6

Bill Callahan

Any talk of 'craft' makes me laugh. My music looks outward; it does not gaze upon itself in admiration. Artisanal is for cheesemakers. I don't know anything about music theory. Every time I approach my guitar, it's like the first time. There's no craft in that.

7

Adelbert von Chamisso

After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze.

8

James Fenimore Cooper

I can never tire of speaking of the bridges of Paris. By day and by night have I paused on them to gaze at their views; the word not being too comprehensive for the crowds and groupings of objects that are visible from their arches.

9

James Fenimore Cooper

The European who comes to America plunges into the virgin forest with wonder and delight; while the American who goes to Europe finds his greatest pleasure, at first, in hunting up the memorials of the past. Each is in quest of novelty, and is burning with the desire to gaze at objects of which he has often read.

10

Cara Delevingne

I treat the camera like a person - I gaze into it. Photos are a flat thing, and you need to put life into them.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GAZE»

Discover the use of gaze in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to gaze and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Gaze and Voice as Love Objects

If so, what part? How do they function? This provocative book examines love as the mediating entity in the essential antagonism between the sexes, and gaze and voice as love's medium.

Renata Salecl, Slavoj Žižek, 1996

Gaze

Gaze By Blayne EdwardsThe unexplained X-rated scenes in the crystal ball are slightly naughty and extremely erotic.

Blayne Edwards, 2004

Train Your Gaze: A Practical and Theoretical Introduction to ...

The text combines the theoretical with the practical and technical and is supported by numerous photographs of human subjects both contemporary and canonical.

Roswell Angier, 2007

The Tourist Gaze 3.0

Three new chapters have been added which explore: • photography and digitization • embodied performances • risks and alternative futures This book is essential reading for all involved in contemporary tourism, leisure, cultural policy ...

John Urry, Jonas Larsen, 2011

Sexuality, the Female Gaze, and the Arts: Women, the Arts, ...

The second of three volumes in a series on women, the arts, and society, this collection of essays presents a range of definitions of the female gaze and considerations of how gender and sexuality influence artistry and criticism.

Ronald L. Dotterer, Susan Bowers, 1992

The Media Gaze: Representations of Diversities in Canada

While Canada is known for its official commitment to diversity, a closelook at the country’s media reveals that lip service todifferences notwithstanding, they rarely engage with it in ways thatreflect its presence in Canadian society.

Augie Fleras, 2011

The Real Gaze: Film Theory after Lacan

Examines the gaze in Lacanian film theory.

Todd McGowan, 2012

The Sacred Gaze: Religious Visual Culture in Theory and Practice

The Sacred Gaze is a vital introduction to the study of the visual culture of religions.

David Morgan, 2005

The Gorgon's Gaze

Mallins Wood is home to the last surviving gorgon, and Col's mother, the gorgon's supernatural Companion, is determined to save it from encroaching development--even to the point of endangering Col and his best friend Connie, the most ...

Julia Golding, 2006

Hitchcock, Second Edition: The Murderous Gaze

Written in an engaging style that is philosophically sophisticated yet free of jargon, and using over nine hundred images from the films to illustrate and back up its critical claims, the book follows six different Hitchcock films as they ...

William Rothman, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GAZE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term gaze is used in the context of the following news items.

Flag defenders bristle at national gaze, recall poor, white ancestors …

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Atlantis "The Gorgon's Gaze" Season 2 Episode 9 | TV Equals

Atlantis season 2 episode 9 “The Gorgon's Gaze” airs Saturday, July 11 at 9:00-10:00 p.m. ET/PT on BBC America. In tonight's episode ... «TV Equals, Jul 15»

Gaze into a crystal ball: What will Disneyland look like at 100? - Los …

Gaze into a crystal ball: What will Disneyland look like at 100? By Paul Duginski and Brady MacDonald. What will Disneyland look like in 2055 on the 100th ... «Los Angeles Times, Jul 15»

Telling stories through the gaze of a lens

IN his almost two-decade Hollywood career, Laurent Bouzereau has finished more than 150 documentaries that he either produced, directed ... «Independent Online, Jul 15»

Gaze Into the Cold, Dead Eyes of This Tiny Batman

Oh god. Just look at them. The tiny little eyes of tiny chibi-Christian Bale. If this guy asked you to swear to him, you'd be crossing a very fine line ... «io9, Jul 15»

Gaze longingly at the John Carter Of Mars film that could have been

To be fair, there are a lot of similarities between what (a small number of) audiences saw in Andrew Stanton's version of Edgar Rice Burroughs' ... «A.V. Club, Jul 15»

A crystal ball gaze: Mamata & the Prime Minister's chair

Prime Minister Narendra Modi looks on as Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee greet ... «Chandigarh Tribune, Jul 15»

Lowering the Gaze: Summer Combat!

It goes without saying that every Muslim should spare no pains in lowering his gaze and preserving his modesty. This should occur in ... «Onislam.net, Jul 15»

The most-watched soccer match in US history prompts gaze at …

The US women's national team celebrates after winning the World Cup on Sunday night, defeating Japan 5-2 on three quick goals by Carli ... «PRI, Jul 15»