cloud
IPA: kɫˈaʊd
noun
- (obsolete) A rock; boulder; a hill.
- A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
- Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.
- Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.
- (figurative) Anything unsubstantial.
- A dark spot on a lighter material or background.
- A group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying.
- An elliptical shape or symbol whose outline is a series of semicircles, supposed to resemble a cloud.
- A telecom network (from their representation in engineering drawings)
- (computing, with "the") The Internet, regarded as an abstract amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing.
- (figuratively) A negative or foreboding aspect of something positive: see every cloud has a silver lining or every silver lining has a cloud.
- (slang) Crystal methamphetamine.
- A large, loosely-knitted headscarf worn by women.
- A surname.
verb
- (intransitive) To become foggy or gloomy, or obscured from sight.
- (transitive) To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds.
- Of the breath, to become cloud; to turn into mist.
- (transitive) To make obscure.
- (transitive) To make less acute or perceptive.
- (transitive) To make gloomy or sullen.
- (transitive) To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish (reputation or character).
- (transitive) To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors.
- (intransitive) To become marked, darkened or variegated in this way.
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Examples of "cloud" in Sentences
- The cloud is impregnated by rain.
- The clouds are in the lower levels.
- Fierce clouds are portentous of danger.
- The cloud top is where the snow, rain and sleet come from.
- The trees sway in the breeze, and the sky has moving clouds.
- Role of cloud is crucial in the formation of rain in meteorology.
- The sky is overcast with dark clouds and the stars are hid behind them.
- The dark sky blue above is streaked by thin, wispy clouds of various sizes.
- The latter offers him billowing rain clouds through which to dance and loll.
- At other locations in the sky, the clouds are subject to turbulence and mixing.