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diz

/dɪz/

diz noun: a tool, often a flat circle, with one or more holes for passing wool through to form roving of a specified thickness. Also the third-person singular simple present indicative of de.

Noun

diz (plural dizzes)

  1. A tool, often a flat circle, with one or more holes for passing wool through to form roving of a specified thickness.
    • A diz is a tool that helps you remove fiber from a comb and create a nice length of top that is a consistent thickness and ready to spin. Many dizzes have holes of varying sizes, so that you can choose the size most appropriate for the yarn you intend to spin: a large hole for bulky yarn, a smaller...2014, Beth Smith, The Spinner's Book of Fleece, page 118

Verb

diz (third-person singular simple present dizzes, present participle dizzing, simple past and past participle dizzed)

  1. To pass wool through a diz.

Proper noun capitalized: Diz

Diz (plural Dizs or Dizes)

  1. A surname
  2. A nickname

Also used as

diz is also the third-person singular simple present indicative of de.

diz is also the third-person singular simple present indicative of dee.

Forms of diz

Noun
pluraldizzes
Verb
third-person singular presentdizzes
present participledizzing
past participledizzed
pastdizzed
Proper noun
pluralDizs
pluralDizes

Origin of diz

Probably from dizen, dize (“to dress with flax for spinning”), equivalent to the first element of distaff.

Words that rhyme with diz

32 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about diz

What does diz mean?
Diz means a tool, often a flat circle, with one or more holes for passing wool through to form roving of a specified thickness.
What part of speech is diz?
Diz can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce diz?
Diz is pronounced /dɪz/.
What is the plural of diz?
The plural of diz is dizzes.

Words near diz in the dictionary

  1. DIYs
  2. diytterbium
  3. diyttrium
  4. diyya
  5. diyyah
  6. diz
  7. Diza
  8. dizain
  9. dizains
  10. dizamn
  11. Dizangue

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: diz (page history and authors); Diz (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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