hazes

Noun

haze (usually uncountable, plural hazes)

1. (usually) Very fine solid particles (smoke, dust) or liquid droplets (moisture) suspended in the air, slightly limiting visibility. (Compare fog, mist.)
   • Our hopes, however, soon vanished; for before eight o'clock, the serenity of the sky was changed into a thick haze, accompanied with rain.1772 December, James Cook, chapter 2, in A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Around the World, volume 1
2. (usually) A reduction of transparency of a clear gas or liquid.
3. (usually) An analogous dullness on a surface that is ideally highly reflective or transparent.
   • The soap left a persistent haze on the drinking glasses.
4. (figuratively, usually) Any state suggestive of haze in the atmosphere, such as mental confusion or vagueness of memory.
   • And is it that the haze of grief
     ⁠Hath stretch’d my former joy so great?
     ⁠The lowness of the present state,
     That sets the past in this relief?1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXIV”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 41
5. (usually, packaging) The degree of cloudiness or turbidity in a clear glass or plastic, measured in percent.
   • Haze is listed as a percent value and, typically, is about 1% for meat film.1998, Leonard I. Nass, Charles A. Heiberger, Encyclopedia of PVC, →ISBN, page 318
6. (countable, usually) Any substance causing turbidity in beer or wine.
   • Various clarifying and fining agents are used in winemaking to remove hazes.1985, Philip Jackisch, Modern Winemaking, →ISBN, page 69

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