different between laze vs baze

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /le?z/
• Rhymes: -e?z
• Homophones: lase, lays

Etymology 1

Back-formation from lazy.

Verb

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

1. To be lazy, waste time.
   • 1599, Robert Greene, The Comicall Historie of Alphonsus, King of Aragon, London, Act III,^[1]

     Behold by millions how thy men do fall

     Before Alphonsus like to sillie sheepe.

     And canst thou stand still lazing in this sort?

   • 1635, George Wither, A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne, London: John Grismond, Illustration 36, Book 1,^[2]

     And, lastly, such are they; that, having got

     Wealth, Knowledge, and those other Gifts, which may

     Advance the Publike-Good, yet, use them not;

     But Feede, and Sleepe, and laze their time away.

   • 1892, Israel Zangwill, Children of the Ghetto, being Pictures of a Peculiar People, Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, Volume 1, Chapter 13, p. 191,^[3]

     But for this anachronism of keeping Saturday holy when you had Sunday also to laze on, Daniel felt a hundred higher careers would have been open to him.

   • 1982, Don DeLillo, The Names, New York: Vintage, 1989, Chapter 7, p. 160,^[4]

     “I could easily fall into this,” I said. “Laze my way through life. Coffee here, wine there. You can channel significant things into the commonplace. Or you can avoid them completely.”

2. To pass time relaxing; to relax, lounge.

   The cat spent the afternoon lazing in the sun.

   • 1939, Graham Greene, The Lawless Roads, Penguin, 1982, Chapter 4, p. 93,^[5]

     A football game went on beside the line; half the teams just lazed on the grass […]

Synonyms

• idle
• loaf
• take it easy

Derived terms

• laze about
• laze around
• lazen
• lazy

Translations

Noun

laze (countable and uncountable, plural lazes)

1. (countable) An instance of lazing.

   I had a laze on the beach after lunch.

2. (uncountable) Laziness.

   The laze is real.

Etymology 2

Blend of lava +? haze

Noun

laze (uncountable)

2. Acidic steam created when super-hot lava contacts salt water.

See also

• vog

Anagrams

• Elza, zale, zeal

Kapin

Noun

laze

1. nit

Further reading

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

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