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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A thin, transparent fabric with a loose open weave, used for curtains and clothing.
  2. n. A thin, loosely woven surgical dressing, usually made of cotton.
  3. n. A thin plastic or metal woven mesh.
  4. n. A mist or haze.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A very thin, slight, transparent stuff made of silk, silk and cotton, or silk and hemp or linen. It is either plain or brocaded with patterns in silk, or, in the case of gauzes from the east of Asia, with flowers in gold or silver. Compare gossamer.
  2. n. Any slight open material resembling this fabric: as, wire gauze.
  3. Of or like gauze; gauzy.
  4. n. In surgery, cheese-cloth, impregnated with antiseptic material (such as borie acid, corrosive sublimate, or iodoform), or simply sterilized, employed in dressing wounds.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A thin fabric with a loose, open weave.
  2. n. A similar bleached cotton fabric used as a surgical dressing.
  3. n. A thin woven metal or plastic mesh.
  4. n. Wire gauze, used as fence.
  5. n. Mist or haze
  6. v. To apply a dressing of gauze
  7. v. To mist

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A very thin, slight, transparent stuff, generally of silk; also, any fabric resembling silk gauze
  2. adj. Having the qualities of gauze; thin; light.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a net of transparent fabric with a loose open weave
  2. n. (medicine) bleached cotton cloth of plain weave used for bandages and dressings

Etymologies

  1. From French gaze, either from Arabic قَزّ (qazz, "silk"), from Persian کز (kaz, "silk"), from Middle Persian kaz ("silk"); or from غَزّة (ġazza, "Gaza"), a city associated with silk production. (Wiktionary)
  2. French gaze, possibly from Spanish gasa (from Arabic qazz, raw silk, possibly from Persian kazh). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • bilby 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. Oct 16, 2010

  • Prolagus Dear marsupial, there's a rule for that: for over 99% of verbs, active transitive goes with "avere" and passive and intransitive with "essere". Oct 16, 2010

  • bilby It's time to choose, Italian speakers: essere or avere. You've had a thousand years to pick a serviceable auxiliary verb. Oct 16, 2010

  • Prolagus It's time to choose, English speakers: take gauze and gauge and decide - either "gôz" and "gôjˈ" or "gāz" and "gājˈ". Oct 15, 2010

  • oroboros 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." Oct 15, 2010

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