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cloud
[kloud]
noun
a visible collection of particles of water or ice suspended in the air, usually at an elevation above the earth's surface.
Synonyms:any similar mass, especially of smoke or dust.
a dim or obscure area in something otherwise clear or transparent.
a patch or spot differing in color from the surrounding surface.
anything that obscures or darkens something, or causes gloom, trouble, suspicion, disgrace, etc.
a great number of insects, birds, etc., flying together.
a cloud of locusts obscuring the sun.
Synonyms: , , , , , ,Digital Technology.Usually the cloud any of several, often proprietary, parts of the internet that allow online processing and storage of documents and data as well as electronic access to software and other resources.
More and more software companies are encouraging users to store their work in the cloud.
adjective
of or relating to cloud computing.
cloud software; cloud servers.
relating to or doing business on the internet.
Google and other cloud companies.
verb (used with object)
to overspread or cover with, or as with, a cloud or clouds.
The smoke from the fire clouded the sun from view.
to overshadow; obscure; darken.
The hardships of war cloud his childhood memories.
to make gloomy.
(of distress, anxiety, etc.) to reveal itself in (a part of one's face).
Worry clouded his brow.
to make obscure or indistinct; confuse.
Don't cloud the issue with unnecessary details.
Synonyms: ,to place under suspicion, disgrace, etc.
to variegate with patches of another color.
cloud
/ ʊ /
noun
a mass of water or ice particles visible in the sky, usually white or grey, from which rain or snow falls when the particles coagulate See also cirrus cumulonimbus cumulus stratus
any collection of particles visible in the air, esp of smoke or dust
a large number of insects or other small animals in flight
something that darkens, threatens, or carries gloom
jewellery a cloudlike blemish in a transparent stone
(modifier) of or relating to cloud computing
a cloud application
not in contact with reality
under reproach or suspicion
in a state of gloom or bad temper
informalelated; very happy
verb
to make or become cloudy, overcast, or indistinct
(tr) to make obscure; darken
(tr) to confuse or impair
emotion clouded his judgment
to make or become gloomy or depressed
(tr) to place under or render liable to suspicion or disgrace
to render (liquids) milky or dull or (of liquids) to become milky or dull
to become or render mottled or variegated
cloud
A visible body of very fine water droplets or ice particles suspended in the atmosphere at altitudes ranging up to several miles above sea level. Clouds are formed when air that contains water vapor cools below the dew point.
A distinguishable mass of particles or gas, such as the collection of gases and dust in a nebula.
Other Word Forms
- cloudlike adjective
- intercloud verb (used with object)
- ˈdzܻԱ noun
- ˈdzܻˌ adjective
- ˈdzܻ adverb
- ˈdzܻ adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of cloud1
Word History and Origins
Origin of cloud1
Idioms and Phrases
on a cloud, exceedingly happy; in high spirits.
On the night of the prom the seniors were on a cloud.
under a cloud, in disgrace; under suspicion.
After going bankrupt he left town under a cloud.
in the clouds,
in a condition of absent-mindedness; lost in reverie.
impractical.
Their schemes are usually up in the clouds.
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Dark, dense clouds of smoke had engulfed the room.
He says the antipsychotics and antidepressants make him feel "zombified" and his memories are clouded.
He does this by flashing shiny, fleeting baubles that further his parochial interests, while more consequential matters drift by like a passing cloud, unnoticed – leaving the hard, complex stuff to fade into neglect.
With cloud cover in the afternoon and thunderstorms moving on southerly wind, it will be hot and humid with the cloudiness limiting the daytime heating.
The 30-year-old fast bowler had come into the match with something of a cloud hanging over him having recently served a short ban for recreational drug use.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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