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breeze

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/bɹiːz/

Definition of breeze

13 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A light, gentle wind.
    “The breeze rustled the papers on her desk.”
    “Into a gradual calm the breezes sink.”
    “Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.”
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noun

  1. A light, gentle wind.
    “The breeze rustled the papers on her desk.”
    “Into a gradual calm the breezes sink.”
    “Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.”
  2. (figuratively)Any activity that is easy, not testing or difficult.
    “After studying Latin, Spanish was a breeze.”
    “The eight-minute connection to East Midlands Railway is a breeze. The train is 170208, its First Class downrated, so I enjoy the wider seats for the hour to Ely, where I arrive a couple of minutes early.”
  3. Wind blowing across a cricket match, whatever its strength.
  4. An excited or ruffled state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel.
    “The discovery produced a breeze.”
  5. A brief workout for a racehorse.
  6. (intransitive)A gadfly; a horsefly; a strong-bodied dipterous insect of the family Tabanidae.
  7. (intransitive)Ashes and residue of coal or charcoal, usually from a furnace. See Wikipedia article on Clinker.

verb

  1. (intransitive, usually)To move casually, in a carefree manner.
    “Resting most of their first-choice players for Sunday's vital Euro 2024 qualifier against Croatia, Wales started with four debutants and breezed into an early lead thanks to headers by captain Ben Davies and Kieffer Moore.”
  2. (intransitive)To blow gently.
    “She's sitting opposite a window that's gently breezing into her face, wafting her hair into cover-girl perfection ...”
  3. (intransitive)To take a horse on a light run in order to understand the running characteristics of the horse and to observe it while under motion.
  4. (intransitive)To swim near the surface of the water, causing ripples in the surface.
    “The first was a school of medium-sized ( 10-pound average ) fish that breezed frequently but bit poorly.”
    “The Queen Mary stood by while a speedboat moved ahead of a breezing school of tuna to deploy the sound projector and a sonobuoy (Figure 6).”
    “An intermediate line has its place when chasing breezing tuna that are moving at mach speed on the surface.”
  5. (intransitive)To buzz.

name

  1. A surname.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From the earlier (nautical) term brise, brize (“breeze”), from Middle English brees (“wind”). Ultimate origin obscure. Variously supposed to derive from a Germanic source like Saterland Frisian Briese (“breeze”), West…

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From the earlier (nautical) term brise, brize (“breeze”), from Middle English brees (“wind”). Ultimate origin obscure. Variously supposed to derive from a Germanic source like Saterland Frisian Briese (“breeze”), West Frisian brys (“a cool wind”), Dutch bries (“breeze”), early Dutch brysen (“to blow cool and fresh”), or from Spanish brisa (“northeast wind”). The earliest attestations are in Middle English brees (1460), Catalan brisa, and Italian brezza (all in 15th century), with Spanish (1504) and Portuguese briza (16th century) following closely after. The aforementioned Dutch cognates and French brise, however, are attested later than the term in English. The only internal hypothesis for any of those languages is a modification of Old Occitan bisa (“strong wind”), which is not widely accepted. Compare also Albanian breshër (“hail”).

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