(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).
Vapour
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Such an 'inert tube' model may be adequate to describe the inhalation and exhalation kinetics of inert vapours, for example non-polar solvents which have a low water solubility.
(2) There have been reports of difficulties with the seating and locking of the vaporisers which can cause a leak and failure of vapour delivery.
(3) Following exposure to white spirit vapour, the effect of the expired solvent on evidential breath alcohol equipment was investigated under controlled exposure chamber conditions and in a simulated painting exercise.
(4) It was also noted that after the administration of tryptophan blue fluorescence was observed in some cells of the pars distalis prior to formaldehyde vapour treatment.
(5) As radiation sources, the following ones have proved useful: high-pressure mercury-vapour lamps, compound radiation systems consisting of high-pressure mercury-vapour burner, series coiled filament and reflector bulbs made of special glass as well as halogen metal-vapour lamps.
(6) Acute inhalation of nitrous vapours did not cause any damage to the respiratory apparatus detectable via spirometric or X-ray tests in the four workers who were actually exposed and kept under observation during the two months following the explosion of a tank containing nitric acid.
(7) All had been regularly exposed to high air vapour peaks as well as to skin contamination.
(8) Simple formulae expressing average and maximum concentrations of solvent vapour in indoor air during the application of paints, glues, and the like, have been derived using a six parameter mathematical exposure model MEM 1.
(9) This study evaluates the influence of mineral oil and linoleic-acid-containing emulsions on the skin vapour loss (SVL) of detergent-induced irritant skin reactions.
(10) The light-harvesting protein phycoerythrocyanin from the cyanobacterium Mastigocladus laminosus Cohn has been crystallized in two different crystal forms by vapour diffusion.
(11) Stimulation of the nasal mucous membrane with ether vapour or water caused apnoea, bradycardia, a rise in arterial blood pressure and an increase in adrenal medullary catecholamine secretion.3.
(12) This explains why, despite water vapour constituting the largest part of the greenhouse effect, the world's science academies have agreed , there is strong evidence that human activities are driving the observed change in temperatures .
(13) All the anaesthetists (n = 81) thought that their work involved some exposure to anaesthetic gases or vapours; however, 21 (7%) of the 319 nurses believed they were not exposed although they spent some time in operating theatres or recovery rooms.
(14) By the combined use of gas chromatography and mass spectrometry the methyl esters of hippuric acid and m-methylhippuric acid were identified in the urine of a volunteer who had been exposed to toluene and m-xylene vapours.
(15) The workplaces were ventilated and the concentrations of vapours did not exceed Threshold Limit Values (TLVs).
(16) Single crystals of Clara cell 10,000 Mr protein have been grown by vapour diffusion in the presence of ammonium sulphate.
(17) Comparisons were made with alternative methods for determining the concentration of white spirit vapours in air samples.
(18) A seed globulin from Vicia narbonensis L. has been crystallized by vapour diffusion induced pH-shift.
(19) In his dreamlike view of the world, bits of buildings are liberated to take on their own lives and attempt unexpected feats: floors can shift and windows can hover – and now, it seems, planes can spurt out shimmering aluminium vapour trails.
(20) The effects of prolonged exposure to ammonia vapour on the histological pattern and enzymatic activity of the respiratory nasal mucosa of 75 adult male mice were investigated and compared with a control group.