Standard Lemma guide

gauze

noun · verb · 9 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • gôz
  • /ɡɔːz/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Canada: /ɡɑz/
  • rhymes with -ɔːz
  • homophone: gores (non-rhotic)
  • CMU ARPABET: G AO1 Z Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A thin fabric with a loose, open weave.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A similar bleached cotton fabric used as a surgical dressing.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: medicine, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A thin woven metal or plastic mesh.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

Ellipsis of wire gauze

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

Mist or haze

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

verb

Meaning 6

To apply a dressing of gauze; to cover with gauze.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

verb

Meaning 7

To mist; to make or become gauze-like.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: ambitransitive, literary

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

noun

Meaning 8

a net of transparent fabric with a loose open weave

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: netting, veiling

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: net, network, mesh, meshing, meshwork

Narrower terms: cheesecloth, gossamer

9

noun

Meaning 9

(medicine) bleached cotton cloth of plain weave used for bandages and dressings

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: gauze bandage

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: cotton

Narrower terms: petrolatum gauze

History

Etymology

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

Across languages

Translations

88 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: شَاش (šāš) — thin fabric with open weave
  • Assamese: গজ্ (goz) — thin fabric with open weave
  • Azerbaijani: cuna — thin fabric with open weave
  • Azerbaijani: tənzif — thin fabric with open weave
  • Azerbaijani: cunayı — thin fabric with open weave
  • Belarusian: ма́рля (márlja) — thin fabric with open weave
  • Bengali: গজ (goj) — thin fabric with open weave
  • Bulgarian: газ (gaz) — thin fabric with open weave
  • Catalan: gasa — thin fabric with open weave
  • Chinese Mandarin: 紗布 /纱布 (shābù) — thin fabric with open weave
  • Danish: gaze — thin fabric with open weave
  • Dutch: weefsel — thin fabric with open weave
  • Esperanto: gazo — thin fabric with open weave
  • Finnish: harso — thin fabric with open weave
  • Finnish: lintuniisikangas — thin fabric with open weave
  • French: gaze — thin fabric with open weave
  • Georgian: გაზი (gazi) — thin fabric with open weave
  • Georgian: დოლბანდი (dolbandi) — thin fabric with open weave
  • Georgian: მარლა (marla) — thin fabric with open weave
  • German: Gaze — thin fabric with open weave
  • German: Mull — thin fabric with open weave
  • Hindi: गॉज़ (gŏz) — thin fabric with open weave
  • Hungarian: géz — thin fabric with open weave
  • Ingrian: marli — thin fabric with open weave
  • Italian: tessuto — thin fabric with open weave
  • Japanese: ガーゼ (gāze) — thin fabric with open weave
  • Korean: 거즈 (geojeu) — thin fabric with open weave
  • Korean: 가제 (gaje) — thin fabric with open weave
  • Macedonian: газа (gaza) — thin fabric with open weave
  • Macedonian: шаваспур (šavaspur) — thin fabric with open weave
  • Malay: kain kasa — thin fabric with open weave
  • Norwegian Bokmål: gas — thin fabric with open weave
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: gas — thin fabric with open weave
  • Polish: gaza — thin fabric with open weave
  • Portuguese: gaze — thin fabric with open weave
  • Romanian: voal tifon — thin fabric with open weave
  • Russian: газ (gaz) — thin fabric with open weave
  • Russian: ма́рля (márlja) — thin fabric with open weave
  • Serbo-Croatian: газа — thin fabric with open weave
  • Serbo-Croatian: gaza — thin fabric with open weave
  • Spanish: gasa — thin fabric with open weave
  • Turkish: gaz — thin fabric with open weave
  • Ukrainian: газ (haz) — thin fabric with open weave
  • Arabic: شَاش (šāš) — cotton fabric used as surgical dressing
  • Bulgarian: ма́рля (márlja) — cotton fabric used as surgical dressing
  • Catalan: gasa — cotton fabric used as surgical dressing
  • Chinese Mandarin: 紗布 /纱布 (shābù) — cotton fabric used as surgical dressing
  • Czech: gáza — cotton fabric used as surgical dressing
  • Danish: gaze — cotton fabric used as surgical dressing
  • Danish: gazebind — cotton fabric used as surgical dressing
  • Finnish: sideharso — cotton fabric used as surgical dressing
  • French: gaze — cotton fabric used as surgical dressing
  • Georgian: გაზი (gazi) — cotton fabric used as surgical dressing
  • Georgian: მარლა (marla) — cotton fabric used as surgical dressing
  • German: Gaze — cotton fabric used as surgical dressing
  • German: Mullbinde — cotton fabric used as surgical dressing
  • Hungarian: géz — cotton fabric used as surgical dressing
  • Indonesian: kasa — cotton fabric used as surgical dressing
  • Ingrian: marli — cotton fabric used as surgical dressing
  • Italian: garza — cotton fabric used as surgical dressing
  • Japanese: ガーゼ (gāze) — cotton fabric used as surgical dressing
  • Macedonian: газа (gaza) — cotton fabric used as surgical dressing
  • Malay: kasa — cotton fabric used as surgical dressing
  • Norwegian: gasbind — cotton fabric used as surgical dressing
  • Norwegian Bokmål: gas — cotton fabric used as surgical dressing
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: gas — cotton fabric used as surgical dressing
  • Polish: gaza — cotton fabric used as surgical dressing
  • Portuguese: gaze — cotton fabric used as surgical dressing
  • Russian: ма́рля (márlja) — cotton fabric used as surgical dressing
  • Serbo-Croatian: вата — cotton fabric used as surgical dressing
  • Serbo-Croatian: vata — cotton fabric used as surgical dressing
  • Spanish: gasa — cotton fabric used as surgical dressing
  • Swedish: gasbinda — cotton fabric used as surgical dressing
  • Turkish: gazlı bez — cotton fabric used as surgical dressing
  • Ukrainian: марля (marlja) — cotton fabric used as surgical dressing
  • Bulgarian: мрежа (mreža) — woven metal or plastic mesh
  • Dutch: gaas — woven metal or plastic mesh
  • Finnish: kudottu metalliverkko — woven metal or plastic mesh
  • Finnish: metallikangas — woven metal or plastic mesh
  • Georgian: ლითონის ბადე — woven metal or plastic mesh
  • Polish: bandaż — woven metal or plastic mesh
  • Russian: се́тка (sétka) — woven metal or plastic mesh
  • Bulgarian: предпазна мрежа (predpazna mreža) — wire gauze used as fence
  • Catalan: tela f metàl·lica — wire gauze used as fence
  • Finnish: aitaverkko — wire gauze used as fence
  • Georgian: ლითონის ბადე — wire gauze used as fence
  • Malay: kasa dawai — wire gauze used as fence
  • Spanish: tela f metálica — wire gauze used as fence