gauze

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gauze

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Alternative forms

• gause (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from French gaze, from Arabic قَزّ (qazz, “silk”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: gôz, IPA^(key): /ɡɔːz/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ɡɑz/
• Rhymes: -ɔːz
• Homophone: gores (non-rhotic)

Noun

gauze (countable and uncountable, plural gauzes)

1. A thin fabric with a loose, open weave.
2. (medicine) A similar bleached cotton fabric used as a surgical dressing.
3. A thin woven metal or plastic mesh.
4. Wire gauze, used as fence.
5. Mist or haze

Derived terms

• gauzeless
• gauzelike
• gauze mat
• gauze pad
• wire gauze

Translations

thin fabric with open weave

Arabic: شَاش (ar) m (šāš) Assamese: গজ্ (goz) Belarusian: ма́рля f (márlja) Bengali: গজ (bn) m pl (goj) Bulgarian: газ (bg) m (gaz) Catalan: gasa (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 紗布 / 纱布 (zh) (shābù) Danish: gaze (da) c Dutch: weefsel (nl) Esperanto: gazo Finnish: harso (fi), lintuniisikangas French: gaze (fr) f Georgian: გაზი (gazi), დოლბანდი (ka) (dolbandi), მარლა (marla) German: Gaze (de) f Hindi: गॉज़ (gŏz) Ingrian: marli Italian: tessuto (it) m Japanese: ガーゼ (ja) (gāze) Korean: 거즈 (ko) (geojeu), 가제 (ko) (gaje) Macedonian: газа f (gaza), шаваспур m (šavaspur) Malay: kain kasa Norwegian: Bokmål: gas (no) m Nynorsk: gas m Polish: gaza (pl) f Portuguese: gaze (pt) f Romanian: voal (ro) tifon (ro) n Russian: газ (ru) m (gaz), ма́рля (ru) f (márlja) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: газа f Roman: gaza (sh) f Spanish: gasa (es) f Ukrainian: газ (uk) m (haz)

cotton fabric used as surgical dressing

Arabic: شَاش (ar) m (šāš) Bulgarian: ма́рля f (márlja) Catalan: gasa (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 紗布 / 纱布 (zh) (shābù) Czech: gáza (cs) f Danish: gaze (da) c, gazebind n Finnish: sideharso (fi) French: gaze (fr) m Georgian: გაზი (gazi), მარლა (marla) German: Gaze (de) f, Mullbinde (de) Hungarian: géz (hu) Indonesian: kasa (id) Ingrian: marli Italian: garza (it) f Japanese: ガーゼ (ja) (gāze) Macedonian: газа f (gaza) Norwegian: gasbind n (gauze bandage) Bokmål: gas (no) m Nynorsk: gas m Polish: gaza (pl) f Portuguese: gaze (pt) f Russian: ма́рля (ru) f (márlja) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: вата f Roman: vata (sh) f Spanish: gasa (es) f Swedish: gasbinda (sv) c Turkish: gazlı bez (tr) Ukrainian: марля f (marlja)

woven metal or plastic mesh

Dutch: gaas (nl) n Finnish: kudottu metalliverkko, metallikangas Georgian: ლითონის ბადე (litonis bade) Polish: bandaż (pl) m Russian: се́тка (ru) f (sétka)

wire gauze used as fence

Bulgarian: предпазна мрежа (predpazna mreža) Catalan: tela (ca) f metàl·lica Finnish: aitaverkko (fi) Georgian: ლითონის ბადე (litonis bade) Spanish: tela (es) f metálica

Verb

gauze (third-person singular simple present gauzes, present participle gauzing, simple past and past participle gauzed)

1. To apply a dressing of gauze
2. (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.

See also

• wire netting

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Cf. German gauzen.

Verb

gauze

1. to bark

   Synonym: blaffe