laze

See also: laže

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /leɪz/
  • Rhymes: -eɪz
  • Homophones: lase, lays

Etymology 1

Back-formation from lazy.

Noun

laze (uncountable)

  1. Laziness.
  2. An instance of lazing.

Verb

laze (third-person singular simple present lazes, present participle lazing, simple past and past participle lazed)

  1. To be lazy, waste time.
  2. To pass time relaxing.
    The cat spent the afternoon lazing in the sun.
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Etymology 2

Blend of lava +‎ haze

Noun

laze (uncountable)

  1. Acidic steam created when super-hot lava contacts salt water.
    • 2010, Patricia Erfurt-Cooper, Malcolm Cooper, Volcano and Geothermal Tourism: Sustainable Geo-Resources for Leisure and Recreation:
      Moreover, dense laze plumes are known to contain as much as 10 to 15ppm of HCl (USGS, 2008).

See also

Anagrams

Kapin

Noun

laze

  1. nit

Further reading

  • Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)
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