Gauze

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A thin, transparent fabric with a loose open weave, used for curtains and clothing.
  • noun. A thin, loosely woven surgical dressing, usually made of cotton.
  • noun. A thin plastic or metal woven mesh.
  • noun. A mist or haze.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In surgery, cheese-cloth, impregnated with antiseptic material (such as borie acid, corrosive sublimate, or iodoform), or simply sterilized, employed in dressing wounds.
  • noun. A very thin, slight, transparent stuff made of silk, silk and cotton, or silk and hemp or linen.
  • noun. Any slight open material resembling this fabric: as, wire gauze.
  • Of or like gauze; gauzy.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Having the qualities of gauze; thin; light.
  • noun. A very thin, slight, transparent stuff, generally of silk; also, any fabric resembling silk gauze
  • noun. one employed in stiffening gauze.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A thin fabric with a loose, open weave.
  • noun. A similar bleached cotton fabric used as a surgical dressing.
  • noun. A thin woven metal or plastic mesh.
  • noun. Wire gauze, used as fence.
  • noun. Mist or haze
  • verb. To apply a dressing of gauze
  • verb. To mist
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a net of transparent fabric with a loose open weave
  • noun. (medicine) bleached cotton cloth of plain weave used for bandages and dressings
  • Word Usage
    "Well, they packed stuff in it, just like what I call gauze tape, you know, that we sew."
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