What's the difference between fist and mist?

Fist


Definition:

  • (n.) The hand with the fingers doubled into the palm; the closed hand, especially as clinched tightly for the purpose of striking a blow.
  • (n.) The talons of a bird of prey.
  • (n.) the index mark [/], used to direct special attention to the passage which follows.
  • (v. t.) To strike with the fist.
  • (v. t.) To gripe with the fist.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This is a struggle for the survival of our nation.” As ever, after Trump’s media dressing-down, his operation was quick to fit a velvet glove to an iron fist.
  • (2) It took years of prep work to make this sort of Übermensch thing socially acceptable, let alone hot – lots of “legalize it!” and “you are economic supermen!” appeals to the balled-and-entitled toddler-fists of the sociopathic libertechian madding crowd to really get mechanized mass-death neo-fascism taken mainstream .
  • (3) The "respect the game" police are back, (do they ever go away) and after Adrian Gonzalez, who dared to pump his fists following a fourth inning double that brought home LA's first run of the game.
  • (4) The defendants punched their air with their fists and shouted "peacefully" as their sentences were handed down, according to relatives.
  • (5) Ipso, he concluded, wants to come to this performance “armed with a slim clear book of rules and not with an iron fist”.
  • (6) I get to make jokes and pound my fist and get retweets and faves because I’m a comedian.
  • (7) On the day, however, the Queen's 80th birthday won hand over fist against both Cameron and the huskies and Mrs Blair and the hairdressing bill .
  • (8) Album of the year: Random Access Memories - Daft Punk Daft Punk snatches record of the year from Macklemore's tiny fists.
  • (9) Globiz hopes there's no repeat of last year's Star Magic Ball where Salvador prompted a major fist-fight to break out between two of the country's hottest young actors, Matteo Guidicelli and Coco Martin (think the R-Patz and Taylor Lautner of the Philippines).
  • (10) 62 min: Lyon win another corner, which McGregor fists away cleanly.
  • (11) The people of Iran, the region, Israel, America and the world deserve better than a deal that consolidates the grip on power of the violent revolutionary clerics who rule Tehran with an iron fist.” Here’s what members of the Bush team have said individually about the deal, since its announcement on Monday and in the weeks that led up to the announcement: Paul Wolfowitz , deputy secretary of defense under George W Bush, on Fox News : A bad deal is much worse than nothing.
  • (12) He had poor head control, hypertonia, and persistent fisting, and died at age 2 months.
  • (13) They didn't suffer fools gladly, and they ran everything with an iron fist."
  • (14) Private sector bondholders, many of them German banks who lent hand over fist to Greece in the runup to the crisis, were largely made good; workers have suffered wage cuts as the government struggles to make repayments to its bailout creditors.
  • (15) But Kiki Bertens, a smiling, 23-year-old Dutch qualifier who looked pleased just to be here, made a decent fist of her impossible assignment in dappled light on Arthur Ashe and pushed Serena Williams at least to the lower slopes of anxiety on day three of the 2015 US Open.
  • (16) During the first 2 min of hypoxia, glucose consumption was increased to twice the normal, and during the fist 2 min of hypercapnia, the corresponding value was less thane third of the normal.
  • (17) No, not Gordon Brown, although there were times when today's sleights of hand and burying of bad news had strong echoes of the clunking fist at its worst.
  • (18) Two groups of substernal goiters should be considered fist; the "simples" ones localised in the anterior and superior part of the mediastin.
  • (19) Malema became known as tough, playing dirty against those who opposed him for office, disbanding branches of the organisation that did not support him and at times taking to his opponents with his fists.
  • (20) A total of 33 of 34 patients with human bites and clenched-fist injuries and 33 of 39 patients with animal bites had aerobic or facultative bacteria isolated from their wounds.

Mist


Definition:

  • (n.) Visible watery vapor suspended in the atmosphere, at or near the surface of the earth; fog.
  • (n.) Coarse, watery vapor, floating or falling in visible particles, approaching the form of rain; as, Scotch mist.
  • (n.) Hence, anything which dims or darkens, and obscures or intercepts vision.
  • (v. t.) To cloud; to cover with mist; to dim.
  • (v. i.) To rain in very fine drops; as, it mists.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was an artwork that fired the imaginations of 2 million visitors who played with, were provoked by and plunged themselves into the curious atmosphere of The Weather Project , with its swirling mist and gigantic mirrors that covered the hall's ceiling.
  • (2) Follow-up of a cohort of 1,165 steelworkers exposed to acid mists has been extended from 1981 to early 1986 for most cohort members, and information on smoking has also been collected.
  • (3) The sensitivity and specificity of cold air, ultrasonically nebulized distilled water mist (USM), and standard methacholine (MCH) challenges were studied in 21 children with asthma (mean age 11.5 years) and 12 normal children (mean age 14.2 years).
  • (4) Physicians and investigators should be aware of the striking effects of this compound, now widely used as a street drug "angel's mist" of "angel's dust", on neurophysiological functions.
  • (5) Migraine is the commonest form among the so-called primary headaches and the description of its clinical picture is lost in the mists of time.
  • (6) It appears that aerosol and mist treatments designed as epidemic control measures can be adapted to long-term preventive control of A. aegypti.
  • (7) Calves were exposed twice to aerosol mists of viable P haemolytica, using a treatment regimen previously shown to induce a resistant state.
  • (8) The patient herself associated the respiratory disease with a cool-mist humidifier sometimes used at work.
  • (9) Pregnant Myotis lucifugus were captured in mist nets set outside a large maternity colony and, in most cases, were examined 12-15 hours later.
  • (10) It is the England that then prime minister John Major vowed would never vanish in a famous 1993 speech: “Long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and – as George Orwell said – ‘old maids bicycling to holy communion through the morning mist’.” Major was mining Orwell’s wartime essay The Lion and the Unicorn, whose tone was one of reassurance – the national culture will survive, despite everything: “The gentleness, the hypocrisy, the thoughtlessness, the reverence for law and the hatred of uniforms will remain, along with the suet puddings and the misty skies.” Orwell and Major were both asserting the strength of a national culture at times when Britishness – for both men basically Englishness – was felt to be under threat from outside dangers (war, integration into Europe).
  • (11) For long periods of life he travelled in the mist of depression.
  • (12) In adult men the left half of the head was covered with thick heat insulation, and the right hemiface was cooled by spraying a mist of water, and vigorous fanning.
  • (13) At one point, he and his fellow militias set up base in Virunga national park, famed for its gorillas in the mist , where they survived by eating monkeys and sometimes even elephants.
  • (14) Wilmshurst's remarks concerned a trial which he himself designed, called MIST, to find out whether closing small holes in the heart with one of NMT's medical devices could stop migraines – there is evidence of a link.
  • (15) Secondly, these patients' anecdotal experiences are entirely misleading: the MIST trial was negative (though I can find no mention of the MIST trial's final results anywhere on the NMT site, which is odd, because it's the only published trial I'm aware of that tests whether NMT's device prevents migraine).
  • (16) Data collected on various types of filters (dust and mist; dust, fume, and mist; paint, lacquer, and enamel mist; and high efficiency) challenged with a worst case-type sodium chloride (NaCl) and dioctyl phthalate (DOP) aerosol are presented.
  • (17) How many other "invisible" stories are out there, shrouded by thick legal mist?
  • (18) The lens was adhered to the eye for 35 min by periodically misting the eye with distilled water; during this time the records of eye position showed that the lens remained firmly attached to the eye.
  • (19) In conclusion, the finding that adenomas and adenocarcinomas were observed in mice exposed to chromic acid mist suggests the need to give careful attention to the possibility of respiratory cancers in chromium electroplating workers.
  • (20) Snare describes the portrait quite clearly: the young Charles with his large liquid eyes and pale face, appearing in three-quarter view without rigidity or outline, the painting as airy as mist (and the prince too young for Van Dyck, who only portrayed Charles in his 30s).

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