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fog
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /f??/
- (US) IPA(key): /f??/, /f??/
- Rhymes: -??
Etymology 1
Origin uncertain; but probably of North Germanic origin, from 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 *feukan? (“to whisk, blow”), from Proto-Indo-European *pug- (“billow, bulge, drift”), from *pew-, *pow- (“to blow, drift, billow”). Related to German fauchen (“to hiss, spit, spray”).
Noun
fog (countable and uncountable, plural fogs)
- (uncountable) A thick cloud that forms near the ground; the obscurity of such a cloud.
- 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; […].
- Synonyms: haze, mist
- (uncountable) A mist or film clouding a surface.
- Synonym: steam
- A state of mind characterized by lethargy and confusion.
- Synonyms: daze, haze
- (photography) A silver deposit or other blur on a negative or developed photographic image.
- (computer graphics) Distance fog.
Usage notes
- To count sense thick cloud, bank of fog is usually used.
- To count sense clouding a surface, foggy patch is usually used.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
fog (third-person singular simple present fogs, present participle fogging, simple past and past participle fogged)
- (intransitive) To become covered with or as if with fog.
- (intransitive) To become obscured in condensation or water.
- Synonyms: become cloudy, become steamy
- (intransitive, photography) To become dim or obscure.
- (transitive, photography) To make dim or obscure.
- (transitive, photography) To spoil (film) via exposure to light other than in the normal process of taking a photograph.
- (transitive) To cover with or as if with fog.
- 1968, Eighth Annual Report, Metropolitan Corporation of Greater Winnipeg, p 7:
- 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.
- 1968, Eighth Annual Report, Metropolitan Corporation of Greater Winnipeg, p 7:
- (transitive) To disperse insecticide into (a forest canopy) so as to collect organisms.
- (transitive) To obscure in condensation or water.
- (transitive) To make confusing or obscure.
- Synonyms: blur, cloud, obscure
- To practice in a small or mean way; to pettifog.
- Where wouldst thou fog to get a fee?
Translations
Etymology 2
Origin uncertain. Compare Scots fog (“moss; lichen”), Norwegian fogg.
Noun
fog (uncountable)
- A new growth of grass appearing on a field that has been mowed or grazed.
- (Britain, dialect) Tall and decaying grass left standing after the cutting or grazing season; foggage.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
- (Scotland) Moss.
Derived terms
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Verb
fog (third-person singular simple present fogs, present participle fogging, simple past and past participle fogged)
- (transitive) To pasture cattle on the fog, or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from.
- (intransitive) To become covered with the kind of grass called fog.
References
- fog in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- fog in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- GoF
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?fo?]
- Hyphenation: fog
- Rhymes: -o?
Etymology 1
From Proto-Ugric *pu??- (“to grasp, to catch”). Cognates include Mansi ???? (puvi).
Verb
fog
- (transitive) to hold (to keep in one's hands)
- (transitive) to take (to get into one's hands)
- (transitive) to catch, to capture (to seize by force, especially to grab or trap an animal)
- (transitive, broadcasting) to receive (to detect a signal from a transmitter)
- (transitive, by extension, slang) to listen to, to hear, to understand (to pay attention to someone)
- (transitive, intransitive followed by rajta) to affect, to harm (to have an effect on, especially detrimentally)
- (intransitive) to write (of a pen or other writing instrument, to leave a mark)
- (intransitive) to transfer (of ink or dye, to leave a stain upon contact)
- (transitive, ball games) to mark (to follow a player not in possession of the ball when defending)
- (auxiliary, with an infinitive, only in indicative present) will, going to (used to form the future tense)
- (reflexive, followed by és) to up and (to do something abruptly or unexpectedly)
Conjugation
Derived terms
(With verbal prefixes):
Etymology 2
From Proto-Uralic *pi?e (“tooth”). Cognates include Mansi ???? (pu?k), Finnish pii.
Noun
fog (plural fogak)
- (anatomy) tooth
- tooth, cog
- tooth (a sharp projection on a saw or similar implement)
Declension
Derived terms
References
Further reading
- (verb) fog in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
- (noun) fog in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
Swedish
Noun
fog n (not commonly inflected)
- Valid cause, valid reason.
- (dated) Appropriate manner to proceed.
Derived terms
Noun
fog c
- joint, seam
Declension
Derived terms
References
- fog in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
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screen
English
Etymology
From Middle English scren, screne (“windscreen, firescreen”), from Anglo-Norman escren (“firescreen, the tester of a bed”), Old French escren, escrein, escran (modern French écran (“screen”)), from Middle Dutch scherm, from Old Dutch *skirm, from Proto-West Germanic *skirmi, from Proto-Germanic *skirmiz (“fur, shelter, covering, screen”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut, divide”). Cognate with Dutch scherm (“screen”), German Schirm (“screen”). Doublet of scherm.
An alternative etymology derives Old French escren from Old Dutch *skrank (“barrier”) (compare German Schrank (“cupboard”), Schranke (“fence”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: skr?n, IPA(key): /sk?i?n/
- Rhymes: -i?n
Noun
screen (plural screens)
- A physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous.
- A material woven from fine wires intended to block animals or large particles from passing while allowing gasses, liquids and finer particles to pass.
- (mining, quarrying) A frame supporting a mesh of bars or wires used to classify fragments of stone by size, allowing the passage of fragments whose a diameter is smaller than the distance between the bars or wires.
- (baseball) The protective netting which protects the audience from flying objects
- (printing) A stencil upon a framed mesh through which paint is forced onto printed-on material; the frame with the mesh itself.
- (by analogy) Searching through a sample for a target; an act of screening
- (genetics) A technique used to identify genes so as to study gene functions.
- Various forms or formats of information display
- The viewing surface or area of a movie, or moving picture or slide presentation.
- The informational viewing area of electronic devices, where output is displayed.
- 1977, Sex Pistols, Spunk, “Problems” (song):
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- One of the individual regions of a video game, etc. divided into separate screens.
- 1988, Marcus Berkmann, Sophistry (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 30, June 1988
- 1989, Compute (volume 11, page 51)
- 1988, Marcus Berkmann, Sophistry (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 30, June 1988
- (computing) The visualised data or imagery displayed on a computer screen.
- The viewing surface or area of a movie, or moving picture or slide presentation.
- Definitions related to standing in the path of an opposing player
- (American football) Short for screen pass.
- (basketball) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- Synonym: pick
- (cricket) An erection of white canvas or wood placed on the boundary opposite a batsman to make the ball more easily visible.
- (nautical) A collection of less-valuable vessels that travel with a more valuable one for the latter's protection.
- (architecture) A dwarf wall or partition carried up to a certain height for separation and protection, as in a church, to separate the aisle from the choir, etc.
- (Scotland, archaic) A large scarf.
Hyponyms
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Related terms
Translations
References
Verb
screen (third-person singular simple present screens, present participle screening, simple past and past participle screened)
- To filter by passing through a screen.
- Mary screened the beans to remove the clumps of gravel.
- To shelter or conceal.
- To remove information, or censor intellectual material from viewing.
- The news report was screened because it accused the politician of wrongdoing.
- (film, television) To present publicly (on the screen).
- The news report will be screened at 11:00 tonight.
- To fit with a screen.
- We need to screen this porch. These bugs are driving me crazy.
- (medicine) To examine patients or treat a sample in order to detect a chemical or a disease, or to assess susceptibility to a disease.
- (molecular biology) To search chemical libraries by means of a computational technique in order to identify chemical compounds which would potentially bind to a given biological target such as a protein.
- (basketball) To stand so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- Synonym: pick
- To determine the source or subject matter of a call before deciding whether to answer the phone.
- 1987 April 7, Associated Press (story title as printed in New York Times[1])
- A Phone to Screen Calls
- 1987 April 7, Associated Press (story title as printed in New York Times[1])
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- screen in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- screen in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- screen on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- censer, scener, scerne, secern
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