Gaze vs. Graze — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Gaze and Graze
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Gaze
In critical theory, sociology, and psychoanalysis, the gaze (French le regard), in the philosophical and figurative sense, is an individual's (or a group's) awareness and perception of other individuals, other groups, or oneself. The concept and the social applications of the gaze have been defined and explained by existentialist and phenomenologist philosophers.
Graze
To feed on growing grasses and herbage.
Gaze
To look steadily, intently, and with fixed attention.
Graze
To eat a variety of appetizers as a full meal.
Gaze
A steady, fixed look.
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Graze
To eat snacks throughout the day in place of full meals.
Gaze
(intransitive) To stare intently or earnestly.
They gazed at the stars for hours.
Graze
To feed on (herbage) in a field or on pastureland.
Gaze
To stare at.
Graze
To feed on the herbage of (a piece of land).
Gaze
A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention.
Graze
To afford herbage for the feeding of
This field will graze 30 head of cattle.
Gaze
(archaic) The object gazed on.
Graze
To put (livestock) out to feed.
Gaze
(psychoanalysis) In Lacanian psychoanalysis, the relationship of the subject with the desire to look and awareness that one can be viewed.
Graze
To tend (feeding livestock) in a pasture.
Gaze
To fix the eyes in a steady and earnest look; to look with eagerness or curiosity, as in admiration, astonishment, or with studious attention.
Why stand ye gazing up into heaven?
Graze
To touch lightly in passing; brush.
Gaze
To view with attention; to gaze on .
And gazed a while the ample sky.
Graze
The act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on passing.
Gaze
A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention.
With secret gazeOr open admiration him behold.
Graze
A light abrasion; a slight scratch.
Gaze
The object gazed on.
Made of my enemies the scorn and gaze.
I that rather held it better men should perish one by one,Than that earth should stand at gaze like Joshua's moon in Ajalon!
Graze
The act of animals feeding from pasture.
Gaze
A long fixed look;
He fixed his paternal gaze on me
Graze
(transitive) To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.
Gaze
Look at with fixed eyes;
The students stared at the teacher with amazement
Graze
(ambitransitive) To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture)
Cattle graze in the meadows.
Graze
(transitive) To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing.
Graze
(intransitive) To eat small amounts of food periodically throughout the day, rather than at fixed mealtimes, often not in response to hunger.
Graze
To shoplift by consuming food or drink items before reaching the checkout.
Graze
(transitive) To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing.
The bullet grazed the wall
Graze
(transitive) To cause a slight wound to; to scratch.
To graze one's knee
Graze
(intransitive) To yield grass for grazing.
Graze
To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.
A field or two to graze his cows.
Graze
To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture); to browse.
The lambs with wolves shall graze the verdant mead.
Graze
To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing.
When Jacob grazed his uncle Laban's sheep.
Graze
To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing; as, the bullet grazed the wall.
Graze
To eat grass; to feed on growing herbage; as, cattle graze on the meadows.
Graze
To yield grass for grazing.
The ground continueth the wet, whereby it will never graze to purpose.
Graze
To touch something lightly in passing.
Graze
The act of grazing; the cropping of grass.
Turning him out for a graze on the common.
Graze
A light touch; a slight scratch.
Graze
A superficial abrasion
Graze
The act of grazing
Graze
Feed as in a meadow or pasture;
The herd was grazing
Graze
Break the skin (of a body part) by scraping;
She was grazed by the stray bullet
Graze
Let feed in a field or pasture or meadow
Graze
Scrape gently;
Graze the skin
Graze
Eat lightly, try different dishes;
There was so much food at the party that we quickly got sated just by browsing
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