different between baze vs braze

English

Alternative forms

• baize

Etymology

Origin uncertain, but apparently identical with Dutch bazen, verbazen (“to astonish, stupefy”), obsolete German basen (“to rave”). Compare also Scots baise (“confusion, bewilderment”).

Verb

baze (third-person singular simple present bazes, present participle bazing, simple past and past participle bazed)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To stupefy; frighten; alarm.

Related terms

• basen

Anagrams

• Baez

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?baze/
• Hyphenation: ba?ze

Adverb

baze

1. basically

Related terms

• baza

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French baser (“base”).

Verb

baze

1. To base

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese base.

Alternative forms

• bazi (Sotavento)

Noun

baze

1. (Barlavento) base
2. (Barlavento) basis

References

• Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, ?ISBN
• Veiga, Manuel (2012) Dicionário Caboverdiano-Português, Instituto da Biblioteca Nacional e do Livro

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?baz?/, [?baz?]

Noun

baze

1. nominative/accusative plural of baz

Portuguese

Verb

baze

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of bazar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of bazar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of bazar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of bazar

English

Alternative forms

• braise, braize

Etymology

From Old French braser (“to burn”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?e?z/

  Rhymes: -e?z

  Homophone: braise

Verb

braze (third-person singular simple present brazes, present participle brazing, simple past and past participle brazed)

1. To join two metal pieces, without melting them, using heat and diffusion of a jointing alloy of capillary thickness.
2. (obsolete) To burn or temper in fire.

Derived terms

• braze welding

Translations

Noun

braze (plural brazes)

1. A kind of small charcoal used for roasting ore.
   • 1877, Charles P. Williams, Industrial Report on Lead, Zinc and Iron, Together with Notes on Shannon County and Its Copper Deposits, Regan & Carter, page 144:

     Roasting the ores is done with the charcoal braze (or fine charcoal from the charring) in heaps of thirty feet width, fifty-feet length and twenty feet height, containing 3,200 tons.

See also

• brazen

Anagrams

• Zaber, zebra