What's the difference between cloudy and foggy?

Cloudy


Definition:

  • (n.) Overcast or obscured with clouds; clouded; as, a cloudy sky.
  • (n.) Consisting of a cloud or clouds.
  • (n.) Indicating gloom, anxiety, sullenness, or ill-nature; not open or cheerful.
  • (n.) Confused; indistinct; obscure; dark.
  • (n.) Lacking clearness, brightness, or luster.
  • (n.) Marked with veins or sports of dark or various hues, as marble.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Those without sperm, or with cloudy fluid, will require vasoepididymostomy under general or epidural anesthesia, which takes 4-6 hr.
  • (2) A trend toward a progressive increase in new collagen was noted over time in both the cloudy auto- and allografts.
  • (3) The news wasn’t a surprise, exactly: when a newspaper is available in more outlets than it sells copies, the future obviously looks a little cloudy.
  • (4) Her earlier scheduled execution was called off at the last minute when the drug, pentobarbitol, appeared “cloudy”.
  • (5) The changes in the fundus of a 57-year-old patient (perimacular turbid retinal oedema, cloudy peripapillary exsudates and peripheral retinal hemorrhages) could not be interpreted satisfactorly on a clinical basis.
  • (6) Corrections officials told reporters about 11pm that night that they were postponing the execution “out of an abundance of caution” because the lethal injection drug appeared “cloudy”.
  • (7) Each bubble was covered by an osmiophilic non-homogeneous coat of cloudy and flocculent material, native to its specific locality.
  • (8) Extreme dilatation of collecting ducts and convoluted tubules with epithelial degenerative changes of cloudy swelling, hydropic degeneration and separation from the basement membrane were principal changes in the kidney.
  • (9) There was 600 cc of slightly cloudy and bloody peritoneal fluid.
  • (10) These early atherosclerotic lesions included a localized cloudy thickening with pallor, slight elevation, a non-fibrotic lesion and gray-white or yellowish-white, firm, elevated fibrous plaques.
  • (11) The assays can be performed manually or, with much greater precision, on an 8-channel coagulation meter of new design in which end points are recorded automatically and depend on an abrupt clearing of agitated cloudy suspensions.
  • (12) Things didn't get better – cloudy skies for the first day, the car showed its worst temperament and the phone box I was due to call from to get my results (no mobiles then) didn't work.
  • (13) Cloudy, white urine may be due to urine infections, harmless phosphate crystals, or possibly sexually transmitted infections.
  • (14) In many episodes, there is a strong association with acute enterocolitis, which may precede the onset of cloudy dialysate by many days.
  • (15) North Star recommends visitors avoid October, November and December though, when it is usually cloudy.
  • (16) Follicles also were classified as clear or cloudy; cloudy was associated with flocculent material in the follicular fluid or with an indistinct follicular wall.
  • (17) Snakes in group 2 had cloudy swelling of the proximal tubules at 2 and 4 weeks after the gentamicin was administered.
  • (18) But while Christie’s career has survived that storm, Perry’s prospects look cloudy.
  • (19) In eyes with retinal detachment with cloudy media and severe vitreous traction, combined scleral buckling and vitrectomy may be necessary.
  • (20) Yet the Brazilians who were photographed unleashing their sorrow on a cloudy, darkening evening, in scenes of anguish from Estádio Mineirão to Copacabana beach, were not mourning a massacre, atrocity or anything else that might seem to justify such infinite sadness.

Foggy


Definition:

  • (superl.) Filled or abounding with fog, or watery exhalations; misty; as, a foggy atmosphere; a foggy morning.
  • (superl.) Beclouded; dull; obscure; as, foggy ideas.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Foggy feast Well done Carl Fogarty, the most successful world superbike racing champion ever, now known to a new generation as the winner of I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here .
  • (2) With wild-type (Foggi variant) (nuclease wt) and the substrates thymidine 3'-phosphate 5'-(p-nitrophenyl phosphate) (PNPdTp), thymidine 3'-methylphosphonate 5'-(p-nitrophenyl phosphate) (PNPdTp*Me), and thymidine 5'-(p-nitrophenyl phosphate) (PNPdT), kcat remains nearly constant at 13 min-1.
  • (3) Overnight, Cuba’s flag was quietly added to the others that adorn the lobby of the State Department’s headquarters in Foggy Bottom.
  • (4) "It's started off foggy, then it cleared for a time but then it came down again," said a Heathrow spokeswoman.
  • (5) Effects of exposure to acidic pollutants have not been studied under foggy conditions; thus there is no directly relevant information from which to estimate the health risk.
  • (6) When watching a monochromatic Ganzfeld, three wavelength-related phenomena are perceived: (1) the field turns achromatic; (2) the initially bright field fades into a dark or a foggy, gray field; and (3) a sensation of an additional darkness is experienced upon light turn off.
  • (7) The chamber is so foggy that they must have difficulty recognising one another.
  • (8) Dumped by my agency to fend for myself, my foggy mind and I (a mind that could not remember conversations held just moments prior or how to use a parking meter) visited numerous specialists for answers.
  • (9) Havel, they implied, was a foggy-minded, impractical idealist.
  • (10) Former world superbike champion Carl “Foggy” Fogarty has been crowned king of the jungle on I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!
  • (11) Donations to the official pro-independence campaign for the most recent reporting period from 25 July to 21 August included £50,000 from Elizabeth Topping, the wife of the former William Hill chief executive Ralph Topping, and £75,000 from Randall Foggie, an SNP council candidate from Kirkcaldy.
  • (12) It stinks from the top of Capitol Hill to the luxury hotel lobby on Pennsylvania Avenue, all the way to the depths of Foggy Bottom.
  • (13) In the distance, the skyscrapers of downtown LA look foggy and unreal, like a painted movie backdrop awaiting an alien invasion.
  • (14) As we drive along Dartmoor’s foggy lanes, Alex tells me that today’s visitors often stumble across similarly fluorescent beasts – but these are less scary glow-in-the-dark ponies, painted with reflective paint to make them more visible to drivers.
  • (15) [Their sexuality] could have a practical use, spiritually.” In other words, for Arca, the foggy place between the black and white, male and female, and easy and uneasy listening is the most authentic place to be, artistically: “Maybe the real truth is drawing strength from the grey.” In turn, his vivid concepts come alive with Kanda, like the Chris Cunningham to Arca’s Aphex Twin.
  • (16) Arguments about God's will and the publication of foggy guidelines aren't sufficient to cope with the challenges ahead.
  • (17) The results of the experiment showed that the period between the time when the average score of Stanford Sleepiness Scale (SSS) reached point four (a little foggy) and the rising time was gradually decreased by repetition of the 22 h-wake and 8 h-sleep cycle.
  • (18) Under foggy conditions (mean droplet size 10 microns, temperature 50 degrees F), no marked effects on lung function were found.
  • (19) They are like two guys on a foggy night huddling together for comfort.
  • (20) They send the message that Australia’s benighted isolation on a lonely island lost in the middle of a foggy sea must be terminated.