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Mist

//mɪst// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Acronym of Mexico, Indonesia, South Korea, Turkey. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Noun
  1. 1
    Water or other liquid finely suspended in air. (Compare fog, haze.) countable, uncountable

    "It was difficult to see through the morning mist."

  2. 2
    a thin fog with condensation near the ground wordnet
  3. 3
    A layer of fine droplets or particles. countable

    "There was an oily mist on the lens."

  4. 4
    Anything that dims, darkens, or hinders vision. countable, figuratively, uncountable

    "His passion cast a mist before his sense."

Verb
  1. 1
    To form mist. intransitive

    "It's misting this morning."

  2. 2
    past of miss form-of, obsolete, past

    "you shall be mist at Court"

  3. 3
    Alternative form of MST (to mock a work by inserting annotations) alt-of, alternative
  4. 4
    become covered with mist wordnet
  5. 5
    To spray fine droplets on, particularly of water. transitive

    "I mist my tropical plants every morning."

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  1. 6
    spray finely or cover with mist wordnet
  2. 7
    To rain in very fine droplets. intransitive

    "... it's misting outside. When it mists outside it's half fog and half rain."

  3. 8
    make less visible or unclear wordnet
  4. 9
    To cover with a mist. transitive

    "The lens was misted."

  5. 10
    To be covered by tears. transitive

    "My eyes misted when I remembered what had happened."

  6. 11
    To disperse into a mist, accompanying operation of equipment at high speeds.

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

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.

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