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.

   They gazed at the stars for hours.

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

     Why stand ye gazing up into heaven?

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Chapter 13]”, in Ulysses, London: The Egoist Press, published October 1922, OCLC 2297483:

     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.

   • 1936, F.J. Thwaites, The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards Publishing, published 1940, page 64:

     She just sat there very straight, gazing across the moon-washed garden.

   • 1998, Michelangelo Antonioni, Unfinished Business: Screenplays, Scenerios, and Ideas, page xv:

     In fact, for Antonioni this gazing is probably the most fundamental of all cognitive activities[.]

2. (transitive, poetic) To stare at.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], 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

   • 1970, David Bowie, The Man Who Sold the World:

     I searched for form and land
     For years and years I roamed
     I gazed a gazeless stare.

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:

     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.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 5”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, OCLC 216596634:

     Those howers that with gentle worke did frame / The louely gaze where euery eye doth dwell.

   • 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;

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

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