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fog1
[fog, fawg] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, fogged, fog·ging.
[fog, fawg] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, fogged, fog·ging. –noun
–verb (used with object)
–verb (used without object)
| 1. | a cloudlike mass or layer of minute water droplets or ice crystals near the surface of the earth, appreciably reducing visibility. Compare ice fog, mist, smog. |
| 2. | any darkened state of the atmosphere, or the diffused substance that causes it. |
| 3. | a state of mental confusion or unawareness; daze; stupor: The survivors were in a fog for days after the catastrophe. |
| 4. | Photography. a hazy effect on a developed negative or positive, caused by light other than that forming the image, by improper handling during development, or by the use of excessively old film. |
| 5. | Physical Chemistry. a mixture consisting of liquid particles dispersed in a gaseous medium. |
| 6. | to cover or envelop with or as if with fog: The steam in the room fogged his glasses. |
| 7. | to confuse or obscure: The debate did little else but fog the issue. |
| 8. | to bewilder or perplex: to fog the mind. |
| 9. | Photography. to produce fog on (a negative or positive). |
| 10. | to become enveloped or obscured with or as if with fog. |
| 11. | Photography. (of a negative or positive) to become affected by fog. |
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[fog, fawg] Pronunciation Key
[fog, fawg] Pronunciation Key –noun U.S. and British Dialect.
| 1. | a second growth of grass, as after mowing. |
| 2. | long grass left standing in fields during the winter. |
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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
| fog 1
(fôg, fŏg) Pronunciation Key
n.
v. fogged, fog·ging, fogs v. tr.
v. intr.
[Perhaps of Scandinavian origin.] fog'ger n. |
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| fog 2
(fôg, fŏg) Pronunciation Key
n.
[Middle English fogge, tall grass; see p - in Indo-European roots.]
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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fog
1544, from Dan. fog "spray, shower, snowdrift," related to O.N. fok "snow flurry." The word meaning "long grass" (c.1300) may be a different word, but the two may connect via a notion of long grass growing in moist dells of northern Europe. Phrase in a fog "at a loss what to do" first recorded 1602. Foggy Bottom "U.S. Department of State," from the name of a marshy region of Washington, D.C., where many federal buildings are (also with a punning allusion to political murkiness) popularized 1947 by James Reston in "New York Times," but he said it had been used earlier by Edward Folliard of "The Washington Post."
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| fog | |
noun | |
| 1. | droplets of water vapor suspended in the air near the ground |
| 2. | an atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance |
| 3. | confusion characterized by lack of clarity [syn: daze] |
verb | |
| 1. | make less visible or unclear; "The stars are obscured by the clouds"; "the big elm tree obscures our view of the valley" [syn: obscure] |
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(fôg) Pronunciation Key
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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Fog\ (f[o^]g), n. [Cf. Scot. fog, fouge, moss, foggage rank grass, LL. fogagium, W. ffwg dry grass.] (Agric.) (a) A second growth of grass; aftergrass. (b) Dead or decaying grass remaining on land through the winter; -- called also foggage. [Prov.Eng.] --Halliwell. Note: Sometimes called, in New England, old tore. In Scotland, fog is a general name for moss.
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Fog
Fog\ v. t. (Agric.) To pasture cattle on the fog, or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from.
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Fog
Fog\ v. i. [Etymol. uncertain.] To practice in a small or mean way; to pettifog. [Obs.] Where wouldst thou fog to get a fee? --Dryden.
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Fog
Fog\ n. [Dan. sneefog snow falling thick, drift of snow, driving snow, cf. Icel. fok spray, snowdrift, fj[=u]k snowstorm, fj[=u]ka to drift.]1. Watery vapor condensed in the lower part of the atmosphere and disturbing its transparency. It differs from cloud only in being near the ground, and from mist in not approaching so nearly to fine rain. See Cloud. 2. A state of mental confusion. Fog alarm, Fog bell, Fog horn, etc., a bell, horn, whistle or other contrivance that sounds an alarm, often automatically, near places of danger where visible signals would be hidden in thick weather. Fog bank, a mass of fog resting upon the sea, and resembling distant land. Fog ring, a bank of fog arranged in a circular form, -- often seen on the coast of Newfoundland.
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Fog\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fogged; p. pr. & vb. n. Fogging.] To envelop, as with fog; to befog; to overcast; to darken; to obscure.
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Fog
Fog\, v. i. (Photog.) To show indistinctly or become indistinct, as the picture on a negative sometimes does in the process of development.
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Fog\, n. (Photog.) Cloudiness or partial opacity of those parts of a developed film or a photograph which should be clear.
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Fog
Fog\, v. t. (Photog.) To render semiopaque or cloudy, as a negative film, by exposure to stray light, too long an exposure to the developer, etc.
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