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fume | haze |

As a verb fume

is to.

As a noun haze is

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fume

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A gas or vapour/vapor that smells strongly or is dangerous to inhale. Fumes are solid particles formed by condensation from the gaseous state, e.g. metal oxides from volatilized metals. They can flocculate and coalesce. Their particle size is between 0.1 and 1 micron. (A micron is one millionth of a metre)
  • Don't stand around in there breathing the fumes while the adhesive cures.
  • * T. Warton
  • the fumes of new shorn hay
  • A material that has been vaporized from the solid state to the gas state and re-coalesced to the solid state.
  • Rage or excitement which deprives the mind of self-control.
  • the fumes of passion
    (South)
  • Anything unsubstantial or airy; idle conceit; vain imagination.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • a show of fumes and fancies
  • The incense of praise; inordinate flattery.
  • * Burton
  • to smother him with fumes and eulogies

    Verb

    (fum)
  • To emit fumes.
  • * Milton
  • where the golden altar fumed
  • * Roscommon
  • Silenus lay, / Whose constant cups lay fuming to his brain.
  • To expose something (especially wood) to ammonia fumes in order to produce dark tints.
  • To feel or express great anger.
  • He's still fuming about the argument they had yesterday.
  • * Dryden
  • He frets, he fumes , he stares, he stamps the ground.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
  • Her mother did fret, and her father did fume .
  • To be as in a mist; to be dulled and stupefied.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Keep his brain fuming .
  • To pass off in fumes or vapours.
  • * Cheyne
  • Their parts are kept from fuming away by their fixity.

    Usage notes

    * In the sense of strong-smelling or dangerous vapor, the noun is typically plural, as in the example. ----

    haze

    English

    (wikipedia haze)

    Alternative forms

    * hase

    Etymology 1

    * The earliest instances are of the latter part of the 17th century. * Possibly * Compare (etyl)
    .

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (uncountable) Very fine solid particles (smoke, dust) or liquid droplets (moisture) suspended in the air, slightly limiting visibility.
  • * 1772 December, James Cook, , 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, :
  • A blue haze , half dust, half mist, touched the long valley with mystery.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=29, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Unspontaneous combustion , passage=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.}}
  • (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.
  • * 1957 , (Daphne du Maurier), [http://books.google.com/books?id=cf4-iVG03pEC], ISBN 081221725X, page 218:
  • In my haze of alcohol, I thought for one crazy instant that he had plumbed my secret.
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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 and Charles A. Heiberger, Encyclopedia of PVC [http://books.google.com/books?id=mDe7EidmglIC&], ISBN 0824778227, page 318:
  • Haze is listed as a percent value and, typically, is about 1% for meat film.
  • (countable, brewing) Any substance causing turbidity in beer or wine.
  • * 1985 , Philip Jackisch, Modern Winemaking [http://books.google.com/books?id=Zf-24UvvT4oC], ISBN 0801414555, page 69:
  • Various clarifying and fining agents are used in winemaking to remove hazes .
    Derived terms
    * haze over * hazy

    Verb

    (haz)
  • To be hazy, or thick with haze.
  • (Ray)

    Etymology 2

    Possibly from

    Verb

    (haz)
  • (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.
  • * 1920 , , The Understanding Heart , Chapter I:
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