fog

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English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /fɒɡ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /fɑɡ/, /fɔɡ/
• Rhymes: -ɒɡ

Etymology 1

Origin uncertain; but probably of North Germanic origin. Probably either a back-formation from foggy (“covered with tall grass; thick, marshy”), from the earlier-attested fog (“tall grass”) (see below), or from or related to Danish fog (“spray, shower, drift, storm”), related to Icelandic fok (“spray, any light thing tossed by the wind, snowdrift”), Icelandic fjúka (“to blow, drive”), from Proto-Germanic *feukaną (“to whisk, blow”), from Proto-Indo-European *pug- (“billow, bulge, drift”), from *pew-, *pow- (“to blow, drift, billow”), in which case related to German fauchen (“to hiss, spit, spray”).

Noun

fog (countable and uncountable, plural fogs)

1. (uncountable) A thick cloud that forms near the ground; the obscurity of such a cloud.

   Synonyms: haze, mist

   a bank of fog
2. (uncountable) A mist or film clouding a surface.

   Synonym: steam

3. (figurative) A state of mind characterized by lethargy and confusion.

   Synonyms: daze, haze
4. (photography) A silver deposit or other blur on a negative or developed photographic image.
5. (computer graphics) Distance fog.

Usage notes

• To count the sense thick cloud, "bank of fog" is usually used.
• To count the sense clouding a surface, "foggy patch" is usually used.

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Verb

fog (third-person singular simple present fogs, present participle fogging, simple past and past participle fogged)

1. (intransitive) To become covered with or as if with fog.
2. (intransitive) To become obscured in condensation or water.

   Synonyms: become cloudy, become steamy

3. (intransitive, photography) To become dim or obscure.
4. (transitive, photography) To make dim or obscure.
5. (transitive, photography) To spoil (film) via exposure to light other than in the normal process of taking a photograph.
6. (transitive) To cover with or as if with fog.
7. (transitive) To disperse insecticide into (a forest canopy) so as to collect organisms.
8. (transitive) To obscure in condensation or water.
9. (transitive) To make confusing or obscure.

   Synonyms: blur, cloud, obscure

Derived terms

• fog up

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English fogge (“tall grass”), probably from Norwegian fogg (“tall, worthless grass”); compare Scots fog (“moss; lichen”).

Noun

fog (uncountable)

1. A new growth of grass appearing on a field that has been mowed or grazed.

   Synonyms: aftergrass, aftermath, eddish
2. (UK, dialect) Tall and decaying grass left standing after the cutting or grazing season.

   Synonym: foggage
3. (Scotland) Moss.

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Translations

Verb

fog (third-person singular simple present fogs, present participle fogging, simple past and past participle fogged)

1. (transitive) To pasture cattle on the fog (of), or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from (a field).
2. (intransitive) To become covered with the kind of grass called fog.

Etymology 3

Compare Old Dutch focker.

Verb

fog (third-person singular simple present fogs, present participle fogging, simple past and past participle fogged)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To practice in a small or mean way; to pettifog.

References

• “fog”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “fog”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• GFO, GoF

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfoɡ]
• Hyphenation: fog
• Rhymes: -oɡ

Etymology 1

From Proto-Ugric *puŋɜ- (“to grasp, to catch”). Cognates include Northern Mansi пувуӈкве (puwuňkwe).

Verb

fog

2. (transitive) to hold (to keep in one’s hands)
3. (transitive) to take (to get into one’s hands)
4. (transitive) to catch, to capture (to seize by force, especially to grab or trap an animal)
5. (transitive, broadcasting) to receive (to detect a signal from a transmitter)
6. (transitive, by extension, slang) to listen to, to hear, to understand (to pay attention to someone)
7. (transitive, intransitive followed by rajta) to affect, to harm (to have an effect on, especially detrimentally)
8. (intransitive) to write (of a pen or other writing instrument, to leave a mark)
9. (intransitive) to transfer (of ink or dye, to leave a stain upon contact)
10. (transitive, ball games) to mark (to follow a player not in possession of the ball when defending)
11. (auxiliary, with an infinitive, only in present indicative) will, going to (used to form the future tense)
12. (reflexively, as fogja magát, with definite conjugation) to up and (to do something abruptly or unexpectedly)

Conjugation

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Etymology 2

From Proto-Uralic *piŋe. Cognates include Northern Mansi пуӈк (puňk), Erzya пей (pej), Finnish pii.

Noun

fog (plural fogak)

2. (anatomy) tooth

   Ez a fog lyukas. ― This tooth has a cavity.

3. tooth, cog

4. tooth (a sharp projection on a saw or similar implement)

   A fűrész egyik foga hiányzik. ― One of the saw’s teeth is missing.

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See also

• Category:Hungarian auxiliary verbs

References

Further reading

• (to hold, catch): fog in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• (tooth, cog): fog in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: fog

Noun

fog m (plural fogs)

1. (clarification of this definition is needed) fog

Swedish

Noun

fog n (not commonly inflected)

1. Valid cause, valid reason.

2. (dated) Appropriate manner to proceed.

Derived terms

Noun

fog c

1. joint, seam

Declension

Derived terms

References

• fog in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• fog in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• fog in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)