gauzeとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From French gaze.

発音

• enPR: gôz, IPA^(key): /ɡɔːz/
  • 韻: -ɔːz
  • 異形同音異義語: gores (non-rhotic accents)

名詞

gauze (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 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

派生語

動詞

gauze (三人称単数 現在形 gauzes, 現在分詞 gauzing, 過去形および過去分詞形 gauzed)

1. To apply a dressing of gauze
2. (literary) To mist; to become gauze-like.
   • 1902, Barbara Baynton, Sally Krimmer; Alan Lawson, editors, 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.