different between mist vs mantle

English

Etymology

From Middle English mist, from Old English mist (“mist; darkness; dimness (of eyesight)”), from Proto-Germanic *mihstaz (“mist, fog”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?mig?stos, from the root *h?meyg?- (“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 ??? (megha, “cloud”), Russian ???? (mgla, “fog, haze”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?st/
• Rhymes: -?st
• Homophone: missed

Noun

mist (countable and uncountable, plural mists)

1. (countable, uncountable) Water or other liquid finely suspended in air.

   It was difficult to see through the morning mist.

2. (countable) A layer of fine droplets or particles.

   There was an oily mist on the lens.

3. (figuratively) Anything that dims, darkens, or hinders vision.

   • His passion cast a mist before his sense.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

mist (third-person singular simple present mists, present participle misting, simple past and past participle misted)

1. To form mist.

   It's misting this morning.

2. To spray fine droplets on, particularly of water.

   I mist my tropical plants every morning.

3. To cover with a mist.

   The lens was misted.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)

4. (of the eyes) To be covered by tears.

   My eyes misted when I remembered what had happened.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• ISTM, ITSM, Smit, TIMS, TIMs, TMIs, Tims, smit, stim

Danish

Verb

mist

1. imperative of miste

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?st/
• Hyphenation: mist
• Rhymes: -?st

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch mist, from Old Dutch *mist, from Proto-Germanic *mihstaz.

Noun

mist m (plural misten, diminutive mistje n)

1. fog, mist

Derived terms

• misthoorn
• mistig
• mistlamp

Descendants

• Afrikaans: mis

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

mist

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of missen
2. (archaic) plural imperative of missen

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

mist

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of misten
2. imperative of misten

Anagrams

• mits

Ingrian

Pronoun

mist

1. whence

Latvian

Pronunciation

Verb

mist (intr., 1st conj., pres. m?tu, m?t, m?t, past mitu)

1. to live
2. to dwell
3. to reside

Conjugation

Related terms

• dz?vot

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

mist

1. Alternative form of myst (“mist”)

Etymology 2

Noun

mist

1. Alternative form of myst (“mysteries”)

North Frisian

Noun

mist m

1. (Mooring) mist

Derived terms

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

mist

1. imperative of miste

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

mist

1. past participle of missa
2. inflection of mista:
   1. past participle
   2. imperative

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *mihstaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mist/

Noun

mist m

1. fog
2. mist

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: mist
  • Scots: mist
  • English: mist

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse mistr, from Proto-Germanic *mihstaz.

Noun

mist c

1. fog (cloud that forms at a low altitude and obscures vision)

Declension

Related terms

• mistlur

Verb

mist

1. imperative of mista.
2. past participle of mista.
3. supine of mista.

Anagrams

• stim

English

Etymology

From Middle English mantel, from Old English mæntel, mentel (“sleeveless cloak”), from Proto-West Germanic *mantil, from Proto-Germanic *mantilaz (“mantle”); later reinforced by Anglo-Norman mantel, from Latin mant?llum (“covering, cloak”), diminutive of mantum (French manteau, Spanish manto), probably from Gaulish *mantos, *mantalos (“trodden road”), from Proto-Celtic *mantos, *mantlos, from Proto-Indo-European *menH- (“tread, press together; crumble”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mæn.t?l/
• Rhymes: -ænt?l
• Homophone: mantel

Noun

mantle (plural mantles)

1. A piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops. (Compare mantum.) [from 9th c.]
2. (figuratively) A figurative garment representing authority or status, capable of affording protection.

   At the meeting, she finally assumed the mantle of leadership of the party.

   The movement strove to put women under the protective mantle of civil rights laws.

3. (figuratively) Anything that covers or conceals something else; a cloak. [from 9th c.]
4. (malacology) The body wall of a mollusc, from which the shell is secreted. [from 15th c.]
   • 1990, Daniel L. Gilbert, William J. Adelman, John M. Arnold (editors), Squid as Experimental Animals, page 71:

     He grasps the female from slightly below about the mid-mantle region and positions himself so his arms are close to the opening of her mantle.
5. (ornithology) The back of a bird together with the folded wings.
6. The zone of hot gases around a flame.
7. A gauzy fabric impregnated with metal nitrates, used in some kinds of gas and oil lamps and lanterns, which forms a rigid but fragile mesh of metal oxides when heated during initial use and then produces white light from the heat of the flame below it. (So called because it is hung above the lamp's flame like a mantel.) [from 19th c.]
8. The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.
9. A penstock for a water wheel.
10. (anatomy) The cerebral cortex. [from 19th c.]
11. (geology) The layer between the Earth's core and crust. [from 20th c.]
12. A fireplace shelf; Alternative spelling of mantel
13. (heraldry) A mantling.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

mantle (third-person singular simple present mantles, present participle mantling, simple past and past participle mantled)

1. (transitive) To cover or conceal (something); to cloak; to disguise.
   • 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act V, Scene I

     As the morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness; so their rising senses Begin to chace the ign'rant fumes, that mantle Their clearer reason.

   • 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act IV, Scene I

     I left them I' th' filthy mantled pool beyond your cell, There dancing up to th' chins.

2. (intransitive) To become covered or concealed. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. (intransitive) To spread like a mantle (especially of blood in the face and cheeks when a person flushes).
   • 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 10

     The blood still mantled below her ears; she bent her head in shame of her humility.

References

Further reading

• Gas mantle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Mantle (geology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• mantle (mollusc) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Lament., lament, manlet, mantel, mental