Lawn vs Gauze - What's the difference?
lawn | gauze |
An open space between woods.
Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.
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, title= (lb) An overgrown agar culture, such that no separation between single colonies exists.
(uncountable) A type of thin linen or cotton.
* 1897 , (Bram Stoker), Dracula :
* 1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, p. 144:
(in the plural) Pieces of this fabric, especially as used for the sleeves of a bishop.
(countable, obsolete) A piece of clothing made from lawn.
* 1910 , Margaret Hill McCarter, The Price of the Prairie :
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
To apply a dressing of gauze
To mist
As nouns the difference between lawn and gauze
is that lawn is an open space between woods while gauze is a thin fabric with a loose, open weave.As a proper noun Lawn
is a town in Newfoundland and Labrador.As a verb gauze is
to apply a dressing of gauze.lawn
English
(wikipedia lawn)Etymology 1
Early Modern English "; Old Norse & Old English landNoun
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Derived terms
* lawn mower * lawnedEtymology 2
Apparently from (Laon) , a town in France known for its linen manufacturing.Noun
- The stream had trickled over her chin and stained the purity of her lawn death robe.
- He looked through the glass at the fire, set it down on the end of the desk and wiped his lips with a sheer lawn handkerchief.