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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
mist
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sea mist
the morning sun/light/mist
▪ the warmth of the morning sun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
early
▪ Outlook for tomorrow and Sunday: Mainly dry and mild, with sunny intervals after clearance of any early mist or fog.
▪ Soon the early mist would dampen them along the horizon, then put them out one by one.
▪ There was an early morning mist rising from the fens.
▪ Jekub was twenty feet away, vibrating gently in the early morning mist.
▪ The early mist cleared to a fine October day, and there was a little wind from the southwest.
▪ Strands of early morning mist still clung to the hollows as the sun tried to break through the patchy cloudscape.
fine
▪ We tie up the boats and wade up the creek towards it, enveloped in a wind of fine mist.
▪ It was, in fact, a fine mist of spray still being ripped from the sea by the gale.
▪ Tritium has a higher freezing point than water and so could condense into a fine mist indistinguishable from normal fog.
▪ With each whap, Louise was sprayed with a fine salt mist.
▪ The fine mist at the edges of the room seemed to be drifting closer, enveloping her in its clinging tendrils.
▪ Sometimes a fine and fluid mist filled the forest.
grey
▪ There was only chill grey mist, and sooty buildings vanishing some two floors up.
▪ Through this grey mist came fluttering a small shore bird.
▪ The spell was broken one day by a particularly stubborn fisherman who used clubs to beat his way through the grey mist.
▪ The biting wind drove the snow before it, so that the whole dale seemed to be lost in a grey mist.
▪ Her family and friends were obscured by a grey mist and the aisle had been never-ending.
▪ The sky was grey, and mist clung to the tops of the cliffs.
▪ The water was covered with a film of ice whilst above it a grey mist boiled.
heavy
▪ She woke in the early dawn and peered around her blearily through the heavy mist that filled the wood.
▪ The sun was coming up, or had already come up, and the heavy mists wore a pearlescent glow.
▪ At 03.50 on the first day of the attack, 12 infantry divisions went forward in heavy mist.
▪ The heavy mist rarely lifted but closed in like a cold, clinging cloud around us.
▪ A heavy mist had fallen, drowning the countryside in its white vapour and making Royston Manor even more sinister.
▪ On the high ground, the soldiers were shrouded in a heavy mist, suiting their purpose perfectly.
▪ Next morning a heavy mist had blown in, covering the land with a blanket of gloomy silence.
red
▪ Then the red mists cleared and she sank to her knees, picking up the pieces, moaning softly.
▪ Violence suddenly seemed to colour the air between them, a red mist igniting.
▪ She tried to blink the red mist from her eyes, failed, and toppled backwards out of the image field.
▪ The scenes surge back overlaid with a red mist not there when I dreamed.
▪ He saw everything through a red mist.
▪ A towering red mist hung over them where the brick of the villages was pulverized by the bombardment.
swirling
▪ It was as if Lucie's pride had been purged away by standing in that vat of swirling morning mist.
▪ They moved on, down the cathedral-like space, soaring columns that dwarfed them disappearing into the swirling mist.
▪ Or was it just the swirling mist playing tricks on his eyes?
thick
▪ Then, as he climbed higher, a thick, damp mist came down and covered everything.
▪ A thick mist lay on the lake, giving it a look of vastness.
▪ But each of you, in his own way, is thick in that mist.
▪ There was a thick mist lying on the track which ran through flat, tedious marshland.
▪ Unfortunately, the thick mist made their work more difficult.
▪ A thick sea mist had rolled in, obscuring most of the priory buildings.
▪ Although thick mist persisted so air reconnaissance was ineffective, Plumer's initial thrust was made at 05.40 on 20 September.
▪ The valley below the adventurers is hidden by a layer of thick mist that seems almost to glow.
white
▪ A white mist obscured the view, gave the high-rise buildings a ghostly look.
▪ Within moments of setting off, she was lost from view, swallowed up in the white mist.
▪ It was black under the trees and a white mist of dislodged snow hung close to the ground.
▪ Delgard breathed in the frosty air and expelled a white mist as if it were an escaping soul.
▪ There was low cloud, white drifts of mist close down on the ice.
▪ When they reached the farm Cara looked up and to her pleasure observed a white mist obscuring the top of the fells.
■ NOUN
morning
▪ The rhetoric of internationalism faded like morning mist before the sun of reality.
▪ Presently the harbor itself became visible across the central Oahu plain, a film of morning mist hovering over it.
▪ It was as if Lucie's pride had been purged away by standing in that vat of swirling morning mist.
▪ He could still envision Grover, the morning mist, the taxi door slamming.
▪ The empire was dissolving like a morning mist.
▪ Then she saw him look across at her and smile, and all her uncertainties vanished like morning mist before the sun.
▪ There were still some drops on the leaves from the morning mist.
▪ The village was lit by a swathe of sunlight which cut through the morning mist.
sea
▪ But then the ship idled there for hours, in its own sea mist of impatience and anxiety.
▪ A thick sea mist had rolled in, obscuring most of the priory buildings.
▪ The air is sticky with a varnish of sea mist.
▪ A sea mist far out kept the lighthouse foghorn blaring.
▪ It's very versatile, and will keep out the sea mist on our holiday in Cornwall in a few weeks.
■ VERB
disappear
▪ We set off, with our rucksacks, and half way up the farmhouse had disappeared into the mist.
▪ They appeared and disappeared in the mist and were too far away to have seen us.
▪ They moved on, down the cathedral-like space, soaring columns that dwarfed them disappearing into the swirling mist.
▪ The party disappeared into the mists of history after 1860.
▪ Without even waiting to see her fall he turned and ran, disappearing into the mist.
▪ My knees appeared and disappeared in the mists rising from the tub.
▪ I looked down; the hooves seemed to be disappearing into a little mist which rose up everywhere around us.
lose
▪ All of them with a tap root deep in history and branches lost in mysterious mist.
▪ And, for some reason lost in the mists of time, we need to do that.
▪ The biting wind drove the snow before it, so that the whole dale seemed to be lost in a grey mist.
▪ What actually transpired upon the outbreak of the Civil War is lost in the mists of time it would seem.
rise
▪ Instead, because I know it is cool dampness on rising mists through brilliant foliage, it looks very soothing and friendly.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
veil of mist/cloud/smoke etc
▪ The moon was hidden under a veil of clouds, and there was not a breath of wind.
▪ Whose light retires behind its veil of cloud.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A light mist lay in the valley.
▪ A murky mist of smog obscured the view of the city.
▪ From Primrose Hill, London looked like a ruined city shrouded in mist.
▪ The mist along the river banks had gone by mid morning.
▪ Within seconds he had completely vanished in the mist.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ About half way through the fifty-kilometer journey, the Dolomites suddenly appeared as the mist lifted.
▪ As Jack took a step towards the figure the mist suddenly cleared and the figure disappeared.
▪ Daybreak A little mist hangs above the pond, which is still save for a single mallard paddling slowly back and forth.
▪ Genius is Wordsworth peering down from Snowdon in the mist.
▪ It was black under the trees and a white mist of dislodged snow hung close to the ground.
▪ Junior standing ready in a glowing shroud of mist.
▪ The mist had curdled to a fog which muffled the street-lamps and reduced visibility to thirty or forty yards.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
over
▪ There seemed to be something happening; his vision was misting over.
▪ His vision misted over and he could no longer see.
▪ Her head sank on to her chin and a kind of blank look misted over her eyes.
up
▪ I n the United States the hot breath of corruption is misting up the mirror of democratic politics.
▪ Placing the Optima beside the bed, that night Douglas's own watch misted up and stopped!
▪ Our speed built up rapidly and the inside of my cockpit started to mist up.
▪ I blow out so hard that I mist up the windscreen.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Mist the plant daily to keep it moist.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Cafe curtains misted the kitchen-side windows.
▪ His breath misted the cold glass and he turned away, indifferent to others' arguments.
▪ I n the United States the hot breath of corruption is misting up the mirror of democratic politics.
▪ Sweat from the washing-up misted her forehead and nose.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mist

Mist \Mist\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Misted; p. pr. & vb. n. Misting.] To cloud; to cover with mist; to dim.
--Shak.

Mist

Mist \Mist\, v. i. To rain in very fine drops; as, it mists.

Mist

Mist \Mist\ (m[i^]st), n. [AS. mist; akin to D. & Sw. mist, Icel. mistr, G. mist dung, Goth. ma['i]hstus, AS. m[=i]gan to make water, Icel. m[=i]ga, Lith. migla mist, Russ. mgla, L. mingere, meiere, to make water, Gr. ? to make water, ? mist, Skr. mih to make water, n., a mist m[hand]gha cloud.

  1. Visible watery vapor suspended in the atmosphere, at or near the surface of the earth; fog.

  2. Coarse, watery vapor, floating or falling in visible particles, approaching the form of rain; as, Scotch mist.

  3. Hence, anything which dims or darkens, and obscures or intercepts vision.

    His passion cast a mist before his sense.
    --Dryden.

    Mist flower (Bot.), a composite plant ( Eupatorium c[oe]lestinum), having heart-shaped leaves, and corymbs of lavender-blue flowers. It is found in the Western and Southern United States.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mist

Old English mist "dimness (of eyesight), mist" (earliest in compounds, such as misthleoðu "misty cliffs," wælmist "mist of death"), from Proto-Germanic *mikhstaz (cognates: Middle Low German mist, Dutch mist, Icelandic mistur, Norwegian and Swedish mist), perhaps from PIE *meigh- "to urinate" (cognates: Greek omikhle, Old Church Slavonic migla, Sanskrit mih, megha "cloud, mist;" see micturition).Sometimes distinguished from fog, either as being less opaque or as consisting of drops large enough to have a perceptible downward motion. [OED]Also in Old English in sense of "dimness of the eyes, either by illness or tears," and in figurative sense of "things that obscure mental vision."

mist

Old English mistian "to become misty, to be or grow misty;" see mist (n.). Meaning "To cover with mist" is early 15c. Related: Misted; misting.

Wiktionary
mist

n. 1 (context uncountable English) Water or other liquid finely suspended in air. 2 (context countable English) A layer of fine droplets or particles. 3 (context figurative English) Anything that dims or darkens, and obscures or intercepts vision. vb. 1 To form mist. 2 To spray fine droplets on, particularly of water. 3 To cover with a mist. 4 (context of the eyes English) To be covered by tears.

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WordNet
mist

n. a thin fog with condensation near the ground

mist

  1. v. become covered with mist; "The windshield misted over" [syn: mist over]

  2. make less visible or unclear; "The stars are obscured by the clouds" [syn: obscure, befog, becloud, obnubilate, haze over, fog, cloud]

  3. spray finely or cover with mist

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Wikipedia
Mist

Mist is a phenomenon caused by small droplets of water suspended in air. Physically it is one instance of a dispersion. It is most commonly seen where warm, moist air meets sudden cooling, such as in exhaled air in the winter, or when throwing water onto the hot stove of a sauna. It is often created artificially with aerosol canisters if the humidity and temperature conditions are right. It can also occur as part of natural weather, when humid air cools rapidly, for example when the air comes into contact with surfaces that are much cooler than the air.

The formation of mist, as of other suspensions, is greatly aided by the presence of nucleation sites on which the suspended water phase can congeal. Thus even such unusual sources as small particulates from volcanic eruptions, releases of strongly polar gases, and even the magnetospheric ions associated with polar lights can in right conditions trigger the formation of mist.

Mist (valkyrie)

In Norse mythology, Mist ( Old Norse " cloud" or mist) is a valkyrie. Mist appears in valkyrie list in the Poetic Edda poem Grímnismál and both of the Nafnaþulur valkyrie lists. No further information is provided about her. Rudolf Simek says that her name, Mist, is likely related to Old Norse mistr, meaning "cloud, mist," and that this "reminds us of the way in which valkyries can ride through the air and over water," such as in the Poetic Edda poems Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar and Helgakviða Hundingsbana II.

Mist (novel)

Mist is a nivola written by Miguel de Unamuno in 1907 and published in 1914. Unamuno scholars such as J.A.G. Ardila, have contended that Mist was inspired by the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard's work Diary of a Seducer, a novella in Either/Or.

Mist (comics)

The Mist is the name of two DC Comics supervillains, archenemies of the original and 1990s Starman.

Mist (Guardians of Ga'Hoole)
Mist (disambiguation)

Mist is a weather phenomenon similar to fog.

Mist may also refer to:

MIST (Satellite)

The MIST satellite (MIniature STudent Satellite) is a satellite currently under development at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.

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Usage examples of "mist".

Ged veered the boat once more, thinking he had run his enemy to ground: in that instant it vanished, and it was his boat that ran aground, smashing up on shoal rocks that the blowing mist had hidden from his sight.

The sun has burned away the mist, disclosing an almost solid mass of transports to seaward, beaches swarming with amphtracs and men, troops moving through cornfields toward the tableland, landing craft forming waves, earlier waves retracting.

Surging forward, the waves gathered momentum and height, only to disappear within the mist which hung like a gray veil about the base of Azul Island.

He studied the barograph, where the needle was moving ominously downward, and considered the dissolving skies and the mist which rose like a wall beyond the terrace.

An icy wind cut through the mist, scattering it from around the bassinet, clearing her path to where her baby slept.

They were composed of some kind of aromatic gum in which benzoin seemed to predominate, and the fumes from the brazier filled the room with a blue mist.

From somewhere outside, a sword stabbed into the mists and melted away into smoke as it came, until a bladeless hilt was drawn back.

Drifts of mist obscured it, and there were formless dark patches and pale blotches upon the night, and here and there a brook crawled across the blackness.

Before long a sudden whirlwind arose, and drove away the pitch-dark mist usually hovering over the Land of Oblivion, and in the wan light, I could see myriads of livid candles, and by their gleam, I obtained a far-off view of the mouth of the bottomless abyss.

The last Evanthya saw of Fetnalla, she was merely standing beside Brail, gazing back at her and looking lovely in the silver-grey light, her white hair, dampened by the mist, clinging to her brow.

He had lived in Dock Street, Hull, and Brigg imagined him growing up there with the fishy smells coming off the docks, and the mist, thin and horizontal, lying like resting ghosts along the street on mid-winter nights.

Again the males wept, the strain upon their flesh made more evident by the position they had been commanded to, and then had Mida appeared in her golden mists, to laugh with great delight at that which I had done to the males.

Then she was climbing through long wiry marram grass, with the dew-darkened sand sifting cold through her sandals, until the last step brought her breathless to the top of the tallest dune and the world opened before her in a great sweep of brown sand and grey sea, its flat horizon dissolving into mist where the arms of Cardigan Bay embraced the sea and the sky.

Spray like a cataract from the finial of the fountainthe Matra Herself with arms outstretchedset a net of mist in the coiled strands of black hair.

The meniscus roiled, then broke open, causing the ghostly mist to swirl and vanish.