What's the difference between daze and fog?

Daze


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To stupefy with excess of light; with a blow, with cold, or with fear; to confuse; to benumb.
  • (n.) The state of being dazed; as, he was in a daze.
  • (n.) A glittering stone.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Prior to joining JOE Media, Will was chief commercial officer at Dazed Group, where he also sat on the board of directors.
  • (2) "We're not really here," read John Reid's T-shirt, quoting a City song from the difficult years, as he stood in a daze in Albert Square listening to Oasis blast out from the speakers.
  • (3) This enabled the section commander to drag away the fallen soldier, who was dazed but unharmed.
  • (4) If drug cartel kingpin El Chapo stays in Mexico, 'absolutely nothing' will change Read more A joint police and military operation seized Guzmán at a hotel after a battle which left five dead and six captured, including the cartel leader who appeared dazed and grubby in photographs.
  • (5) "Winning Wimbledon is the pinnacle of tennis," Murray said afterwards, still in something of a daze a good half hour after the final point.
  • (6) He was also forced to scrap plans to launch a Russian Dazed & Confused, which was due to appear in March or September this year.
  • (7) But the most worrying thing about the shadow cabinet is that few have the stature to challenge the leader if he does make mistakes, as all leaders do; some are so green they’ll merely be thrilled to have a job, others too dazed by defeat.
  • (8) Gagarin Way, Gregory Burke's first play in 2001, was phenomenal; I reeled from the Traverse theatre in a daze of admiration.
  • (9) Still bloodied and dazed, Karen must hand over her baby and be led outside.
  • (10) His elbow to the head of Joe Cole left the Chelsea midfielder so bloodied and dazed that he had to be replaced by Jermaine Jenas.
  • (11) The magazine's dazed New York lawyers then heard Eady instruct the jurors that they were not there "to judge Mr Polanski's personal lifestyle" because the libel court was not "a court of morals".
  • (12) Dazed survivors stand immobile in a huge, roiling cloud of dust.
  • (13) I saw this when I spoke with men and women at the very start of their journey – dazed and battered from the drive across the desert border with Niger but filled with a naive optimism.
  • (14) The city centre ground to a halt as rescuers pulled bloodied corpses from the rubble and dazed, dust-covered survivors stumbled away.
  • (15) After the jet-black high school satire Heathers pulled the rug out from under John Hughes and his oversharing Brat Pack, in 1989, American adolescents were left with few offerings, most of them wistful odes to another age – either stylistically, as with the overblown, pirate-radio-themed Christian Slater vehicle Pump Up the Volume; or quite literally, in the case of Richard Linklater’s nostalgia-fuelled 70s pastiche, Dazed and Confused.
  • (16) They were carried or staggered ashore, some paralysed by malnutrition, others little more than walking skeletons, burnt and dazed from weeks at sea on boats the UN has called “floating coffins”.
  • (17) He sat up, looked round, said 'I just want to go home', dazed shocked."
  • (18) Dazed from the fumes, I walked smack into an older gentleman only to realise it was, in fact, Bill Murray.
  • (19) Frank Lampard had spoken of the game passing in "all a bit of a daze", with team-mates left to pick over the drama to recreate the timeline: conceding to Sergio Busquets; losing John Terry to a red card; falling further behind to Andrés Iniesta; Ramires's glorious riposte; Lionel Messi's penalty miss; the quivering of the woodwork as they heaved to contain the holders; the desperate rearguard action before Fernando Torres, the £50m goalscorer with so few goals to his name, sprinted alone into Barça territory and equalised in stoppage time.
  • (20) A week later, he was found wandering in a daze some distance behind the front line.

Fog


Definition:

  • (n.) A second growth of grass; aftergrass.
  • (n.) Dead or decaying grass remaining on land through the winter; -- called also foggage.
  • (v. t.) To pasture cattle on the fog, or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from.
  • (v. i.) To practice in a small or mean way; to pettifog.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) A state of mental confusion.
  • (v. t.) To envelop, as with fog; to befog; to overcast; to darken; to obscure.
  • (v. i.) To show indistinctly or become indistinct, as the picture on a negative sometimes does in the process of development.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Fog and base levels of E-speed film were greater than those of D-speed film.
  • (2) Martin O’Neill spoke of his satisfaction at the Republic of Ireland’s score draw in the first leg of their Euro 2016 play-off against Bosnia-Herzegovina – and of his relief that the match was not abandoned despite the dense fog that descended in the second half and threatened to turn the game into a farce.
  • (3) Poor workplace health and safety, inadequate toilet facilities and dangerous fumes from mosquito fogging that led to one asylum seeker with asthma collapsing were all raised as concerns by Kilburn, although he stressed that he believed G4S management and expatriate G4S staff acted appropriately.
  • (4) fog embryos do not form a normal posterior midgut and although their germbands do elongate, they do not extend dorsally.
  • (5) The presence of a fogging effect was seen by CT on day 12 and MRI revealed a high signal intensity in the region of the basal ganglia in T 1 image, a high signal intensity in the peripheral region and a low signal intensity in the center in T 2 image.
  • (6) Two models are discussed for how fog-2 might positively regulate the fem genes and fog-1 to permit spermatogenesis; fog-2 may act as a negative regulator of tra-2 and tra-3, or fog-2 may act positively on the fem genes and fog-1 rendering them insensitive to the negative action of tra-2 and tra-3.
  • (7) The data pertaining to the radiographic contrast and relative speed values were calculated from the step-wedge curve and, together with the base plus fog values, were tabulated.
  • (8) On one side stand the FOGs – the Friends of George – and on the other stand the FOBs – the Friends of Boris.
  • (9) The same intrepid, almost naive, fascination with a world shrouded in the icy fog of snobbery, deference, and class-consciousness animated Sampson.
  • (10) The SR calcium ATPase activity of the different fibres varied in the FG greater than FOG greater than SO order, while myoglobin immunoreactivity in the FOG greater than SO greater than FG order.
  • (11) In contrast to the fog focus, no particular cell must be wild type in tsg mosaics for survival.
  • (12) An exact dosage is possible only by measuring the fog flow and when the exact density of fog is known.
  • (13) Wanamaker ultimately helped show us much about the theatre of the past – which can help us towards a bolder future – but also much about the English character, which had perhaps been lost in the great fog of empire and post-empire.
  • (14) The green patches are of scattered low clouds (stratocumulus, stratus, fog).
  • (15) Traumatised victims fleeing the fog of war gave accounts of what they saw.
  • (16) See the bullet holes in street lamps... the shrouded vision in the clouds and the fog of the buildings from which the shots came... the photographs of those who lost their lives.. the people who put themselves on the line for the future of Ukraine.” Kerry said he spoke spontaneously with Ukrainians gathered there, who pleaded with him not to go back to life as it was under Yanukovych.
  • (17) Then the judges said my name, and I can’t really remember what happened … it was all a bit of a fog.
  • (18) Blair’s business decision might thin the fog of rage – and help Labour | Jonathan Freedland Read more The scaling back of commercial activities may remove a second millstone around his reputation, although critics will say he has already made substantial sums from his businesses, including from some authoritarian regimes.
  • (19) According to the Met Office, the forecast for London and the south-east once the fog lifts is, "largely dry with broken cloud and sunny spells developing.
  • (20) Ingestion of an improperly stored liquid pesticide was the most common route of intoxication (76% of patients); five (14%) children became intoxicated after playing on carpets and floors of homes that had been sprayed or fogged by unlicensed exterminators.

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