breeze
/bɹiːz/
noun
- 1
A light, gentle wind.
“The breeze rustled the papers on her desk.”
- 2
Any activity that is easy, not testing or difficult.
“After studying Latin, Spanish was a breeze.”
- 3
Wind blowing across a cricket match, whatever its strength.
- 4
Ashes and residue of coal or charcoal, usually from a furnace. See Wikipedia article on Clinker.
- 5
An excited or ruffled state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel.
“The discovery produced a breeze.”
- 6
A brief workout for a racehorse.
verb
- 1
(usually with along) To move casually, in a carefree manner.
- 2
To blow gently.
- 3
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.
noun
- 1
A gadfly; a horsefly; a strong-bodied dipterous insect of the family Tabanidae.
verb
- 1
To buzz.
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