Fog vs Pall - What's the difference?
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(label) A thick cloud that forms near the ground; the obscurity of such a cloud.
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*: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;.
(label) A mist or film clouding a surface.
A state of mind characterized by lethargy and confusion.
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, title= (label) A silver deposit or other blur on a negative or developed photographic image.
To become covered with or as if with fog.
To become obscured in condensation or water.
(photography) To become dim or obscure.
To cover with or as if with fog.
* 1968 , Eighth Annual Report , Metropolitan Corporation of Greater Winnipeg, p 7:
To obscure in condensation or water.
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To make confusing or obscure.
(photography) To make dim or obscure.
To practice in a small or mean way; to pettifog.
* Dryden
A new growth of grass appearing on a field that has been mowed or grazed.
(UK, dialect) Tall and decaying grass left standing after the cutting or grazing season; foggage.
(Scotland) Moss.
To pasture cattle on the fog, or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from.
(archaic) Fine cloth, especially purple cloth used for robes.
(Christianity) A cloth used for various purposes on the altar in a church.
(Christianity) A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side, used to cover the chalice.
(Christianity) A pallium (woollen vestment in Roman Catholicism).
* Fuller
(heraldiccharge) A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter Y.
A heavy canvas, especially one laid over a coffin or tomb.
* 1942 , Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon , Canongate (2006), page 150:
An outer garment; a cloak or mantle.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) nausea
(senseid) A feeling of gloom.
To cloak.
To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken.
* Atterbury
To become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste.
* Addison
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter VI
In intransitive terms the difference between fog and pall
is that fog is to become obscured in condensation or water while pall is to become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste.In transitive terms the difference between fog and pall
is that fog is to pasture cattle on the fog, or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from while pall is to make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken.fog
English
(wikipedia fog)Etymology 1
Origin uncertain; perhaps a or perhaps related to the Dutch vocht and German feucht (moisture)Noun
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=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.}}
Usage notes
* To count sense thick cloud , bank of fog is usually used. * To count sense clouding a surface , foggy patch is usually used.Synonyms
* (cloud that forms at a low altitude and obscures vision) mist, haze * (mist or film clouding a surface) steam * (state of mind characterized by lethargy and confusion) daze, hazeDerived terms
* fog bank * fogbell * fogbound * foggy * foghorn * fog lamp * fog layer * fog light * fog of war * fog signal * in a fog * fog dripVerb
(fogg)- The mirror fogged every time he showered.
- 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.
- Where wouldst thou fog to get a fee?
Synonyms
* (to become obscured in condensation or water) become cloudy, become steamy * (to make confusing or obscure) blur, cloud, obscureEtymology 2
Origin uncertain; compare Norwegian fogg .Noun
(-)- (Halliwell)
Derived terms
* fogey * fogram * fogrum * fogyVerb
(fogg)References
* * ----pall
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- About this time Pope Gregory sent two archbishop's palls into England, — the one for London, the other for York.
- Thirty years or so later, a woman was put to death for stealing the purple pall from his sarcophagus, a strange, crazy crime,
- His lion's skin changed to a pall of gold.
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- A pall came over the crowd when the fourth goal was scored.
- The early election results cast a pall over what was supposed to be a celebration.
Derived terms
* cast a pall * pallbearer * tarpaulinSynonyms
* (heraldry) pairleVerb
(en verb)- (Shakespeare)
Etymology 2
from appall. Possibly influenced by the figurative meaning of the unrelated noun.Verb
(en verb)- Reason and reflection pall all his enjoyments.
- The liquor palls .
- Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, / Fades in the eye, and palls upon the sense.
- We are all becoming accustomed to adventure. It is beginning to pall on us. We suffered no casualties and there was no illness.