whr do we get the answers of subtle diff. between words like gaze, stare, glance, look, see etc?

Question

wats the difference between see & look and listen and hear. pls explain the usage

Answer 1

Whew! There is a question that will take WAY more space than I have here. More simply put, the differences are subtleties of emotions. For example, the word gaze implies love or fascination, which is considered a positive emotion. We "gaze" at our loved ones or "gaze" at the stars. Stare evokes emotions that are negative. Either we stare in disgust at a behavior, stare at an enemy in an attempt to intimidate, or stare at something so startling that it momentarily locks our eyes on it. "Glance" can suggest unimportance: "Without a second glance!" You can almost see a young man or woman huffing as they stomp off. A glance is often used to confirm something you thought you saw, but weren't sure. Once you confirmed it, realized it was uninteresting or not worth a notice, that was the end of it. A glance can also be a flirtation (so can a stare, but it is considered a very aggressive type of flirtation - also negative). We "look" at things all the time without really "seeing" them. "Looking" at something generally implies registering the visual of something. "Seeing" something implies more understanding of something after we "look" at it. Same with "listen" and "hear." I "hear" my friends or relatives talking all the time, but do I "listen?" LOL Usually not. Again, like "look," "hear" implies nothing about understanding what someone is saying, what something is doing, etc. To really "listen" engages empathy, compassion, and other emotions to understand.

Golly! Hope that helps a little! It can be VERY complicated. (Can you tell I'm a writer? LOL).

Answer 2

Gaze - watch / see without thinking
She merely gazed at the sky.

Stare - intense gaze, expression of anger, inquisitiveness with a very definite purpose in mind
I feel uncomfortable if a person statres at me.

Glance - furtive look
One glance, and I just bought the dress!!

Look - short rendering of sight
Look at the person wearing the red shirt.

See - look and understand
Can you see the difference between the original and fake note?

Look is more furtive. See is something you look at for a longer time and your mind analyses the image.

Hear is again a superficial activity, the sound simply falls on the ear. Listen is more intense, where the brain interprets the sound and analyses it.

Hear
Do you hear the sound of approaching sirens??

Listen
You must listen very carefully to the instructions before operating this machine.

Answer 3

The difference lies in the words' application in the context of a sentence. If you go by what Wren & Martin explains the words such as see and look differ in as much as the transitive verbs are concerned. Any word which explains an action in itself is intransitive and a word which carries an action onto an another object is called 'transitive'. The example being one 'lying' down in which an action carried on itseft and is never carried forward. Whereas if you say 'the body is laid to rest' the word laid carries an action forward. The same is the case with 'see' and 'look'. Seeing is an action itself but looking needs to acted on and one needs an object to look on or upon. Hope the subtle difference is explained. Now 'look forward' to more on Yahoo Answers. Lol.

Answer 4

Asha is right. There are terms that mean the same thing but implies either a negative or positive meaning. Gaze - is positive, stare is negative, glance - is to look at something briefly, Look and see are basically the same- to visualize or observe something .

Answer 5

See the Oxford Learners' dictionary.

Answer 6

dictionary.com see the deifinition
like laughin is wen u laugh at some joke or wutevr
smile - jus a lil smile seee yeahh

Answer 7

these are synonyms for the same word say gaze.

You can find them in thesaraus.