gauze
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- gause (obsolete)
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- enPR: gôz, IPA(key): /ɡɔːz/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- Rhymes: -ɔːz
- Homophones: gores (non-rhotic accents)
Noun edit
gauze (countable and uncountable, plural gauzes)
- A thin fabric with a loose, open weave.
- (medicine) A similar bleached cotton fabric used as a surgical dressing.
- A thin woven metal or plastic mesh.
- Wire gauze, used as fence.
- Mist or haze
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Translations edit
thin fabric with open weave
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cotton fabric used as surgical dressing
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woven metal or plastic mesh
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wire gauze used as fence
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Verb edit
gauze (third-person singular simple present gauzes, present participle gauzing, simple past and past participle gauzed)
- To apply a dressing of gauze
- (literary) To mist; to become gauze-like.
- 1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 28:
- The wide plain gauzed into a sea on which the hut floated lonely.
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