fog
US: /ˈfɑɡ/, /ˈfɔɡ/
UK: /fˈɒɡ/
UK: /fˈɒɡ/
English Vietnamese dictionary
fog /fɔg/
- danh từ
- cỏ mọc lại
- cỏ để mọc dài không cắt (về mùa đông)
- ngoại động từ
- để cho cỏ mọc lại ở (một mảnh đất)
- cho (súc vật) ăn cỏ mọc lại
- danh từ
- sương mù
- màn khói mờ, màn bụi mờ
- tình trạng mờ đi (vì sương mù)
- (nghĩa bóng) tình trạng trí óc mờ đi; tình trạng bối rối hoang mang
- to be in a fog: bối rối hoang mang
- (nhiếp ảnh) vết mờ
- ngoại động từ
- phủ sương mù; làm mờ đi, che mờ (như phủ một màn sương)
- làm bối rối hoang mang
- (nhiếp ảnh) làm mờ (phim ảnh) đi
- nội động từ
- phủ sương mù; đầy sương mù; mờ đi
- (+ off) chết vì úng nước, chết vì đẫm sương
- (nhiếp ảnh) mờ đi, phim ảnh
Advanced English dictionary
noun, verb
+ noun [U, C]
1 a thick cloud of very small drops of water in the air close to the land or sea, that is very difficult to see through: Dense / thick fog is affecting roads in the north and visibility is poor. + freezing fog + Patches of fog will clear by mid-morning. + We get heavy fogs on this coast in winter. + The town was covered in a thick blanket of fog.
Compare: MIST
2 a state of confusion, in which things are not clear: He went through the day with his mind in a fog.
+ verb (-gg-)
1 [V, VN] ~ (sth) (up) if a glass surface fogs or is fogged up, it becomes covered in steam or small drops of water so that you cannot see through
2 [VN] to make sb/sth confused or less clear: I tried to clear the confusion that was fogging my brain. + The government was trying to fog the real issues before the election.
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 mist, haze, smog, vapour, cloud, Colloq pea-souper:
Our flight was grounded because of fog.
2 trance, daze, stupor, brown study, confused state; coma:
He's in a fog and didn't hear a word you said.
v.
3 dim, obscure, cloud, bedim, becloud, blind, stifle:
The purpose of all that verbiage is merely to fog the issue.
4 Usually, befog. bewilder, mystify, perplex, confuse, muddle, puzzle, nonplus:
I was completely befogged by the technical language he used.
5 Also, fog up or over. mist over or up, cloud up or over, shroud:
My bathroom mirror fogs when I take a hot shower.
Collocation dictionary
ADJ.
dense, heavy, thick | freezing | patchy
Drizzle and patchy fog are forecast.
| swirling
QUANT.
bank, blanket, patch
The town was shrouded in a thick blanket of fog.
VERB + FOG
be shrouded in
FOG + VERB
cover sth, lie, shroud sth
A freezing fog lay over the valley.
| close in, come down, descend, roll in
A dense fog came down in the afternoon. A heavy fog rolled in from the sea.
| clear, disperse, lift
The fog had lifted by late morning.
| drift, swirl
fog drifting over the water
| obscure sth
A bank of fog obscured the farmhouse.
FOG + NOUN
patches
PREP.
in/into (a/the) ~
We got lost in the fog.
| through (a/the) ~
We drove slowly through the fog.
Concise English dictionary
fogged|fogging|fogsfɑg ,fɔg /fɒg
noun
+droplets of water vapor suspended in the air near the ground
+an atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance
+confusion characterized by lack of clarity
verb
+make less visible or unclear
