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Gauze vs Gossamer - What's the difference?

gauze | gossamer |

As nouns the difference between gauze and gossamer

is that gauze is a thin fabric with a loose, open weave while gossamer is a fine film or strand as of cobwebs, floating in the air or caught on bushes etc.

As a verb gauze

is to apply a dressing of gauze.

As an adjective gossamer is

tenuous, light, filmy or delicate.

gauze

English

(wikipedia gauze)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A thin fabric with a loose, open weave.
  • A similar bleached cotton fabric used as a surgical dressing.
  • A thin woven metal or plastic mesh.
  • Wire gauze, used as fence.
  • Mist or haze

    • Verb

    (gauz)
  • To apply a dressing of gauze
  • To mist

    • See also

    * wire netting

    gossamer

    English

    Noun

  • A fine film or strand as of cobwebs, floating in the air or caught on bushes etc.
  • A soft, sheer fabric.
  • Anything delicate, light and flimsy.

    • Derived terms

    * gossamery (adjective)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Tenuous, light, filmy or delicate.
  • * (Thomas Bailey Aldrich) (1836-1907)
    • The heaven was spangled with tremulous stars, and at the horizon the clouds hung down in gossamer folds—God's robe trailing in the sea!
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title= “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=Ep./1/2
    • , passage=He walked. To the corner of Hamilton Place and Picadilly, and there stayed for a while, for it is a romantic station by night. The vague and careless rain looked like threads of gossamer silver passing across the light of the arc-lamps.}}

    Synonyms

    * gossamery