breeze

Forms

1.A light, gentle wind.
- Into a gradual calm the breezes sink.
- 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.
- The eight-minute connection to East Midlands Railway is a breeze. The train is 170208, its First Class downrated, so I enjoy the wider seats for the hour to Ely, where I arrive a couple of minutes early.
3.Wind blowing across a cricket match, whatever its strength.
4.An excited or ruffled state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel.
- The discovery produced a breeze.

1.To move casually, in a carefree manner.
2.To blow gently.
- She's sitting opposite a window that's gently breezing into her face, wafting her hair into cover-girl perfection ..
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.
4.To swim near the surface of the water, causing ripples in the surface.
- The first was a school of medium-sized ( 10-pound average ) fish that breezed frequently but bit poorly.
- An intermediate line has its place when chasing breezing tuna that are moving at mach speed on the surface.
- The Queen Mary stood by while a speedboat moved ahead of a breezing school of tuna to deploy the sound projector and a sonobuoy (Figure 6).

Rare· #4965

From the earlier (nautical) term brise, brize (“breeze”), from Middle English brees (“wind”). Ultimate origin obscure.