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Definition: Laze |
LazeVerb1. Be idle; exist in a changeless situation; "The old man sat and stagnated on his porch"; "He slugged in bed all morning". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "laze" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1902. (references) |
Synonyms: LazeSynonyms: idle (v), slug (v), stagnate (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: work (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Laze |
| English words defined with "laze": Lazed, Lazing. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "laze": laze rod. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Laze" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Macedonian (to lie). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Not to laze about. (James and the Giant Peach; writing credit: Karey Kirkpatrick) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Laze (1990) Tajna Laze Lazarevica (1986) Slucaj Laze Kostica (1985) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Astronomer (to prospective customer): Laze an Gemlen, nows de time to see de planet o' Wenus luminated in all her glory ...Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| "Laze" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 68.42% of the time. "Laze" is used about 19 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 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 68.42% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 21.05% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (singular) | 10.53% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 19 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "laze": have a laze ♦ have laze ♦ laze about ♦ laze around ♦ laze away ♦ laze away one's time ♦ laze rod. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "laze": laze-rock. | |
| 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 |
laze | 16 |
laze steppin | 7 |
boy laze | 4 |
laze mail.com | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "laze"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | përtoj (grow lazy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تكاسل (drowse, idle, lounge), إسترخى (dangle, loll, lounge, refresh, relax, sprawl, unbend, unbuckle, unwind). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | гледам си кефа, мързелувам. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | lenošit (lounge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | کاهل (Slothful), تنبلی کردن , تنبل (Idle, Inactive, Indolent, Lazy, Lazybones, Sloth, Slothful, Slouch, Slow, Sluggish, Tardy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | se reposer, paresser, ne rien faire. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | faulenzen (have laze, idle, laze about, loaf about, loaf around, lounge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | χασομερώ (dally, dawdle, diddle, dillydally, fiddle, lag, loaf, loiter), τεμπελιάζω (dawdle, idle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ל"תעצל (be lazy, slack), ל"תבטל (bum around, fall through, idle, lallygag, loaf, loiter, loll, putter, slack). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | lustálkodik (Cose, idle, loll, to bum, to laze, to loll about, to take one's ease), lófrál (muck about, to laze, to moon about, to muck about). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | poltrire (idle, lounge), oziare (dally, idle, idle about, laze around, Mike, mooch, slouch about, slouch around). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | dy yannoo litcherys (to laze). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | azelay lazer (leisure, lounge), preguiçar (hovercraft, Mike), indivíduo (anybody, beggar, bloke, busybody, chap, civy, customer, fellow, head, housebroken, individual, joker, joss house, ladder, Lade, man, poll, selfhood, specimen, subject), ócio (laziness, leisure). (various references) trândãvi (dawdle, drone, lie about, loaf, lounge, slack), nu face nimic (idle, it doesn't matter, lie about, muck about, never mind), a-şi petrece nefãcând nimic. (various references) бездельничать (bum, dawdle, drone, fiddle about, fribble, idle, lallygag, loaf, molder, moulder, sit back, twiddle, while the time away). (various references) plandovati (rest), dangubiti (beat time, frig, kick one's heels, loaf, waste time), besposličariti (fool about, twiddle), bazati (loiter, lounge about, roam, trapse), badavadžisati. (various references) holgazanear (dawdle, idle, knock around, lallygag, loaf, loiter, lounge about, lounge around, putter). (various references) lata sig (idle), vilostund, slötid, slöa (dawdle, fester, idle, loiter, slack up). (various references) เกียจคร้าน (idle, inactive, lazy), ปล่อยเวลาให้ล่วงเลยอย่างเปล่าประโยชน์. (various references) tembellik etmek (be lazy, drone, fiddle-faddle, fribble, have a laze, laze around, lounge, lounge about, slack, slack off, slacken, slug), tembelleşmek (grow lazy). (various references) ледарювати (dawdle, fribble, frivol, idle, loaf, mess about, mess around, mooch, poke, potter about, potter around, twiddle one's thumbs). (various references) lúc vô công rỗi nghề. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "laze": lazed, lazes. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "laze": ablaze, blaze, deglaze, emblaze, glaze, imblaze, outblaze, overglaze, reglaze, underglaze. (additional references) | |
Words containing "laze": blazed, blazer, blazers, blazes, deglazed, deglazes, emblazed, emblazer, emblazers, emblazes, glazed, glazer, glazers, glazes, imblazed, imblazes, outblazed, outblazes, overglazes, reglazed, reglazes, trailblazer, trailblazers, underglazes, unglazed. (additional references) | |
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"Laze" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alazi, alez, Alhazen, alize, Alza, Alzet, claze, elaz, klase, ladze, lale, lanze, Lanzi, larz, larzo, lasa, lasce, lase, laseo, lasi, lauzeta, laxe, laz, laza, lazen, lazer, lazet, lazey, lazi, Lazim, lazir, Lazo, lazor, lazt, lazur, Leaze, leize, leza, leze, lezi, Lezo, liaz, liaze, liez, linze, lize, lizel, lizi, lizo, lizu, Lizzio, loaze, loze, lozen, lozi, Lozle, lsase, lucze, Lutzke, luze, luzem, luzer, Luzio, luzzu, lyase, lyze, lza, lzap, lzee, mlaze, pleze, tazze, Ulwazi, zale. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: zeal. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-l-z" | |
-1 letter: ale, lea, lez. | |
-2 letters: ae, al, el, la. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-l-z" | |
+1 letter: azole, blaze, glaze, hazel, lazed, lazes, zeals, zoeal. | |
+2 letters: ablaze, azalea, azoles, benzal, blazed, blazer, blazes, dazzle, glazed, glazer, glazes, hazels, jezail, lazied, lazier, lazies, mezcal, quezal, sleaze, sleazo, sleazy, teazel, teazle, zealot. | |
+3 letters: analyze, azaleas, blazers, calzone, damozel, dazedly, dazzled, dazzler, dazzles, deglaze, dialyze, diazole, dualize, emblaze, frazzle, gazelle, glazers, glazier, hazelly, imblaze, jezails, laicize, lazaret, laziest, mazedly, mezcals, quetzal, quezals, realize, reglaze, sizable, sleazes, spatzle, teazels, teazled, teazles, waltzed, waltzer, waltzes, zealots, zealous, zelkova, zonulae, zooglea. | |
+4 letters: alkalize, amazedly, analyzed, analyzer, analyzes, autolyze, banalize, bedazzle, blazoned, blazoner, brazenly, calorize, calzones, canalize, catalyze, chalazae, damozels, dazzlers, deglazed, deglazes, dialyzed, dialyzer, dialyzes, diazoles, dualized, dualizes, emblazed, emblazer, emblazes, emblazon, entozoal, equalize, finalize, focalize, frazzled, frazzles, gazelles, glaziers, glaziery, glaziest, grazable, halazone, hazelhen, hazelnut, idealize, imblazed, imblazes, jazzlike, laicized, laicizes, laterize, latinize, lazarets, laziness, lazulite, lazurite, legalize, localize, mazelike, melanize, metalize, metazoal, moralize, nasalize, outblaze, overzeal, paralyze, penalize, polarize, quetzals, quezales, realized, realizer, realizes, reglazed, reglazes, ruralize, salinize, seizable, sizeable, sizeably, sleazier, sleazily, solarize, spaetzle, spatzles, teazeled, teazling, thiazole, totalize, triazole, unglazed, valorize, velarize, vitalize, vocalize, waltzers, zarzuela, zealotry, zelkovas, zenithal, zoogleae, zoogleal, zoogleas, zoogloea, zoolater. | |
+5 letters: actualize, alchemize, alkalized, alkalizes, aluminize, analogize, analyzers, anglicize, animalize, annualize, apologize, autolyzed, autolyzes, balkanize, bamboozle, banalized, banalizes, bedazzled, bedazzles, bizarrely, blazoners, brutalize, calorized, calorizes, canalized, canalizes, capsulize, carbazole, cartelize, catalyzed, catalyzer, catalyzes, deglazing, diabolize, dialyzate, dialyzers, emblazers, emblazing, emblazons, equalized, equalizer, equalizes, feudalize, finalized, finalizes, focalized, focalizes, formalize, gallicize, galvanize, gauzelike, glamorize, globalize, grazeable, halazones, hazelhens, hazelnuts, heliozoan, idealized, idealizer, idealizes, imidazole, influenza, ionizable, italicize, labialize, laterized, laterizes, latinized, latinizes, lazarette, lazaretto, lazulites, lazurites, lazybones, legalized, legalizer, legalizes, lespedeza, linearize, localized, localizes, marbleize, melanized, melanizes, metalized, metalizes, metallize, moralized, moralizer, moralizes, mutualize, nasalized, nasalizes, normalize, outblazed, outblazes, outdazzle, overglaze, overzeals, palletize, paralyzed, paralyzer, paralyzes, pearlized, penalized, penalizes, pizzalike, platinize, pluralize, polarized, polarizer, polarizes, quetzales, realizers, realizing, reanalyze, reglazing, ritualize, ruralized, ruralizes, salinized, salinizes, schmalzes, serialize, sexualize, shmaltzes, signalize, sleazebag, sleaziest, sloganize, socialize, solarized, solarizes, spaetzles, stabilize, tantalize, teazeling, teazelled, thiazoles, totalized, totalizer, totalizes, triazoles, valorized, valorizes, vandalize, velarized, velarizes, verbalize, vernalize, visualize, vitalized, vitalizes, vizierial, vocalized, vocalizer, vocalizes, vulcanize, vulgarize, zarzuelas, zealously, zinfandel, zoogloeae, zoogloeas, zoolaters. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 61 7A 65 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. .- --.. . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100001 01111010 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L a z e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0061 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)46679271 |
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