haze
See also: házé and Haze
English
Alternative forms
- hase (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- enPR: hāz, IPA(key): /heɪz/
Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪz
- Homophones: hays, heys
Etymology 1
- 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”). [1]
(Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)Origin unknown; there is nothing to connect the word with Old English hasu, haso (“gray”).
Noun
haze (usually uncountable, plural hazes)
- Very fine solid particles (smoke, dust) or liquid droplets (moisture) suspended in the air, slightly limiting visibility. (Compare fog, mist.)
- 1772 December, James Cook, A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Around the World, vol. 1 ch. 2:
- Our hopes, however, soon vanished; for before eight o'clock, the serenity of the sky was changed into a thick haze, accompanied with rain.
- 1895, H.G. Wells, The Cone:
- A blue haze, half dust, half mist, touched the long valley with mystery.
- 2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29:
- 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.
- 1772 December, James Cook, A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Around the World, vol. 1 ch. 2:
- A reduction of transparency of a clear gas or liquid.
- An analogous dullness on a surface that is ideally highly reflective or transparent.
- The soap left a persistent haze on the drinking glasses.
- The furniture has a haze, possibly from some kind of wax.
- (figuratively) Any state suggestive of haze in the atmosphere, such as mental confusion or vagueness of memory.
- 1957, Daphne du Maurier, The Scapegoat, →ISBN, page 218:
- In my haze of alcohol, I thought for one crazy instant that he had plumbed my secret.
- 1994, Michael Thomas Roeder, A History of the Concerto, page 312:
- But these tasks are difficult for the recent history of the form, since our perceptions are clouded by the haze of historical proximity.
- 2005, Dane Anthony Morrison, Nancy Lusignan Schultz, Salem: Place, Myth, and Memory, page 179:
- Because he chose to be "a citizen of somewhere else," we glimpse him now only "through the haze of memory."
- 2017, Eric Pearson, Craig Kyle, and Christopher Yost; Taika Waititi, director, Thor: Ragnarok, spoken by Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson):
- 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.
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- (uncountable, engineering, packaging) The degree of cloudiness or turbidity in a clear glass or plastic, measured in percent.
- 1998, Leonard I. Nass; Charles A. Heiberger, Encyclopedia of PVC, →ISBN, page 318:
- Haze is listed as a percent value and, typically, is about 1% for meat film.
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- (countable, brewing) Any substance causing turbidity in beer or wine.
- 1985, Philip Jackisch, Modern Winemaking, →ISBN, page 69:
- Various clarifying and fining agents are used in winemaking to remove hazes.
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Hyponyms
- qobar
- smaze
- smog
- vog
Derived terms
Derived terms
- haze over
- hazy
- laze
- smaze
Translations
very fine particles suspended in the air
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loss of transparency in a clear solid or liquid
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dullness of finish on a highly reflective surface
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figurative haze, such as mental confusion
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mental confusion
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degree of cloudiness in a glass or plastic
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substance causing turbidity in beer or wine
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Verb
haze (third-person singular simple present hazes, present participle hazing, simple past and past participle hazed)
- To be or become hazy, or thick with haze.
- 1907, Barbara Baynton, Sally Krimmer; Alan Lawson, editors, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 268:
- Pyramids of clouds now fringed its edge, and the centre had hazed into a sandy mist.
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Etymology 2
Possibly from hawze (“terrify, frighten, confound”), from Middle French haser (“irritate, annoy”)
Verb
haze (third-person singular simple present hazes, present participle hazing, simple past and past participle hazed)
- (US, informal) To perform an unpleasant initiation ritual upon a usually non-consenting individual, especially freshmen to a closed community such as a college fraternity or military unit.
- To oppress or harass by forcing to do hard and unnecessary work.
- 1920, Peter B. Kyne, chapter I, in The Understanding Heart:
- […] when the young man whirled his horse, “hazed” Jupiter in circles and belaboured him with a rawhide quirt, […] He ceased his cavortings […]
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- (transitive) In a rodeo, to assist the bulldogger by keeping (the steer) running in a straight line.
- (transitive) To use aversive stimuli on (a wild animal, such as a bear) to encourage it to keep its distance from humans.
- 2016, Annie Zak, "Brown bear seriously injured in 'hazing' attempt in Southeast Alaska", Anchorage Daily News, 18 July 2016:
- Hazing a bear involves creating a "negative experience for a bear that seeks out human food or loses its natural avoidance of humans and developed areas," the release said. That involves using non-lethal rubber shotgun slugs, or rubber rounds and noise-deterrent rounds in sequence to scare bears away, according to the release.
- 2016, Annie Zak, "Brown bear seriously injured in 'hazing' attempt in Southeast Alaska", Anchorage Daily News, 18 July 2016:
Translations
to perform an initiation ritual
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force to do hard work
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Further reading
- haze in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
References
- haze in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913