heat haze
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.40 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A shimmering atmospheric disturbance caused by currents of warm air between the observer and the object observed.
Example Sentences
- "Under increase of heat, it volatilizes faster, so as to become dimly visible in large mass, as a heat-haze."
- "He lit his first cigarette, a Balkan and Turkish mixture made for him by Morlands of Grosvenor Street, and watched the small Waves lick the long seashore and the fishing-fleet from Dieppe string out towards the June heat-haze followed by a paper-chase of herring-gulls."
- "Behind them, stretching in a long line east and west, were the Roan and Book Cliffs, cut to their base by the river's gorge, and meandering away in long wavy lines distorted by heat haze and the smoke of forest fires."
- "Sol squinted out over the barrens to where the mountains shimmered in the heat haze."
Inflected Forms
heat hazes (plural)
heathaze (alternative, rare)