As a verb mist
is (to mock a work by inserting annotations).
As a noun nebula is
(astronomy) a cloud in outer space consisting of gas or dust (eg a cloud formed after a star explodes).
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
Anagrams
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nebula Noun
(en-noun)
(astronomy) A cloud in outer space consisting of gas or dust (e.g. a cloud formed after a star explodes).
(archaic, medicine) A white spot or slight opacity of the cornea.
(obsolete, medicine) A cloudy appearance in the urine
Derived terms
* dark nebula
* diffuse nebula
* emission nebula
* planetary nebula
* preplanetary nebula
* protoplanetary nebula
* reflection nebula
* solar nebula
* stellar nebula
Related terms
* nebulosity
* nebulous
* nebular
See also
* plerion
* nova remnant
* supernova remnant
* Herbig-Haro object
* Bok globule
* interstellar cloud
* intergalactic cloud
* high velocity cloud
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