haze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hāz
ipa: /heɪz/
rhymes: -eɪz
homophone: hays
homophone: heys
Forms: form: hazes
form: hase
Etymology: * The earliest instances are of the latter part of the 17th century.
* Possibly back-formation from hazy.
* Compare Old Norse höss (“grey”), akin to Old English hasu (“gray”).
Senses: examples: text: Our hopes, however, soon vanished; for before eight o'clock, the serenity of the sky was changed into a thick haze, accompanied with rain.
ref: 1772 December, James Cook, chapter 2, in A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Around the World, volume 1:
text: A blue haze, half dust, half mist, touched the long valley with mystery.
ref: 1895, H.G. Wells, The Cone:
text: Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia.
ref: 2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29:
glosses: Very fine solid particles (smoke, dust) or liquid droplets (moisture) suspended in the air, slightly limiting visibility. (Compare fog, mist.)
glosses: A reduction of transparency of a clear gas or liquid.
examples: text: The soap left a persistent haze on the drinking glasses.
text: The furniture has a haze, possibly from some kind of wax.
glosses: An analogous dullness on a surface that is ideally highly reflective or transparent.
examples: text: And is it that the haze of grief
⁠Hath stretch’d my former joy so great?
⁠The lowness of the present state,
That sets the past in this relief?
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXIV”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 41:
text: In my haze of alcohol, I thought for one crazy instant that he had plumbed my secret.
ref: 1957, Daphne du Maurier, The Scapegoat, →ISBN, page 218:
text: But these tasks are difficult for the recent history of the form, since our perceptions are clouded by the haze of historical proximity.
ref: 1994, Michael Thomas Roeder, A History of the Concerto, page 312:
text: Because he chose to be "a citizen of somewhere else," we glimpse him now only "through the haze of memory."
ref: 2005, Dane Anthony Morrison, Nancy Lusignan Schultz, Salem: Place, Myth, and Memory, page 179:
text: I've spent years in a haze, trying to forget my past. Sakaar seemed like the best place to drink, and to forget... and to die, one day.
ref: 2017, Eric Pearson, Craig Kyle, Christopher Yost, directed by Taika Waititi, Thor: Ragnarok, spoken by Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson):
glosses: Any state suggestive of haze in the atmosphere, such as mental confusion or vagueness of memory.
examples: text: Haze is listed as a percent value and, typically, is about 1% for meat film.
ref: 1998, Leonard I. Nass, Charles A. Heiberger, Encyclopedia of PVC, →ISBN, page 318:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: packaging
glosses: The degree of cloudiness or turbidity in a clear glass or plastic, measured in percent.
examples: text: Various clarifying and fining agents are used in winemaking to remove hazes.
ref: 1985, Philip Jackisch, Modern Winemaking, →ISBN, page 69:
topics: beverages
brewing
business
food
lifestyle
manufacturing
glosses: Any substance causing turbidity in beer or wine.
Hyponyms: qobar
smaze
smog
vog
Derived terms: Arctic haze
damp haze
dehaze
dry haze
hazee
hazeless
hazen
haze over
hazy
heat haze
laze
purple haze
smaze
wet haze