Mist vs Jist - What's the difference?
mist | jist |
(uncountable) Water or other liquid finely suspended in air.
(countable) A layer of fine droplets or particles.
(figurative) Anything that dims or darkens, and obscures or intercepts vision.
* Dryden
To form mist.
To spray fine droplets on, particularly of water.
To cover with a mist.
(of the eyes) To be covered by tears.
(nonstandard) alternative form of just
*1838 , -Charles Dickens:
*:'Mister Muntlehiney,' said the man. 'Wot's come on him? Is he at home?'
*:'He is above stairs, I believe,' replied Kate, a little reassured by this inquiry. 'Do you want him?'
*:'No,' replied the visitor. 'I don't ezactly want him, if it's made a favour on. You can jist give him that 'ere card, and tell him if he wants to speak to ME, and save trouble, here I am; that's all.'
*1884 , -Mark Twain:
*:They get all their chawing by borrowing; they say to a fellow, "I wisht you'd len' me a chaw, Jack, I jist this minute give Ben Thompson the last chaw I had"—which is a lie pretty much everytime;
As a verb mist
is (to mock a work by inserting annotations).As an adverb jist is
(nonstandard) alternative form of just.As a noun jist is
(rare).mist
English
(wikipedia mist)Noun
- It was difficult to see through the morning mist .
- There was an oily mist on the lens .
- His passion cast a mist before his sense.
Derived terms
* misty * mists of time * red mistVerb
(en verb)- It's misting this morning.
- I mist my tropical plants every morning.
- The lens was misted .
- (Shakespeare)
- My eyes misted when I remembered what had happened.