What's the difference between fog and for?

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.

For


Definition:

  • (prep.) In the most general sense, indicating that in consideration of, in view of, or with reference to, which anything is done or takes place.
  • (prep.) Indicating the antecedent cause or occasion of an action; the motive or inducement accompanying and prompting to an act or state; the reason of anything; that on account of which a thing is or is done.
  • (prep.) Indicating the remoter and indirect object of an act; the end or final cause with reference to which anything is, acts, serves, or is done.
  • (prep.) Indicating that in favor of which, or in promoting which, anything is, or is done; hence, in behalf of; in favor of; on the side of; -- opposed to against.
  • (prep.) Indicating that toward which the action of anything is directed, or the point toward which motion is made; /ntending to go to.
  • (prep.) Indicating that on place of or instead of which anything acts or serves, or that to which a substitute, an equivalent, a compensation, or the like, is offered or made; instead of, or place of.
  • (prep.) Indicating that in the character of or as being which anything is regarded or treated; to be, or as being.
  • (prep.) Indicating that instead of which something else controls in the performing of an action, or that in spite of which anything is done, occurs, or is; hence, equivalent to notwithstanding, in spite of; -- generally followed by all, aught, anything, etc.
  • (prep.) Indicating the space or time through which an action or state extends; hence, during; in or through the space or time of.
  • (prep.) Indicating that in prevention of which, or through fear of which, anything is done.
  • (conj.) Because; by reason that; for that; indicating, in Old English, the reason of anything.
  • (conj.) Since; because; introducing a reason of something before advanced, a cause, motive, explanation, justification, or the like, of an action related or a statement made. It is logically nearly equivalent to since, or because, but connects less closely, and is sometimes used as a very general introduction to something suggested by what has gone before.
  • (n.) One who takes, or that which is said on, the affrimative side; that which is said in favor of some one or something; -- the antithesis of against, and commonly used in connection with it.

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