Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A thin, transparent fabric with a loose open weave, used for curtains and clothing.
- noun A thin, loosely woven surgical dressing, usually made of cotton.
- noun A thin plastic or metal woven mesh.
- noun A mist or haze.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In surgery, cheese-cloth, impregnated with antiseptic material (such as borie acid, corrosive sublimate, or iodoform), or simply sterilized, employed in dressing wounds.
- noun A very thin, slight, transparent stuff made of silk, silk and cotton, or silk and hemp or linen.
- noun Any slight open material resembling this fabric: as, wire gauze.
- Of or like gauze; gauzy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the qualities of gauze; thin; light.
- noun A very thin, slight, transparent stuff, generally of silk; also, any fabric resembling silk gauze
- noun one employed in stiffening gauze.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A thin
fabric with a loose, openweave . - noun A similar
bleached cotton fabric used as asurgical dressing . - noun A thin
woven metal orplastic mesh . - noun
Wire gauze, used asfence . - noun
Mist orhaze - verb To apply a
dressing of gauze - verb To
mist
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a net of transparent fabric with a loose open weave
- noun (medicine) bleached cotton cloth of plain weave used for bandages and dressings
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Well, they packed stuff in it, just like what I call gauze tape, you know, that we sew.
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Among the exceptions is an elegant dark wooden chest of drawers from Hitler's chancellery, filigreed with hundreds of swastika forms, which has been hung at a diagonal angle on a corner wall, and is further protected from possible Hitler admirers by a thin gauze panel.
Germany's first Hitler exhibition opens in nervous Berlin museum Kate Connolly in Berlin 2010
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Then maybe wrap these big scrapes in gauze and tape.
MORE FROM GINNY BATES: ALLIE Maggie Jochild 2007
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Quikclot is now available in gauze pad form and is much easier and cleaner to use than the older, granular product.
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Quikclot is now available in gauze pad form and is much easier and cleaner to use than the older, granular product.
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Around the broom, imitating tinsel, is wrapped the gauze from a bandage.
Hess, Jay C. 1977
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We found many of the natives dressed in a thin French gauze, which they called byqui; this being a light airy dress, and well calculated to display the shape of their persons, is much esteemed by the ladies.
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As there was nothing under the thin gauze, the result of course was more display than is usual in Europe.
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We found many of the natives dressed in a thin French gauze, which they call _Byqui_; this being a light airy dress, and well calculated to display the shape of their persons, is much esteemed by the ladies.
Life and Travels of Mungo Park in Central Africa Mungo Park 1788
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A thin gauze was procured from their webs, and this Cean manufacture, the invention of a woman, for female use, was long admired both in the East and at
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
oroboros commented on the word gauze
See, we've all had that Wordnik moment of "that word doesn't look right". From Phil Plait ("Bad Astronomer" on twitter): "Had to type the word "gauze" for a post going up tomorrow. The word looks wrong no matter how I spell it. Gauze. Gawz. Gouze. Snooki."
October 16, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word gauze
It's time to choose, English speakers: take gauze and gauge and decide - either "gôz" and "gôjˈ" or "gāz" and "gājˈ".
October 16, 2010
bilby commented on the word gauze
It's time to choose, Italian speakers: essere or avere. You've had a thousand years to pick a serviceable auxiliary verb.
October 16, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word gauze
Dear marsupial, there's a rule for that: for over 99% of verbs, active transitive goes with "avere" and passive and intransitive with "essere".
October 16, 2010
bilby commented on the word gauze
I'd say the flat ā for -au- (as in the conventional pronunciation of gauge) is pretty uncommon. I'm not sure whether standard pronunciation as in 'my chillisauce is fraught of beans' quite reaches 99% but it's high. Perhaps we can comfort the remainder with some gauze.
October 16, 2010