fog Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun droplets of water vapor suspended in the air near the ground
  2. noun an atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance
    murkiness; fogginess; murk.
  3. noun confusion characterized by lack of clarity
    haze; daze.
  4. verb make less visible or unclear
    befog; haze over; becloud; obscure; mist; obnubilate; cloud.
    • The stars are obscured by the clouds
    • the big elm tree obscures our view of the valley

WordNet

Fog noun
Etymology
Cf. Scot. fog, fouge, moss, foggag? rank grass, LL. fogagium, W. ffug dry grass.
Definitions
  1. (Agric.) (a) A second growth of grass; aftergrass. (b) Dead or decaying grass remaining on land through the winter; -- called also foggage. Prov.Eng. Halliwell. Sometimes called, in New England, old tore. In Scotland, fog is a general name for moss.
Fog transitive verb
Definitions
  1. (Agric.) To pasture cattle on the fog, or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from.
Fog intransitive verb
Etymology
Etymol. uncertain.
Definitions
  1. To practice in a small or mean way; to pettifog. Obs.
    Where wouldst thou fog to get a fee? Dryden.
Fog noun
Etymology
Dan. sneefog snow falling thick, drift of snow, driving snow, cf. Icel. fok spray, snowdrift, fj?? snowstorm, fj?ka to drift.
Definitions
  1. Watery vapor condensed in the lower part of the atmosphere and disturbing its transparency. It differs from cloud only in being near the ground, and from mist in not approaching so nearly to fine rain. See Cloud.
  2. A state of mental confusion.
Fog transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Fogged present participle & verbal noun Fogging
Definitions
  1. To envelop, as with fog; to befog; to overcast; to darken; to obscure.
Fog intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. (Photog.) To show indistinctly or become indistinct, as the picture on a negative sometimes does in the process of development.

Webster 1913