Haze

Definition: Haze

Haze

Noun

1. Atmospheric moisture or dust or smoke that causes reduced visibility.

2. Confusion characterized by lack of clarity.

Verb

1. Harass by imposing humiliating or painful tasks, as in military institutions.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"Haze" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "hazel".

Date "haze" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

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Science

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HAZE

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Synonyms: Haze

Bubble

Cloud, vapor, fog, mist, haze, steam, geyser; scud, messenger, rack, nimbus; cumulus, woolpack, cirrus, stratus; cirrostratus, cumulostratus; cirrocumulus; mackerel sky, mare's tale, dirty sky; curl cloud; frost smoke; thunderhead.

Concealment

Behind a screen; undercover, under an eclipse; in ambush, in hiding, in disguise; in a cloud, in a fog, in a mist, in a haze, in a dark corner; in the shade, in the dark; clouded, wrapped in clouds, wrapt in clouds; invisible; buried, underground, perdu; secluded.

Ridicule

Verb: ridicule, deride, mock, taunt; laugh in one's sleeve; tease, badinage, banter, rally, chaff, joke, twit, quiz, roast; haze; tehee; fleer; show up.

Uncertainty

Vagueness; Adjective: haze, fog; obscurity; (darkness); ambiguity; (double meaning); contingency, dependence, dependency, double contingency, possibility upon a possibility; open question; (question); onus probandi; blind bargain, pig in a poke, leap in the dark, something or other; needle in a haystack, needle in a bottle of hay; roving commission.

Crosswords: Haze

I avoided capture by using your Mak'tar stealth haze! (Galaxy Quest; writing credit: David Howard)

Swirling clouds in violet haze (Vincent; performing artist: Don McLean)

Last night in Little Rock put me in a haze. (We're An American Band; performing artist: Grand Funk Railroad)

He told of death as a bone white haze (The Prophet's Song; performing artist: Queen; writing credit: Brian May)

Purple Haze (1991)

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Books

• Distance Haze (reference)

• Ghetto Haze (reference)

• Haze of Joran (reference)

• Scattershot Haze (reference)

• Smoking: The Story Behind the Haze (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Haze (reference)

• Haze Presents NY Reality Check 101 (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Motorola TalkAbout 289 AA Purple Haze 2-Way Radio (Single) (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Sun rising through early morning haze reflecting in the surf. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Haze and clouds obscure the setting sun. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

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Meanwhile it remained motionless in the haze.

The distance was thinned with haze, and the land grew softer and softer in the distance

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Health

Deeper scratches can also cause corneal scarring, resulting in a haze on the cornea that can greatly impair vision. (references)

Epithelial swelling damages vision by changing the cornea's normal curvature, and causing a sight-impairing haze to appear in the tissue. (references)

By about age 40, some people with lattice dystrophy will have scarring under the epithelium, resulting in a haze on the cornea that can greatly obscure vision. (references)

Economic History

Indonesia

Indonesia's most pressing environmental issues include deforestation, water pollution from industrial sources, sewage, air pollution in urban areas, and smoke and haze from forest fires. (references)

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Expressions using "haze": arctic haze ♦ atmospheric haze ♦ dust haze ♦ haze over ♦ his mind was in a haze ♦ purple haze ♦ sand haze. Additional references.

Beginning with "haze": haze-softened, haze-time.

Ending with "haze": heat-haze.

Afrikaans

bedil (carp at, quibble). (various references)

Albanian

vel mjegulle, vë përpara (March, prefix, rout), perde tymi (smoke screen), mjegullim (blur, haziness, nebulosity), mjegull e dendur (pea souper), i imponoj (force), detyroj (bind, bully, coerce, compel, constrain, dragoon, enforce, entail, force, have, impel, keep, make, move, obligate, oblige, outface, pin down, press, push, rack, screw, strong arm, tie), çoj (bring, conduce, deliver, drive, drop, give a lift, haul, lead, lead off, lead up to, lift, pass, post, raise, rear, route, send, take off, take place, waft). (various references)

Arabic 

‏غيم, ‏سديم ضباب رقيق, ‏ضباب (film, fog, gauze, mirk, mist, murk, reek, vapor, vapour), ‏إنتهك أمرءا, ‏أرهق بمواصلة السخرية منه. (various references)

Bulgarian 

тормозя с шеги, омара, неяснота (ambiguity, confusion, mistiness, opacity, twilight, unclarity), мътност (feculence, turbidity), мараня, занасям (drop, sideslip, skid, take), замъглявам се, лека мъгла (gauze, mist). (various references)

Chinese 

薄霧 (mist), 阴霾. (various references)

Czech

opar (herpes, mist), mlha (brume, fog, mist), mlžný opar. (various references)

Danish

toerdis, sloering (light diffusion), sloer (blurring, feather, fog, fogging, light diffusion, veil), slør (backlash, bloom, blooming, blurring, blushing, fog, slur). (various references)

Dutch

haarkloven (act wise, carp at, quibble, show off, split hairs), bedillen (carp at, quibble). (various references)

Esperanto

ĉikani (carp at, quibble). (various references)

Faeroese

arga (abet, carp at, excite, incite, provoke, quibble, rouse, stimulate, stir up). (various references)

Farsi 

مه کم , مغموم بودن , متوحش کردن , ناصافی یاتیرگی هوا, گرفته بودن , سرزنش کردن (Berate, Blame, Calldown, Censure, Check, Chide, Rant, Reprehend, Reprimand, Reprove, Scold, Snub, Taunt, Trounce, Twit, Upbraid, Wig), زدن (Abaction, Amputate, Attain, Beat, Bop, Bruise, Clout, Cut, Imprint, Inject, Koran, Lam, Light, Lodge, Mallet, Nail, Play, Poke, Pop, Shoot, Slap, Slat, Smite, Snip, Strike, Stroke, Whack), ابهام (Ambiguity, Fog, Mist, Obscurity), روشن نبودن مه , بستوه اوردن (Annoy, Beset, Harass, Hare, Harry, Hurry, Pester, Plague, Worry), بخار (Gas, Reek, Steam). (various references)

Finnish

auer. (various references)

French

brume, chicaner (haggle). (various references)

German

dunst (fog, fug, fume, mist, smell, smog, steam, vapor, vapour), schleier (curtain, film, fog, glaze, screen, shroud, veil, veils, yashmak), nebel (fog, mist, mists, nebula, smog, smoke). (various references)

Greek 

καταχνιά (ground mist). (various references)

Hebrew 

לערפל (fog, obfuscate, obscure), לאבך, לטשטש (besmear, blot, blur, deface, discolour, smudge), לטרטר (chug, rattle, shove around), ערפל (fog, mist), אובך (haziness, mist). (various references)

Hungarian

köd (blurring, fog, mirk, mist, murk, smoke). (various references)

Indonesian

kabut (fog, mist), gojlok (shake up). (various references)

Italian

foschia (fog, mist, mistiness), caligine (fog, mist). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

靄 , 煙霧 (fog, mist). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

もや, え�"む (fog, mist). (various references)

Korean 

연무. (various references)

Manx

kay [f] (blur on mirror, cloud, fog, top of milk), kay (blur, cloud, fog, top). (various references)

Norwegian

dis (fog). (various references)

Pig Latin

azehay.(various references)

Portuguese

bruma (brume, cloud, fog, haziness, mist, mistiness, uncertainty, vapor, vapour). (various references)

Romanian

zãpãcealã (Babel, bewilderment, confusion, daze, discomfiture, disorder, distraction, entanglement, flurry, fuddle, jumble, kerfuffle, mix up, muddle, topsy turvy), teroriza (bludgeon, browbeat, bulldozer, bully, huff, terrorize), obscuritate (darkness, gloom, gloominess, murk, obscurity), negurã (film, fog, host, mist), istovi (crock, exhaust, fag, fag out, jade, kill, knock off, rack, try, wither), ceaţã (cloud, fog, mist, set), abur (breath, breathing, breeze, damp, exhalation, fog, fume, reek, smoke, smother, steam, vapor, vapour), înceţoşa (fog). (various references)

Russian 

сухой туман, туман (brume, exhalation, fog, mist, toman), мгла (brume, fog), легкий туман (film of fog), дымка (brume, film, film of fog, mist). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

izmaglica (mist). (various references)

Spanish

calina (Hazel, smog). (various references)

Swedish

dis (film). (various references)

Thai

เมฆหมอก, สิ่งที่ทำให้คลุมเครือ. (various references)

Turkish

hafif sis, uğraşmak (agonize, attack, be at war with, be occupied in doing, be occupied with doing, come at, contend, cope, deal, endeavor, endeavour, engage in, exert oneself, fight, get at, go in for, grapple, groove, labor, labour, make an effort, mess around with, mess with, moil, monkey around with, monkey with, pick on, push, seek, set to, strive, strive against, struggle, tackle, toil, try hard, tug, tussle, work away, work hard, wrestle), taciz etmek (abuse, annoy, discommode, harass, molest, worry), sis (fog, haziness, mist, mistiness), pus (fog, mist), canından bezdirmek, bulanıklık (blur, cloud, dimness, fog, haziness, indistinctness, Mackle, muddiness, turbidity), belirsizlik (ambiguity, dark, doubtfulness, dreaminess, dreariness, drift, dubiousness, equivocalness, fogginess, fuzziness, generality, gloom, haziness, if, incalculability, indefiniteness, indistinctness, laxity, laxness, limbo, suspense, troubled waters, twilight world, twilight zone, uncertainty, vagueness), şüphe (disbelief, discredit, doubt, dubiousness, fears, if, impeachment, incertitude, misdoubt, mistrust, query, question, surmise, suspicion, uncertainty). (various references)

Turkmen 

duman (fog, mist). (various references)

Ukrainian

імла (brume, fog), серпанок (gauze, mist, veil, wisp, zephyr), затуманюватися (fog, mist). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sương mù (exhalation), sự lờ mờ sự hoang mang, mù (blindly, sightless), khói mù, bụi mù sự mơ h�". (various references)

Welsh

tes (heat, sunshine, warmth), tawch (fog, mist, vapor), nudden (fog, mist), niwl (fog, mist). (various references)

muru. (various references)

domp. (various references)

haser. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "haze": hazed, hazel, hazelhen, hazelhens, hazelly, hazelnut, hazelnuts, hazels, hazer, hazers, hazes. (additional references)

Words containing "haze": khazen, khazenim, khazens. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Haze" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Haazen, habe, hace, hae, ha'e, hafe, hage, hahe, haiz, haje, Hajek, Hanze, Hanzo, hasa, Hasebe, Hasek, hasey, hasf, haxe, haz, hazef, Hazeva, Hazey, Hazor, hazz, Hazza, heeze, henze, herze, Hese, heze, hixe, Hizbe, hize, Hizen, Holzzz, hoze, Huezo, hwaz, hz, Khazen, khazi, phaz, phaze, Shaozu, Shazam, tazze, thaze. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: hae.

-2 letters: ae, ah, eh, ha, he.

+1 letter: hazed, hazel, hazer, hazes.

+2 letters: hazels, hazers, hazier, khazen.

+3 letters: chazzen, ghazies, hazelly, haziest, huzzaed, khazens, mezuzah, zaptieh.

+4 letters: aphorize, archaize, chalazae, chazzens, halazone, hazarded, hazelhen, hazelnut, haziness, hebraize, hepatize, humanize, huzzahed, khazenim, mezuzahs, phenazin, thiazide, thiazine, thiazole, yahrzeit, zaptiehs, zenithal.

+5 letters: alchemize, aphorized, aphorizes, archaized, archaizes, authorize, catechize, chazzenim, empathize, emphasize, euthanize, gazehound, gigahertz, halazones, harmonize, hazelhens, hazelnuts, hebraized, hebraizes, heliozoan, hepatized, hepatizes, hoatzines, humanized, humanizer, humanizes, hydrazide, hydrazine, mechanize, megahertz, phenazine, phenazins, rheumatiz, schmalzes, schnauzer, shmaltzes, thiazides, thiazines, thiazoles, yahrzeits.