cloud

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Photograph of clouds

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[edit] Etymology

Old English clud

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• IPA: /klaʊd/
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• Rhymes: -aʊd

[edit] Noun

cloud (plural clouds)

1. A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
2. Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.
3. Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.
4. A group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying.

   He opened the door and was greeted by a cloud of bats.

5. 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.

6. (computing, with the) The Internet, regarded as an amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing.

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• Cloud on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons
• Appendix:Collective nouns

[edit] Verb

to 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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• Alphagram: cdlou
• could