Mist vs Midst - What's the difference?
mist | midst |
(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.
(often, literary) A place in the middle of something; may be used of a literal or metaphorical location .
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As nouns the difference between mist and midst
is that mist is water or other liquid finely suspended in air while midst is a place in the middle of something; may be used of a literal or metaphorical location.As a verb mist
is to form mist.As a preposition midst is
among, in the middle of; amid.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.
Derived terms
* mist overAnagrams
* * ----midst
English
Alternative forms
* midest (obsolete) * middis (obsolete) * middst (obsolete) * middest (obsolete) * myddis (obsolete) * mydst (obsolete) * mydest (obsolete) * myddst (obsolete) * myddest (obsolete)Noun
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- At dawn, in the midst of a mist that is both literal and the unformed shifting of thought, he encounters a young fox pup playfully shaking a bone.
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- As he said in "I Have a Dream," the Negro "lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity."