MIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mist mean? 

• MIST (noun)
  The noun MIST has 1 sense:

1. a thin fog with condensation near the ground

  Familiarity information: MIST used as a noun is very rare.

• MIST (verb)
  The verb MIST has 3 senses:

1. become covered with mist

2. make less visible or unclear

3. spray finely or cover with mist

  Familiarity information: MIST used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A thin fog with condensation near the ground

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("mist" is a kind of...):

fog (droplets of water vapor suspended in the air near the ground)

Derivation:

mist (become covered with mist)

mist (spray finely or cover with mist)

misty (filled or abounding with fog or mist)

misty (wet with mist)

• MIST (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they mist    ... he / she / it mists   
Past simple: misted   
Past participle: misted   
-ing form: misting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Become covered with mist

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

mist; mist over

Context example:

The windshield misted over

Hypernyms (to "mist" is one way to...):

cover; spread over (form a cover over)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

mist (a thin fog with condensation near the ground)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make less visible or unclear

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

becloud; befog; cloud; fog; haze over; mist; obnubilate; obscure

Context example:

the big elm tree obscures our view of the valley

Hypernyms (to "mist" is one way to...):

conceal; hide (prevent from being seen or discovered)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "mist"):

overshadow (cast a shadow upon)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Spray finely or cover with mist

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "mist" is one way to...):

spray (scatter in a mass or jet of droplets)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

mist (a thin fog with condensation near the ground)

 Context examples 

Did I not, I would soon have learned, for the wheeling figures of mist and snow came closer, but keeping ever without the Holy circle.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It was a gloomy prospect, and all she could do was to throw a mist over it, and hope when the mist cleared away she should see something else.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Mist, mist, rolling mist with a square black tower above it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The grey mist drove by us like a rain.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

A thick mist was in them, intershot with sparkling points of light.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

About two o’clock the mist cleared away, and we beheld, stretched out in every direction, vast and irregular plains of ice, which seemed to have no end.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

A device designed to convert a liquid to a mist.

(Nebulizer Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

Issue associated with fine solids or liquid particles such as dust, smoke, fume, and/or mist suspended in the immediate atmosphere in which the device is being used.

(Environmental Particulates, Food and Drug Administration)

We carried her upstairs, laid her on the sofa, and a couple of cups of the strongest coffee soon cleared her brain from the mists of the drug.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When e-cigarettes are used, the nicotine solution turns into a mist that can be inhaled into the lungs.

(E-cigarette, NCI Dictionary)