Meaning of cloud | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. A rock; boulder; a hill.
   obsolete
3. Impractical.
4. multitude, or crowd (of people)
5. A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
6. Under suspicion or in a state of disgrace.
7. baby's breath
8. Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.
9. A mass of tiny droplets formed when water vapor condenses as warm, moist air moves upwards where the temperature is lower. The bottom of the cloud is the dew point.
10. marshmallow
11. Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.
12. A very large number of things grouped together:army, crowd, drove, flock, horde, host, legion, mass, mob, multitude, ruck, score (used in plural), swarm, throng.
13. the cloud
14. Anything unsubstantial.
    figuratively
15. free from clouds. a cloudless sky. wolkloos بِدون غَيوم، مُنْقَشِع، ، صافٍ безоблачен sem nuvens bezmračný, jasný wolkenlos skyfri ανέφελος sin una nube pilvitu صاف؛ بی ابر pilvetön sans nuages בהיר मेघरहित vedar, nezamućen felhőtlen cerah heiður; skÿjalaus senza nubi 雲のない 구름 없는 be debesų, giedras bez mākoņiem cerah onbewolktskyfribezchmurny بی ابره sem nuvens fără nori безоблачный bez mrakov, jasný jasen bez oblaka molnfri ที่ไม่มีเมฆ bulutsuz 無雲的 безхмарний, ясний بادلوں کے بغیر không có mâ...
16. A dark spot on a lighter material or background.
17. a sudden heavy shower of rain. wolk breek شُؤبوب، وابِلٌ من المَطَر внезапен порой aguaceiro průtrž mračen der Wolkenbruch skybrud μπόραaguacero, chaparrón vihmavaling رگبار voimakas rankkasade trombe d'eau שֶבֶר עָנַן बादल का फटना prolom oblaka felhőszakadás hujan lebat skÿfall, dembiskúr acquazzone 土砂降り 갑작스런 호우 liūtis lietusgāze hujan lebat wolkbreukskybruddulewa ناڅاپي، ناببره: په بېړه: وار دواره، سمدلاسه: بې خبره aguaceiro ploaie torenţială ливень prietrž mračien ploha provala oblaka skyf...
18. A group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying.
19. in trouble or disgrace. oorskadu مَشْكوكٌ فيه، مَشْبوهٌ в немлост em apuros v potížích, v nemilosti unter Verdacht, in Verruf i unåde υπό το βάρος υποψίας, υπό δυσμένεια estar bajo sospecha halvas kuulsuses مورد اتهام؛ در مخمصه joutua ongelmiin en butte aux soupçons חשוד परेशानी इत्यादि में घिरा biti u nemilosti, biti pod sumnjom bajban van dalam kesusahan undir grun; í ónáð; í vandræðum; áhyggjufullur soggetto di sospetti 疑われて 곤경에 처한 (būti) nemalonėje, įtariamam nežēlastībā; aizdomās; grūtā ...
20. An elliptical shape or symbol whose outline is a series of semicircles, supposed to resemble a cloud.
21. A visible body of very fine water droplets or ice particles suspended in the atmosphere at altitudes ranging up to several miles above sea level.
22. A telecom network (from their representation in engineering drawings).
23. A large moving body of things in the air or on the ground; a swarm: a cloud of locusts.
24. The Internet, regarded as an abstract amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing.
    with-definite-article
25. A dark region or blemish, as on a polished stone.
26. A negative or foreboding aspect of something positive: see every cloud has a silver lining or every silver lining has a cloud.
    figuratively
27. Crystal methamphetamine.
    slang
28. A large, loosely-knitted headscarf worn by women.
29. A white cat.
    Internet, endearing, humorous

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Examples

“While he thus ſpake, there came a cloud, and ouerſhadowed them, ⁊ they feared, as they entred into the cloude.”

“So this was my future home, I thought![…]Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.”

“Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.”

“But in one part of the horizon a cloud lay, and the rulers of India were oppressed with a sense of coming disaster. This cloud had begun to form in 1873, and had been continually growing larger; it threw a shadow over gold-debtor nations, and shed a depressing influence over gold-using countries.”

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

“so great a cloud of witnesses”

“The place was horribly haunted by clouds of mosquitoes and every form of flying pest, so we were glad to find solid ground again and to make a circuit among the trees, which enabled us to outflank this pestilent morass, which droned like an organ in the distance, so loud was it with insect life.”

“The comic-book character's thoughts appeared in a cloud above his head.”

“Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.”

“[…]the cloud could do this, it could do that. The cloud could be powerful and intelligent. It became a business buzzword and a selling point.”

““But there’s no fucking cloud,” says Crabapple, “there’s other people’s computers. There are vast datacentres that are sucking up water and electricity and rare-earth metals, literally boiling up the planet […]””

“But when he found that some of his interrogatories were evaded, and others answered undecisively, the look of gentleness which he had assumed, vanished, and his brow wore the cloud of disappointment and of anger.”

“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.”

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