mist
part of speech
noun (mist, mists); verb (mist, mists, misted, misting)
meaning for a pupil
1) Lots of tiny drops of water in the air close to the ground, making it hard to see far; a thin kind of fog. tree →
2) A fine spray of liquid. tree →
3) (verb) To cover something with tiny drops: «the mirror misted up». tree →
4) (verb) If your eyes mist, tears come. tree →
5) A feeling of confusion or dizziness, as if your thoughts are clouded. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science, mist forms when warm, damp air cools and water vapour condenses into tiny droplets. In safety, mist on roads or hills makes it hard to see; walkers and drivers must slow down. In stories, mist makes places mysterious. Phrases: «morning mist», «mist up», «a mist of rain».
examples
- The hills were covered in mist. tree →
- The bathroom mirror misted up after my shower. tree →
- Drive slowly in thick mist. tree →
- The morning mist cleared when the sun came out. tree →
- Mum sprays a fine mist of water on the plants. tree →
- Her eyes misted with tears. tree →
- As he looked a mist came over his senses. tree →
note
Mist is thinner than fog: in mist you can see further. Homophone: «missed» (past of «miss») — «I missed the bus in the mist.»
In the corpora
- Whales breathe through a blowhole on top of the head, and the spout is warm wet breath forming a cloud of mist.
- Breathe on a cold window and the mist shows that the air you breathe out is warm and wet from inside you.
- Breathed-out air is warm and full of water vapour, which turns into tiny droplets of mist on cold glass.
- When researchers sprayed a harmless mist into single canopy trees, beetles of hundreds of kinds fell out, many never named.
- but there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «mist» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.