gaze
to look steadily and intently, as with great curiosity, interest, pleasure, or wonder.
a steady or intent look.
at gaze, Heraldry. (of a deer or deerlike animal) represented as seen from the side with the head looking toward the spectator: a stag at gaze.
Origin of gaze
1synonym study For gaze
Other words from gaze
- gazeless, adjective
- gazer, noun
- gaz·ing·ly, adverb
- outgaze, verb (used with object), out·gazed, out·gaz·ing.
- un·gaz·ing, adjective
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How to use gaze in a sentence
Substituting gaze for its original voice-based interface, the Assistant’s multiple integrations and communication tools should improve the capabilities of the Tobii Dynavox devices it now works on.
Google Assistant comes to gaze-powered accessible devices | Devin Coldewey | October 6, 2020 | TechCrunchMany here feel the federal government in Berlin has abandoned them, but now, their gaze is turning to the east.
Camelback aims to help deserving founders who just need someone to believe in them, who haven’t caught the gaze of the right investors.
Eventually, only a tiny spot of color was left bouncing within a participant’s gaze around the virtual world.
You don’t see as much color as you think | Bethany Brookshire | August 21, 2020 | Science News For StudentsIn a paper published in Cognition in March, researchers found that eye movements occur more often at systole, while we fix our gaze on a target more often during diastole.
How Your Heart Influences What You Perceive and Fear | Jordana Cepelewicz | July 6, 2020 | Quanta Magazine
The new cops gazed ceilingward where the white gloves would have sailed.
Justin gazed out from the dim interior as more than 300 police motorcycles from dozens of jurisdictions rumbled past.
Choking Back Tears, Thousands of Cops Honor Fallen Officer Ramos | Michael Daly | December 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe gazed at the flowers and the flickering candles, clearly moved.
'Please Don't Die!': The Frantic Battle to Save Murdered Cops | Michael Daly | December 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTJohnson kept doing all he could, gazing down at those eyes that gazed right back at him with a seemingly stunned look.
'Please Don't Die!': The Frantic Battle to Save Murdered Cops | Michael Daly | December 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWe gazed on a residential area of box-like homes stacked on top of one another on a steep hillside.
Even as they gazed they saw its roof caught up, and whirled off as if it had been a scroll of paper.
The Giant of the North | R.M. BallantyneLiszt gazed at "his Hans," as he calls him, with the fondest pride, and seemed perfectly happy over his arrival.
Music-Study in Germany | Amy FayAny moment, if he looked up, he would meet eyes—eyes that gazed with dim yet definite recognition into his own across the night.
The Wave | Algernon BlackwoodThe major and Hicks, who stood not far from him, were both unusually pale in the face, as they gazed motionless before them.
Hunting the Lions | R.M. BallantyneThen I said to myself in answer to the poet, "Here's the cheek that doth not fade, too much gazed at."
The Soldier of the Valley | Nelson Lloyd
British Dictionary definitions for gaze
/ (ɡeɪz) /
(intr) to look long and fixedly, esp in wonder or admiration
a fixed look; stare
Origin of gaze
1Derived forms of gaze
- gazer, noun
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