gauze

English

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Etymology

From French gaze, either from Arabic قَزّ (qazz, “silk”) or from غَزّة (ġazza, “Gaza”), a city associated with silk production.

Pronunciation

• enPR: gôz, IPA: /ɡɔːz/, SAMPA: /gO:z/
• Rhymes: -ɔːz
• Homophones: gores (non-rhotic accents)

Noun

gauze (plural gauzes)

1. A thin fabric with a loose, open weave.
2. 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

Translations

thin fabric with open weave

Arabic: شاش (ar) (shaash) m. Bosnian: gaza (bs) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 紗布 (cmn), 纱布 (cmn) (shābù) Esperanto: gazo (eo) Finnish: lintuniisikangas (fi) French: gaze (fr) f. German: Gaze (de) f.

Italian: tessuto (it) m. Japanese: ガーゼ (ja) (gāze) Romanian: voal (ro) tifon (ro) n. Russian: газ (ru) m., марля (ru) (márlja) f. Serbian: Cyrillic: газа f. Roman: gaza f. Spanish: gasa (es) f.

cotton fabric used as surgical dressing

Arabic: شاش (ar) (shaash) m. Bosnian: vata (bs) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 紗布 (cmn), 纱布 (cmn) (shābù) Czech: gáza (cs) f. Finnish: sideharso (fi) German: Gaze (de) f. Hungarian: géz (hu)

Italian: garza (it) f. Japanese: ガーゼ (ja) (gāze) Norwegian: gasbind (no) n. Russian: марля (ru) (márlja) f. Serbian: Cyrillic: вата f. Roman: vata f. Swedish: gasbinda (sv) c.

woven metal or plastic mesh

Dutch: gaas (nl) n.

Finnish: kudottu (fi) metalliverkko (fi), metallikangas (fi)

wire gauze used as fence

Finnish: aitaverkko (fi)

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. To mist

See also

• wire netting