gazeとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ɡeɪz/
• 韻: -eɪz
• Homophone: gays

動詞

gaze (三人称単数 現在形 gazes, 現在分詞 gazing, 過去形および過去分詞形 gazed)

1. (intransitive) To stare intently or earnestly.
   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses Chapter 13

     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.

   They gazed at the stars for hours.

   In fact, for Antonioni this gazing is probably the most fundamental of all cognitive activities ... (from Thinking in the Absence of Image)

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Acts 1:11:

     Why stand ye gazing up into heaven?

2. (transitive, poetic) To stare at.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 7”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:

     Strait toward Heav'n my wondring Eyes I turnd, / And gaz'd a while the ample Skie

同意語

• gape, stare, look

Troponyms

• (to stare intently): ogle

派生語

• at gaze
• begaze
• foregaze
• gazer

名詞

gaze (複数形 gazes)

1. A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention.
   • 1910, Emerson Hough, “A Lady in Company”, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314, page 16:

     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.

2. (archaic) The object gazed on.
   • 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […]”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], OCLC 228732398, page 11:

     Made of my Enemies the ſcorn and gaze;

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)

3. (psychoanalysis) 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.

派生語

• foregaze
• male gaze
• white gaze

参照

接尾辞

-gaze

1. (music) Denotes a genre of music which makes heavy use of distortion effects and wall of sound production.

派生語