mist

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Water or other liquid finely suspended in air. (Compare fog, haze.) countable,uncountable
    — It was difficult to see through the morning mist.
  2. A layer of fine droplets or particles. countable
    — There was an oily mist on the lens.
  3. Anything that dims, darkens, or hinders vision. countable,figuratively,uncountable
    — His passion cast a mist before his sense.
动词 v.
  1. To form mist. intransitive
    — It's misting this morning.
  2. past of miss form-of,obsolete,past
    — you shall be mist at Court
  3. To spray fine droplets on, particularly of water. transitive
    — I mist my tropical plants every morning.
  4. To rain in very fine droplets. intransitive
    — ... it's misting outside. When it mists outside it's half fog and half rain.
  5. To cover with a mist. transitive
    — The lens was misted.
  6. To be covered by tears. transitive
    — My eyes misted when I remembered what had happened.
  7. To disperse into a mist, accompanying operation of equipment at high speeds.

词形变化

mists plural mists present,singular,third-person misting participle,present misted participle,past misted past

词汇关系

下位词
camanchaca Scotch mist
衍生词
Australian Mist black mist devil-in-a-mist ecto-mist enmist fairy mist groundmist ground mist ground-mist love in a mist love-in-a-mist magic mist misle mist belt mist-belt mistbow mist cap mist coat misteous mistfall mistflower mistfly mist frog mistfrog mistful mistless mistlike mist net mist-pond mists of time mist up misty overmist red mist bemist demist demister mister mist over unmist

词源

The noun is from Middle English mist, from Old English mist (“mist; darkness; dimness (of eyesight)”), from Proto-Germanic *mihstaz (“mist, fog”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃migʰstos, from the root *h₃meygʰ- (“cloud, fog, drizzle”). Cognate with Scots mist (“mist, fog”), West Frisian mist (“mist”), Dutch mist (“mist”), Swedish mist (“mist, fog”), Icelandic mistur (“mist”), West Frisian miegelje (“to drizzle”), Dutch dialectal miggelen, miegelen (“to drizzle”), Lithuanian miglà (“fog”), Sanskrit मेघ (megha, “cloud”), Russian мгла (mgla, “fog, haze”).
The verb is from Middle English misten, from Old English mistian.
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