gauze, netting, veiling
(noun) a net of transparent fabric with a loose open weave
gauze, gauze bandage
(noun) (medicine) bleached cotton cloth of plain weave used for bandages and dressings
Source: WordNet® 3.1
gauze (countable and uncountable, plural gauzes)
A thin fabric with a loose, open weave.
(medicine) A similar bleached cotton fabric used as a surgical dressing.
A thin woven metal or plastic mesh.
Wire gauze, used as fence.
Mist or haze
gauze (third-person singular simple present gauzes, present participle gauzing, simple past and past participle gauzed)
To apply a dressing of gauze
(literary) To mist; to become gauze-like.
Source: Wiktionary
Gauze, n. Etym: [F. gaze; so called because it was first introduced from Gaza, a city of Palestine.]
Definition: A very thin, slight, transparent stuff, generally of silk; also, any fabric resembling silk gauze; as, wire gauze; cotton gauze. Gauze dresser, one employed in stiffening gauze.
Gauze, a.
Definition: Having the qualities of gauze; thin; light; as, gauze merino underclothing.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
29 May 2025
(adjective) characterized by careful evaluation and judgment; “a critical reading”; “a critical dissertation”; “a critical analysis of Melville’s writings”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
