Blur vs. Fog

Blurverb

To make indistinct or hazy, to obscure or dim.

‘to blur a photograph by moving the camera while taking it’;

Fognoun

(uncountable) A thick cloud that forms near the ground; the obscurity of such a cloud.

Blurverb

To smear, stain or smudge.

‘to blur a manuscript by handling it while damp’;

Fognoun

(uncountable) A mist or film clouding a surface.

Blurverb

(intransitive) To become indistinct.

Fognoun

A state of mind characterized by lethargy and confusion.

‘He did so many drugs, he was still in a fog three months after going through detox.’;

Blurverb

To cause imperfection of vision in; to dim; to darken.

Fognoun

(photography) A silver deposit or other blur on a negative or developed photographic image.

Blurverb

To sully; to stain; to blemish, as reputation.

Fognoun

(computer graphics) Distance fog.

Blurverb

To transfer the input focus away from.

Fognoun

A new growth of grass appearing on a field that has been mowed or grazed.

Blurnoun

A smear, smudge or blot

Fognoun

Tall and decaying grass left standing after the cutting or grazing season; foggage.

Blurnoun

Something that appears hazy or indistinct

Fognoun

(Scotland) Moss.

Blurnoun

(obsolete) A moral stain or blot.

Fogverb

(intransitive) To become covered with or as if with fog.

Bluradjective

In a state of doubt or confusion.

Fogverb

(intransitive) To become obscured in condensation or water.

‘The mirror fogged every time he showered.’;

Blurverb

To render obscure by making the form or outline of confused and uncertain, as by soiling; to smear; to make indistinct and confused; as, to blur manuscript by handling it while damp; to blur the impression of a woodcut by an excess of ink.

‘But time hath nothing blurred those lines of favorWhich then he wore.’;

Fogverb

To become dim or obscure.

Blurverb

To cause imperfection of vision in; to dim; to darken.

‘Her eyes are blurred with the lightning's glare.’;

Fogverb

(transitive) To cover with or as if with fog.

Blurverb

To sully; to stain; to blemish, as reputation.

‘Sarcasms may eclipse thine own,But can not blur my lost renown.’;

Fogverb

(transitive) To disperse insecticide into (a forest canopy) so as to collect organisms.

Blurnoun

That which obscures without effacing; a stain; a blot, as upon paper or other substance.

‘As for those who cleanse blurs with blotted fingers, they make it worse.’;

Fogverb

(transitive) To obscure in condensation or water.

Blurnoun

A dim, confused appearance; indistinctness of vision; as, to see things with a blur; it was all blur.

Fogverb

(transitive) To make confusing or obscure.

Blurnoun

A moral stain or blot.

‘Lest she . . . will with her railing set a great blur on mine honesty and good name.’;

Fogverb

To make dim or obscure.

Blurnoun

a hazy or indistinct representation;

‘it happened so fast it was just a blur’; ‘he tried to clear his head of the whisky fuzz’;

Fogverb

To practice in a small or mean way; to pettifog.

Blurverb

become glassy; lose clear vision;

‘Her eyes glazed over from lack of sleep’;

Fogverb

(transitive) To pasture cattle on the fog, or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from.

Blurverb

to make less distinct or clear;

‘The haze blurs the hills’;

Fogverb

(intransitive) To become covered with the kind of grass called fog.

Blurverb

make unclear, indistinct, or blurred;

‘Her remarks confused the debate’; ‘Their words obnubilate their intentions’;

Fognoun

A second growth of grass; aftergrass.

Blurverb

make a smudge on; soil by smudging

Fognoun

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.

Blurverb

make dim or indistinct;

‘The drug blurs my vision’;

Fognoun

A state of mental confusion.

Blurverb

become vague or indistinct;

‘The distinction between the two theories blurred’;

Fognoun

Cloudiness or partial opacity of those parts of a developed film or a photograph which should be clear.

Fogverb

To pasture cattle on the fog, or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from.

Fogverb

To practice in a small or mean way; to pettifog.

‘Where wouldst thou fog to get a fee?’;

Fogverb

To envelop, as with fog; to befog; to overcast; to darken; to obscure.

Fogverb

To render semiopaque or cloudy, as a negative film, by exposure to stray light, too long an exposure to the developer, etc.

Fogverb

To show indistinctly or become indistinct, as the picture on a negative sometimes does in the process of development.

Fognoun

droplets of water vapor suspended in the air near the ground

Fognoun

an atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance

Fognoun

confusion characterized by lack of clarity

Fogverb

make less visible or unclear;

‘The stars are obscured by the clouds’;

Fognoun

a thick cloud of tiny water droplets suspended in the atmosphere at or near the earth's surface which obscures or restricts visibility (to a greater extent than mist; strictly, reducing visibility to below 1 km)

‘the collision occurred in thick fog’;

Fognoun

an opaque mass of particles in the air

‘a whirling fog of dust’;

Fognoun

cloudiness which obscures the image on a developed negative or print.

Fognoun

a state or cause of perplexity or confusion

‘the coffee helped clear the fog in my brain’;

Fognoun

the grass which grows in a field after a crop of hay has been taken.

Fognoun

long grass left standing in a pasture and used as winter grazing.

Fogverb

(with reference to a glass surface) cover or become covered with steam

‘the windscreen was starting to fog up’; ‘hot steam drifted about her, fogging up the window’;

Fogverb

make (a film, negative, or print) obscure or cloudy.

Fogverb

bewilder or puzzle

‘she stared at him, confusion fogging her brain’;

Fogverb

make (an idea or situation) difficult to understand

‘the government has been fogging the issue’;

Fogverb

spray with an insecticide.

Fog

Fog is a visible aerosol consisting of tiny water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air at or near the Earth's surface. Fog can be considered a type of low-lying cloud usually resembling stratus, and is heavily influenced by nearby bodies of water, topography, and wind conditions.