fog🔊

(Q37477)A thick cloud that forms near the ground; the obscurity of such a cloud. +

A mist or film clouding a surface. +

(figurative) A state of mind characterized by lethargy and confusion. +

(photography) A silver deposit or other blur on a negative or developed photographic image.

(computer graphics) Distance fog.

To become covered with or as if with fog.

To become obscured in condensation or water. +

(photography) To become dim or obscure.

(photography) To make dim or obscure.

(photography) To spoil (film) via exposure to light other than in the normal process of taking a photograph.

To cover with or as if with fog.

To disperse insecticide into (a forest canopy) so as to collect organisms.

To obscure in condensation or water.

To make confusing or obscure. +

A new growth of grass appearing on a field that has been mowed or grazed. +

(dialect) Tall and decaying grass left standing after the cutting or grazing season. +

(Scotland) Moss.

To pasture cattle on the fog (of), or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from (a field).

To become covered with the kind of grass called fog.

(obsolete) To practice in a small or mean way; to pettifog.