What's the difference between gaze and laze?

Gaze


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To fixx the eyes in a steady and earnest look; to look with eagerness or curiosity, as in admiration, astonishment, or with studious attention.
  • (v. t.) To view with attention; to gaze on .
  • (n.) A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention.
  • (n.) The object gazed on.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) EEG arousal diminished as a function of distance, while arousal for direct gaze was always higher than for averted gaze, whatever the distance.
  • (2) In this study downward gaze was more severely disturbed than upward gaze.
  • (3) Join us for a spot of future gazing as we discuss: The challenges and opportunities colleges and training providers will face over the next five years International expansion The role of FE in higher education New ways to diversify New technology – the possibilities and risks.
  • (4) The sniping followed an article by Cameron in the Sunday Times , in which he called on the coalition to provide a "strong, decisive and united government" in the wake of acrimonious splits over Lords reform, warning that the public will not stand for "division and navel-gazing" at a time of social and economic insecurity.
  • (5) Absence of a functioning velocity storage network in bottom-dwelling teleosts (as in Amphibia) may be related to the sporadic, slow locomotion of these species and the resulting small requirements for continuous gaze stabilization during self-motion at higher velocities.
  • (6) We examined a 55-year-old right-handed woman showing transient coma, amnesia, mild right hemiparesis, vertical gaze impairment and aphonia without aphasia.
  • (7) It is suggested that a theory similar to the phenomenological theory which accounts for the fly's gaze may account for the human eye's movement during an observation of Müller-Lyer figures.
  • (8) In both non-aligned and head-aligned modes, subject instructions pertaining to the second target light concerned only gaze; there was no requisite head position.
  • (9) As Nelson Mandela lay in the open casket , his features both familiar and strange, a crisply suited Robert Mugabe gazed down at him through his dark glasses for a long, still, silent moment.
  • (10) The authors review the neuroanatomic and neurophysiologic features relevant to supranuclear gaze mechanisms.
  • (11) All patients had conjugate gaze deviation to the right.
  • (12) That's just dandy when you're gazing at a lamb chop with mint sauce, but the downside to this technology is that each time you glance at the image of Jamie on the front cover you'll absorb some of him, too.
  • (13) This task thus requires monkeys to direct their gaze to the location of a remembered visual cue, controls the retinal coordinates of the visual cues, controls the monkey's oculomotor behavior during the delay period, and also allows precise measurement of the timing and direction of the relevant behavioral responses.
  • (14) Interview with Donald Hutera In other words "Maliphant's choreography slips under our guard, arouses our curiosity and hones our gaze, without us realising the force of its aim."
  • (15) Standardized surface swab, gaze pad contact, Rodac plates, and burn wound biopsy cultures were obtained twice per week.
  • (16) When head-free and head-fixed pursuit were compared, striking similarities were seen for both slow phase gaze velocity gain and phase, indicating that gaze control during smooth pursuit is largely independent of the degree of associated head movement.
  • (17) A 23-year-old man sustained severe macular damage by sun gazing during a hallucinogenic drug-induced state.
  • (18) Extracellular recordings from single neurons of the prestriate area V3A were carried out in awake, behaving monkeys, to test the influence of the direction of gaze on cellular activity.
  • (19) As she gazes down from her plane at the sprawling Amazon jungle below, she will hope and pray that, with a number of giant infrastructure projects planned in the region, history is not about to repeat itself.
  • (20) The main acute symptoms included disorders of consciousness, hypersomnia and sometimes vertical gaze paresis.

Laze


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To be lazy or idle.
  • (v. t.) To waste in sloth; to spend, as time, in idleness; as, to laze away whole days.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The 50 best beaches in the world Beaches are good for many things, and not just lazing on, as it happens.
  • (2) Dogs laze in the stifling afternoon heat of the Shire Valley.
  • (3) What feels new and fresh here isn't a threesome or a Grindr hook-up, but a scene where Agustín and his boyfriend are lazing on the sofa watching television.
  • (4) You can laze around beside a rooftop pool or dine at the outdoor (buffet) restaurant overlooking the beach.
  • (5) But lazing on the huge patio overlooking the ocean, well away from other buildings, will make you forget those inconveniences.
  • (6) Lazing in bed sets you back in this interminable rat race.
  • (7) Linger over brunch, join in a game of bocce (boules) or just laze by the fire pit.
  • (8) Next day we lazed on the city's sandy Catalans beach, just a few minutes from our hotel, the oh-so-Marseillaise Richelieu.
  • (9) Whitetip reef sharks laze ahead of their night-time feed, while mustard-yellow trumpetfish wriggle along past shoals of glittering bigeye jacks.
  • (10) "We are here for negotiations with Akhmetov," said Anton Kosenko, a self-styled MP of the Donetsk People's Republic, who was wearing a white suit and appeared to be in charge of a dozen fighters with automatic weapons and knives who were lazing on the grass outside the gates to Akhmetov's lavish residence.
  • (11) Hearing the drumbeat of the pro-marijuana lobby, you'd be excused if you believed the typical Jamaican was a Rastafarian pothead lazing on the beach amid the soporific sound of Bob Marley's One Love.
  • (12) Laze in the hammocks, splash about in your private pool or help yourself to fruit and veg from the garden and eggs from the free-range chickens.
  • (13) But the road was calling, just as it had done yesterday, when neither of us had wanted to leave Dar Ayniwen, a beautiful house in Marrakech's Palmeraie suburb, where we had lazed on the terrace and sipped gin and tonics as the call to prayer echoed through the dusk.
  • (14) While he was there, the editor of the university magazine, Clive James, published an early poem, but mostly Murray "lazed around and read the library.