What's the difference between fog and precipitation?

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.

Precipitation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of precipitating, or the state of being precipitated, or thrown headlong.
  • (n.) A falling, flowing, or rushing downward with violence and rapidity.
  • (n.) Great hurry; rash, tumultuous haste; impetuosity.
  • (n.) The act or process of precipitating from a solution.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The nuclear origin of the Ha antigen was confirmed by the speckled nuclear immunofluorescence staining pattern given by purified antibody to Ha obtained from a specific immune precipitate.
  • (2) The Fc fragment of this protein reacted with and was solubilized by the staphylococcal A protein which also precipitated the intact immunoglobulin.
  • (3) It could be demonstrated by radioimmune precipitation of virus labeled with[35S]methionine that all three polypeptides are specific for hog cholera virions.
  • (4) Nine of the in vivo synthesized early polypeptides can be precipitated specifically from infected cell extracts by antisera with specificity against early adenovirus proteins.
  • (5) Its pathogenesis, still incompletely elucidated, involves the precipitation of immune complexes in the walls of the all vessels.
  • (6) The usefulness of the proposed method is obvious in cases where the composition of a precipitate on LM scale is to be compared with the LM appearance of the surrounding tissue.
  • (7) After precipitation of plasma proteins by addition of methanol the samples are injected directly into the liquid chromatographic system.
  • (8) Thus Sephadex chromatography of the solution obtained by dissolving the antigen-antibody precipitate in these media repeatedly gave two peaks corresponding to anti-ovalbumin and ovalbumin.
  • (9) When AMT administration was discontinued 40 hrs before precipitation of withdrawal the withdrawal pattern occurred with unchanged intensity.
  • (10) Using a simple precipitation technique we observed that the serum concentrations of low density lipoproteins in healthy Africans were less than half the serum concentrations in healthy Europeans.
  • (11) There was no correlation between anti-TNP-precipitating antibody titer after sensitization and the ability to respond to challenge by hapten-heterologous carrier.
  • (12) Precipitating antibodies were found in both lines; they first appeared 7 days after inoculation in P-line birds and 14 days after inoculation in N-line birds, but thereafter there was no difference between the two genetic lines.
  • (13) The new technique, Surface Immune Precipitation (SIP), entails the application of an antigen sample droplet directly onto the surface of a gel containing antibody, the gel being supported by a reflecting substrate.
  • (14) In this study we have compared purified C4A and C4B with regard to their ability to prevent immune complex precipitation and to enhance the binding of both preformed and nascent immune complexes to the receptor CR1 on red cells.
  • (15) A lesser inhibitory effect (a decrease in the rate of precipitation) was observed when gallbladder bile was diluted but was lost after 10-fold dilution.
  • (16) The first step is the preparation of a globulin-enriched fraction by precipitation with ammonium sulfate at 50% saturation, or of an immune-complex-enriched fraction by precipitation with 5% polyethylene glycol 6000.
  • (17) DNase I microspheres were then introduced into the extracorporeal circuit which resulted in an acceleration of degradation of acid precipitable 125I-nDNA.
  • (18) The dramatic nationwide increase of primary and secondary syphilis in women has precipitated a dramatic rise in congenital syphilis.
  • (19) The translation of mRNA for S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase was studied using a polyamine-depleted reticulocyte lysate supplemented with mRNA from rat prostate and the antiserum to precipitate the proteins corresponding to S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase.
  • (20) Only heart rate correlated closely with the precipitation of angina.

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