单词 | fogging |
释义 | foggingn.1ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > surfacing or cladding > [noun] > cladding or covering with other materials claying?1523 mudding1632 sanding1670 sodding1688 fogging1704 slatinga1884 1704 Ayr Presbytery Reg. MS 15 Mar. in Sc. National Dict. (1956) IV. 135/3 For the workmanship of the slates and foging. 1725 in H. Lumsden Rec. Trades House Glasgow (1934) II. 108 To Archibald Aldcorn sklatter for pointing and dressing and fogging of the roofe. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feeding animals > [noun] > types of feeding winter feeding1602 soiling1607 fogging1765 stall-feeding1805 suppering1820 box feeding1843 warming1874 self-feed1894 self-feeding1917 zero grazing1954 1765 Museum Rusticum 5 xl. 202 If they [sc. bullocks] are killed in the end of summer, or even after fogging, the butcher finds little tallow in their insides. 1883 Notes & Queries 10 Nov. 377 Cattle turned out in the winter season to find a precarious subsistence in the fields are said to ‘go a-fogging’. 1915 Scotsman 8 Sept. 5/4 Maughan's supplies comprised 940 store cattle and 830 lambs suitable for fogging. 3. Agriculture. The practice of leaving grass uncut or ungrazed in pastures or meadows, esp. in order to provide winter grazing. Cf. fog v.3 2a. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > cutting, reaping, or mowing > mowing of grass > leaving long grass standing fogging1794 1794 C. Hassall Gen. View Agric. Pembroke 13 The practice of what is provincially called Fogging, or keeping the land without stock from June to March. 1804 A. Young Farmer's Cal. 325 Fogging..consists in keeping the whole growth of grass in upland meadows..free from either scythe or stock..and eating it in the following winter. 1834 Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) I. xxxi. 484 There is an ancient practice respecting grass lands in some of the Welch counties, called fogging,—or keeping the land without stock from May or June to December. 1908 R. H. Elliot Clifton Park Syst. Farming Index 253 Fogging destroys moss. 1976 R. J. Colyer Welsh Cattle Drovers i. 6 The practice of ‘fogging’ which was extensively pursued in the counties of Carmarthen, Pembroke and Cardigan, simply involved leaving autumn grass ungrazed until the spring. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). foggingn.2 1. a. The action or result of fog v.1 (in various senses); esp. the fact of being obscured by or as if by fog. Also with up. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > a photograph > qualities and effects > [noun] > indistinctness veil1853 fogging1854 fog1856 halation1859 veiling1864 red fog1873 light fog1880 fuzz1889 soft focus1919 graininess1921 irradiation1924 unsharpness1961 the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > perplexity, bewilderment > [noun] mingingOE riddleOE cumbermentc1300 willa1325 encumbrancec1330 were1338 perplexitya1393 discomfiturea1425 cumbrancec1460 confuse1483 proplexity1487 perplexion?c1500 amazedness?1520 amazement1553 subversion1558 amaze?1560 perplexednessa1586 confusedness1587 puzzle1599 confusion1600 mizmaze1604 discomfita1616 embarras1627 obfuscation1628 mystery1629 confoundedness1641 puzzledness1662 confuseness1710 puzzlement1731 puzzledom1748 embarrassment1751 puzzleation1767 bepuzzlement1806 conjecture1815 mystification1817 bewilderment1819 perplexment1826 fuddle1827 wilderment1830 discomforture1832 head-scratching1832 baffle1843 posement1850 muddlement1857 turbidity1868 fogging1878 bemuddlement1884 harl1889 befuddlement1905 turbidness1906 wuzziness1942 perplexability1999 1854 Jrnl. Photogr. Soc. 21 Jan. 163/2 Another secondary cause of ‘fogging’..is the diffused light reflected from the top, bottom and sides of the camera. 1878 W. Besant & J. Rice By Celia's Arbour I. vii. 100 Some strange fogging of his enthusiastic brain. 1883 Good Words Nov. 722/1 Without dust ‘fogging’ is impossible. 1905 Truth 5 Jan. 17/2 There should be no fogging of the issue. 1932 Boys' Life Nov. 19/1 There are double windows with a device for preventing fogging-up of the glass. 1978 G. C. Hill & J. S. Holman Chem. in Context vi. 65 The fogging of a photographic plate by radioactive materials still has practical applications. 2001 G. C. McGavin Essent. Entomol. 292 Misting or fogging is commonly done early in the morning when there is no wind. 2002 Skiing Mar. 96/2 Your basic modern goggle fights this fogging on three fronts. b. spec. The action or practice of signalling to trains in foggy weather, esp. by placing fog signals on the tracks. Cf. fog v.1 5, fog-signalling n. at fog signal n. Derivatives. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > [noun] > operation of railways > setting of fog signals fog-signalling1856 fogging1870 1870 Birmingham Daily Post 3 Dec. 5/4 He fetched some platelayers to go fogging, and then himself took some fog signals up the line to stop the express. 1886 Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper 26 Dec. 1/5 Engaged in the duty of ‘fogging’. 1889 W. M. Acworth Railways of Eng. vii. 320 ‘Fogging’ is never resorted to merely to protect goods trains. 1902 Bull. Internat. Railway Congr. (Eng. ed.) 16 287 I have given details as to the organisation of the fogging on the Western Railway. 1928 C. J. Allen Railway Planning & Making ix. 115 Nowadays all the fogging of remote tracks is carried out by detonator-placing machines. 2009 M. Hill Milton Keynes Through Time ii. 31 They'd ring it [sc. a bell] from Fenny signal box if they wanted him out to go fogging. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > acting > [noun] > other types of acting puppetry1613 gagging1817 ponging1854 fogging1889 voice acting1928 feeding1929 1889 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang Fogging, getting through one's part anyhow, like a man lost in a fog. Compounds General attributive (in sense 1b), as fogging apparatus, fogging duty, fogging post, etc. ΚΠ 1898 Daily News 5 Jan. 2 A platelayer..proceeding to his post on ‘fogging’ duty, was knocked down. 1903 Railway Engineer Dec. 404/1 After the train has passed..the signalman pulls his fogging lever over, which removes the spent detonator. 1907 Westm. Gaz. 29 Oct. 9/1 The light of the home signal was out when he arrived at his fogging post. 1916 Trans. Liverpool Engin. Soc. 37 64 With the fogging apparatus.., if a driver attempted to pass a signal at danger the detonators would be exploded. 1947 Railway Gaz. Oct. 440/2 The G.W.R. will be able to detail men in good time for fogging duties. 2003 M. C. Duffy Electric Railways 1880–1990 vii. 104 Automatic train stops were installed, and automatic fogging signals which sounded a warning by whistle. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † foggingn.3 Obsolete. The practice or occupation of acting as a middleman in the nail and chain making industries (cf. fogger n.1 3).Recorded earliest in attributive use. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > brokerage > [noun] > types of job-broking1701 fogging1869 ship-brokerage1886 ship-broking1955 yacht brokerage1974 1869 Sheffield & Rotherham Independent 8 May 6/6 A determined effort is being made to check the obnoxious and unjust ‘fogging’ system in the wrought nail trade. 1870 Mechanics' Mag. 25 Nov. 391/2 I have personally visited some of these ‘Tommy Shops’ among the..nailing villages, and taken the sense of the poor people..as to the working of the combined system of ‘fogging’ and ‘tommying’. 1894 Gloss. Terms Evid. Royal Comm. Labour 43/1 in Parl. Papers 1893–4 (C. 7063–VC) XXXVIII. 411 Fogging, the system by which small employers in the nail and chain trade..make their profits by paying their workpeople less than the recognised price, and by selling their work..to the larger employers. 1902 Quiver Jan. 7/2 From being a forger of nails,..he had advanced to being..a Master on a small scale, and he had combined fogging with production. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online September 2018). † foggingadj.1 Obsolete. Deceitful; underhand; dishonourable. Cf. fog v.2, fogger n.1 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [adjective] ficklea1000 hinderyeapc1000 swikelc1000 as right (also stiff, straight, crooked, etc.) as a ram's hornOE fakenOE swikefulc1100 frakelc1175 swikec1175 wrenchfulc1225 wielfulc1275 ginfulc1300 guileful13.. treacherousc1330 guilesomea1382 guilousc1384 enginousa1393 deceivant1393 treacherc1400 serpentinec1422 deceivousa1425 guilyc1430 beguilous1483 slapea1500 fallacious1509 treget1519 gaudya1529 beguileful1530 Spanish1530 juggling?1531 snakish1532 prestigious?1534 knack-hardy1549 pratting1570 fogging1585 snakya1586 abusive1595 faithless1597 faiterous1600 guiled1600 trompant1605 amusing1609 braida1616 dodging1625 Ulyssean1639 tricksome1648 knackish1660 hocus-pocus1668 bubbling1675 rusé1689 tricking1697 trickish1705 lurching1728 tricksy1766 trickful1775 tricky1786 slippy1828 shirky1847 dodgy1861 sidewinding1902 slithery1902 hyping1968 deceiteous- the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > [adjective] > cheating trifling?a1400 cogging1542 cheatingc1555 flim-flam1577 overreaching1579 cozening1583 fogging1585 circumventing1603 gulling1614 imposturing1618 chicaning1698 crimping1699 bilking1732 humbugging1752 imposinga1754 nailing1819 1585 G. Whetstone Mirror Treue Honour & Christian Nobilitie sig. Ciij The fogging mate, is worse, then he that steales. 1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 82 The fogging proctorage of money. 1682 T. Wilson Serm. Martyrdom King Charles I 18 One Bradshaw, a fogging fellow, of obscure birth. 1789 R. Broome Lett. Simpkin Second (new ed.) ii. xxv. 125 One might travel a seven days' journey, Before one might find such a fogging Attorney. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2018). foggingadj.2 That fogs or is fogged (see fog v.1); spec. (of the weather) foggy. ΚΠ a1617 S. Hieron Penance for Sinne in Wks. (1620) II. 191 In some sicknesses, you shall see a man forget himselfe a little by some fogging sleepe. 1881 J. T. Taylor Photographic Amateur xii. 62 Sensitizing the plate in any bath, even though it were one producing fogging pictures. 1883 Trans. Royal Soc. Edinb. 30 349 At once a densely fogging atmosphere was produced. 1957 Oxnard (Calif.) Press-Courier 18 Dec. 14/1 Drizzly, fogging weather in Central California..prevented shipping a normal harvest. 2008 Backpacker June 51/1 Most personal defense sprays shoot a thin stream and not the fogging cloud that you want to stop a charging bear. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11704n.21854n.31869adj.11585adj.2a1617 |
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