fognoun詞源 1/fɒɡ/

• 1

  A thick cloud that forms near the ground; the obscurity of such a cloud.

  • a bank of fog
  • Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor;[…].
• 2

  A mist or film clouding a surface.

• 3

  A state of mind characterized by lethargy and confusion.

  • He did so many drugs, he was still in a fog three months after going through detox.
  • I was on my way to the door, but all at once, through the fog in my head, I began to sight one reef that I hadn't paid any attention to afore.
• 4

  artshobbieslifestyleA silver deposit or other blur on a negative or developed photographic image.

• 5

  computer-graphicscomputingengineeringDistance fog.

fogverb詞源 1/fɒɡ/

• 1

  To become covered with or as if with fog.

• 2

  To become obscured in condensation or water.

  • The mirror fogged every time he showered.
• 3

  artshobbieslifestyleTo become dim or obscure.

• 4

  artshobbieslifestyleTo make dim or obscure.

• 5

  artshobbieslifestyleTo spoil (film) via exposure to light other than in the normal process of taking a photograph.

• 6

  To cover with or as if with fog.

  • Fogging for adult mosquito control began on June 4th in residential areas. Until September 25th, the Metro area was fogged eleven times, using nine truck-mounted foggers, eight hand swing foggers, and two boats.
• 7

  To disperse insecticide into (a forest canopy) so as to collect organisms.

• 8

  To obscure in condensation or water.

  • Unfortunately, the pendulum has swung way too far to the other end where the saying in the industry is is^([sic]) that if you could fog a mirror, you could get a loan.

fognoun詞源 2/fɒɡ/

• 1

  A new growth of grass appearing on a field that has been mowed or grazed.

  • The inclosures of fog, or aftergrass, reserved for spring-feed, are now supposed to be shut up, also the burnet, which is never to be fed in autumn ...
• 2

  dialectalTall and decaying grass left standing after the cutting or grazing season.

  • […] and they generally leave a great deal of Fog to rot on the Ground, which, with the Help of his well turned Dung-hill, dress his Ground […]
• 3

  Moss.

fogverb詞源 2/fɒɡ/

• 1

  To pasture cattle on the fog (of), or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from (a field).

• 2

  To become covered with the kind of grass called fog.

fogverb詞源 3/fɒɡ/

• 1

  obsoleteTo practice in a small or mean way; to pettifog.

  • Where wouldst thou fog to get a fee?

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• fat
• oil
• and grease
• frequency of gobbledygook
• fraudulently-obtained genuine