gauze

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Etymology

From French gaze.

Pronunciation

• enPR: gôz, IPA: /ɡɔːz/

Noun

gauze

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

• French: gaze
• German: Gaze
• Italian: tessuto
• Portuguese: gaze
• Russian: газ
• Spanish: gasa

Translations

• French: gaze
• German: Gaze, Mullbinde
• Italian: garza
• Portuguese: gaze
• Russian: ма́рля
• Spanish: gasa

Translations

• Russian: се́тка

Translations

• Spanish: tela metálica

Verb

gauze (gauzes, present participle gauzing; simple past and past participle gauzed)

1. To apply a dressing of gauze
2. (literary) To mist; to become gauze-like.

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