haze
English
Alternative forms
- hase (obsolete)
Etymology 1
- The earliest instances are of the latter part of the 17th century.
- Possibly back-formation from hazy.
- Compare Old Norse höss (“grey”), akin to Old English hasu (“gray”). [1]
(Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)Origin unknown; there is nothing to connect the word with Old English hasu, haso (“gray”).
Noun
haze (usually uncountable, plural hazes)
- Very fine solid particles (smoke, dust) or liquid droplets (moisture) suspended in the air, slightly limiting visibility.
- 1772 December, James Cook, A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Around the World, vol. 1 ch. 2:
- Our hopes, however, soon vanished; for before eight o'clock, the serenity of the sky was changed into a thick haze, accompanied with rain.
- 1895, H.G. Wells, The Cone:
- A blue haze, half dust, half mist, touched the long valley with mystery.
- 2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29:
- Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia.
- 1772 December, James Cook, A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Around the World, vol. 1 ch. 2:
- A reduction of transparency of a clear gas or liquid.
- An analogous dullness on a surface that is ideally highly reflective or transparent.
- The soap left a persistent haze on the drinking glasses.
- The furniture has a haze, possibly from some kind of wax.
- (figuratively) Any state suggestive of haze in the atmosphere, such as mental confusion or vagueness of memory.
- 1957, Daphne du Maurier, The Scapegoat , →ISBN, page 218:
- In my haze of alcohol, I thought for one crazy instant that he had plumbed my secret.
- 1994, Michael Thomas Roeder, A History of the Concerto, page 312:
- But these tasks are difficult for the recent history of the form, since our perceptions are clouded by the haze of historical proximity.
- 2005, Dane Anthony Morrison, Nancy Lusignan Schultz, Salem: Place, Myth, and Memory, page 179:
- Because he chose to be "a citizen of somewhere else," we glimpse him now only "through the haze of memory."
- 1957, Daphne du Maurier, The Scapegoat , →ISBN, page 218:
- (uncountable, engineering, packaging) The degree of cloudiness or turbidity in a clear glass or plastic, measured in percent.
- (countable, brewing) Any substance causing turbidity in beer or wine.
Translations
very fine particles suspended in the air
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loss of transparency in a clear solid or liquid
dullness of finish on a highly reflective surface
figurative haze, such as mental confusion
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mental confusion
degree of cloudiness in a glass or plastic
substance causing turbidity in beer or wine
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Verb
haze (third-person singular simple present hazes, present participle hazing, simple past and past participle hazed)
- To be hazy, or thick with haze.
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Etymology 2
Possibly from hawze (“terrify, frighten, confound”), from Middle French haser (“irritate, annoy”)
Verb
haze (third-person singular simple present hazes, present participle hazing, simple past and past participle hazed)
- (US, informal) To perform an unpleasant initiation ritual upon a usually non-consenting individual, especially freshmen to a closed community such as a college or military unit.
- To oppress or harass by forcing to do hard and unnecessary work.
- 1920, Peter B. Kyne, chapter I, in The Understanding Heart:
- […] when the young man whirled his horse, “hazed” Jupiter in circles and belaboured him with a rawhide quirt, […] He ceased his cavortings […]
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- (transitive) In a rodeo, to assist the bulldogger by keeping (the steer) running in a straight line.
Translations
Further reading
- haze in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
References
- haze in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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