Is that dark cloud cumulus?
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Cumulus
//ˈkjuː.mjə.ləs//
Synonyms for "cumulus" (63 found)
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Closest matches (13)
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Related words (31)
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40 translations across 24 languages.
Bulgarian
3 entries- куп noun (mound or heap)
- купчина noun (mound or heap)
- кълбест облак noun (white, puffy cloud)
Catalan
1 entries- cúmul noun (white, puffy cloud)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 積雲 /积云 noun (white, puffy cloud)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 積雲 /积云 noun (white, puffy cloud)
Dutch
1 entries- stapelwolk noun (white, puffy cloud)
Finnish
2 entries- kasa noun (mound or heap)
- kumpupilvi noun (white, puffy cloud)
German
4 entries- Cumulus noun (white, puffy cloud)
- Haufenwolke noun (white, puffy cloud)
- Kumulus noun (white, puffy cloud)
- Kumuluswolke noun (white, puffy cloud)
Hungarian
2 entries- gomolyfelhő noun (white, puffy cloud)
- kumulusz noun (white, puffy cloud)
Interlingua
1 entries- cumulo noun (white, puffy cloud)
Italian
1 entries- cumulo noun (white, puffy cloud)
Japanese
2 entries- 堆積 noun (mound or heap)
- 積雲 noun (white, puffy cloud)
Korean
1 entries- 적운 noun (white, puffy cloud)
Latin
2 entries- cumulus noun (white, puffy cloud)
- nubes cumula noun (white, puffy cloud)
Latvian
1 entries- gubu mākonis noun (white, puffy cloud)
Macedonian
1 entries- кумулус noun (white, puffy cloud)
Māori
3 entries- kappa taipua noun (white, puffy cloud)
- kapua whakapipi noun (white, puffy cloud)
- taipua noun (white, puffy cloud)
Polish
1 entries- obłok noun (white, puffy cloud)
Portuguese
4 entries- acúmulo noun (mound or heap)
- cúmulo noun (white, puffy cloud)
- cúmulo noun (mound or heap)
- monte noun (mound or heap)
Romanian
1 entries- cumulus noun (white, puffy cloud)
Russian
1 entries- кучевое облако noun (white, puffy cloud)
Spanish
1 entries- cúmulo noun (white, puffy cloud)
Swedish
1 entries- cumulusmoln noun (white, puffy cloud)
Tagalog
1 entries- buntuning alapaap noun (white, puffy cloud)
Turkish
1 entries- kümülüs noun (white, puffy cloud)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
In the sketch (which is taken about 75 Jovian days after that of the 2nd July) there is shown a dark copper-coloured streak along the southern margin of the south brown belt, butting on to a bluff-headed streak of cumulus cloud which may be the same remarkable bluff head noticed on July 2.
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There were some new cumuli in the east, out above the water, and they began to take the late afternoon sun.
Source: wiktionary
2007 September 1, "Who’s afraid of Google?: The world’s internet superpower faces testing times", in The Economist, The Economist Newspaper Ltd, ISSN 0013-0613, volume 384, number 8544, page 9, Ironically, there is something rather cloudlike about the multiple complaints surrounding Google. The issues are best parted into two cumuli: a set of “public” arguments about how to regulate Google; and a set of “private” ones for Google’s managers, to do with the strategy the firm needs to get through the coming storm.
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