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Razee vs Gazee - What's the difference?

razee | gazee |

As verbs the difference between razee and gazee

is that razee is (nautical) to cut (a ship) down to a smaller number of decks, and thus to an inferior rate or class while gazee is .

As a noun razee

is (nautical) an armed ship with its upper deck cut away, and thus reduced to the next inferior rate, such as a seventy-four cut down to a frigate.

razee

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (nautical) An armed ship with its upper deck cut away, and thus reduced to the next inferior rate, such as a seventy-four cut down to a frigate.
    • (Totten)

    Verb

  • (nautical) To cut (a ship) down to a smaller number of decks, and thus to an inferior rate or class.
  • (figurative) To trim or abridge by cutting off parts.
    • to razee a book, or an article
  • *1851 , (Herman Melville), (Moby Dick) ,
    • "Aye, aye! it was that accursed white whale that razeed me; made a poor pegging lubber of me for ever and a day!"
    (Webster 1913)

    gazee

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who is gazed at or observed.
  • * 2006 , Robert Casillo, Gangster Priest: The Italian American Cinema of Martin Scorsese (page 489)
    • In this world of competition over scarce wealth and even scarcer social prestige, Michael has become the envious gazer, coveting the money (and prestige) Johnny Boy withholds from him, while Johnny Boy is the gazee .
  • * 2010 , Philip Feifan Xie, Authenticating Ethnic Tourism
    • The significance of the gazer-gazee construct has had a profound impact on research in many fields. Almost all institutional settings can