fog 
fog (fôg, fäg)
noun
- a large mass of water vapor condensed to fine particles, at or just above the earth's surface; thick, obscuring mist
- a similar mass of smoke, dust, etc. obscuring the atmosphere
- a vaporized liquid, as insecticide, dispersed over a large area
- a state of mental dimness and confusion; blurred, bewildered state
- a grayish area on a photograph or film
Etymology: prob. < Scand, as in ON fok, Dan (sne)fog, driving snow, Norw dial. fuka, sea mist < IE base *pū-, to puff up, blow, of echoic orig.
intransitive verb fogged, fog′·ging
- to become surrounded or covered by fog
- to be or become blurred, dimmed, or obscured
transitive verb
- to surround or cover with fog
- to blur; dim; obscure
- to confuse; bewilder
- Slang to hurl (a baseball, etc.)
- to make (a photograph, etc.) grayish in certain areas
fog (fôg, fäg)
noun
- a new growth of grass after cutting or grazing
- long, rank grass left uncut or left standing
- Scot. moss
Etymology: ME fogge, prob. < Scand as in Norw dial. fogg, long grass in moist place, akin to Ger feucht, damp: see fen
fog
n.
Converse of object
- penetrate: Rudolf guides Santa's sleigh with the biological aberration of a red, glowing nose capable of penetrating thick fog?
Adjective modifier
- dense: Tuesday, January 26 The dense fog is over all things.
- thick: Thick fog lay way down in the valley below.
- swirling: A square cavern reached up until the ceiling was lost in swirling fog.
- impenetrable: Instantly the girl was engulfed in a swirling, thick impenetrable fog which pixie led her into the field of gorse.
- shallow: Shallow fog in low-lying places early in the day soon began to clear with the sun rise.
- coastal: Southern CA beaches may have " June Gloom " which means coastal fog most mornings, I cannot speak for the beaches further north.
Modifies a noun
- lamp: A rear fog lamp must have an idiot light on the dashboard.
- horn: There's fog horns, there's a piece of the Mozart Requiem, you name it.
- droplet: Compression also causes finest fog droplets to form in the air.
- patch: Low cloud and fog patches may also affect eastern Scotland.
- clearing: Becoming dry between 1500 and 1600 UTC, the fog clearing to fog patches at 1800 UTC and adjacent fog at 1900 UTC.
- signal: Fog signals have a limited application in hazard warning.
Noun used with modifier
- freezing: There was a lot of dense freezing fog around.
- brain: This alone will do wonders to sort out your brain fog by midday.
- sea: We rose to a curious sea fog surrounding the island.
- morning: Early morning fog on the morning of the extra day on the 29th was soon replaced by brighter weather.
- hill: Less hill fog around at first but returning in the rain later in the day.
Preposition: from
- UTC: Stratus lowering and increasing after 2100 UTC with fog from 2135 UTC.
Preposition: by
- UTC: Cloud gradually lowering to give fog by 2130 UTC.
It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world.Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
This is a London particular A fog, miss.
Unreal City, Under the brown fog of a winter dawn, A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many.
The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.
Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping, and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city.Fogonthe Essex marshes, fog on the Kentish heights. Fog creeping into the cabooses of collier-brigs; fog lying out on the yards, and hovering in the rigging of great ships And hard byTemple Bar, in Lincoln's Inn Hall, atthevery heart of the fog, sits the Lord High Chancellor in his High Court of Chancery.
Let us go in; the fog is rising.
Fumbling silence in the White House seeps out over the country like a cold fog over a river bed where no stream runs.
In the natural fog of the good man's mind.
Happiest when he is trying to sculpture fog.
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