cloud
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[edit] Etymology
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- IPA: /klaʊd/
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- Rhymes: -aʊd
[edit] Noun
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cloud (plural clouds)
- A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
- Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.
- Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.
- A group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying.
- He opened the door and was greeted by a cloud of bats.
- 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.
- (computing, with the) The Internet, regarded as an amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing.
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visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air
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mass of dust, steam or smoke
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anything which makes things foggy or gloomy
group of objects suspended above the ground or flying
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[edit] See also
Cloud on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons- Appendix:Collective nouns
[edit] Verb
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to cloud (third-person singular simple present clouds, present participle clouding, simple past and past participle clouded)
- To become foggy or gloomy, to become obscured from sight.
- 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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