Haze vs. Fog

Hazenoun

Very fine solid particles (smoke, dust) or liquid droplets (moisture) suspended in the air, slightly limiting visibility.

Hazenoun

A reduction of transparency of a clear gas or liquid.

Hazenoun

An analogous dullness on a surface that is ideally highly reflective or transparent.

Hazenoun

(figuratively) Any state suggestive of haze in the atmosphere, such as mental confusion or vagueness of memory.

Hazenoun

The degree of cloudiness or turbidity in a clear glass or plastic, measured in percent.

Hazenoun

Any substance causing turbidity in beer or wine.

Hazeverb

To be hazy, or thick with haze.

Hazeverb

To perform an unpleasant initiation ritual upon a usually non-consenting individual, especially freshmen to a closed community such as a college or military unit.

Hazeverb

To oppress or harass by forcing to do hard and unnecessary work.

Hazeverb

(transitive) In a rodeo, to assist the bulldogger by keeping (the steer) running in a straight line.

Hazenoun

Light vapor or smoke in the air which more or less impedes vision, with little or no dampness; a lack of transparency in the air; hence, figuratively, obscurity; dimness.

Hazenoun

A state of confusion, uncertainty, or vagueness of thought or perception; as, after the explosion, people were wandering around in a haze.

Hazeverb

To be hazy, or thick with haze.

Hazeverb

To harass by exacting unnecessary, disagreeable, or difficult work.

Hazeverb

To harass or annoy by playing abusive or shameful tricks upon; to humiliate by practical jokes; - used esp. of college students, as an initiation rite into a fraternity or other group; as, the sophomores hazed a freshman.

Hazenoun

atmospheric moisture or dust or smoke that causes reduced visibility

Hazenoun

confusion characterized by lack of clarity

Hazeverb

become hazy, dull, or cloudy

Hazeverb

harass by imposing humiliating or painful tasks, as in military institutions

Hazenoun

a slight obscuration of the lower atmosphere, typically caused by fine suspended particles

Hazenoun

a very fine cloud of something such as vapour or smoke in the air

Hazenoun

a state of mental confusion

Hazeverb

obscure with a haze

Hazeverb

force (a new or potential recruit to the military or a university fraternity) to perform strenuous, humiliating, or dangerous tasks

Hazeverb

drive (cattle) while on horseback

Haze

Haze is traditionally an atmospheric phenomenon in which dust, smoke, and other dry particulates obscure the clarity of the sky. The World Meteorological Organization manual of codes includes a classification of horizontal obscuration into categories of fog, ice fog, steam fog, mist, haze, smoke, volcanic ash, dust, sand, and snow.

Fognoun

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

Fognoun

(uncountable) A mist or film clouding a surface.

Fognoun

A state of mind characterized by lethargy and confusion.

Fognoun

(photography) A silver deposit or other blur on a negative or developed photographic image.

Fognoun

(computer graphics) Distance fog.

Fognoun

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

Fognoun

Tall and decaying grass left standing after the cutting or grazing season; foggage.

Fognoun

(Scotland) Moss.

Fogverb

(intransitive) To become covered with or as if with fog.

Fogverb

(intransitive) To become obscured in condensation or water.

Fogverb

To become dim or obscure.

Fogverb

(transitive) To cover with or as if with fog.

Fogverb

(transitive) To disperse insecticide into (a forest canopy) so as to collect organisms.

Fogverb

(transitive) To obscure in condensation or water.

Fogverb

(transitive) To make confusing or obscure.

Fogverb

To make dim or obscure.

Fogverb

To practice in a small or mean way; to pettifog.

Fogverb

(transitive) To pasture cattle on the fog, or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from.

Fogverb

(intransitive) To become covered with the kind of grass called fog.

Fognoun

A second growth of grass; aftergrass.

Fognoun

Watery vapor condensed in the lower part of the atmosphere and disturbing its transparency. It differs from cloud only in being near the ground, and from mist in not approaching so nearly to fine rain. See Cloud.

Fognoun

A state of mental confusion.

Fognoun

Cloudiness or partial opacity of those parts of a developed film or a photograph which should be clear.

Fogverb

To pasture cattle on the fog, or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from.

Fogverb

To practice in a small or mean way; to pettifog.

Fogverb

To envelop, as with fog; to befog; to overcast; to darken; to obscure.

Fogverb

To render semiopaque or cloudy, as a negative film, by exposure to stray light, too long an exposure to the developer, etc.

Fogverb

To show indistinctly or become indistinct, as the picture on a negative sometimes does in the process of development.

Fognoun

droplets of water vapor suspended in the air near the ground

Fognoun

an atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance

Fognoun

confusion characterized by lack of clarity

Fogverb

make less visible or unclear;

Fognoun

a thick cloud of tiny water droplets suspended in the atmosphere at or near the earth's surface which obscures or restricts visibility (to a greater extent than mist; strictly, reducing visibility to below 1 km)

Fognoun

an opaque mass of particles in the air

Fognoun

cloudiness which obscures the image on a developed negative or print.

Fognoun

a state or cause of perplexity or confusion

Fognoun

the grass which grows in a field after a crop of hay has been taken.

Fognoun

long grass left standing in a pasture and used as winter grazing.

Fogverb

(with reference to a glass surface) cover or become covered with steam

Fogverb

make (a film, negative, or print) obscure or cloudy.

Fogverb

bewilder or puzzle

Fogverb

make (an idea or situation) difficult to understand

Fogverb

spray with an insecticide.

Fog

Fog is a visible aerosol consisting of tiny water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air at or near the Earth's surface. Fog can be considered a type of low-lying cloud usually resembling stratus, and is heavily influenced by nearby bodies of water, topography, and wind conditions.