mist
nounEtymology
The noun is from Middle English mist, from Old English mist (“mist; darkness; dimness (of eyesight)”), from Proto-Germanic *mihstaz (“mist, fog”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃migʰstos, from the root *h₃meygʰ- (“cloud, fog, drizzle”). Cognate with Scots mist (“mist, fog”), West Frisian mist (“mist”), Dutch mist (“mist”), Swedish mist (“mist, fog”), Icelandic mistur (“mist”), West Frisian miegelje (“to drizzle”), Dutch dialectal miggelen, miegelen (“to drizzle”), Lithuanian miglà (“fog”), Sanskrit मेघ (megha, “cloud”), Russian мгла (mgla, “fog, haze”). The verb is from Middle English misten, from Old English mistian.
Definitions
Water or other liquid finely suspended in air. (Compare fog, haze.)
- It was difficult to see through the morning mist.
A layer of fine droplets or particles.
- There was an oily mist on the lens.
Anything that dims, darkens, or hinders vision.
- His passion cast a mist before his sense.
- Alas, I do not have the strength to continue writing. Already, mist veils my eyes.
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To form mist.
- It's misting this morning.
To spray fine droplets on, particularly of water.
- I mist my tropical plants every morning.
To rain in very fine droplets.
- ... it's misting outside. When it mists outside it's half fog and half rain.
- On this particular early morning , with a bitter cold rain misting down, Seminov was reaching the end of his endurance.
- ... rain misting outside from thick clouds.
To cover with a mist.
- The lens was misted.
- her breath will mist or staine the stone
To be covered by tears.
- My eyes misted when I remembered what had happened.
To disperse into a mist, accompanying operation of equipment at high speeds.
past of miss
- you shall be mist at Court
Alternative form of MST (to mock a work by inserting annotations)
Acronym of Mexico, Indonesia, South Korea, Turkey.
The neighborhood
- neighborcamanchaca
- neighborScotch mist
Derived
Australian Mist, black mist, devil-in-a-mist, ecto-mist, enmist, fairy mist, groundmist, ground mist, ground-mist, love in a mist, love-in-a-mist, magic mist, misle, mist belt, mist-belt, mistbow, mist cap, mist coat, misteous, mistfall, mistflower, mistfly, mist frog, mistfrog, mistful, mistless, mistlike, mist net, mist-pond, mists of time, mist up, misty, overmist, red mist, bemist, demist, demister, mister, mist over, unmist
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at mist. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at mist. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at mist
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA