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Cloud

//klaʊd// name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun

1
A surname.

Noun

1
A rock; boulder; a hill. obsolete
2
a group of many things in the air or on the ground wordnet
3
A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
"While he thus ſpake, there came a cloud, and ouerſhadowed them, ⁊ they feared, as they entred into the cloude."
4
a visible mass of water or ice particles suspended at a considerable altitude wordnet
5
Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.
"Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles."

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any collection of particles (e.g., smoke or dust) or gases that is visible wordnet
7
Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.
"But in one part of the horizon a cloud lay, and the rulers of India were oppressed with a sense of coming disaster. This cloud had begun to form in 1873, and had been continually growing larger; it threw a shadow over gold-debtor nations, and shed a depressing influence over gold-using countries."
8
out of touch with reality wordnet
9
Anything unsubstantial. figuratively
10
suspicion affecting your reputation wordnet
11
A dark spot on a lighter material or background.
12
a cause of worry or gloom or trouble wordnet
13
A group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying.
"He opened the door and was greeted by a cloud of bats."
14
An elliptical shape or symbol whose outline is a series of semicircles, supposed to resemble a cloud.
"The comic-book character's thoughts appeared in a cloud above his head."
15
A telecom network (from their representation in engineering drawings).
16
The Internet, regarded as an abstract amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing. with-definite-article
"Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet."
17
A negative or foreboding aspect of something positive: see every cloud has a silver lining or every silver lining has a cloud. figuratively
"But when he found that some of his interrogatories were evaded, and others answered undecisively, the look of gentleness which he had assumed, vanished, and his brow wore the cloud of disappointment and of anger."
18
Crystal methamphetamine. slang
19
A large, loosely-knitted headscarf worn by women.
20
A white cat. Internet, endearing, humorous

Verb

1
To become foggy or gloomy, or obscured from sight. intransitive
"The glass clouds when you breathe on it."
2
make milky or dull wordnet
3
To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds. transitive
"The sky is clouded."
4
colour with streaks or blotches of different shades wordnet
5
Of the breath, to become cloud; to turn into mist.
"The horses stamping Their warm breath clouding In the sharp and frosty morning Of the day."

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make less clear wordnet
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To make obscure. transitive
"All this talk about human rights is clouding the real issue."
8
place under suspicion or cast doubt upon wordnet
9
To make less acute or perceptive. transitive
"Your emotions are clouding your judgement."
10
make gloomy or depressed wordnet
11
To make gloomy or sullen. transitive
"One day too late, I fear me, noble lord, Hath clouded all thy happy days on earth."
12
billow up in the form of a cloud wordnet
13
To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish (reputation or character). transitive
"I would not be a stander-by to hear My sovereign mistress clouded so, without My present vengeance taken."
14
make less visible or unclear wordnet
15
To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors. transitive
"to cloud yarn"
16
make overcast or cloudy wordnet
17
To become marked, darkened or variegated in this way. intransitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English cloud, from Old English clūd (“mass of stone, rock, boulder, hill”), from Proto-West Germanic *klūt, from Proto-Germanic *klūtaz, *klutaz (“lump, mass, conglomeration”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to ball up, clench”). Cognate with Scots clood, clud (“cloud”), Dutch kluit (“lump, mass, clod”), German Low German Kluut, Kluute (“lump, mass, ball”), German Kloß (“lump, ball, dumpling”), Danish klode (“sphere, orb, planet”), Swedish klot (“sphere, orb, ball, globe”), Icelandic klót (“knob on a sword's hilt”). Related to English clod, clot, clump, club. Largely replaced Middle English wolken, from Old English wolcn (whence Modern English welkin), the commonest Germanic word (compare Dutch wolk, German Wolke).

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