mist
IPA: mˈɪst
noun
- (countable, uncountable) Water or other liquid finely suspended in air. (Compare fog, haze.)
- (countable) A layer of fine droplets or particles.
- (figurative) Anything that dims, darkens, or hinders vision.
- (economics) Acronym of Mexico, Indonesia, South Korea, Turkey. [A country in North America, located south of the United States, and northwest of Guatemala and Belize from Central America. Official name: United Mexican States.]
verb
- To form mist.
- To spray fine droplets on, particularly of water.
- To cover with a mist.
- (of the eyes) To be covered by tears.
- (printing, of ink) To disperse into a mist, accompanying operation of equipment at high speeds.
- Alternative form of MST (to mock a work by inserting annotations) [(fandom slang) To mock a work (typically a fanfic) by inserting satirical commentary.]
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Examples of "mist" in Sentences
- Is it going to be just as difficult, or more so, once the H1N1 vaccine or mist is ready?
- Clairol introduced the "Mist Stick," a curling iron, into Germany only to find out that "mist" is slang for manure.
- That article also references several more articles about nestling predation, predation on birds caught in mist nets, and eating of fish.
- Not only had night fallen, but the mist from the marsh had grown heavy, so that the village looked to him like swarm of monstrous fireflies.
- During the course of two days, October 12th and 13th, Bonilla counted almost 450 objects, surrounded in what he described as a mist, passing across the face of the sun.
- But when it came to Genesis 2, 6th verse, _ "But there went up a mist from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground," _ Walter asked, "What is meant by that _mist_, father?"
- A Sussex country churchyard in October: the leaves on the trees are turning golden, in the distant Wealden valley autumnal mist is beginning to rise, crows are cawing overhead, sheep are bleating in a nearby field and I am standing in front of the dilapidated grave of one of England's greatest cricketers.
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