Gaze vs Lo - What's the difference?
gaze | lo |
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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(colloquial) hello ('lo; see hallo)
In archaic terms the difference between gaze and lo
is that gaze is the object gazed on while lo is look, see, behold in an imperative sense.As a verb gaze
is to stare intently or earnestly.As a noun gaze
is a fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention.As an interjection lo is
look, see, behold in an imperative sense.As a contraction lo is
hello ('lo; see hallo.As an adjective lo is
informal spelling of lang=en.As an initialism LO is
local Oscillator.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
lo
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) lo, loo, from (etyl) . See also (l).Contraction
(head)Etymology 2
Variant of low.Adjective
(-)- Can you turn the fan down to lo ?