fog

Less common meanings

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   verbintransitive

   To become covered with fog, or with something that looks like fog.

   The hills fog over almost every night in summer.

   The town fogged in, and the planes could not land.

   UsageSay a place fogs over or is fogged in.

   Similarmist

   Oppositeclear

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   computer graphicsnouncountable or uncountable

   In computer pictures, a haze that makes faraway things slowly fade from view.

   The game uses fog, so far-off trees fade into soft gray.

   You can turn the fog down in the game's settings to see farther.

   Similarhaze

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   gray haze (photos)nouncountable or uncountable

   A cloudy mark or blur on a photo or on its negative.

   A gray fog on the negative made the picture look dull.

   Our darkroom teacher showed us how a light leak causes fog on prints.

   Similarblur, haze

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    verbtransitive

    In photography, to spoil film or a picture so it looks cloudy, often by letting light in.

    Old developer can fog your prints.

    Heat in the attic fogged the old film, and the pictures came out dull.

    Similarcloud

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    verbobsoleteintransitive

    To work in a small-minded, mean way, like a lawyer who fusses over tiny points.

    Where wouldst thou fog to get a fee?

    a. 1701 (date written), John Dryden, “The Counter Scuffle”Here, fog means work in a petty, mean way, like a fussy lawyer.

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    noundialectal

    New grass that grows in a field after it has been cut or eaten by animals.
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    noundialectalUK

    Tall old grass left to rot in a field after the cutting and grazing are done.
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    verbdialectal

    To let cows eat the new grass that grows in a field after it is cut.
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    verbdialectal

    To get covered with a kind of grass called fog.
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    noundialectalScotland

    Moss, a soft green plant that grows on rocks, trees, and wet ground.