Gaze vs Per - What's the difference?
gaze | per |
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.
*
*: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.
for each
to each, in each ((used in expressing ratios of units))
(medicine) via (the), by (the), through (the) (followed by Latin name for an orifice)
in accordance with
(neologism) they (singular).
* 1997 April 22, "Anthony and Joy Hilbert" (username), "ASB: Info PDQ please re local group rules", in alt.sex.bondage, Usenet :
(neologism) them (singular)
* 1997 April 22, "Anthony and Joy Hilbert" (username), "ASB: Info PDQ please re local group rules", in alt.sex.bondage, Usenet :
* {{quote-web
, year = 1998
, first = Katherine
, last = Phelps
, title = Odysseus, She
, site = Storytronics
, url = http://www.glasswings.com.au/Storytronics/Odysseus/wash/washframe.htm
, passage = "Kalypso!" I call out as phe disappears on the horizon. I did not know it, but I loved per .
}}
* {{quote-book
, date = 2006-11-15
, author = Richard Ekins, Dave King
, title = The transgender phenomenon
, publisher = Sage Publications
, isbn = 9780761971634
, id =
, lccn = 2006920988
, page = 160
, passage = Whereas Christie had flirted with a lesbian identity prior to surgery, following surgery Christie found perself able to pursue attraction to men, provided they related to per as a non-gendered person.
}}
(neologism) Belonging to per, their (singular).
* {{quote-book
, year = 2006
, author = Richard Ekins, Dave King
, title = The transgender phenomenon
, publisher = Sage Publications
, isbn = 9780761971634
, id =
, lccn = 2006920988
, page = 160
, passage = Whereas Christie had flirted with a lesbian identity prior to surgery, following surgery Christie found perself able to pursue per attraction to men, provided they related to as a non-gendered person.
}}
As a noun gaze
is gauze.As a preposition per is
for.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
per
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Preposition
(English prepositions)- Admission is £10 per person.
- miles per gallon
- beats per minute
- Introduce the endoscope per nasum.
- The medication is to be administered per os.
- I parked my car at the curb per your request.
Usage notes
* The preposition per is typically followed by a singular noun phrase with no determiner. *: Take one pill per''' day.'' not ''Take one pill '''per a day. * It is sometimes followed by plural noun phrases, almost always determined by 100, 1,000, 100,000, etc. *: The abortion rate in the U.S. has dropped since 1980 from nearly 30 per 1,000 women of childbearing age to less than 20.Derived terms
* per accidens * per annum * per anum * per capita * per cent * per consequens * per contra * per curiam * per diem * * per impossibile * per incuriam * per interim * per maistrie * per mensem * * per minima * per my et per tout * per orem * * per pares * per primam * per primam intentionem * per procurationem * per quod * per saltum * per se * per stirpesEtymology 2
shortening of (person), coined by Marge Piercy in (1979)Pronoun
- This is the same place the Houghtons came from? The place where someone we interacted with thought of going into law as a profession, decided per' couldn't because '''per''' was a bdsmer, and most of the USAmerican bdsmers ' per was discussing it with agreed with per?
- This is the same place the Houghtons came from? The place where someone we interacted with thought of going into law as a profession, decided per couldn't because per was a bdsmer, and most of the USAmerican bdsmers per was discussing it with agreed with per ?