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Definitioner
Substantiv
- (uncountable) Very fine solid particles (smoke, dust) or liquid droplets (moisture) suspended in the air, slightly limiting visibility.
- (uncountable) A reduction of transparency of a clear gas or liquid.
- An analogous dullness on a surface that is ideally highly reflective or transparent.
- (uncountable, figuratively) Any state suggestive of haze in the atmosphere, such as mental confusion or vagueness of memory.
- (uncountable, engineering, packaging) The degree of cloudiness or turbidity in a clear glass or plastic, measured in percent.
- (countable, brewing) Any substance causing turbidity in beer or wine.
Verb
- To be hazy, or thick with haze.
- (US, informal) To perform an unpleasant initiation ritual upon a usually non-consenting individual, especially freshmen to a closed community such as a college or military unit.
- To oppress or harass by forcing to do hard and unnecessary work.
Exempel
- 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.
- 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."
- 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.
- [...] 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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