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Fog vs. Frost

Fog and Frost Definitions

Fog

Condensed water vapor in cloudlike masses lying close to the ground and limiting visibility.

Frost

A deposit of minute ice crystals formed when water vapor condenses at a temperature below freezing.

Fog

An obscuring haze, as of atmospheric dust or smoke.

Frost

A period of weather when such deposits form.

Fog

A mist or film clouding a surface, as of a window, lens, or mirror.

Frost

A cold manner or period of disaffection
A frost in diplomatic relations.
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Fog

A cloud of vaporized liquid, especially a chemical spray used in fighting fires.

Frost

To cover with frost.

Fog

A state of mental vagueness or bewilderment.

Frost

To damage or kill by frost.

Fog

Something that obscures or conceals; a haze
Shrouded their actions in a fog of disinformation.

Frost

To cover (glass, for example) with a roughened or speckled decorative surface.
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Fog

A blur on a developed photographic image.

Frost

To cover or decorate with icing
Frost a cake.

Fog

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

Frost

To bleach or lighten the color of (hair) with dye so that some but not all strands are changed in color.

Fog

Tall, coarse grass left standing in fields through the winter.

Frost

(Slang) To anger or upset
What really frosted me about the incident was the fact that you lied.
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Fog

To cover or envelop with fog.

Frost

To become covered with frost
The windshield frosted up overnight.

Fog

To cause to be obscured; cloud.

Frost

A cover of minute ice crystals on objects that are exposed to the air. Frost is formed by the same process as dew, except that the temperature of the frosted object is below freezing.

Fog

To make vague, hazy, or confused
A memory that had been fogged by time.

Frost

The cold weather that causes these ice crystals to form.

Fog

To obscure or dim (a photographic image).

Frost

(figurative) Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character.

Fog

To be covered with fog.

Frost

(obsolete) The act of freezing; the congelation of water or other liquid.

Fog

To be blurred, clouded, or obscured
My glasses fogged in the warm air.

Frost

A shade of white, like that of frost.

Fog

To be dimmed or obscured. Used of a photographic image.

Frost

A disappointment; a cheat.

Fog

(uncountable) A thick cloud that forms near the ground; the obscurity of such a cloud. mist, haze.}}
A bank of fog

Frost

(television) A kind of light diffuser.

Fog

(uncountable) A mist or film clouding a surface.

Frost

(transitive) To cover with frost.

Fog

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.

Frost

(intransitive) To become covered with frost.

Fog

(photography) A silver deposit or other blur on a negative or developed photographic image.

Frost

(transitive) To coat (something, e.g. a cake) with icing to resemble frost.

Fog

(computer graphics) Distance fog.

Frost

To anger or annoy.
I think the boss's decision frosted him a bit.

Fog

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

Frost

(transitive) To sharpen (the points of a horse's shoe) to prevent it from slipping on ice.

Fog

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

Frost

(transitive) To bleach individual strands of hair while leaving adjacent strands untouched.

Fog

(Scotland) Moss.

Frost

The act of freezing; - applied chiefly to the congelation of water; congelation of fluids.

Fog

(intransitive) To become covered with or as if with fog.

Frost

The state or temperature of the air which occasions congelation, or the freezing of water; severe cold or freezing weather.
The third bay comes a frost, a killing frost.

Fog

(intransitive) To become obscured in condensation or water.
The mirror fogged every time he showered.

Frost

Frozen dew; - called also hoarfrost or white frost.
He scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.

Fog

To become dim or obscure.

Frost

Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character.
It was of those moments of intense feeling when the frost of the Scottish people melts like a snow wreath.
The brig and the ice round her are covered by a strange blackobscurity: it is the frost smoke of arctic winters.

Fog

To make dim or obscure.

Frost

To injure by frost; to freeze, as plants.

Fog

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

Frost

To cover with hoarfrost; to produce a surface resembling frost upon, as upon cake, metals, or glass; as, glass may be frosted by exposure to hydrofluoric acid.
While with a hoary light she frosts the ground.

Fog

(transitive) To cover with or as if with fog.

Frost

To roughen or sharpen, as the nail heads or calks of horseshoes, so as to fit them for frosty weather.

Fog

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

Frost

Ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)

Fog

(transitive) To obscure in condensation or water.

Frost

Weather cold enough to cause freezing

Fog

(transitive) To make confusing or obscure.

Frost

The formation of frost or ice on a surface

Fog

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

Frost

United States poet famous for his lyrical poems on country life in New England (1874-1963)

Fog

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

Frost

Decorate with frosting;
Frost a cake

Fog

(intransitive) To become covered with the kind of grass called fog.

Frost

Provide with a rough or speckled surface or appearance;
Frost the glass
She frosts her hair

Fog

A second growth of grass; aftergrass.

Frost

Cover with frost;
Ice crystals frosted the glass

Fog

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.

Frost

Damage by frost;
The icy precipitation frosted the flowers and athey turned brown

Fog

A state of mental confusion.

Fog

Cloudiness or partial opacity of those parts of a developed film or a photograph which should be clear.

Fog

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

Fog

To practice in a small or mean way; to pettifog.
Where wouldst thou fog to get a fee?

Fog

To envelop, as with fog; to befog; to overcast; to darken; to obscure.

Fog

To render semiopaque or cloudy, as a negative film, by exposure to stray light, too long an exposure to the developer, etc.

Fog

To show indistinctly or become indistinct, as the picture on a negative sometimes does in the process of development.

Fog

Droplets of water vapor suspended in the air near the ground

Fog

An atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance

Fog

Confusion characterized by lack of clarity

Fog

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

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