What's the difference between daze and doze?

Daze


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To stupefy with excess of light; with a blow, with cold, or with fear; to confuse; to benumb.
  • (n.) The state of being dazed; as, he was in a daze.
  • (n.) A glittering stone.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Prior to joining JOE Media, Will was chief commercial officer at Dazed Group, where he also sat on the board of directors.
  • (2) "We're not really here," read John Reid's T-shirt, quoting a City song from the difficult years, as he stood in a daze in Albert Square listening to Oasis blast out from the speakers.
  • (3) This enabled the section commander to drag away the fallen soldier, who was dazed but unharmed.
  • (4) If drug cartel kingpin El Chapo stays in Mexico, 'absolutely nothing' will change Read more A joint police and military operation seized Guzmán at a hotel after a battle which left five dead and six captured, including the cartel leader who appeared dazed and grubby in photographs.
  • (5) "Winning Wimbledon is the pinnacle of tennis," Murray said afterwards, still in something of a daze a good half hour after the final point.
  • (6) He was also forced to scrap plans to launch a Russian Dazed & Confused, which was due to appear in March or September this year.
  • (7) But the most worrying thing about the shadow cabinet is that few have the stature to challenge the leader if he does make mistakes, as all leaders do; some are so green they’ll merely be thrilled to have a job, others too dazed by defeat.
  • (8) Gagarin Way, Gregory Burke's first play in 2001, was phenomenal; I reeled from the Traverse theatre in a daze of admiration.
  • (9) Still bloodied and dazed, Karen must hand over her baby and be led outside.
  • (10) His elbow to the head of Joe Cole left the Chelsea midfielder so bloodied and dazed that he had to be replaced by Jermaine Jenas.
  • (11) The magazine's dazed New York lawyers then heard Eady instruct the jurors that they were not there "to judge Mr Polanski's personal lifestyle" because the libel court was not "a court of morals".
  • (12) Dazed survivors stand immobile in a huge, roiling cloud of dust.
  • (13) I saw this when I spoke with men and women at the very start of their journey – dazed and battered from the drive across the desert border with Niger but filled with a naive optimism.
  • (14) The city centre ground to a halt as rescuers pulled bloodied corpses from the rubble and dazed, dust-covered survivors stumbled away.
  • (15) After the jet-black high school satire Heathers pulled the rug out from under John Hughes and his oversharing Brat Pack, in 1989, American adolescents were left with few offerings, most of them wistful odes to another age – either stylistically, as with the overblown, pirate-radio-themed Christian Slater vehicle Pump Up the Volume; or quite literally, in the case of Richard Linklater’s nostalgia-fuelled 70s pastiche, Dazed and Confused.
  • (16) They were carried or staggered ashore, some paralysed by malnutrition, others little more than walking skeletons, burnt and dazed from weeks at sea on boats the UN has called “floating coffins”.
  • (17) He sat up, looked round, said 'I just want to go home', dazed shocked."
  • (18) Dazed from the fumes, I walked smack into an older gentleman only to realise it was, in fact, Bill Murray.
  • (19) Frank Lampard had spoken of the game passing in "all a bit of a daze", with team-mates left to pick over the drama to recreate the timeline: conceding to Sergio Busquets; losing John Terry to a red card; falling further behind to Andrés Iniesta; Ramires's glorious riposte; Lionel Messi's penalty miss; the quivering of the woodwork as they heaved to contain the holders; the desperate rearguard action before Fernando Torres, the £50m goalscorer with so few goals to his name, sprinted alone into Barça territory and equalised in stoppage time.
  • (20) A week later, he was found wandering in a daze some distance behind the front line.

Doze


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To slumber; to sleep lightly; to be in a dull or stupefied condition, as if half asleep; to be drowsy.
  • (v. t.) To pass or spend in drowsiness; as, to doze away one's time.
  • (v. t.) To make dull; to stupefy.
  • (n.) A light sleep; a drowse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Results of the infection of golden hamsters with different dozes of cercariae have shown that with the increase of dozes of infectious material the infection rate of helminths rises during the experimental intestinal schistosomiasis only to a definite level, which is attained by the injection of cercariae into the portal vein in dozes lower than those used for subcutaneous infection.
  • (2) Yadav’s victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said she had dozed off in a taxi while returning home from dinner.
  • (3) Performance on the test was also recorded on the tape as well as experimenter-scored dozing off episodes (from TV supervision).
  • (4) Tranquilizers (diazepam, chlordiazepoxide, benatyzine), antidepressants (amytriptiline, imipramine) and some neuroleptics (trifluoperazine, haloperidol) in a low doze prevented these disturbances.
  • (5) The lower level rooms each have shady balconies and white-cushioned loungers on which to doze before a dip in the attractive pool.
  • (6) For them, lazy days are spent enjoying massages in the spa of the Atzaró hotel, or chilled rosé at El Chiringuito, before dozing it off at an "undiscovered" beach (as with "unseen" Beatles photographs, there can't be any left), and then dinner at Elephant in San Rafael before an evening clubbing.
  • (7) Between classes, guests can go hiking, doze in the sauna, read by an open fire, have a massage or visit the Bloomsbury group’s Charleston Farmhouse nearby.
  • (8) Yet this is the official whose interest in banking regulation was so limited before the crash that, according to the FT, he would doze off in meetings on the subject.
  • (9) Repeated application of the same doze ultrasound reduces the amplitude of the evoked potential and evoked significantly less effect than the previous one.
  • (10) As he ambles into the small interview room at Munich’s Säbener Strasse in a plain black T-shirt and trainers, Alaba is unassuming to the point of being shy, a little at odds with his reputation as a social-media prankster – his oeuvre contains a series of shots of the midfielder Franck Ribéry dozing and a nearly-nude double-selfie with his former team-mate Mitchell Weiser, in thongs – and as a typically Viennese lausbub (rascal) who once told the club’s former president Uli Hoeness that he had to “think about” an allegation by a concerned member of the public that he was painting the town red with Ribéry in Munich.
  • (11) However, the same doze had no significant effect on wave latencies of provoked potentials in males.
  • (12) During the first three weeks, times spent feeding and drinking decreased and during the first two weeks, times spent sitting dozing increased, but after 5 weeks these had returned to near pre-treatment values.
  • (13) Benjamin Mee, zoo director and animal psychologist, gestured towards a pair of African lions, Josie and Jasiri, dozing in their wooded enclosure at Dartmoor zoo.
  • (14) In 8 generations of mongrel rats 80 animals were immunized with minimal dozes of a mixture of homologous heart muscle homogenate and Freund's adjuvant (0.3 ml).
  • (15) We sit out in his hillside garden beside two dozing greyhounds.
  • (16) The reason, again according to hearsay, was that he dozed off during one of Kim’s speeches.
  • (17) Back at the garden centre, not from the vivariums where the leopard geckoes and boas doze listlessly in their tanks, dreaming, perhaps, of even less rainfall, Heather Hocking and her partner Andrew Grant are deliberately choosing plants that require little watering.
  • (18) At that stage the Poles appeared to be wilting, their conviction draining quicker than the sodden pitch, only for England to doze off.
  • (19) Hubris is an ancient Greek word that was applied to the crime of humiliating one's opponent – a dreadful offence in ancient times and one that invariably aroused the ire of the goddess Nemesis, dozing in her sanctuary near Marathon.
  • (20) Two cases of ovarian cancer that developed many years after exposure to large dozes of diethylstilboestrol during pregnancy are reported.