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name
Acronym of Mexico, Indonesia, South Korea, Turkey.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Topics: economics, sciences
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noun
Water or other liquid finely suspended in air. (Compare fog, haze.)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Synonyms: brume
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noun
A layer of fine droplets or particles.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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noun
Anything that dims, darkens, or hinders vision.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, figuratively, uncountable
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verb
To form mist.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
To spray fine droplets on, particularly of water.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To rain in very fine droplets.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
To cover with a mist.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To be covered by tears.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To disperse into a mist, accompanying operation of equipment at high speeds.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: media, printing, publishing
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verb
past of miss
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, obsolete, past
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verb
Alternative form of MST (to mock a work by inserting annotations)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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noun
a thin fog with condensation near the ground
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: fog
verb
become covered with mist
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: mist over
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Broader terms: cover, spread over
verb
spray finely or cover with mist
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: spray
verb
make less visible or unclear
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: obscure, befog, becloud, obnubilate, haze over, fog, cloud
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: hide, conceal
Narrower terms: overshadow
History
The noun is from Middle English mist, from Old English mist (“mist; darkness; dimness (of eyesight)”), from Proto-Germanic *mihstaz (“mist, fog”), from Proto-Indo-European *h3mighstos, from the root *h3meygh- (“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 मेघ (megha, “cloud”), Russian мгла (mgla, “fog, haze”). The verb is from Middle English misten, from Old English mistian.
Across languages
155 source translations are retained for this English entry.
