Meaning of Haze | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A diminutive of the female given name Hazel.
2. Very fine solid particles (smoke, dust) or liquid droplets (moisture) suspended in the air, slightly limiting visibility. (Compare fog, mist.)
   uncountable, usually
3. A reduction of transparency of a clear gas or liquid.
   uncountable, usually
4. An analogous dullness on a surface that is ideally highly reflective or transparent.
   uncountable, usually
5. Any state suggestive of haze in the atmosphere, such as mental confusion or vagueness of memory.
   figuratively, uncountable, usually
6. The degree of cloudiness or turbidity in a clear glass or plastic, measured in percent.
   uncountable, usually
7. Any substance causing turbidity in beer or wine.
   countable, usually

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Examples

“Our hopes, however, soon vanished; for before eight o'clock, the serenity of the sky was changed into a thick haze, accompanied with rain.”

“A blue haze, half dust, half mist, touched the long valley with mystery.”

“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.”

“The soap left a persistent haze on the drinking glasses.”

“The furniture has a haze, possibly from some kind of wax.”

“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?”

“In my haze of alcohol, I thought for one crazy instant that he had plumbed my secret.”

“But these tasks are difficult for the recent history of the form, since our perceptions are clouded by the haze of historical proximity.”

“Because he chose to be "a citizen of somewhere else," we glimpse him now only "through the haze of memory."”

“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.”

“Haze is listed as a percent value and, typically, is about 1% for meat film.”

“Various clarifying and fining agents are used in winemaking to remove hazes.”

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