cloud

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   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.
2. 2

   Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.

3. 3

   Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.

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   1. 4

      Anything unsubstantial.

   2. 5

      A dark spot on a lighter material or background.

   3. 6

      A group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying.

      • He opened the door and was greeted by a cloud of bats.
      • so great a cloud of witnesses
   4. 7

      An elliptical shape or symbol whose outline is a series of semicircles, supposed to…

      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.
   5. 8

      A telecom network (from their representation in engineering drawings).

   6. 9

      The Internet, regarded as an abstract amorphous omnipresent space for processing and…

      The Internet, regarded as an abstract amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing.

      • […]the cloud could do this, it could do that. The cloud could be powerful and intelligent. It became a business buzzword and a selling point.
      • “But there’s no fucking cloud,” says Crabapple, “there’s other people’s computers. There are vast datacentres that are sucking up water and electricity and rare-earth metals, literally boiling up the planet […]”
   7. 10

      A negative or foreboding aspect of something positive

      A negative or foreboding aspect of something positive: see every cloud has a silver lining or every silver lining has a cloud.

      • 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.
      • The only cloud on their night was that injury to Rafael, who was followed off the pitch by his anxious brother Fabio as he was stretchered away down the tunnel.
   8. 11

      Crystal methamphetamine.

   9. 12

      A large, loosely-knitted headscarf worn by women.

   10. 13

       A white cat.

   11. 14

       A rock

       A rock; boulder; a hill.

   12. 15

       To become foggy or gloomy, or obscured from sight.

       • The glass clouds when you breathe on it.
   13. 16

       To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds.

       • The sky is clouded.
   14. 17

       Of the breath, to become cloud

       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.
   15. 18

       To make obscure.

       • All this talk about human rights is clouding the real issue.
   16. 19

       To make less acute or perceptive.

       • Your emotions are clouding your judgement.
       • The tears began to well up and cloud my vision.
   17. 20

       To make gloomy or sullen.

       • One day too late, I fear me, noble lord, Hath clouded all thy happy days on earth.
       • Be not disheartened, then, nor cloud those looks.
   18. 21

       To blacken

       To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish (reputation or character).

       • I would not be a stander-by to hear My sovereign mistress clouded so, without My present vengeance taken.
   19. 22

       To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports

       To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors.

       • to cloud yarn
       • The nice conduct of a clouded cane
   20. 23

       To become marked, darkened or variegated in this way.

   21. 24

       A surname.

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