cloud

[ kloud ]

/ klaʊd /

noun

a visible collection of particles of water or ice suspended in the air, usually at an elevation above the earth's surface.

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.

Digital Technology. 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 (usually preceded by the): 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.

to place under suspicion, disgrace, etc.

to variegate with patches of another color.

verb (used without object)

to grow cloudy; become clouded.

(of a part of one's face) to reveal one's distress, anxiety, etc.: His brow clouded with anger.

Idioms for cloud

in the clouds,

in a condition of absent-mindedness; lost in reverie.
impractical: Their schemes are usually up in the clouds.

on a cloud, Informal. 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.

Origin of cloud

before 900; Middle English; Old English clūd rock, hill; probably akin to clod

SYNONYMS FOR cloud

1 vapor.

6 swarm, horde, multitude, throng, host, crowd, army.

14 muddle, distort.

SEE SYNONYMS FOR cloud ON THESAURUS.COM

synonym study for cloud

19. Cloud, fog, haze, mist differ somewhat in their figurative uses. Cloud connotes especially daydreaming: His mind is in the clouds. Fog and haze connote especially bewilderment or confusion: to go around in a fog ( haze ). Mist has an emotional connotation and suggests tears: a mist in one's eyes.

OTHER WORDS FROM cloud

cloud·like, adjective in·ter·cloud, verb (used with object)

Words nearby cloud

clotted cream, clotting factor, clotty, cloture, clou, cloud, cloud banner, cloud base, cloud chamber, cloud computing, cloud cover

Definition for clouds (2 of 2)

Clouds, The

noun

a comedy (423 b.c.) by Aristophanes.

Example sentences from the Web for clouds

The garrulous assistant to a fading screen siren in Clouds of Sils Maria.

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His ideology is just so strong and so powerful that it clouds his vision for common sense and objectiveness.

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Clouds are full of microbes; they have been found in deep mines and on the ocean floor.

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“The way those painting depicted light and clouds always just stuck with me,” says Senatori.

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The premise comes and goes, however, and even the rest of “Clouds” focuses more on sensuality than sci-fi.

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It was midday, then, on the tropic seas, and the horizon was closing in with clouds as of blood and vapours of stifling heat.

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Forty church steeples in one warnt nowhar to that ere pinnacle in the clouds.

The Crest of the Continent |Ernest Ingersoll
Quecholli means 'peacock,' but the interpreter of the Codex Telleriano-Remensis calls it the 'serpent of the clouds.'

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The appointment was hardly made, when clouds of distrust began to roll over the spirit of Philip.

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In the astral atmospheres of the spiritual man, there are no clouds, and fear is unknown.

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British Dictionary definitions for clouds

cloud

/ (klaʊd) /

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

in the clouds not in contact with reality

under a cloud

under reproach or suspicion
in a state of gloom or bad temper

on cloud nine informal elated; very happy

verb

(when intr, often foll by over or up) 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

Derived forms of cloud

cloudless, adjective cloudlessly, adverb cloudlessness, noun cloudlike, adjective

Word Origin for cloud

C13 (in the sense: a mass of vapour): from Old English clūd rock, hill; probably related to clod

Scientific definitions for clouds

cloud

[ kloud ]

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.

Cultural definitions for clouds

clouds

Particles of water or ice suspended in the air. (See cirrus clouds, cumulus clouds, nimbus clouds, and stratus clouds.)

Idioms and Phrases with clouds

cloud

In addition to the idioms beginning with cloud

cloud over

also see:

head in the clouds
on cloud nine
silver lining, every cloud has
under a cloud

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