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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cloud of gas |
| Synonyms: | galaxy, nimbus, vapor |
| Main Entry: | film |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | coating, tissue; mist |
| Synonyms: | blur, brume, cloud, coat, covering, dusting, fabric, foil, fold, gauze, haze, haziness, integument, layer, leaf, membrane, mistiness, nebula, obscuration, opacity, partition, pellicle, scum*, sheet, skin, transparency, veil, web |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fog |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | heavy mist that reduces visibility |
| Synonyms: | London fog, brume, cloud, effluvium, film, gloom, grease, ground clouds, haze, miasma, murk, murkiness, nebula, obscurity, pea soup, smaze, smog, smoke, smother, soup, steam, vapor, visibility zero-zero, wisp |
| Notes: | haze is atmospheric moisture or dust or smoke that causes reduced visibility while fog is droplets of water vapor suspended in the air near the ground causing reduced visibility |
| Antonyms: | clearness |
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Example Sentences
- Chandra's image shows a bright nebula surrounded by a much larger diffuse cloud.
- Now researchers have caught one of these shining suns in the act of nebula formation.
- Nebula isn't an absent-minded professor, he's an absent professor.
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