different between veil vs mist

English

Etymology

From Middle English veil, veyl, from Anglo-Norman and Old Northern French veil (“sail, veil, shroud”) (Francien Old French voil, French voile), Latin v?lum (“sail”). Displaced Middle English scleire, scleyre, sleyre, slyre (“veil”) (compare German Schleier). Doublet of velum and voile.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ve?l/
• Rhymes: -e?l
• Homophones: vale, vail

Noun

veil (plural veils)

1. Something hung up or spread out to hide or protect the face, or hide an object from view; usually of gauze, crepe, or similar diaphanous material.

   • The veil of the temple was rent in twain.
2. (figuratively) Anything that partially obscures a clear view.
3. A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense.
   • 2007. Zerzan, John. Silence. p. 4.

     Beckett complains that "in the forest of symbols" there is never quiet, and longs to break through the veil of language to silence.

4. A covering for a person or thing; as, a caul (especially over the head)

5. (biology) The calyptra of mosses.
6. (zoology) velum (A circular membrane round the cap of a medusa).
7. (mycology) A thin layer of tissue which is attached to or covers a mushroom.
8. (mycology) A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; a velum.
9. An obscuration of the clearness of the tones in pronunciation.
10. (figuratively, parapsychology) That which separates the living and the spirit world.

Derived terms

• dance of the seven veils
• draw a veil over
• take the veil
• veil of tears

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??? (b?ru)
• ? Korean: ?? (beil)

Translations

Verb

veil (third-person singular simple present veils, present participle veiling, simple past and past participle veiled)

1. (transitive) To dress in, or decorate with, a veil.
2. (transitive) To conceal as with a veil.

   The forest fire was veiled by smoke, but I could hear it clearly.

Translations

Anagrams

• Levi, Viel, evil, live, vile, vlei

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

veil

1. first-person singular present indicative of veilen
2. imperative of veilen

Adjective

veil (comparative veiler, superlative veilst)

1. venal

Inflection

Anagrams

• viel, vlei

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.

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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