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mist
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)
- (countable, uncountable) Water or other liquid finely suspended in air.
- It was difficult to see through the morning mist.
- (countable) A layer of fine droplets or particles.
- There was an oily mist on the lens.
- (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)
- To form mist.
- It's misting this morning.
- To spray fine droplets on, particularly of water.
- I mist my tropical plants every morning.
- To cover with a mist.
- The lens was misted.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
- (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
- 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)
- fog, mist
Derived terms
- misthoorn
- mistig
- mistlamp
Descendants
- Afrikaans: mis
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
mist
- second- and third-person singular present indicative of missen
- (archaic) plural imperative of missen
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
mist
- first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of misten
- imperative of misten
Anagrams
- mits
Ingrian
Pronoun
mist
- whence
Latvian
Pronunciation
Verb
mist (intr., 1st conj., pres. m?tu, m?t, m?t, past mitu)
- to live
- to dwell
- to reside
Conjugation
Related terms
- dz?vot
Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
mist
- Alternative form of myst (“mist”)
Etymology 2
Noun
mist
- Alternative form of myst (“mysteries”)
North Frisian
Noun
mist m
- (Mooring) mist
Derived terms
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
mist
- imperative of miste
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
mist
- past participle of missa
- inflection of mista:
- past participle
- imperative
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *mihstaz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mist/
Noun
mist m
- fog
- mist
Declension
Descendants
- Middle English: mist
- Scots: mist
- English: mist
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse mistr, from Proto-Germanic *mihstaz.
Noun
mist c
- fog (cloud that forms at a low altitude and obscures vision)
Declension
Related terms
- mistlur
Verb
mist
- imperative of mista.
- past participle of mista.
- supine of mista.
Anagrams
- stim
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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):
- 1977, Sex Pistols, Spunk, “Problems” (song):
- 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
Derived terms
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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