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Jan 24, 2014 · Jan 24, 2014. #2. Normally you use 'mist'. If something began a long time ago, so that we no longer know how or why it began, we say its origin is 'lost in the mists of time'. This is probably the only common use today of 'mists'. It has a literary flavour, and it probably had in Dickens's time too: if Dickens had gone out into the street and ...
Apr 30, 2013 · Apr 30, 2013. #6. They might be abbreviations for mistress and master. 'Mast' looks very breast-like if you see it as a Greek root, and the 'i' and 'a' that distinguish the two words - well, one looks flat or even masculine and the other looks very rounded. Humbert seems to prefer this to the traditional "chalk and cheese".
Sep 28, 2008 · Despite the precise definition of steam (taken literally it is something that we cannot see) it is normal usage here (at least) to refer to kettles steaming, wet clothes steaming, sweaty people steaming, and so on. We also talk about windows or spectacles being steamed up. The stuff we can see may not, strictly speaking, be steam, but that's ...
Mar 26, 2008 · Mar 27, 2008. #20. We seem to be missing mizzle, which quite logically fills the gap between mist and drizzle. It's partly a question of droplet size. <100 microns - mist droplets are so small that they remain suspended in the air. 100-200 Mizzle. 200-300 Drizzle. 300-1,000 Light rain. >1000 Rain.
fog和mist的用法差别尽管两个词都有“雾、雾气”的意思，fog 相对要来得更浓一些，时间更长些。因此，一般在气象预报上惯用 fog。汽车的雾灯也用 fog light 表示。mist 更多地被用于下列几种情形：1. 由加湿器中产生
Aug 11, 2013 · Aug 11, 2013. #1. Hi guys, I found something I don't understand from the book Ender's Game and I hope you guys could enlighten mean. The term is "Medley's Mist-E-Rub" and here's the context. [ They went out Lake Brandt Road and turned off just past the lake, following a road that wound down and up until they came to a white clapboard mansion ...
May 12, 2007 · Hola: "Mist tent" se le dice a las "carpas" utilizadas en el hospital, usualmente se usan en pacientes pediátricos, y para mantener una concentración adecuada de oxigeno. In the hospital, a child with croup is often put in a mist tent. This is a plastic enclosure filled with mist from a vaporizer. Mist tents are also used to treat infants ...
Apr 30, 2009 · "Ssh!, he said, the words turning to red mist and circling us like butterflies" The scene goes like this: there are some zombies coming out of a building, and the guy here just tells his friends to shut up before spreading his arms in front of them and backing them to the wall. As the guy is...
Jun 7, 2016 · English. Jun 7, 2016. #2. The Merriam-Webster dictionary gives "a period of time about the middle of a continuing act or condition <in the midst of a meal" for "midst", so I would say that you could use either word in your context. The event does not have to be exactly in the middle, but "about the middle", so I would not use either word if it ...
Sep 1, 2012 · There's obviously a reason for the difference in tense, but semantically, it doesn't make a big difference. Did - strictly past (Did I miss something? (in the past, which is done and gone) Have I missed something? - literally means - Did I miss something in the past continuing up until the present moment - hence, present perfect. M.
