Definitions for cloud
klaʊdcloud

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. cloudnoun

   any collection of particles (e.g., smoke or dust) or gases that is visible

2. cloudnoun

   a visible mass of water or ice particles suspended at a considerable altitude

3. cloudnoun

   out of touch with reality

   "his head was in the clouds"

4. cloudnoun

   a cause of worry or gloom or trouble

   "the only cloud on the horizon was the possibility of dissent by the French"

5. cloudnoun

   suspicion affecting your reputation

   "after that mistake he was under a cloud"

6. swarm, cloudverb

   a group of many things in the air or on the ground

   "a swarm of insects obscured the light"; "clouds of blossoms"; "it discharged a cloud of spores"

7. overcast, cloudverb

   make overcast or cloudy

   "Fall weather often overcasts our beaches"

8. obscure, befog, becloud, obnubilate, haze over, fog, cloud, mistverb

   make less visible or unclear

   "The stars are obscured by the clouds"; "the big elm tree obscures our view of the valley"

9. cloudverb

   billow up in the form of a cloud

   "The smoke clouded above the houses"

10. cloudverb

    make gloomy or depressed

    "Their faces were clouded with sadness"

11. defile, sully, corrupt, taint, cloudverb

    place under suspicion or cast doubt upon

    "sully someone's reputation"

12. cloudverb

    make less clear

    "the stroke clouded memories of her youth"

13. mottle, dapple, cloudverb

    colour with streaks or blotches of different shades

14. cloudverb

    make milky or dull

    "The chemical clouded the liquid to which it was added"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. cloudnoun

   A rock; boulder; a hill.

2. cloudnoun

   A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.

3. cloudnoun

   Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.

4. cloudnoun

   Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.

5. cloudnoun

   A group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying.

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

6. cloudnoun

   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. cloudnoun

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

8. cloudnoun

   A negative aspect of something positive: see every cloud has a silver lining or every silver lining has a cloud.

9. cloudnoun

   crystal methamphetamine

10. cloudverb

    To become foggy or gloomy, to become obscured from sight.

11. cloudverb

    To make obscure (e.g. to cloud the issue).

12. Etymology: From cloud, cloude, clod, clud, clude, from clud, from klūtaz, from gel-. Cognate with cloud, clud, kluit, kluut, klute, kloot, Kloß, klode, klot, klót. Related to clod, clot.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. A CLOUDnoun

   Etymology: The derivation is not known. John Minsheu derives it from claudo, to shut; Somner from clod; Casaubin from αχλὺς, darkness; Stephen Skinner from kladde, Dutch, a spot.

   1. The dark collection of vapours in the air.

   Now are the clouds that lower’d upon our house,
   In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. William Shakespeare, Rich. III.

   As a mist is a multitude of small but solid globules, which therefore descend; so a vapour, and therefore a watry cloud, is nothing else but a congeries of very small and concave globules, which therefore ascend, to that height in which they are of equal weight with the air, where they remain suspended, ’till, by some motion in the air, being broken, they descend in solid drops; either small, as in a mist, or bigger, when many of them run together, as in rain. Nehemiah Grew, Cosmol.

   Clouds are the greatest and most considerable of all the meteors, as furnishing water and plenty to the earth. They consist of very small drops of water, and are elevated a good distance above the surface of the earth; for a cloud is nothing but a mist flying high in the air, as a mist is nothing but a cloud here below. John Locke, Elem. Nat. Philos.

   How vapours, turn’d to clouds, obscure the sky;
   And clouds, dissolv’d, the thirsty ground supply. Wentworth Dillon.

   2. The veins, marks, or stains in stones, or other bodies.3. Any state of obscurity or darkness.

   Tho’ poets may of inspiration boast,
   Their rage, ill govern’d, in the clouds is lost. Edmund Waller.

   How can I see the brave and young,
   Fall in the cloud of war, and fall unsung? Addison.

   4. Any thing that spreads wide; as a croud, a multitude.

   The objection comes to no more than this, that amongst a cloud of witnesses, there was one of no very good reputation. Francis Atterbury.

2. To Cloudverb

   Etymology: from the noun.

   1. To darken with clouds; to cover with clouds; to obscure.

   What sullen fury clouds his scornful brow. Alexander Pope, Statius.

   2. To obscure; to make less evident.

   If men would not exhale vapours to cloud and darken the clearest truths, no man could miss his way to heaven for want of light. Decay of Piety.

   3. To variegate with dark veins.

   The handle smooth and plain,
   Made of the clouded olive’s easy grain. Alexander Pope, Odyssey.

3. To Cloudverb

   To grow cloudy; to grow dark with clouds.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Cloud

   In meteorology, a cloud is an aerosol consisting of a visible mass of minute liquid droplets, frozen crystals, or other particles suspended in the atmosphere of a planetary body or similar space. Water or various other chemicals may compose the droplets and crystals. On Earth, clouds are formed as a result of saturation of the air when it is cooled to its dew point, or when it gains sufficient moisture (usually in the form of water vapor) from an adjacent source to raise the dew point to the ambient temperature. They are seen in the Earth's homosphere (which includes the troposphere, stratosphere, and mesosphere). Nephology is the science of clouds, which is undertaken in the cloud physics branch of meteorology. The two methods of naming clouds in their respective layers of the atmosphere are Latin and common. Cloud types in the troposphere, the atmospheric layer closest to Earth's surface, have Latin names due to the universal adoption of Luke Howard's nomenclature. Formally proposed in 1802, it became the basis of a modern international system that divides clouds into five physical forms that appear in any or all of three altitude levels (formerly known as étages). These physical types, in approximate ascending order of convective activity, include stratiform sheets, cirriform wisps and patches, stratocumuliform layers (mainly structured as rolls, ripples, and patches), cumuliform heaps, and very large cumulonimbiform heaps that often show complex structures. The physical forms are divided by altitude level into 10 basic genus-types. The Latin names for applicable high-level genera in the troposphere carry a cirro- prefix, and an alto- prefix is added to the names of the mid-level genus-types. Clouds with sufficient vertical extent to occupy more than one altitude level are officially classified as low- or mid-level according to the altitude range at which each initially forms. However they are also more informally classified as multi-level or vertical, which along with low level clouds, do not carry any altitude related prefixes. Most of the genera can be subdivided into species and further subdivided into varieties. Very low stratiform clouds that extend down to the Earth's surface are given the common names fog and mist, but have no Latin names. Several clouds that form higher up in the stratosphere and mesosphere have common names for their main types. They are seen infrequently, mostly in the polar regions of Earth. Clouds have been observed in the atmospheres of other planets and moons in the Solar System and beyond. However, due to their different temperature characteristics, they are often composed of other substances such as methane, ammonia, and sulfuric acid, as well as water. The tabular overview that follows is very broad in scope. It draws from several methods of cloud classification, both formal and informal, used in different levels of the Earth's homosphere by a number of cited authorities. A cross-classifation of form and level is used to derive the 10 tropospheric genera, the fog and mist that forms at surface level, and several additional major types above the troposphere. The cumulus genus includes four species that indicate vertical size and structure. This table should therefore not be seen as a strict or singular classification, but as an illustration of how various major cloud types are related to each other and defined through a full range of altitude levels from Earth's surface to the "edge of space".

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1. cloud

   A cloud, in the context of atmospheric science, is a visible mass of condensed water vapor or ice particles suspended in the atmosphere above the Earth's surface. These can form in various shapes and sizes, ranging from thin wisps to dense, towering formations, depending on the atmospheric conditions. On the other hand, in the context of technology and computing, a cloud refers to a system that stores data in servers and delivers software or services over the internet, typically on a pay-per-use basis. The servers can be located anywhere in the world and can be accessed remotely. Examples include cloud storage services, cloud computing platforms, and software-as-a-service applications.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Cloudnoun

   a collection of visible vapor, or watery particles, suspended in the upper atmosphere

2. Cloudnoun

   a mass or volume of smoke, or flying dust, resembling vapor

3. Cloudnoun

   a dark vein or spot on a lighter material, as in marble; hence, a blemish or defect; as, a cloud upon one's reputation; a cloud on a title

4. Cloudnoun

   that which has a dark, lowering, or threatening aspect; that which temporarily overshadows, obscures, or depresses; as, a cloud of sorrow; a cloud of war; a cloud upon the intellect

5. Cloudnoun

   a great crowd or multitude; a vast collection

6. Cloudnoun

   a large, loosely-knitted scarf, worn by women about the head

7. Cloudverb

   to overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds; as, the sky is clouded

8. Cloudverb

   to darken or obscure, as if by hiding or enveloping with a cloud; hence, to render gloomy or sullen

9. Cloudverb

   to blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish; to damage; -- esp. used of reputation or character

10. Cloudverb

    to mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors; as, to cloud yarn

11. Cloudverb

    to grow cloudy; to become obscure with clouds; -- often used with up

12. Etymology: [Prob. fr. AS. cld a rock or hillock, the application arising from the frequent resemblance of clouds to rocks or hillocks in the sky or air.]

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1. Cloud

   In meteorology, a cloud is a visible mass of liquid droplets or frozen crystals made of water or various chemicals suspended in the atmosphere above the surface of a planetary body. These suspended particles are also known as aerosols. Clouds in Earth's atmosphere are studied in the cloud physics branch of meteorology. Two processes, possibly acting together, can lead to air becoming saturated; cooling the air or adding water vapor to the air. In general, precipitation will fall to the surface; an exception is virga, which evaporates before reaching the surface. The international cloud classification system is based on the fact that clouds in their most basic forms can show free-convective upward growth like cumulus, appear in non-convective layered sheets such as stratus, or take the form of thin fibrous wisps, as in the case of cirrus. Prefixes are used in connection with clouds to express variations or complexities in these basic forms or to specify middle or high altitude ranges. These include strato- for low clouds with limited convection that form mostly in uneven layers, cumulo- for complex highly-convective storm clouds, nimbo- for thick layered clouds of some complexity that can produce moderate to heavy precipitation, alto- for middle clouds, and cirro- for high clouds; the latter two of which may be of simple or moderately complex structure. Whether or not a cloud is low, middle, or high level depends on how far above the ground its base forms. Cloud types with significant vertical extent can form in the low or middle altitude ranges depending on the moisture content of the air. Clouds in the troposphere have Latin names due to the popular adaptation of Luke Howard's cloud categorization system, which began to spread in popularity during December 1802. Synoptic surface weather observations use code numbers to record and report the types of tropospheric cloud visible at each scheduled observation time based on the height and physical appearance of the clouds.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Cloud

   klowd, n. a mass of fog, consisting of minute particles of water, often in a frozen state, floating in the atmosphere: (fig.) anything unsubstantial: a great number or multitude of anything, as the New Test. 'cloud of witnesses:' anything that obscures, as a cloud: a dark spot on a lighter material: a great volume of dust or smoke: anything gloomy, overhanging, or bodeful.—v.t. to overspread with clouds: to darken: to defame: to stain with dark spots or streaks.—v.i. to become clouded or darkened.—ns. Cloud′age; Cloud′-berr′y, a low plant related to the bramble, found on elevated moors in Britain, with an orange-red berry of delightful flavour.—adj. Cloud′-built, made of clouds, unsubstantial.—n. Cloud′-burst, a sudden flood of rain over a small area.—adjs. Cloud′-capt (Shak.), capped with or touching the clouds; Cloud′-compel′ling, driving or collecting the clouds, an epithet of Jupiter; Cloud′ed, hidden by clouds: (fig.) darkened: indistinct: variegated with spots, as a 'clouded cane,' &c.—n. Cloud′ery.—adv. Cloud′ily.—ns. Cloud′iness; Cloud′ing, a cloudy appearance.—adj. growing dim.—adjs. Cloud′-kiss′ing (Shak.), touching the clouds; Cloud′less, unclouded, clear.—adv. Cloud′lessly.—n. Cloud′let, a little cloud.—adjs. Cloud′-topped, covered with or touching the clouds; Cloud′y, darkened with, or consisting of, clouds: obscure: gloomy: stained with dark spots: (coll.) 'shady.'—Wait till the clouds roll by, to wait for more favourable circumstances.—Under a cloud, in trouble or disfavour. [A.S. clúd, a hill, then a cloud, the root idea being a mass or ball. Clod and Clot are from the same root.]

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. cloud

   A collection of vapours suspended in the atmosphere. Also, under a cloud of canvas.

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1. CLOUD

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Cloud is ranked #2478 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Cloud surname appeared 14,555 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 5 would have the surname Cloud.
   
   68.8% or 10,017 total occurrences were White.
   17.2% or 2,509 total occurrences were Black.
   6.8% or 997 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
   3.4% or 496 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   3.2% or 469 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   0.4% or 68 total occurrences were Asian.

Matched Categories

1. • Affect
   • Atmospheric Phenomenon
   • Billow
   • Change
   • Darken
   • Dull
   • Gloom
   • Hide
   • Physical Phenomenon
   • Sky
   • Spot
   • Suspicion
   • Unreality

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'cloud' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4412

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'cloud' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4556

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'cloud' in Nouns Frequency: #1185

Anagrams for cloud »

1. could

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1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of cloud in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of cloud in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of cloud in a Sentence

1. Mark Lemmon:

   Where we see iridescence, it means a cloud’s particle sizes are identical to their neighbors in each part of the cloud, by looking at color transitions, we’re seeing particle size changing across the cloud. That tells us about the way the cloud is evolving and how its particles are changing size over time.

2. Confucius:

   With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of these things. Riches and honors acquired by unrighteousness are to me as a floating cloud.

3. Fiona Carter:

   We turned around to see a mushroom cloud coming from Stromboli. Everyone was in shock. Then red hot lava started running down the mountain towards the little village of Ginostra, the cloud got bigger, white and gray. It enveloped Ginostra and now the cloud has covered Stromboli entirely. Several boats set off for Stromboli.

4. Primo Levi:

   For me chemistry represented an indefinite cloud of future potentialities which enveloped my life to come in black volutes torn by fiery flashes, like those which had hidden Mount Sinai. Like Moses, from that cloud I expected my law, the principle of order in me, around me, and in the world. I would watch the buds swell in spring, the mica glint in the granite, my own hands, and I would say to myself: I will understand this, too, I will understand everything.

5. Katelyn Allers:

   On Earth, for example, say you have a cloud being blown by some wind, if you're looking down at Earth from space, you could measure the speed of a continent as it rotates in and out of view and a different speed for the cloud as it rotates in and out of view. And that difference in speed occurs because wind has pushed that cloud relative to the surface.

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