What's the difference between foggy and groggy?

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.

Groggy


Definition:

  • (a.) Overcome with grog; tipsy; unsteady on the legs.
  • (a.) Weakened in a fight so as to stagger; -- said of pugilists.
  • (a.) Moving in a hobbling manner, owing to ten der feet; -- said of a horse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A 'groggy state' can occur in some fighters with confusion, impaired active attention and alteration of consciousness.
  • (2) Groggy, he's helped off in a very confused state, and replaced by Schurrle.
  • (3) The five-times champion Serena Williams suffered a distressing exit from Wimbledon on Monday as she was forced to retire after three games of a doubles match with her sister Venus, suffering from a viral illness that left her groggy, disoriented and barely able to hit the ball.
  • (4) At 2pm he wondered if he would have to pull out: “I felt a bit groggy while I was warming up but the thing I love is major championships, I love stadiums.
  • (5) Or, if you prefer, Barney Ronay's analysis of a "turgid, tactically constipated semi-final”, "a deeply uninspiring match", "a game of no shots, no incident and a crushing sense of caution", "120 minutes of something that resembled a groggy second cousin of high-grade tournament football".
  • (6) The same variety of side effects occurred on each treatment and primarily included drowsiness, grogginess, headaches, impaired coordination nausea, and dizziness.
  • (7) Genetic studies revealed that the character is inherited by an autosomal single recessive gene, and we designated this mutation groggy (gene symbol gr).
  • (8) Those who have will know that the grogginess of sleep does little to dampen the surge in adrenaline.
  • (9) 3.52am BST 58 mins Jones looks a little groggy as he's helped off, but he walks off under his own steam.
  • (10) Factory's Happy Mondays bound together the exotic new dance rhythms with a groggy Lancastrian verse, and in the movement known as Madchester was born the commercialisation of the abstract, agitating spirit of Factory, and the spirited postmodern skittishness of Wilson.
  • (11) They were determined to secure consecutive victories for the first time since the start of November, after what should have been a shot-in-the-arm thrashing of Arsenal on Boxing Day was followed by the grogginess of two straight league defeats, an early exit from the FA Cup, and misgivings over the attitude of certain players.
  • (12) The abnormal movement of the groggy rat was first apparent around postnatal day 15, while the histological studies revealed the appearance of numerous necrotic neurons in the striatum of the groggy rat on postnatal days 60 and 120.
  • (13) Drowsiness and grogginess were reported most frequently on both treatments, and the number of patients reporting drowsiness or grogginess was also significantly higher in the flurazepam group.
  • (14) 2.22am GMT 10 mins A groggy Beasley being treated on the sidelines.
  • (15) "He's a little bit groggy at the minute but he's OK," said Paul Lambert, the Villa manager.
  • (16) I’ve never known anything like it in sport.” The additional loss of Hohaia, their only remaining specialist half-back who had to be helped down the tunnel and was deemed too groggy to return, left Saints with an even stranger attacking formation, with Wellens and Mark Flanagan as their playmakers and the London-born forward Louie McCarthy-Scarsbrook at centre.
  • (17) One patient reported feeling groggy and drowsy on 0.4 mg triazolam while 2 reported nightmares on placebo.
  • (18) But there was nothing groggy about their performance at a chilly, squelchy Wembley as they brushed aside a toothless Jaguars team – with Bryant scoring two touchdowns and finishing with 158 yards.
  • (19) Side effects (grogginess, lethargy; flurazepam only) were few and none was unexpected; neither rebound insomnia nor early morning insomnia occurred with either drug.
  • (20) Other neurological syndromes have been reported in addition to the 'groggy state'.

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