Mist

Definition: Mist

Mist

Noun

1. A thin fog with condensation near the ground.

Verb

1. Become covered with mist; "The windshield misted over".

2. Make less visible or unclear; "The stars are obscured by the clouds".

3. Spray finely or cover with mist.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "mist" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

19th Century Satire

Dream Interpretation

Environment

Geography

Weather

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MIST

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Synonyms: Mist

Bubble

Cloud, vapor, fog, mist, haze, steam, geyser; scud, messenger, rack, nimbus; cumulus, woolpack, cirrus, stratus; cirrostratus, cumulostratus; cirrocumulus; mackerel sky, mare's tale, dirty sky; curl cloud; frost smoke; thunderhead.

Concealment

Behind a screen; undercover, under an eclipse; in ambush, in hiding, in disguise; in a cloud, in a fog, in a mist, in a haze, in a dark corner; in the shade, in the dark; clouded, wrapped in clouds, wrapt in clouds; invisible; buried, underground, perdu; secluded.

Unintelligibility

Obscure, dark, muddy, clear as mud, seen through a mist, dim, nebulous, shrouded in mystery; opaque, dense; undiscernible; (invisible); misty; (opaque); hidden; latent.

Crosswords: Mist

Dutch (fog, mist), German (blow, bother, cobblers, crap, droppings, dung, fertilizer, garbage, manure, muck, punk, rats, rubbish, shucks, trash, tripe), Swedish (fog, mist).

Crewman Madison, the mist of this strange planet is filing my head with such thougts (Galaxy Quest; writing credit: David Howard)

Emergency? You mean in the event that the command deck crew was reduced to a fine red mist and splattered across the walls in a bloody mural (Andromeda; writing credit: John Cranna)

Like a seeping mist, I will creep into the dogs' center of power, and make them quake in fear at the very mention of my name (Cats & Dogs; writing credit: John Requa; Glenn Ficarra)

Kids are huddled on the beach in a mist ("Born to Run"; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen)

The shadow in the mist (Comin' Back to Me; performing artist: Jefferson Airplane)

The mist across the window hides the lines (Steppin' Out; performing artist: Joe Jackson)

Scarf of Mist Thigh of Satin (1966)

Girl in the Mist (1959)

The Green Mist (1924)

Mist in the Valley (1923)

Out of the Mist (1916)

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Books

• The Mist in 3-D Sound (reference)

• Bib Holy Bible Precious Moments: New King James Version/Keepsake Edition/Violet Mist Lather Flex (reference)

• Oil Mist Lubrication: Practical Applications (reference)

• Echoes from the Mist (reference)

• Beyond the Highland Mist (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Gorillas in the Mist (reference)

• Dragonball Z, Vol. 29: Garlic Jr. Black Water Mist (Edited) (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Breaking Through the Mist (reference)

• Scotch Mist is Essentially Irish (reference)

• In The Receding Mist (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Tiffen 52mm Sepia 3 Mist Filter (reference)

• Cobra FRS310WX Platinum Mist Microtalk Weather 2 Way Radio (reference)

• FENDER 18'- Burgundy Mist 1/4"(M) to 1/4"(M) 20 GAUGE INSTRUMENT CABLE (reference)

• Palm m100 series Faceplate Cover (Blue Mist) (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Cool Mist Humidifier (reference)

• Warm Mist Vaporizer (reference)

• Waterwand 260 Gentle Mist Superfine Nozzle (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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A fog sampler mounted on the bow of the PEIRCE Fog sampler was designed to capture mist droplets Fog captured would be analyzed for acid content. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Pier erected by camping party at Mist Harbor Used to offload fuel for launches Party off of C&GS Ship PATTERSON. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Early morning mist over New York City. Captain Alfred G. Buckham. In: "Flug Und Wolken", Verlag F. Bruckmann, Munchen, 1932. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Mist coming in on Tillamook Head looking south from Seaside. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Fishing in the kelp beds in the early morning mist off southern California. Credit: Fisheries.

Figures 1, 2, and 3 are the barometer records of various storms encountered by the HIRONDELLE in 1887. Figure 4 is a record of barometric pressure during periods of hazy mist and clearing. In: "Results of the Scientific Campaigns of the Prince of Monaco." Vol. 84. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Norm Vigil, Northwest Field Team Leader visits with a landowner after installing mist irrigation system and new orchard planting. Espanola, New Mexico. Credit: Jeff Vanuga.

Mist irrigation system cost shared and designed by NRCS in Espanola, New Mexico. Credit: Jeff Vanuga.

Photographed prior to her World War I Naval service, with a man on her foredeck communicating via semaphore flags. She is flying the U.S. Yacht Ensign at her stern. The Navy placed this boat in commission on 28 April 1917 as USS Mist (SP-567) and formally acquired her on 12 May 1917. She was returned to her owner on 3 February 1919. Credit: NAVY.

Pres. Calvin Coolidge posed with Commissioner of Indian Affairs Burke and Blackfeet Indians: Owen Heavy Breast, Princess Dawn Mist, Chief Bird Rattler, and Two Guns White Calf, with the White House in the background. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And certainly the glass was beginning to melt away, just like a bright silvery mist.

Whether these creatures faded into mist, or mist enshrouded them, he could not tell

That would satisfy a doctor, that’s what they always did on television -- if no mist formed on the mirror, there was no breath

The mist from without entered and spread about like a whitish wadding picked apart by invisible fingers

A wind, gentle and sighing, blew in puffs from the southwest, and the mountains on both sides of the great valley were indistinct in a pearly mist.

These alders loomed through the mist at regular intervals as you walked half way round the pond

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Health

Users, including children, spray a mist containing desmopressin into their nostrils, where the drug enters the bloodstream. (references)

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Expressions using "mist": frost mist ♦ magic mist ♦ mist flower ♦ mist over ♦ mist up ♦ scotch mist ♦ sea mist ♦ smoky mist ♦ snow mist ♦ spray mist styler. Additional references.

Beginning with "mist": mist-beaded, mist-blue, mist-covered, mist-filtered, mist-laden, mist-like, mist-producing, mist-shadow, mist-shrouded, mist-skeined, mist-snagged, mist-softened, mist-sprayed, mist-workings, mist-wraithed.

Ending with "mist": sea-mist.

Afrikaans

mis (fog). (various references)

Albanian

mjegull (brume, curtain, damp, exhalation, fog, smog, toman, vapor, vapour), perde (albugo, cataract, cloak, coulisse, curtain, curtains, drape, drapery, opacity, proscenium, purdah, screen, shroud, veil), errësirë (background, blackness, darkness, eclipse, fogginess, gloom, mirk, murk, night, nigrescence, nigritude, obscurity, opacity, opaque, staining). (various references)

Arabic 

‏غشى (cloud, overlay, trance), ‏غشاوة (film), ‏ضباب (film, fog, gauze, haze, mirk, murk, reek, vapor, vapour). (various references)

Bulgarian 

мъглявина (dullness, nebula, nebulosity), замъгленост (fogginess), лека мъгла (gauze, haze), перде (cataract, curtain, drapery, veil, walleye). (various references)

Catalan

boira (fog). (various references)

Chinese 

霧 (fog), 薄霧 (haze), 薄雾, 瀣 (vapor), 濛 (drizzle), 嵐 (name of a mountain). (various references)

Czech

mlha (brume, fog, haze), zamlžení, závoj (blanket, veil, wimple), opar (haze, herpes). (various references)

Danish

tåge (fog). (various references)

Dutch

nevel (fog, spray), mist (fog), damp (fog, fume, smoke, steam, vapor, vapour), floers (fog, veil). (various references)

Esperanto

nebulo (fog). (various references)

Faeroese

mjørki (fog), toka (fog). (various references)

Farsi 

مه گرفتن (Fog), مه (Fog, Vapor), غبار (Dust, Film), تاری چشم (Film), ابهام (Ambiguity, Fog, Haze, Obscurity). (various references)

Finnish

sumu (fog, haze), utu. (various references)

French

brouillard, brume, buée. (various references)

Frisian

dize (fog), damp (fog, fuzzy, misty, moist, steam, vapor, vapour). (various references)

German

Nebel (fog, haze, mists, nebula, smog, smoke). (various references)

Greek 

ομίχλη (fog, haze, mizzle), αχλύς (fog). (various references)

Hebrew 

להתערפל (become vague), ערפל (fog, haze), אובך (haze, haziness), אד (fume, gas, steam, vapor, vapour). (various references)

Hungarian

köd (blurring, fog, haze, mirk, murk, smoke). (various references)

Icelandic

þoka (fog). (various references)

Indonesian

kabut (fog, haze), halimun. (various references)

Italian

nebbia (fog, haze), foschia (fog, haze, mistiness). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

霧 (fog). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ミスト , きり (all there is, auger, bounds, closing sentence, drill, end, fog, limits, only, paulownia tree, period, place to leave off, since), さぎり (fog), かすみ, えんむ (fog, haze). (various references)

Korean 

안개 (fog). (various references)

Manx

joanlagh (drizzle, dusty, Scotch mist), jannoo druightagh (mist up), frough thallooin (land mist), drapane (misty rain, Scotch mist), drammane (Scotch mist), cur druight er (fog, mist up), cheet dy ve kayeeagh (mist up), cheet dy ve druightagh (mist up), bree thallooin (land mist). (various references)

Norwegian

tåke (fog), skodde (fog). (various references)

Pig Latin

istmay.(various references)

Polish

mgła (fog). (various references)

Portuguese

neblina (fog, gauze, haze, mistiness), nevoeiro (haze), névoa (blur, cloud, damp, mirk, mistiness, murk, rack, steam, vapor, vapour). (various references)

Romanian

pâclã, negurã (film, fog, haze, host), ceaţã (cloud, fog, haze, set), burniţã (drizzle), aburi (dim, exhale, fumigate, smoke, steam, sweat), învãlui în ceaţã (fog). (various references)

Russian 

туман (brume, exhalation, fog, haze, toman). (various references)

Scottish

deatach (exhalation, steam), ceathach (fog), ceò (fog). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

maglovitost (dimness, fogginess, haziness, mistiness, nebulosity, vagueness), maglina (nebula), zamagliti (befog, blur, dim, fog), izmaglica (haze). (various references)

Spanish

niebla (fog), neblina (fog, haze, Hazel), bruma (brume, fog, haze, sea mist). (various references)

Swedish

dimma (bedim, brume, fog, haze, vapor, vapour), tjocka (fog, thick), töcken (fog, haze), mist (fog), imma (condensation, steam, vapor, vapour). (various references)

Turkish

sis kaplamak (befog, fog), sis (fog, haze, haziness, mistiness), pus (fog, haze), karartı (fog, shadow, tarnish), duman (fog, fume, smoke), buğulamak (steam, steam up), buğu (condensation, reek, steam, vapor, vapour), çiselemek (drizzle, spit, sprinkle). (various references)

Turkmen 

duman (fog, haze), зigrek (rime). (various references)

Ukrainian

серпанок (gauze, haze, veil, wisp, zephyr), туман (brume, damp, nebula, vapor, vapour), мряка (dribble, drizzle, mizzle), затуманюватися (fog, haze), затуманювати (bedim, befog, bemist, blear, blur, fog). (various references)

Vietnamese 

màn che, sương mù màn. (various references)

Welsh

mwrllwch (fog, vapor), tawch (fog, haze, vapor), tarth (vapor), nudden (fog, haze), niwl (fog, haze), nifwl (fog, nebula), crwybr (hoarfrost, honeycomb), caddug (darkness, fog). (various references)

Yucatec

yeeb (fog). (various references)

muru. (various references)

aer, aera, aere, aerem, aeris, caliga, caligine, caliginem, caliginis, caligo, nebula, nebulae, nebulam, nebulas. (various references)

ge-nip. (various references)

domp, kwalm. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "mist": mistakable, mistake, mistaken, mistakenly, mistaker, mistakers, mistakes, mistaking, mistaught, mistbow, mistbows, misteach, misteaches, misteaching, misted, mistend, mistended, mistending, mistends, mister, misterm, mistermed, misterming, misterms, misters, misteuk, misthink, misthinking, misthinks, misthought, misthrew, misthrow, misthrowing, misthrown, misthrows, mistier, mistiest, mistily, mistime, mistimed, mistimes, mistiming, mistiness, mistinesses, misting, mistitle, mistitled, mistitles, mistitling, mistletoe, mistletoes. (additional references)

Words ending with "mist": aeronomist, agronomist, alarmist, alchemist, anatomist, animist, atomist, autonomist, bemist, bigamist, biochemist, ceramist, chemist, chemotaxonomist, chymist, conformist, cosmist, cosmochemist, dichotomist, digamist, dynamist, economist, ergonomist, euphemist, extremist, gastronomist, geochemist, gnomist, immunochemist, intimist, legitimist, misogamist, monochromist, monogamist, neuroanatomist, neurochemist, nonconformist, noneconomist, oghamist, optimist, overoptimist, palindromist, palmist, pantomimist, pessimist, phlebotomist, photochemist, phytochemist, pogromist, polemist, polygamist. (additional references)

Words containing "mist": aeronomists, agronomists, alarmists, alchemistic, alchemistical, alchemists, anatomists, animistic, animists, armistice, armistices, atomistic, atomistically, atomists, autonomists, bemisted, bemisting, bemists, bigamists, biochemistries, biochemistry, biochemists, biogeochemistries, biogeochemistry, cacomistle, cacomistles, ceramists, chemistries, chemistry, chemists, chemotaxonomists, chymists, conformists, cosmists, cosmochemistries, cosmochemistry, cosmochemists, cytochemistries, cytochemistry, dichotomists, digamists, dynamistic, dynamists, dysphemistic, economists, electrochemistries, electrochemistry, ergonomists, euphemistic, euphemistically, euphemists. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Mist" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amist, imet, Imgt, Imsi, Imsl, Imt, maest, maist, Maisto, masat, masct, masot, masto, mayst, Mcit, meest, meist, mesht, mest, mesta, meste, mesto, miet, mift, miht, Milsch, mios, miot, mipst, mirt, misa, misc, miset, misi, misit, misl, miso, misr, mista, Mistah, Misu, mits, Mitsi, Mitsu, miut, mixt, mixta, miz, miza, Mizo, mizz, Mmisd, mmits, mosht, mosta, mpis, Mrisc, msi, musnt, musth, mustt, mys, myst, mysz, nist, simt, Umast, xist. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: smit.

-1 letter: ism, its, mis, sim, sit, tis.

-2 letters: is, it, mi, si, ti.

+1 letter: emits, items, maist, metis, midst, milts, mints, mists, misty, mites, mitis, mitts, moist, omits, smite, smith, stime, stimy, tamis, times, trims.

+2 letters: admits, ambits, amidst, autism, bemist, demits, impost, inmost, isthmi, kismat, kismet, limits, litmus, maists, mantis, mastic, mastix, matins, merits, midsts, mights, mirths, misact, misate, miscut, miseat, misfit, mislit, mismet, misset, misted, mister, miters, mitres, monist, motifs, muftis, muskit, mutism, mystic, ostium, remits, samite, sitcom, smalti, smiter, smites, smiths, smithy, somite, stigma, stimes, stymie, submit, summit, theism, timers, tmesis, truism, vomits.