cloud
Pronunciation: /ˈklaʊ̯d/
The English word “cloud” has 20 meanings listed here.
noun
- A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
- Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.
- Anything reminiscent of a cloud.
- Anything which makes things foggy, unclear or gloomy.
- Anything unsubstantial.
- A dark spot on a lighter material or background.
- A group or swarm of insects, various animals or people, especially when flying.
- An elliptical shape or symbol whose outline is a series of semicircles, supposed to resemble a cloud.
- A telecom network (from their representation in engineering drawings).
- The Internet, regarded as an abstract amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing.
- A negative or foreboding aspect of something positive: see every cloud has a silver lining or every silver lining has a cloud.
- Crystal methamphetamine.
- A large, loosely-knitted headscarf worn by women.
- A white cat.
- A rock; boulder; a hill.
verb
Etymology
From Middle English cloud, from Old English clūd (“mass of stone, rock, boulder, hill”), from Proto-West Germanic *klūt, from Proto-Germanic *klūtaz, *klutaz (“lump, mass, conglomeration”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to ball up, clench”). Cognate with Scots clood, clud (“cloud”), Dutch kluit (“lump, mass, clod”), German Low German Kluut, Kluute (“lump, mass, ball”), German Kloß (“lump,…
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