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cloud
  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.
  6. An elliptical shape or symbol whose outline is a series of semicircles, supposed to resemble a cloud.
  7. (computing) The Internet, regarded as an abstract 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.
  9. (slang) Crystal methamphetamine.
  10. A large, loosely-knitted headscarf worn by women.
  11. Synonyms:
  12. Examples:
    1. “The sun was almost entirely obscured by a giant cloud.”
      “A handful of shorebirds scampered among the cloud of tiny insects and piles of seaweed.”
      “Armstrong went tumbling down the ladder and fell to the lunar surface in a cloud of grey dust.”
clouding
  1. A cloudy appearance.
  2. A mottled appearance given to ribbons and silks in the process of dyeing.
  3. A diversity of colours in yarn, recurring at regular intervals.
  4. Synonyms:
cloudiness
  1. The state of being cloudy (e.g. weather).
  2. The property of being murky (e.g. liquid, style).
  3. The property of being obscure (e.g. information).
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “The small portion of undissolved matter that occasions the cloudiness of the liquid will be dissolved by the sugar during the heating process.”
      “The most quiet and reasonable scheme to accompany her, though with some little apprehension, from the cloudiness of the evening, of our being in the dark.”
      “The failure since the 1980s to seriously address the growing conceptual cloudiness in the meaning of dissociation is perhaps not surprising.”
cloudbuster
  1. A pseudoscientific device supposed to drain clouds of orgone and thus cause rain.
cloudling
  1. A small or miniature cloud; an immature or formative stage in the development of a cloud.
  2. Examples:
    1. “And yet at first it seemed hard to believe that so innocent a cloudling could be the progenitor of mist dense enough to blot out even a section of the enormous landscape.”
cloudspotting
  1. The observation of clouds as a recreational activity.
cloudifier
  1. An agent or substance that makes a drink, etc. cloudy.
cloudscape
  1. A work of art or other image depicting sky and clouds.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Reclining in leather-wrapped luxury, she stared out the oval window of the jet at the silvered cloudscape and the rising moon.”
      “Deep sienna and browns, both reddish and nearly black, sweep over the canvas, the forms, if not the hues, like those of a cloudscape.”
      “The huge, panoramic windows looked out onto a stormy cloudscape, rain battering at the glass and sending muted thunder rumbling constantly round the utilitarian bridge.”
cloudwater
  1. water obtained directly from clouds or mists rather than rain
cloudage
  1. Mass of clouds; cloudiness.
  2. Examples:
    1. “And cloudage, to borrow an expression of Coleridge, suggested England, too.”
cloudspotter
  1. One who engages in cloudspotting.
cloudline
  1. The line formed by the surface of clouds.
cloudbusting
  1. The use of a cloudbuster.
cloudlet
  1. A little cloud.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Far down the line shone a cloudlet of white smoke and the gleam of brass through the dust.”
      “A cloudlet of boiled-dough smell wafted out of her apartment, and Bogdan had the heart-wrenching feeling that he was saying goodbye to her.”
      “A composition of soft-focus horizontal and vertical bands by Adam Henry blurs in the central area as if obscured by a foggy cloudlet.”
clouder
  1. agent noun of cloud
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “At twelve as we were crossing a run of water, Mr. clouder fell in, so we called this place clouders Run.”
      “Mr. Robinson and Mr. clouder left us, and the boys remained behind.”
cloudlessness
cloudspotters
  1. plural of cloudspotter
cloudbusters
  1. plural of cloudbuster
cloudscapes
  1. plural of cloudscape
cloudifiers
  1. plural of cloudifier
cloudinesses
cloudlines
  1. plural of cloudline
cloudlings
  1. plural of cloudling
cloudlets
  1. plural of cloudlet
  2. Examples:
    1. “City lights sprawled below, growing brighter and dimmer sporadically as the pod passed through low level cloudlets.”
      “Cirrocumulus has no shading, and because it is so much higher, the cloudlets of cirrocumulus are much smaller than those of altocumulus.”
      “The supernova generated a propagating shock wave, that continues to move rapidly through the low-density bubble interior, and shocks these cloudlets, shredding them fiercely.”
cloudings
clouders
  1. plural of clouder
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “At twelve as we were crossing a run of water, Mr. clouder fell in, so we called this place clouders Run.”
clouds
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