(superl.) Accompained with mist; characterized by the presence of mist; obscured by, or overspread with, mist; as, misty weather; misty mountains; a misty atmosphere.
(superl.) Obscured as if by mist; dim; obscure; clouded; as, misty sight.
Example Sentences:
(1) Many of Long’s pieces are fragile and fleeting: a stripe of un-mown grass in an otherwise close cropped lawn at the Henry Moore foundation , a misty circle in Scotland that lasted only until the day warmed up, a stripe of green grass left by plucking daisies, or paintings in wet mud that dry out and crumble.
(2) It introduces a welcome trenchancy into subjects often shrouded in misty rhetoric.
(3) 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).
(4) The Boston Herald , a local tabloid that spilled oceans of ink denouncing him in life, remembered him with uncharacteristic mistiness.
(5) The implant surfaces evaluated were Silastic II, Siltex, MISTI, Biocell, Silastic MSI, and Même.
(6) I’m sure there will be a few people that will be a misty-eyed about it leaving service, in the same way as Concorde: they are one plane that you can always recognise.” But, Holland-Kaye says, the difference in noise between the 747 and a new plane such as the A350, which comes into service this year, is stark: “It’s far quieter – less of a screeching noise and that’s really welcome for local communities.
(7) I'd like to say I tasted them first on some misty Irish moorland, or was fed them by grizzled crofters in the Scottish highlands (where they are known as tattie scones).
(8) October 24, 2013 Daniel Robinson (@SalmonLeap2) @lengeldavid Third-generation @RedSox supporter getting misty eyed seeing Fenway Dublin.
(9) Note that vast landscape behind them: it depicts among misty mountains the epic wall begun by the first emperor of China more than 2,000 years ago .
(10) That same year, Eastwood directed his first film, Play Misty for Me.
(11) The adrenal function in diabetes mutant mice with misty coat colour (dbm) was investigated by measurements of serum corticosteroids, adrenal weights and adrenal corticosteroid content.
(12) Purified cultures of pancreatic islet cells 4--7 day old postnatal "misty diabetic" mice and normal siblings were established and then maintained in Eagle's minimal essential medium without serum.
(13) KC look ready to lay siege - but they need to be careful not to be caught on the break... 2.11am GMT 1 min It's very misty inside the Cauldron, but that's a result of a lot of pre-game pyrotechnics.
(14) Funny how they never get all misty-eyed and nostalgic for the low-profile, skint men they've known.
(15) The hotel’s Taberna bar is a popular post-work meeting spot, both for the quality of its tapas and the refreshing misty spray puffed over the outdoor seating area in summer.
(16) "At one point the ball was hoofed up the pitch and over the goal," recalls a misty-eyed Paul.
(17) There are seven black women gracing fall magazine covers: Willow Smith, Beyoncé, Kerry Washington, Ciara, Serena Williams, Misty Copeland and Amandla Stenberg.
(18) Behind that wan painting of misty mountains, millions of lives long for self-expression.
(19) My Facebook feed is filled with my friends’ pictures of crabs with no eyes, shrimp and crawfish with one eye or things missing,” Misty Fisher, 24, said.
(20) Throughout the last stretch of the journey, in a minibus driving along winding roads through the misty Welsh landscape, I am in full prodigal-son mode, returning to the land of my fathers, or at least my mother's fathers.
Mity
Definition:
(a.) Having, or abounding with, mites.
Example Sentences:
(1) The chromophore detection rates of Streptococcus mitis were 60.7, 67.9, and 78.6% after growth in THBP, THBP + YE, and CDMT, respectively.
(2) The electrophoretic patterns of 17 gravis, 14 mitis, and 2 intermedius types of C. diphtheriae were compared with the electrophoretic patterns of 5 Robinson and Peeney stock gravis serotype strains.
(3) The present study of the prevalence of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome in a general dermatology population revealed (1) a milder variant of the classic mitis form of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome was common and present in 9% of the population studied, (2) these patients could be easily identified by the use of a defined clinical scoring system, and (3) a statistically significant association existed between clinical findings in Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and electron microscopic collagen abnormalities.
(4) In this report, we present a case of IE caused by S. mitis, which was remarkably improved by oral administration of AMPC.
(5) Strains of S. mitis, S. mutans, and S. salivarius did not appear to adhere as well.
(6) A mutant of Streptococcus mutans GS-5 has been isolated as a smooth colonial variant on mitis salivarius agar.
(7) Vervet monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops), Sykes monkeys (C. mitis) and baboons (Papio cynocephalus) all supported low grade infections for periods ranging between four and eight months and subsequently showed evidence of self-cure.
(8) Serum from 2 of 8 rabbits hyperimmunized with whole cells of S. mutans, S. sobrinus, S. rattus, or S. mitis, assayed by immunofluorescence and radioimmunoassay, revealed antibodies reactive with sarcolemma that could be attributed to immunization.
(9) S. mutans, S. salivarius, S. mitis and S. sanguis strains were isolated from three subjects of blood groups A, B and O. Parotid saliva samples obtained from the same subjects induced aggregation of some of the bacteria, the S. sanguis and the S. mutans strains in particular.
(10) We believe S. mitis bacteremia is a potential complication of bone marrow transplantation and is associated with antimicrobial prophylaxis with norfloxacin, especially in the setting of mucositis.
(11) For a nonvariant streptococcus, the sensitivity was 61.9% and specificity was 93.5% for an isolate to be either S. mitis or S. sanguis II.
(12) Bacterial colonies cultured from supragingival plaque on sheep-blood (SB) agar were replica-plated onto nitrocellulose membranes overlaying SB or mitis-salivarius agar.
(13) Dot blot DNA-DNA hybridizations, using the nutritionally deficient streptococcal DNA as the probe, showed homology to the preceding clinical isolates, S. sanguis II and S. mitis, at 15.4% and 45.1% hybridization levels, respectively.
(14) A complex flora has been isolated from this phlegmom : Pasteurella multocida, Pasteurella pneumotropica, Streptococcus mitis, Actinomyces sp., Bacteroides melaninogenicus, and a Gram- bacteria related to group II j.
(15) Endodontic files were artificially contaminated with about 10,000 colony-forming units of either B. subtilis spores or S. mitis.
(16) Germfree Sprague-Dawley rats, fed a high-sucrose diet, were monoinfected with strains of Streptococcus mitis, Streptococcus sanguis, and Streptococcus mutans.
(17) Plaque samples were dispersed by ultrasonic oscillation, serially diluted, and plated in duplicate on MM10-sucrose-blood agar, mitis salivarius bacitracin agar, and Rogosa tomato juice agar.
(18) Oral streptococci formerly classified as Streptococcus sanguis or Streptococcus mitis have recently been divided into four species.
(19) Mitis salivarius agar (MS) and higher recovery values than modified medium 10 (MM10SB), Trypticase-yeast extract-cystine medium (TYC), or MS with 1% tellurite (MST).
(20) Troops comprising a high density population of samango monkeys (Cercopithecus mitis) in Natal province, South Africa, experienced an influx of adult males during the breeding season.