fog
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arts
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computing
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hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
photography
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Origin uncertain; but probably of North Germanic origin. Probably either a back-formation from foggy (“covered with tall grass; thick, marshy”), from the earlier-attested fog (“tall grass”) (see below), or from or related to Danish fog (“spray, shower, drift, storm”), related to Icelandic fok (“spray, any light thing tossed by the wind, snowdrift”), Icelandic fjúka (“to blow, drive”), from Proto-Germanic *feukaną (“to whisk, blow”), from Proto-Indo-European *pug- (“billow, bulge, drift”), from *pew-, *pow- (“to blow, drift, billow”), in which case related to German fauchen (“to hiss, spit, spray”).
Inflected forms:
form: fogs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fogs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fogging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fogged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fogged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A thick cloud that forms near the ground; the obscurity of such a cloud.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: a bank of fog
Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor;[…].
Wallis and Curtiz eventually agreed to shoot Howard Koch’s preferred ending, with distraught Ilse^([sic]), still in love with Rick, going off with Laszlo to America, and Rick and Louis going off together into the fog. (In Morocco? Fog? Never mind.)
gloss: A mist or film clouding a surface.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A state of mind characterized by lethargy and confusion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: He did so many drugs, he was still in a fog three months after going through detox.
I was on my way to the door, but all at once, through the fog in my head, I began to sight one reef that I hadn't paid any attention to afore.
gloss: A silver deposit or other blur on a negative or developed photographic image.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Distance fog.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To become covered with or as if with fog.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To become obscured in condensation or water.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The mirror fogged every time he showered.
gloss: To become dim or obscure.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To make dim or obscure.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To spoil (film) via exposure to light other than in the normal process of taking a photograph.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To cover with or as if with fog.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Fogging for adult mosquito control began on June 4th in residential areas. Until September 25th, the Metro area was fogged eleven times, using nine truck-mounted foggers, eight hand swing foggers, and two boats.
gloss: To disperse insecticide into (a forest canopy) so as to collect organisms.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To obscure in condensation or water.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Unfortunately, the pendulum has swung way too far to the other end where the saying in the industry is is^([sic]) that if you could fog a mirror, you could get a loan.
gloss: To make confusing or obscure.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: advection fog
antifog
brain fog
chemofog
cog fog
defog
dry fog
electronic fog
fever fog
fibrofog
fogbank
fog bank
fog bell
fogbound
fogbow
fog bow
fog collection
fog collector
fogdom
fog drip
fogfall
fog fluid
fog forest
fogfruit
foggable
fogger
foggish
foggy
foghorn
fog horn
fog juice
foglamp
fog lamp
fog layer
fogless
fog light
foglike
fog line
fog machine
fogman
fog mull
fog of war
fog oil
fog-pond
fogponics
fogproof
fogscape
fog signal
fog tsunami
ground fog
Gunning fog index
in a fog
knit fog
pea-soup fog
peasoup fog
pea soup fog
plait fog
prefog
radiation fog
smog
steam fog
superfog
unfog
utility fog
vog
fog a mirror
fog out
fog up
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