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GAZE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A long fixed look

Example:

he fixed his paternal gaze on me

Synonyms:

gaze; regard

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("gaze" is a kind of...):

stare (a fixed look with eyes open wide)

Derivation:

gaze (look at with fixed eyes)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Look at with fixed eyes

Example:

The students stared at the teacher with amazement

Synonyms:

gaze; stare

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Hypernyms (to "gaze" is one way to...):

look (perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "gaze"):

outface; outstare; stare down (overcome or cause to waver or submit by (or as if by) staring)

stargaze (observe the stars)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence example:

They gaze up the hill

Derivation:

gaze (a long fixed look)

Credits

 Context examples: 

I gazed on the picture of my mother, which stood over the mantel-piece.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Clinical signs include limitation of upward gaze, light-near dissociation of the pupillary response, eyelid retraction (Collier's sign) and convergence-retraction nystagmus.

(Parinaud Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

During its first observing campaign, K2 trained its gaze on a patch of sky in the constellation Virgo, measuring the minuscule change in brightness of the distant white dwarf.

(K2 Finds Dead Star Vaporizing a Mini 'Planet', NASA)

He turned and silently gazed after the old master. Skiff Miller was rounding the curve. In a moment he would be gone from view.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

It was an earnest, steadfast gaze, but she often doubted whether there were much admiration in it, and sometimes it seemed nothing but absence of mind.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Holmes gazed at it, and then passed on to the lodge gate.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I am Mr. Holmes,” answered my companion, looking at her with a questioning and rather startled gaze.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I stood gazing round and wondering where on earth I might be, when I saw some one coming towards me in the darkness.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Alleyne's eyes shone as he gazed upon it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He paused; gazed at me: words almost visible trembled on his lips,—but his voice was checked.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)