a wind or current of air, esp. a light or moderate one.
2.
a wind of 4–31 mph (2–14 m/sec).
3.
Informal. an easy task; something done or carried on without difficulty: Finding people to join in the adventure was a breeze.
4.
Chiefly BritishInformal. a disturbance or quarrel.
–verb (used without object)
5.
(of the wind) to blow a breeze (usually used impersonally with it as subject): It breezed from the west all day.
6.
to move in a self-confident or jaunty manner: She breezed up to the police officer and asked for directions.
7.
Informal. to proceed quickly and easily; move rapidly without intense effort (often fol. by along, into, or through): He breezed through the task. The car breezed along the highway.
–verb (used with object)
8.
to cause to move in an easy or effortless manner, esp. at less than full speed: The boy breezed the horse around the track.
—Verb phrases
9.
breeze in, Slang.
a.
to win effortlessly: He breezed in with an election plurality of 200,000.
b.
Also, breeze into or out.to move or act with a casual or careless attitude: He breezed out without paying attention to anyone.
10.
breeze up, Atlantic States. to become windy.
—Idiom
11.
shoot or bat the breeze, Slang.
a.
to converse aimlessly; chat.
b.
to talk nonsense or exaggerate the truth: He likes to shoot the breeze, so don't take everything he says seriously.
[Origin: 1555–65; earlier brize, brise north or northeast wind; cf. D bries, East Fris brǐse, F brize, Sp, Pg, Catalan brisa, It brezza; orig. and path of transmission disputed]
Any of five winds with speeds of from 4 to 31 miles (6 to 50 kilometers) per hour, according to the Beaufort scale.
Informal Something, such as a task, that is easy to do.
intr.v.
breezed, breez·ing, breez·es
To blow lightly.
Informal To progress swiftly and effortlessly: We breezed through the test.
To sprint around a racetrack as a means of exercise. Used of a racehorse.
[Perhaps from Old Spanish briza, northeast wind.]
Synonyms: These nouns denote something easily accomplished: The exam was a breeze. Chopping onions is a cinch with a food processor. Winning the playoffs was no pushover. The new computer program was a snap to learn.
1565, "north or northeast wind," from O.Sp. briza "cold northeast wind;" in W.Indies and Spanish Main, the sense shifting to "northeast trade wind," then "fresh wind from the sea." Eng. sense of "gentle or light wind" is from 1626. An alternate possibility is E.Fris. brisen "to blow fresh and strong." The slang for "something easy" is Amer.Eng., c.1928; breezeway is 1931, Amer.Eng.; breezy "easygoing, jovial" is from 1870.
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Breeze\, Breeze fly \Breeze" fly`\, n. [OE. brese, AS. bri['o]sa; perh. akin to OHG. brimissa, G. breme, bremse, D. brems, which are akin to G. brummen to growl, buzz, grumble, L. fremere to murmur; cf. G. brausen, Sw. brusa, Dan. bruse, to roar, rush.] (Zo["o]l.) A fly of various species, of the family Tabanid[ae], noted for buzzing about animals, and tormenting them by sucking their blood; -- called also horsefly, and gadfly. They are among the largest of two-winged or dipterous insects. The name is also given to different species of botflies. [Written also breese and brize.]
Breeze\, n. [F. brise; akin to It. brezza breeze, Sp. briza, brisa, a breeze from northeast, Pg. briza northeast wind; of uncertain origin; cf. F. bise, Pr. bisa, OHG. bisa, north wind, Arm. biz northeast wind.]1. A light, gentle wind; a fresh, soft-blowing wind. Into a gradual calm the breezes sink. --Wordsworth. 2. An excited or ruffed state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel; as, the discovery produced a breeze. [Colloq.] Land breeze, a wind blowing from the land, generally at night. Sea breeze, a breeze or wind blowing, generally in the daytime, from the sea.
Breeze\, n. [F. braise cinders, live coals. See Brasier.]1. Refuse left in the process of making coke or burning charcoal. 2. (Brickmaking) Refuse coal, coal ashes, and cinders, used in the burning of bricks.
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