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Definition of Cloud
1. Noun. Any collection of particles (e.g., smoke or dust) or gases that is visible.
Generic synonyms: Physical Phenomenon
2. Verb. Make overcast or cloudy. "Fall weather often overcasts our beaches"
Generic synonyms: Darken
Specialized synonyms: Fog Up, Haze
Also: Cloud Over, Cloud Up
Derivative terms: Clouding, Overcast, Overcast
Antonyms: Clear Up
3. Noun. A visible mass of water or ice particles suspended at a considerable altitude.
Group relationships: Sky
Generic synonyms: Atmospheric Phenomenon
Terms within: Water Vapor, Water Vapour
Derivative terms: Cloudy
4. Verb. Make less visible or unclear. "The big elm tree obscures our view of the valley"
Generic synonyms: Conceal, Hide
Specialized synonyms: Overshadow
Derivative terms: Fog, Fog
5. Noun. Out of touch with reality. "His head was in the clouds"
6. Verb. Billow up in the form of a cloud. "The smoke clouded above the houses"
7. Noun. A cause of worry or gloom or trouble. "The only cloud on the horizon was the possibility of dissent by the French"
8. Verb. Make gloomy or depressed. "Their faces were clouded with sadness"
9. Noun. Suspicion affecting your reputation. "After that mistake he was under a cloud"
10. Verb. Place under suspicion or cast doubt upon. "Sully someone's reputation"
Generic synonyms: Deflower, Impair, Mar, Spoil, Vitiate
11. Noun. A group of many things in the air or on the ground. "It discharged a cloud of spores"
Generic synonyms: Group, Grouping
Member holonyms: Insect
Specialized synonyms: Infestation, Plague
Derivative terms: Swarm
12. Verb. Make less clear. "The stroke clouded memories of her youth"
13. Verb. Colour with streaks or blotches of different shades.
Generic synonyms: Spot
Specialized synonyms: Harlequin, Speckle, Stipple
Derivative terms: Dapple, Mottling
14. Verb. Make milky or dull. "The chemical clouded the liquid to which it was added"
Definition of Cloud
1. n. A collection of visible vapor, or watery particles, suspended in the upper atmosphere.
2. v. t. To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds; as, the sky is clouded.
3. v. i. To grow cloudy; to become obscure with clouds; -- often used with up.
Definition of Cloud
1. Noun. (obsolete) A rock; boulder; a hill. ¹
2. Noun. A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air. ¹
3. Noun. Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass. ¹
4. Noun. Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy. ¹
5. Noun. A group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying. ¹
6. Noun. An elliptical shape or symbol whose outline is a series of semicircles, supposed to resemble a cloud. ¹
7. Noun. (computing with '''the''') The Internet, regarded as an amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing. ¹
8. Noun. (figuratively) A negative aspect of something positive: see every cloud has a silver lining or every silver lining has a cloud. ¹
9. Noun. (slang) crystal methamphetamine ¹
10. Verb. To become foggy or gloomy, to become obscured from sight. ¹
11. Verb. To make obscure (e.g. to cloud the issue). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cloud
1. to cover with clouds (masses of visible vapor) [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cloud
Literary usage of Cloud
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1909)
"ing inductively that accounts for such pressures. A combined stress is set up
towards the earth or towards another cloud mass of opposite charge. ..."
2. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1903)
"I have often felt a little fall of spirits when a dark cloud passed over the ...
As far back as I can remember I have felt a fall in spirits when a cloud ..."
3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1853)
"The Cumulus cloud forms from below. The invisible vapour of the lower ...
The Cumulus cloud is ever changing in form. Cumulating from a level base, ..."