cloud

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Clouds

Etymology [edit]

From Middle English cloud, cloude, clod, clud, clude, from Old English clūd (“mass of stone, rock, boulder, hill”), from Proto-Germanic *klūtaz, *klutaz (“lump, mass, conglomeration”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to ball up, clench”). Cognate with Scots cloud, clud (“cloud”), Dutch kluit (“lump, mass, clod”), Low German kluut, klute, kloot (“lump, mass, ball”), German Kloß (“lump, dumpling, meatball”), Danish klode (“sphere, orb, planet”), Swedish klot (“sphere, orb, ball, globe”), Icelandic klót (“knob on a sword's hilt”). Related to clod, clot.

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cloud (plural clouds)

  1. (obsolete) A rock; boulder; a hill.
  2. A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
  3. Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.
  4. Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.
  5. A group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying.
    He opened the door and was greeted by a cloud of bats.
  6. 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.
  7. (computing, with the) The Internet, regarded as an amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing.
  8. (figuratively) A negative aspect of something positive: see every cloud has a silver lining or every silver lining has a cloud.
    • 2011 January 25, Phil McNulty, “Blackpool 2 - 3 Man Utd”, BBC:
      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.
  9. (slang) crystal methamphetamine

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visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air
mass of dust, steam or smoke
anything which makes things foggy or gloomy
group of objects suspended above the ground or flying
the Internet
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Verb [edit]

cloud (third-person singular simple present clouds, present participle clouding, simple past and past participle clouded)

  1. To become foggy or gloomy, to become obscured from sight.
  2. To make obscure (e.g. to cloud the issue).

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to become foggy or gloomy, to become obscured from sight
to make obscure (e.g. to cloud the issue)
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