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# breeze

«breeze» in Mova's school dictionary: **a light, gentle wind** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a breeze, breezes); verb (breeze in/through — informal)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A breeze is a light, gentle wind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breeze/#m1)

2) A breeze is something very easy to do: «The test was a breeze». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breeze/#m2)

3) To breeze in or breeze through is to come in or get through something easily and cheerfully. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breeze/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science and geography a breeze is a soft movement of air; sea breezes blow from the sea onto land on sunny days. In everyday life a breeze cools you on a hot day, dries washing and helps fly kites. In stories leaves rustle in the breeze. Phrase: «shoot the breeze» means chat (American).

### examples

- A cool breeze came off the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breeze/#x1)
- The washing dried quickly in the breeze. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breeze/#x2)
- The flags fluttered in the breeze. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breeze/#x3)
- That puzzle was a breeze! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breeze/#x4)
- She breezed into the room, smiling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breeze/#x5)
- There wasn't enough breeze to fly the kite. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breeze/#x6)
- A breeze sprang up from the east. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breeze/#x7)

### note

Countable: a breeze, breezes. Adjective: breezy. Wind words from weak to strong: breeze, wind, gale, storm, hurricane. Not «breeze» for a strong wind.

### In the corpora

- [A sea breeze blows from the sea onto the land on sunny days; a land breeze blows out to sea at night.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/69-wind-and-the-atmosphere/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «breeze» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breeze/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.