Meaning of fog | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A new growth of grass appearing on a field that has been mowed or grazed.
   uncountable
2. Initialism of fat, oil, and grease.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
3. fog (a thick cloud that forms near the ground)
4. A thick cloud that forms near the ground; the obscurity of such a cloud
5. A thick cloud that forms near the ground; the obscurity of such a cloud.
   uncountable
6. A mist or film clouding a surface.
   uncountable
7. Tall and decaying grass left standing after the cutting or grazing season.
   UK, dialectal, uncountable
8. Initialism of frequency of gobbledygook: the commonness of long and complicated words in a text, as measured by systems like the Gunning fog index.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
9. fog (a state of mind characterized by lethargy and confusion)
10. A mist or film clouding a surface
11. A state of mind characterized by lethargy and confusion.
    countable, figuratively, uncountable
12. Moss.
    Scotland, uncountable
13. A state of mind characterized by lethargy and confusion
14. A silver deposit or other blur on a negative or developed photographic image.
    countable, uncountable
15. A silver deposit or other blur on a negative or developed photographic image
16. Distance fog.
    countable, uncountable
17. Distance fog

Equivalents

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.)”

“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.”

“The inclosures of fog, or aftergrass, reserved for spring-feed, are now supposed to be shut up, also the burnet, which is never to be fed in autumn ...”

“[…] and they generally leave a great deal of Fog to rot on the Ground, which, with the Help of his well turned Dung-hill, dress his Ground […]”

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