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Hist vs Mist - What's the difference?

hist | mist |

As nouns the difference between hist and mist

is that hist is an instance of an exclamation attracting attention or injunction to be silent while mist is water or other liquid finely suspended in air.

As verbs the difference between hist and mist

is that hist is {{eye dialect|hoist|lang=en} while mist is to form mist.

As an abbreviation Hist

is history (in journal titles such as "J Hist Neurosci" - "Journal of the History of Neuroscience".

As an interjection hist

is An utterance used to discreetly attract someone's attention.

hist

English

Abbreviation

(Abbreviation) (head)
  • History (in journal titles such as "J Hist Neurosci" - "Journal of the History of Neuroscience")

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    mist

    English

    (wikipedia mist)

    Noun

  • (uncountable) Water or other liquid finely suspended in air.
    • It was difficult to see through the morning mist .
  • (countable) A layer of fine droplets or particles.
    • There was an oily mist on the lens .
  • (figurative) Anything that dims or darkens, and obscures or intercepts vision.
  • * Dryden
    • His passion cast a mist before his sense.

    Derived terms

    * misty * mists of time * red mist

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To form mist.
    • It's misting this morning.
  • To spray fine droplets on, particularly of water.
    • I mist my tropical plants every morning.
  • To cover with a mist.
    • The lens was misted .
    (Shakespeare)
  • (of the eyes) To be covered by tears.
    • My eyes misted when I remembered what had happened.

    Derived terms

    * mist over

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