Gaze vs Gouge - What's the difference?
gaze | gouge |
To stare intently or earnestly.
* 1922 , (James Joyce), Chapter 13
* Bible, Acts i. 11
(poetic) To stare at.
* 1667': Strait toward Heav'n my wondring Eyes I turnd, / And '''gaz'd a while the ample Skie — John Milton, ''Paradise Lost (book VIII)
A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention.
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*:Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze , her alluring smile; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.
(lb) The object gazed on.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:made of my enemies the scorn and gaze
In Lacanian psychoanalysis, the relationship of the subject with the desire to look and awareness that one can be viewed.
*2003 , Amelia Jones, The feminism and visual culture reader , p.35:
*:She counters the tendency to focus on critical strategies of resisting the male gaze , raising the issue of the female spectator.
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A cut or groove, as left by something sharp.
A chisel, with a curved blade, for scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, etc.
* 1823 , ,
A bookbinder's tool with a curved face, used for blind tooling or gilding.
An incising tool that cuts forms or blanks for gloves, envelopes, etc.. from leather, paper, etc.
(mining) Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein.
(slang) Imposition; cheat; fraud.
(slang) An impostor; a cheat.
To make a mark or hole by scooping.
(transitive, or, intransitive) To push, or try to push the eye (of a person) out of its socket.
* 1930 , ,
To charge an unreasonably or unfairly high price.
As a noun gaze
is gauze.As a verb gouge is
.gaze
English
Verb
(gaz)- Gerty MacDowell who was seated near her companions, lost in thought, gazing far away into the distance was, in very truth, as fair a specimen of winsome Irish girlhood as one could wish to see.
- In fact, for Antonioni this gazing is probably the most fundamental of all cognitive activities ... (from
Thinking in the Absence of Image
)
- Why stand ye gazing up into heaven?
Synonyms
* gape, stare, lookTroponyms
* (to stare intently) ogleDerived terms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* (l)References
gouge
English
Noun
(en noun)- The nail left a deep gouge in the tire.
- The "steeple" was a little cupola, reared on the very centre of the roof, on four tall pillars of pine that were fluted with a gouge , and loaded with mouldings.
- (Knight)
- (Raymond)
Verb
(goug)- Japanese and Chinese printers used to gouge characters in wood.
- He tried to clinch and gouge , but another right hook to the jaw sent him down and out.
- They have no competition, so they tend to gouge their customers.
