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Definitions: Gauze |
GauzeNoun1. (medical) bleached cotton cloth of plain weave used for bandages and dressings. 2. A net of transparent fabric with a loose open weave. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "gauze" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references) |
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Industry | Diaphanous fabric. Source: European Union. (references) |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of being dressed in gauze, denotes uncertain fortune. For a lover to see his sweetheart clothed in filmy material, suggests his ability to influence her for good. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Industry | A lightweight, thin, loosely woven, carded cotton cloth made in a plain weave. . . the material is sized and stiffened in finishing. . Source: European Union. (references) |
| A thin, plain weave silk fabric used for curtains, etc. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: GauzeSynonyms: gauze bandage (n), netting (n), veiling (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Gauze |
| English words defined with "gauze": adhesive bandage, airy ♦ cheesecloth ♦ gauze bandage, Gauze dresser, gossamer ♦ pack, petrolatum gauze ♦ safety lamp ♦ Wire gauze, Wire netting. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "gauze": ADHESIVE-BANDAGE-MACHINE OPERATOR, ATHLETIC TRAINER, AUTOMATIC-PAD-MAKING-MACHINE OPERATOR, AUTOMATIC-PAD-MAKING-MACHINE OPERATOR HELPER ♦ blocker and sewer, border-machine operator ♦ centrifugal sifter, cheese cloth, cylinder mould ♦ dandy roll ♦ FOUNDATION MAKER ♦ gaze bluter ♦ making drum, mock gauze, MOTOR-AND-GENERATOR-BRUSH MAKER ♦ ORTHOPEDIC ASSISTANT, orthopedic cast specialis ♦ pad maker, paper-making machine wire, Patch Tests ♦ quilting-machine helper ♦ silk gauze, surgical gauze, Surgical Sponges, SURGICAL-DRESSING MAKER ♦ tug reed ♦ WIG MAKER, wire mould, wire-brush maker. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Gauze" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Portuguese (gaze). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Gauze (2000) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | School girls in native dress, upper garment made of hemp gauze, Philippine Islands.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Health | For example, your child may want to hold a gauze pad or watch for a signal. (references) | |
To collect the sweat, the area is covered with a gauze pad or filter paper and wrapped in plastic. (references) | ||
Grasping the tip of the tongue with a piece of gauze will assist full protrusion and will aid examination of the more posterior aspects of the tongue's lateral borders. (references) | ||
Business | The market for basic disposables, such as gloves, needles, syringes, blades, bandages, gauze, basic catheters, tubes (Levin, PVC, nasal/oral), IV admin sets etc., is very well supplied by Asian countries which offer reasonable quality at unbeatable prices. (references) | |
Economic History | Greece | Several small to medium-sized factories supply hospitals with furniture, inexpensive manual wheel chairs, bandages, gauze, and other rudimentary hospital supplies. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Gauze" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.86% of the time. "Gauze" is used about 88 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.86% | 87 | 35,390 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.14% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 88 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "gauze" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Gauze | Last name | 300 | 28,977 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "gauze": gauze bandage ♦ Gauze dresser ♦ mock gauze ♦ petrolatum gauze ♦ silk gauze ♦ surgical gauze ♦ thin as gauze ♦ wire gauze. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "gauze": gauze-covered, gauze-veiled. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
gauze | 59 |
gauze dress | 32 |
gauze clothing | 25 |
gauze shirt | 18 |
fabric gauze | 15 |
gauze skirt | 11 |
wire gauze | 10 |
gauze pants | 8 |
gauze bandage | 8 |
gauze sponge | 8 |
cotton and gauze | 8 |
cotton fabric gauze | 7 |
gauze clothes | 7 |
gauze top | 7 |
medical gauze | 6 |
silk gauze | 6 |
nu gauze | 6 |
iodoform gauze | 5 |
gauze man pants | 5 |
gauze blouse | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "gauze"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | garzë (lint), pëlhurë e lehtë, mjegull i lehtë, fashë (band, bandage, patch, roller bandage, sling, swathe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ضمادة خفيفة, ضماد شاش, ضباب (film, fog, haze, mirk, mist, murk, reek, vapor, vapour), الشاش, رقيق كالشاش, شفاف (clear, crystal, diaphanous, filmy, gauzy, gossamery, limpid, lucid, pellucid, see through, transparent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | тънка метална мрежа (wire gauze), газ (fluid, gas, kerosene, naphtha, oil, petrol, petroleum, wind), марля (lint), лека мъгла (haze, mist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 纱, 羅 (to catch, to collect, to gather, to shift), 紗布 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | gáza. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | gaze (cheese cloth, cheesecloth, surgical gauze). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | gaas (bobbin net, mosquito net, sandfly net, scrim). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | gazo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مه خفیف , کریشه , گازپانسمان , تنزیب (Gossamer), تور (Net, Saveall). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | sideharso, sideaine (adhesive medium, binder, binding agent, bond, bonding, bonding agent, bonding agents, bonding substance, cement, matrix, medium, vehicle), harsokangas (crepe), harso (vei). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | gaze (gauzy, surgical gauze). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Gaze (mesh), Mull (finished humus, garden peat, lint, mild humus, mull, mull earth, muslin, scrim). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | γάζα (gossamer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מלמל" (macrame, muslin, tatting), קז. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | fátyolszövet (gossamer, Tiffany). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kabut tipis. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | garza (cheese cloth, cheesecloth, lint, scrim, surgical gauze, Tiffany). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 紗 , カ行 (Classification for Japanese verb with the dictionary form ending in "ku", gargoyle, garter, girth control). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しゃ (borrowing, copy, describe, duplicate, house, hut, inn, mansion, now, photograph, picture, reproduce, then, trace, transcribe, well), ガーゼ . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 가 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | stroll (satin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | gasbind. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | auzegay gaze (cheesecloth, gossamer, lint, veiling). (various references) gaz (gas, gossamer, paraffin, petroleum), tifon (Mull), plasã (dress-guard, fishing net, hair net, mesh, net, netful, netting, network), ceaţã uşoarã. (various references) марля (cheese cloth, cheesecloth, cheese-cloth). (various references) sròl (banner, crape, satin, silk). (various references) gaza (cheesecloth). (various references) gasa (chiffon). (various references) gas (gas), flor (crape, fleur, flowers of wine, veil). (various references) ผ้าพันแผล (bandage). (various references) gazlı bez, sargı bezi (bandage, jaconet), bürümcük (crepe, gossamer), şilebezi. (various references) серпанок (haze, mist, veil, wisp, zephyr), газ (fluid, gas), марля (canvas), марлевий. (various references) sa (chiffon, gossamer, gossamery, shah, tiffany, voile). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Arabic | 500-Modern | gazz. (various references) |
| Turkish | 1200-Modern | tlbent. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "gauze": gauzelike, gauzes. (additional references) | |
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"Gauze" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: auz, dauze, Eauze, gadze, gaise, gaiz, gaize, ganze, Gaude, gaue, gaufe, gauie, gauje, gauke, gause, gaute, Gautel, gauz, gauzer, gauzey, gazea, gazen, gazey, Gazzo, giaue, goaze, goize, gouse, gouz, goza, goze, gruz, gruze, Guanzil, guate, guaze, Guazu, gueuze, Guzev, Sauze. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "gauze" (pronounced gô"z) |
| 2 | -ô" z | applause, because, clause, claws, Daws, draws, flaws, gnaws, guffaws, haws, jaws, laws, macaws, pause, paws, saws, straws, thaws, withdraws. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-u-z" | |
-1 letter: ague, gaze. | |
-2 letters: age, eau, gae, zag. | |
-3 letters: ae, ag. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-u-z" | |
+1 letter: gauzes, upgaze, zeugma. | |
+2 letters: gauzier, upgazed, upgazes, zeugmas. | |
+3 letters: gauziest, gazumped, gazumper, unglazed. | |
+4 letters: gauzelike, gazehound, gazumpers, vulgarize. | |
+5 letters: burglarize, equalizing, gazehounds, glamourize, regularize, underglaze, vulgarized, vulgarizer, vulgarizes. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 61 75 7A 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .- ..- --.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01100001 01110101 01111010 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G a u z e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0061 0075 007A 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4167879271 |
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