Fog vs Hat - What's the difference?
fog | hat |
(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.
A covering for the head, often in the approximate form of a cone or a cylinder closed at its top end, and sometimes having a brim and other decoration.
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*:There was a neat hat -and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
(lb) A particular role or capacity that a person might fill.
*1993 , Susan Loesser, A Most Remarkable Fella: Frank Loesser and the Guys and Dolls in His Life: A Portrait by His Daughter , Hal Leonard Corporation (2000), ISBN 978-0-634-00927-3,
*:My mother was wearing several hats in the early fifties: hostess, scout, wife, and mother.
(lb) Any receptacle from which numbers/names are pulled out in a lottery.
# The lottery or draw itself.
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(lb) A hat switch.
*2002 , Ernest Pazera, Focus on SDL , p.139:
*:The third type of function allows you to check on the state of the joystick's buttons, axes, hats , and balls.
*1997 October 6th, “
*:I’lll have to leave it up to antiques experts to tell you when objects were marked that way, but I can tell you it’s called a “hacek” (with the hat' over the “c” and pronounced “hacheck”.) It is used to show that a “c” is pronounced as “ch” and an “s” as “sh.” Sometimes linguists just call it the “' hat .”
As nouns the difference between fog and hat
is that fog is (label) a thick cloud that forms near the ground; the obscurity of such a cloud or fog can be a new growth of grass appearing on a field that has been mowed or grazed while hat is a covering for the head, often in the approximate form of a cone or a cylinder closed at its top end, and sometimes having a brim and other decoration.As a verb fog
is to become covered with or as if with fog or fog can be to pasture cattle on the fog, or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from.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
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Derived terms
* fogey * fogram * fogrum * fogyVerb
(fogg)References
* * ----hat
English
Noun
(en noun)p.121:
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