haze
IPA: hˈeɪz
noun
- Very fine solid particles (smoke, dust) or liquid droplets (moisture) suspended in the air, slightly limiting visibility. (Compare fog, mist.)
- A reduction of transparency of a clear gas or liquid.
- An analogous dullness on a surface that is ideally highly reflective or transparent.
- (figuratively) Any state suggestive of haze in the atmosphere, such as mental confusion or vagueness of memory.
- (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.
- A diminutive of the female given name Hazel.
verb
- To be or become hazy, or thick with haze.
- (US, informal) To perform an unpleasant initiation ritual upon a usually non-consenting individual, especially freshmen to a closed community such as a college fraternity or military unit.
- To oppress or harass by forcing to do hard and unnecessary work.
- (transitive) In a rodeo, to assist the bulldogger by keeping (the steer) running in a straight line.
- (transitive) To use aversive stimuli on (a wild animal, such as a bear) to encourage it to keep its distance from humans.
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Examples of "haze" in Sentences
- Distance was lost in the haze of heat.
- That explains the white haze over the image.
- The haze is from the smoke of the gun barrels.
- Also, the gray haze really distracts from the image.
- The aerosol particles form a whitish haze in the sky.
- This is about the haze event caused by the Indon fires.
- The haze occurring in the vertical direction is also reduced.
- Continents are barely visible under the blue haze in the atmosphere.
- That explains the haze that can be seen in the accompanying photographs.
- Some haze around the base of the peak, but this is unavoidable and forgivable.
- I am currently exploring the outer regions of internet access, where savage peoples war for bandwidth in haze of rural bloodshed.
- Yes | No | Report from jeff wrote 1 year 18 weeks ago cb, I don't know what the purple haze is or were the buffalo river is located.
- Vivek Prakash/Reuters A combination photo showed Singapore's financial district on a clear day on Sept. 11, top, and shrouded in haze on Thursday, bottom.
- It was night on the planet down below, not that in mattered the sky was so thick with smoke and haze from the fighting that the sun was permanently blocked.
- Bell shrouds in haze the art within the story so the reader interprets, based on their own predispositions, if anyone involved is meant to have real talent.
- The fire fighters are being dispatched partly in response to requests from officials in Singapore and Malaysia, which are being covered with a smoky haze from the fires.
- Singapore's air quality has reached "unhealthy" levels Thursday, as the city-state continued to be enveloped in haze from fires in neighboring Indonesia's Sumatra island.
- Haze Blankets Singapore Vivek Prakash/Reuters A combination photo showed Singapore's financial district on a clear day on Sept. 11, top, and shrouded in haze on Thursday, bottom.
- Singapore's air quality has reached "unhealthy" levels, the government said, as the city-state continued to be enveloped in haze from fires in neighboring Indonesia's Sumatra island.
- “Haze” often has the connotation of a coin having had a chemical applied to its surfaces in order to hide hairlines but on this coin, the haze comes from the way that it had been stored in the past; probably in an old coin cabinet or in a manila coin envelope.