gauze vs netting what difference
what is difference between gauze and netting
English
Alternative forms
- gause (obsolete)
Etymology
From French gaze.
Pronunciation
- enPR: gôz, IPA(key): /ɡɔːz/
- Rhymes: -ɔːz
- Homophones: gores (non-rhotic accents)
Noun
gauze (countable and uncountable, plural gauzes)
- A thin fabric with a loose, open weave.
- (medicine) 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
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
gauze (third-person singular simple present gauzes, present participle gauzing, simple past and past participle gauzed)
- To apply a dressing of gauze
- (literary) To mist; to become gauze-like.
See also
- wire netting
Pennsylvania German
Etymology
Cf. German gauzen.
Verb
gauze
- to bark
- Synonym: blaffe
English
Etymology 1
From net + -ing.
Noun
netting (countable and uncountable, plural nettings)
- Something that acts as, or looks like, a net.
- 1673, John Dryden, Amboyna
- Up with your fights, and your nettings prepare
- January 1965, U.S. Army Air Defense Digest (U.S. Army Air Defense School, Fort Bliss, Texas), page 44 (part of chapter 3, Army Air Defense Control Systems) (PDF: cover, contents, chapter 1, chapter 2, chapter 3):
- The term “radar netting” (fig 43) describes the process by which track data derived from several additional or remote radars are gathered at a single center to produce an integrated set of meaningful target information which can be distributed to all AD elements concerned. […] Radar netting can provide concurrent coverage of a selected area by more than one radar.
- 1673, John Dryden, Amboyna
Synonyms
- mesh
Etymology 2
From Middle English netting (“urine”). Further etymology unclear.
Noun
netting (uncountable)
- (Britain, dialect, dated) urine
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
Etymology 3
From net + -ing.
Verb
netting
- present participle of net
Anagrams
- tenting, tingent
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