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Kane159 Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary

Word meaning

Hi,

what is the difference between gaze, gape and stare? Are they interchangeable?

and also between error, mistake, fault, lapse, and blunder, please?
Unable to make any difference between them.

Thank you in advance!
  

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Please consult a dictionary. com/browse/gaze suggest looking fixedly at something. To gaze is to look steadily and intently at something, esp.

  • Please consult a dictionary.
  • com/browse/gaze suggest looking fixedly at something.
  • To gaze is to look steadily and intently at something, esp.
  • at that which excites admiration, curiosity, or interest: to gaze at scenery, at a scientific experiment.
  • To stare is to gaze with eyes wide open, as from surprise, wonder, alarm, stupidity, or impertinence: to stare unbelievingly or rudely.
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Please consult a dictionary. This is from Dictionary.com:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/gaze suggest looking fixedly at something.
To gaze is to look steadily and intently at something, esp. at that which excites admiration, curiosity, or interest: to gaze at scenery, at a scientific

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