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
In the late 1990s, he and his colleagues showed that when monkeys fix their gaze on an object, neurons that represent that object in the cortex become more active.
Artificial Neural Nets Finally Yield Clues to How Brains Learn | Anil Ananthaswamy | February 18, 2021 | Quanta MagazineUnsolaced so often turns its gaze away from the responsible corporations and toward groups of people who hardly have any impact that it starts to feel willfully ignorant.
What Gretel Ehrlich Gets Wrong About Climate Change | Erin Berger | February 8, 2021 | Outside OnlineA strange spell came over the gazer, a spell of tender awe and ineffable peace.
They Looked and Loved | Mrs. Alex McVeigh MillerShall the gazer who would read the secrets of the stars turn because under his feet a worm may writhe?
Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 of 8 | VariousAfter supper, the dancers all went back to their boats, and this time the Star Gazer entered that of the eldest Princess.
The Red Fairy Book | Various
They sent for the Star Gazer, and asked him how he had contrived to learn their secret; but still he remained silent.
The Red Fairy Book | Various"The transit of Venus, Rittenhouse," for it was that observation which had given this star-gazer fame and recognition abroad.
The Red City | S. Weir Mitchell
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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