cinch, breeze, picnic, snap, duck soup, child's play, pushover, walkover, piece of cake
(noun) any undertaking that is easy to do; āmarketing this product will be no picnicā
breeze, zephyr, gentle wind, air
(noun) a slight wind (usually refreshing); āthe breeze was cooled by the lakeā; āas he waited he could feel the air on his neckā
breeze
(verb) to proceed quickly and easily
breeze
(verb) blow gently and lightly; āIt breezes most evenings at the shoreā
Source: WordNet® 3.1
breeze (plural breezes)
A light, gentle wind.
(figurative) Any activity that is easy, not testing or difficult.
(cricket) Wind blowing across a cricket match, whatever its strength.
Ashes and residue of coal or charcoal, usually from a furnace. See Wikipedia article on Clinker.
An excited or ruffled state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel.
A brief workout for a racehorse.
• see also wind
• cakewalk, cinch, doddle, piece of cake, walk in the park, walkover; see also easy thing
• (gentle wind): gale, hurricane, storm
breeze (third-person singular simple present breezes, present participle breezing, simple past and past participle breezed) (intransitive)
(usually with along) To move casually, in a carefree manner.
(weather) To blow gently.
To take a horse on a light run in order to understand the running characteristics of the horse and to observe it while under motion.
breeze (plural breezes)
A gadfly; a horsefly; a strong-bodied dipterous insect of the family Tabanidae.
breeze (third-person singular simple present breezes, present participle breezing, simple past and past participle breezed)
(intransitive) To buzz.
• beezer
Breeze (plural Breezes)
A surname.
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Breeze is the 13370th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2279 individuals. Breeze is most common among White (81.79%) and Black/African American (10.93%) individuals.
• beezer
Source: Wiktionary
Breeze, Breeze" fly` (, n. Etym: [OE. brese, AS. briĆ³sa; perh. akin to OHG. brimissa, G. breme, bremse, D. brems, which are akin to G. brummen to growl, buzz, grumble, L. fremere to murmur; cf. G. brausen, Sw. brusa, Dan. bruse, to roar, rush.] (Zoƶl.)
Definition: A fly of various species, of the family TabanidƦ, noted for buzzing about animals, and tormenting them by sucking their blood; -- called also horsefly, and gadfly. They are among the largest of two- winged or dipterous insects. The name is also given to different species of botflies. [Written also breese and brize.]
Breeze, n. Etym: [F. brise; akin to It. brezza breeze, Sp. briza, brisa, a breeze from northeast, Pg. briza northeast wind; of uncertain origin; cf. F. bise, Pr. bisa, OHG. bisa, north wind, Arm. biz northeast wind.]
1. A light, gentle wind; a fresh, soft-blowing wind. Into a gradual calm the breezes sink. Wordsworth.
2. An excited or ruffed state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel; as, the discovery produced a breeze. [Colloq.] Land breeze, a wind blowing from the land, generally at night.
– Sea breeze, a breeze or wind blowing, generally in the daytime, from the sea.
Breeze, n. Etym: [F. braise cinders, live coals. See Brasier.]
1. Refuse left in the process of making coke or burning charcoal.
2. (Brickmaking)
Definition: Refuse coal, coal ashes, and cinders, used in the burning of bricks.
Breeze, v. i.
Definition: To blow gently. [R.] J. Barlow. To breeze up (Naut.), to blow with increasing freshness.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 November 2024
(noun) infestation with slender threadlike roundworms (filaria) deposited under the skin by the bite of black fleas; when the eyes are involved it can result in blindness; common in Africa and tropical America
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
