What does fog mean?

Definitions for fog
fɒg, fɔgfog

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. fognoun

    droplets of water vapor suspended in the air near the ground

  2. fog, fogginess, murk, murkinessnoun

    an atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance

  3. daze, fog, hazeverb

    confusion characterized by lack of clarity

  4. obscure, befog, becloud, obnubilate, haze over, fog, cloud, mistverb

    make less visible or unclear

    "The stars are obscured by the clouds"; "the big elm tree obscures our view of the valley"

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. FOGnoun

    A thick mist; a moist dense vapour near the surface of the land or water.

    Etymology: fog, Danish, a storm.

    Infect her beauty,
    You fensuck’d fogs, drawn by the pow’rful sun,
    To fall and blast her pride. William Shakespeare, King Lear.

    Lesser mists and fogs than those which covered Greece with so long darkness, present great alterations in the sun and moon. Walter Raleigh, History of the World.

    Fly, fly, prophane fogs! far hence fly away;
    Taint not the pure streams of the springing day
    With your dull influence: it is for you
    To sit and scoule upon night’s heavy brow. Richard Crashaw.

    Fogs we frequently observe after sun-setting, even in our hottest months. John Woodward, Natural History.

  2. Fognoun

    Aftergrass; grass which grows in Autumn after the hay is mown.

    Etymology: fog, Danish, a storm.

Wikipedia

  1. Fog

    Fog is a visible aerosol consisting of tiny water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air at or near the Earth's surface. Fog can be considered a type of low-lying cloud usually resembling stratus, and is heavily influenced by nearby bodies of water, topography, and wind conditions. In turn, fog affects many human activities, such as shipping, travel, and warfare. Fog appears when water vapor (water in its gaseous form) condenses. During condensation, molecules of water vapor combine to make tiny liquid water droplets that hang in the air. Sea fog, which shows up near bodies of saline water, is formed as water vapor condenses on bits of salt. Fog is similar to, but less transparent than, mist.

ChatGPT

  1. fog

    Fog is a form of atmospheric moisture consisting of tiny water droplets suspended in the air near the earth's surface, reducing visibility to less than one kilometer. It can be considered a cloud at ground level. It's typically caused by condensation of water vapor in cool or humid air, often when the ground cools down after a warm day.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Fognoun

    a second growth of grass; aftergrass

  2. Fognoun

    dead or decaying grass remaining on land through the winter; -- called also foggage

  3. Fogverb

    to pasture cattle on the fog, or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from

  4. Fogverb

    to practice in a small or mean way; to pettifog

  5. Fognoun

    watery vapor condensed in the lower part of the atmosphere and disturbing its transparency. It differs from cloud only in being near the ground, and from mist in not approaching so nearly to fine rain. See Cloud

  6. Fognoun

    a state of mental confusion

  7. Fogverb

    to envelop, as with fog; to befog; to overcast; to darken; to obscure

  8. Fogverb

    to show indistinctly or become indistinct, as the picture on a negative sometimes does in the process of development

  9. Etymology: [Etymol. uncertain.]

Wikidata

  1. Fog

    Fog is a collection of liquid water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air at or near the Earth's surface. While fog is a type of stratus cloud, the term "fog" is typically distinguished from the more generic term "cloud" in that fog is low-lying, and the moisture in the fog is often generated locally. Fog is distinguished from mist only by its density, as expressed in the resulting decrease in visibility: Fog reduces visibility to less than 1 km, whereas mist reduces visibility to no less than 1 km. For aviation purposes in the UK, a visibility of less than 5 km but greater than 999 m is considered to be mist if the relative humidity is 70% or greater – below 70% haze is reported. The foggiest place in the world is the Grand Banks off the island of Newfoundland, the meeting place of the cold Labrador Current from the north and the much warmer Gulf Stream from the south. Some of the foggiest land areas in the world include Argentia, Newfoundland and Point Reyes, California, each with over 200 foggy days per year. Even in generally warmer southern Europe, thick fog and localized fog is often found in lowlands and valleys, such as the lower part of the Po Valley and the Arno and Tiber valleys in Italy or Ebro Valley in northeastern Spain, as well as on the Swiss plateau, especially in the Seeland area, in late autumn and winter. Other notably foggy areas include Hamilton, New Zealand, coastal Chile, coastal Namibia, and the Severnaya Zemlya islands.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Fog

    fog, n. a thick mist: watery vapour rising from either land or water.—v.t. to shroud in fog.—v.i. to become coated with a uniform coating.—ns. Fog′-bank, a dense mass of fog sometimes seen at sea appearing like a bank of land; Fog′-bell, a bell rung by the motion of the waves or wind to warn sailors from rocks, shoals, &c. in foggy weather.—adj. Fog′-bound, impeded by fog.—ns. Fog′-bow, a whitish arch like a rainbow, seen in fogs.—adv. Fog′gily.—n. Fog′giness.—adj. Fog′gy, misty: damp: clouded in mind: stupid.—n. Fog′-horn, a horn used as a warning signal by ships in foggy weather: a sounding instrument for warning ships off the shore during a fog: a siren.—adj. Fog′less, without fog, clear.—ns. Fog′-ring, a bank of fog in the form of a ring; Fog′-sig′nal, an audible signal used on board ship, &c., during a fog, when visible signals cease to be of use; Fog′-smoke, fog. [The origin of the word is hopelessly misty; Mr Bradley connects with succeeding word; Prof. Skeat connects with Dan. fog, as in snee-fog, thick falling snow; cf. Ice. fok, a snowdrift.]

  2. Fog

    fog, Foggage, fog′āj, n. grass which grows in autumn after the hay is cut: (Scot.) moss.—v.i. to become covered with fog. [Origin unknown; W. ffwg, dry grass, is borrowed.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. fog

    A mist at sea, consisting of the grosser vapours floating in the air near the surface of the sea. The fog of the great bank of Newfoundland is caused by the near proximity of warm and cold waters. The air over the Gulf Stream, being warmer than that over the banks of Newfoundland, is capable of keeping much more moisture in invisible suspension; and when this air comes in contact with that above the cold water, it parts with some of its moisture, or rather holds it in visible suspension. There are also dry fogs, which are dust held in suspension, as the so-called African dust, which often partially obscures the sun, and reddens the sails of ships as they pass through the north-east trades.

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. FOG

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Fog is ranked #118853 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Fog surname appeared 146 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Fog.

    87.6% or 128 total occurrences were White.
    6.1% or 9 total occurrences were Black.
    3.4% or 5 total occurrences were Asian.

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British National Corpus

  1. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'fog' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4401

  2. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'fog' in Nouns Frequency: #2935

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of fog in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of fog in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of fog in a Sentence

  1. Last words of Emily Dickinson:

    ...the fog is rising.

  2. Daniel Palma:

    I was shocked. I had just arrived home when I looked through the window and saw the column of smoke rising up. We called our families, posted photos, we woke up today with a blanket of fog and it hasn't cleared. We have a layer of smoke above us.

  3. Steve Krantz:

    I always ask myself if what Im writing will satisfy a reader whos in a plane that cant land because of fog, or whos recovering from an operation in a hospital or who has to escape to a more delightful world for whatever reason, that is the test.

  4. Chris Cuomo:

    I've got brain fog that won't go away, i've got an onset of clinical depression, which is not sadness. People keep saying to me,' Don't be sad.' I'm not sad. I'm depressed. It's different. I can't control it.

  5. Thatcher Demko:

    It’s tough on the body. The biggest thing for me were just the fatigue, the body aches and some of the brain fog stuff that you see in the media.

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