fogとは

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /fɒɡ/
• (米国発音) often IPA^(key): /fɑɡ/
• 韻: -ɒɡ

語源 1

Origin uncertain; but probably of North Germanic origin, from 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”). Related to German fauchen (“to hiss”).

名詞

fog (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 fogs)

1. (uncountable) A thick cloud that forms near the ground; the obscurity of such a cloud.
   • 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, OCLC 7780546; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., 55 Fifth Avenue, [1933], OCLC 2666860, page 0016:

     Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; […].

2. (uncountable) A mist or film clouding a surface.
3. A state of mind characterized by lethargy and confusion.

   He did so many drugs, he was still in a fog three months after going through detox.

   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 4, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     I was on my way to the door, but all at once, through the fog in my head, I began to sight one reef that I hadn't paid any attention to afore.

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

使用する際の注意点

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

同意語

• (cloud that forms at a low altitude かつ obscures vision): mist, haze
• (mist または film clouding a surface): steam
• (state of mind characterized by lethargy かつ confusion): daze, haze

派生語

動詞

fog (三人称単数 現在形 fogs, 現在分詞 fogging, 過去形および過去分詞形 fogged)

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

   The mirror fogged every time he showered.

3. (intransitive, photography) To become dim or obscure.
4. (transitive) To cover with or as if with fog.
   • 1968, Eighth Annual Report, Metropolitan Corporation of Greater Winnipeg, p 7:

     Fogging for adult mosquito control began on June 4th in residential areas. Until September 25th, the Metro area was fogged eleven times, using nine truck-mounted foggers, eight hand swing foggers, and two boats.

5. (transitive) To disperse insecticide into (a forest canopy) so as to collect organisms.
6. (transitive) To obscure in condensation or water.
   • 2008, United States Congress, House Committee on Financial Services. Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity - Foreclosure, Foreclosure Prevention and Intervention: The Importance of Loss Mitigation, page 46:

     Unfortunately, the pendulum has swung way too far to the other end where the saying in the industry is is that if you could fog a mirror, you could get a loan.

7. (transitive) To make confusing or obscure.
8. (transitive, photography) To make dim or obscure.
9. To practice in a small or mean way; to pettifog.
   • John Dryden

     Where wouldst thou fog to get a fee?

同意語

• (to become obscured in condensation または water): become cloudy, become steamy
• (to make confusing または obscure): blur, cloud, obscure

語源 2

Origin uncertain. Compare Scots fog (“moss; lichen”), Norwegian fogg.

名詞

fog (uncountable)

1. A new growth of grass appearing on a field that has been mowed or grazed.
2. (Britain, 方言) Tall and decaying grass left standing after the cutting or grazing season; foggage.

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3. (Scotland) Moss.

派生語

動詞

fog (三人称単数 現在形 fogs, 現在分詞 fogging, 過去形および過去分詞形 fogged)

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

参照

• fog in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• fog in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

アナグラム

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