gauze

English

Alternative forms

• gause (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from French gaze, from Arabic قَزّ (qazz, “silk”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: gôz, IPA^(key): /ɡɔːz/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɔːz
• Homophone: gores (non-rhotic)

Noun

gauze (countable and uncountable, plural gauzes)

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

Derived terms

• gauzeless
• gauzelike
• gauze mat
• gauze pad
• wire gauze

 

Translations

thin fabric with open weave

• Arabic: شَاش (ar) m (šāš)
• Assamese: গজ্ (goz)
• Belarusian: ма́рля f (márlja)
• Bengali: গজ (bn) m pl (goj)
• Bulgarian: газ (bg) m (gaz)
• Catalan: gasa (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 紗布／纱布 (zh) (shābù)

• Danish: gaze (da) c
• Dutch: weefsel (nl)
• Esperanto: gazo
• Finnish: harso (fi), lintuniisikangas
• French: gaze (fr) f
• Georgian: გაზი (gazi), დოლბანდი (ka) (dolbandi), მარლა (marla)
• German: Gaze (de) f
• Hindi: गॉज़ (gŏz)
• Ingrian: marli
• Italian: tessuto (it) m
• Japanese: ガーゼ (ja) (gāze)
• Korean: 거즈 (ko) (geojeu), 가제 (ko) (gaje)
• Macedonian: газа f (gaza), шаваспур m (šavaspur)
• Malay: kain kasa
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gas (no) m

  Nynorsk: gas m

• Polish: gaza (pl) f
• Portuguese: gaze (pt) f
• Romanian: voal (ro) tifon (ro) n
• Russian: газ (ru) m (gaz), ма́рля (ru) f (márlja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: газа f

  Roman: gaza (sh) f

• Spanish: gasa (es) f
• Ukrainian: газ (uk) m (haz)

cotton fabric used as surgical dressing

• Arabic: شَاش (ar) m (šāš)
• Bulgarian: ма́рля f (márlja)
• Catalan: gasa (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 紗布／纱布 (zh) (shābù)

• Czech: gáza (cs) f
• Danish: gaze (da) c, gazebind n
• Finnish: sideharso (fi)
• French: gaze (fr) m
• Georgian: გაზი (gazi), მარლა (marla)
• German: Gaze (de) f, Mullbinde (de)
• Hungarian: géz (hu)
• Indonesian: kasa (id)
• Ingrian: marli
• Italian: garza (it) f
• Japanese: ガーゼ (ja) (gāze)
• Macedonian: газа f (gaza)
• Norwegian: gasbind n (gauze bandage)

  Bokmål: gas (no) m

  Nynorsk: gas m

• Polish: gaza (pl) f
• Portuguese: gaze (pt) f
• Russian: ма́рля (ru) f (márlja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: вата f

  Roman: vata (sh) f

• Spanish: gasa (es) f
• Swedish: gasbinda (sv) c
• Turkish: gazlı bez (tr)
• Ukrainian: марля f (marlja)

woven metal or plastic mesh

• Dutch: gaas (nl) n
• Finnish: kudottu metalliverkko, metallikangas
• Georgian: ლითონის ბადე (litonis bade)
• Polish: bandaż (pl) m
• Russian: се́тка (ru) f (sétka)

wire gauze used as fence

• Bulgarian: предпазна мрежа (predpazna mreža)
• Catalan: tela (ca) f metàl·lica
• Finnish: aitaverkko (fi)
• Georgian: ლითონის ბადე (litonis bade)
• Spanish: tela (es) f metálica

Verb

gauze (third-person singular simple present 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.
   • 1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 28:

     The wide plain gauzed into a sea on which the hut floated lonely.

See also

• wire netting

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Cf. German gauzen.

Verb

gauze

1. to bark

   Synonym: blaffe