Gaze

  • 41gaze — Laura Mulvey first introduced the theory of the gaze in ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’ in Screen magazine (1975). She argued that women are objectified and stereotyped on the screen because of the way cinema is structured around three… …

    Dictionary of sociology

  • 42gaze — 1 verb (intransitive always + adv/prep) to look at someone or something for a long time, giving it all your attention often without realizing you are doing so (+ into/at etc): Patrick was gazing into the fire. | We gazed up at the stars. USAGE… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 43gaze — gaze1 [geız] v [I always + adverb/preposition] [Date: 1300 1400; Origin: Probably from a Scandinavian language] to look at someone or something for a long time, giving it all your attention, often without realizing you are doing so = ↑stare gaze… …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 44gaze — [[t]ge͟ɪz[/t]] gazes, gazing, gazed 1) VERB If you gaze at someone or something, you look steadily at them for a long time, for example because you find them attractive or interesting, or because you are thinking about something else. [V at n] …

    English dictionary

  • 45gaze — gazeless, adj. gazer, n. gazingly, adv. /gayz/, v., gazed, gazing, n. v.i. 1. to look steadily and intently, as with great curiosity, interest, pleasure, or wonder. n. 2. a steady or intent look. 3. at gaze, Heraldry. (of a deer or deerlike… …

    Universalium

  • 46gaze — I n. an admiring; intense, rapt, steady, unblinking; wistful gaze II v. 1) to gaze intently 2) (d; intr.) to gaze at * * * [geɪz] intense rapt steady unblinking wistful gaze (d; intr.) to gaze at an admiring …

    Combinatory dictionary

  • 47GAZE — n. f. Espèce d’étoffe légère et transparente, faite de soie ou de fil d’or, ou d’argent. Gaze de soie. Gaze d’argent. Voile de gaze. Moustiquaire de gaze …

    Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 8eme edition (1935)

  • 48gaze — [14] Gaze is probably of Scandinavian origin, although its precise antecedents have never been pinned down. Swedish has a dialect verb gasa ‘gape, stare’, which may be related, and it could be connected in some way with Old Norse gá ‘heed’,… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 49gaze — [14] Gaze is probably of Scandinavian origin, although its precise antecedents have never been pinned down. Swedish has a dialect verb gasa ‘gape, stare’, which may be related, and it could be connected in some way with Old Norse gá ‘heed’,… …

    Word origins

  • 50GAZE — s. f. Espèce d étoffe fort claire, faite de soie ou de fil d or et d argent. Gaze de soie Gaze d argent. Voile de gaze …

    Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 7eme edition (1835)