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(n)
(countable, uncountable) Water or other liquid finely suspended in air. (Compare fog, haze.)
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Very fine solid particles (smoke, dust) or liquid droplets (moisture) suspended in the air, slightly limiting visibility. (Compare fog, mist.)
A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
(v)
To become covered in haze.
To confuse, mystify (a person); to make less acute or perceptive, to cloud (a person’s faculties).
(transitive) To cause to become obscure or muddled.
The characteristic or quality of being foggy
The state or quality of being murky.
Darkness, or a dark or gloomy environment.
The state of being dazed
(adj)
Difficult to understand; abstruse.
A noxious mixture of particulates and gases that is the result of urban air pollution.
A fine, gentle, dispersed mist of liquid.
(literary) Mist, fog, vapour.
Light rain.
(uncountable) The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
(astronomy) A cloud in outer space consisting of gas or dust (e.g. a cloud formed after a star explodes).
(uncountable) Haziness, blurriness.
Something hung up or spread out to hide or protect the face, or hide an object from view; usually of gauze, crepe, or similar diaphanous material.
A complete or (more often) partial absence of light.
A pointer or index that indicates something.
The state of being confused; misunderstanding.
Something secret or unexplainable; an unknown.
One's independent faculty of choice; the ability to be able to exercise one's choice or intention.
A surname from French.
British standard spelling of vapor.
(transitive) To chafe or irritate; to worry.
Covered with clouds; overshadowed; darkened; (meteorology) more than 90% covered by clouds.
(meteorology, astronomy) The characteristic of being nebulous; cloudiness (measured in octas).
The hot gaseous form of water, formed when water changes from the liquid phase to the gas phase (at or above its boiling point temperature).
A bank of fog.
(British, Canada, informal) A dense, yellowish fog, often mixed with smoke; a pea-soup fog, a smog.
A noxious atmosphere or emanation once thought to originate from swamps and waste, and to cause disease.
(especially Northern England, Scotland) Thick, cold, wet fog along the northeastern coast of Northern England and Scotland.
A heavy cloth laid over a coffin or tomb; a shroud laid over a corpse.
A depressing, despondent, or melancholic atmosphere.
The quality of being misty.
An instance (i.e. a cloud) of fog that has fallen or developed over an area.
(weather) A low-lying fog extending only a few feet above ground.
A very thin cloud resembling a veil, especially one formed of water droplets from a rising plume (from a cooling tower etc)
Alternative form of fogbank. [A bank of fog.]
An extremely dense ground-level sight-obscuring aerial suspension, a supersaturated fog.
A flock or tuft of wool or wool-like hairs
(informal) fog fluid
The quality of being fumous.
The liquid pumped through a fogger to generate the artificial fog.
The state or condition of being a fogey
The state of being a fogey.
a ray of light seen amidst fog
Alternative form of fogeydom. [The state of being a fogey.]
(UK, slang, archaic) Tobacco.
(nautical) A bell used in fog and poor visibility.
(Scotland) The state of being fozy; lack of spirit; dullness.
A floccule; a soft or fluffy particle suspended in a liquid, or the fluffy mass of suspended particles so formed.
A small, loosely aggregated mass of material suspended in, or precipitated from a solution; a floc.
A kind of rainbow or fogbow seen as sunlight passes through the airborne water droplets of a waterfall.
A device that releases an insecticidal mist.
(meteorology) A cloud species which consists of broken shreds of cloud; scud.
Synonym of fogger (device that generates artificial fog)
(US, slang, with "the") The police, or any law enforcement agency.
Alternative form of fogram. [(obsolete) A fogey; a person with old-fashioned views.]
Alternative spelling of floc. [A floccule; a soft or fluffy particle suspended in a liquid, or the fluffy mass of suspended particles so formed.]
(transitive) To force another to accept especially by stealth or deceit; to stick.
Alternative form of fogyism. [(colloquial) The behaviour, beliefs, or principles of a fogy.]
A gas or vapour/vapor that is strong-smelling or dangerous to inhale.
Stuffiness; stifling warmth in a room.
A strong musty smell; mustiness.
A gaseous or vaporous emission, especially a foul-smelling one.
(archaeology) A Cornish souterrain, an underground, dry-stone-walled chamber open on two ends.
A pipe or duct that carries gaseous combustion products away from the point of combustion (such as a furnace).
(obsolete) A fogey; a person with old-fashioned views.
Of or relating to smoke, smoking, or fumigation.
(US, military, dated, slang) Extra pay granted to officers for length of service.
(in UK dialects, uncountable, rare) A state of agitation or disarray, a lather.
Foam.
Something lightweight or insubstantial; froth; drivel.
A small fluffy tuft.
(colloquial) The behaviour, beliefs, or principles of a fogy.
The amount that constitutes a flock (of birds, people etc.).
The state of being dark; obscurity.
An internationally standardized version of this unit, the international fathom (= 1.8288 metres = 6 feet).
(obsolete) Frequency; abundance.
A loud and sudden sound; the report of anything bursting; a crash.
(UK, slang) Spittle or phlegm, especially a piece of spittle or phlegm that has been spat out.
(British, Shetland and Orkney) A lower-ranking foud; a subbailiff.