Twinkle vs Gaze - What's the difference?
twinkle | gaze |
(of a source of light) to shine with a flickering light; to glimmer
* Sir Isaac Newton
* Sir Walter Scott
(chiefly, of eyes) to be bright with delight
to bat, blink or wink the eyes
* Mrs. Juliet M. Hueffer Soskice, "Reminiscences of an Artist's Granddaughter",
* L'Estrange
to flit to and fro
* Dorothy Gilman, "Mrs. Pollifax and the Golden Triangle"
a sparkle or glimmer of light
* Robert De Beaugrande, "Text, Discourse, and Process",
a sparkle of delight in the eyes.
a flitting movement
* James Russell Lowell, "Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell",
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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As verbs the difference between twinkle and gaze
is that twinkle is to shine with a flickering light; to glimmer while gaze is to stare intently or earnestly.As nouns the difference between twinkle and gaze
is that twinkle is a sparkle or glimmer of light while gaze is a fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention.twinkle
English
Verb
(en-verb)- We could see the lights of the village twinkling in the distance.
- These stars do not twinkle when viewed through telescopes that have large apertures.
- The western sky twinkled with stars.
- His shrewd little eyes twinkled roguishly.
- She smiled and gave a little nod and twinkled her eyes
- The owl fell a moping and twinkling .
- A butterfly twinkled among the vines
Synonyms
* glimmer * scintillate * winkNoun
(en noun)- Soon the rocket was out of sight, and the flame was only seen as a tiny twinkle of light.
- He was a rotund, jolly man with a twinkle in his eye.
- I saw the twinkle of white feet,
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?