Breeze
[briːz] or [briz]
Definition
(noun.) a slight wind (usually refreshing); 'the breeze was cooled by the lake'; 'as he waited he could feel the air on his neck'.
(verb.) to proceed quickly and easily.
(verb.) blow gently and lightly; 'It breezes most evenings at the shore'.
Checked by Annabelle--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Alt. of Breeze fly
(n.) A light, gentle wind; a fresh, soft-blowing wind.
(n.) An excited or ruffed state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel; as, the discovery produced a breeze.
(n.) Refuse left in the process of making coke or burning charcoal.
(n.) Refuse coal, coal ashes, and cinders, used in the burning of bricks.
(v. i.) To blow gently.
Typed by Denis
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Zephyr, air, gentle gale, moderate wind, light wind.[2]. Quarrel, disturbance, commotion, noise, tumult, uproar, stir, agitation.
Typist: Wolfgang
Definition
n. (Shak.) the gadfly.—Also written Breese Brize.
n. a gentle gale: a wind: a disturbance or quarrel: a whispered rumour.—adjs. Breeze′less without a breeze: motionless; Breez′y fanned with or subject to breezes.—To breeze up to freshen into a breeze.
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Examples
- The swans had gone out on to the opposite bank, the reeds smelled sweet, a faint breeze touched the skin. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Adrian sat at the helm; I attended to the rigging, the breeze right aft filled our swelling canvas, and we ran before it over the untroubled deep. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Presently a breeze dissipated the cloud, and I descended upon the glacier. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- But now it was fine warm weather, with only a summer breeze blowing, and early afternoon instead of dull twilight. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- A breeze had sprung up, swaying inward the muslin curtains, and bringing a fresh scent of mignonette and petunias from the flower-box on the balcony. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The breeze came in through the window and it was cooler with the evening. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I uncovered it, and a gentle breeze quickly fanned it into a flame. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- It's like the blowing of old breezes or the ringing of old bellses to hear YOU say Uriah. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The gentlest summer breezes and the fiercest blasts of winter are produced by the unequal heating of air. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Convection is responsible for winds and ocean currents, for land and sea breezes, and other daily phenomena. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The breezes that blew around his mouth in that walk carried off upon them the accents of a commination. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The morning-star now stands over the tops of the mountains, and gales and breezes, not of earth, show that the gates of day are unclosing. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Those vile sea-breezes are the ruin of beauty and health. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Picture me then idle, basking, plump, and happy, stretched on a cushioned deck, warmed with constant sunshine, rocked by breezes indolently soft. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
Checked by Keith