Word Finder - cloud

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A rock; boulder; a hill.

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A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.

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

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Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.

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Anything unsubstantial.

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A dark spot on a lighter material or background.

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

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

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An elliptical shape or symbol whose outline is a series of semicircles, supposed to resemble a cloud.

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

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(with "the") The Internet, regarded as an abstract amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing.

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

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Crystal methamphetamine.

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A large, loosely-knitted headscarf worn by women.

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To become foggy or gloomy, or obscured from sight.

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The glass clouds when you breathe on it.

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To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds.

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The sky is clouded.

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To make obscure.

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All this talk about human rights is clouding the real issue.

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To make less acute or perceptive.

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The tears began to well up and cloud my vision.

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To make gloomy or sullen.

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To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish (reputation or character).

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To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors.

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to cloud yarn

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To become marked, darkened or variegated in this way.

A black cloud seemed to cover the earth.

They are the Cloud Fairies.

She stared into the early darkness of a thick cloud cover.

I could see another storm cloud looming on the horizon.

Somewhere a storm was gathering, but only a small cloud had scattered some raindrops lightly, sprinkling the road and the sappy leaves.

It cushioned her bare feet the way she imagined a cloud might.

It was growing light, the sky was clearing, only a single cloud lay in the east.

Take shelter under the cloud, while they flee to carts and sheds.

With a boom and a crunch, it folded in a cloud of smoke.

A cloud having arisen on the frontiers of Afghanistan, the withdrawal of the troops from the Sudan was ordered on the 11th of May.

Pierre de Saint Cloud, the writer of the fourth section of the romance, was evidently acquainted with the Historia de proeliis.

The helm bar is a roll of cloud that forms in front of it, to leeward.

For nine years Crispi remained politically under a cloud, but in 1887 returned to office as minister of the interior in the Depretis cabinet, succeeding to the premiership upon the death of Depretis (July 29, 1887).

In the morning the Tehama, as seen from the mountain tops, appears buried in a sea of white cloud; towards noon the clouds drift up the mountain slopes and cover the summits with wreaths of light mist charged with moisture which condenses on the trees and vegetation; in the afternoon they disappear, and the evenings are generally clear and still.

But at that very instant a cloud of smoke spread all round, firing was heard quite close at hand, and a voice of naive terror barely two steps from Prince Andrew shouted, Brothers!

The sky is a silver lining of every cloud.

In Crete she was said to have issued from a cloud burst asunder by Zeus.

This is well shown by taking a cylinder one-half full of acetylene and one-half of air; on applying a light to the mixture a lurid flame runs down the cylinder and a cloud of soot is thrown up, the cylinder also being thickly coated with it, and often containing a ball of carbon.

He returned to Spain, and, like most of his companions in arms, remained under a cloud for some time.

There his vivacious eloquence brought him into prominence, and he was president of that body on the eventful day of the, 9th of Brumaire (November ro) 1799, when Napoleon overthrew the national councils of France at the palace of St Cloud.

The University block (an office building owned by Syracuse University), the Union Building, the Onondaga county savings bank and the Syracuse savings bank are among the most notable business structures; and the Onondaga, the Vanderbilt House and the Yates and St Cloud hotels are the principal hotels.

Although President Hayes was not popular with the professional politicians of his own party, and was exposed to bitter attacks on the part of the Democratic opposition on account of the cloud which hung over his election, his conduct of public affairs gave much satisfaction to the people generally.

At the beginning of the revolution Charles was at St Cloud, whence on the news of the fighting he withdrew first to Versailles and then to Rambouillet.

But, if no solid be present initially, or if the cooling be rapid, the liquid of composition x becomes supersaturated and may cool till the supersaturation curve is reached at b, and a cloud of A crystals comes down.

Smoothing them, Carlheim-Gyllenskold gives f = too' -7.3c as the most probable linear relation between c, the amount of cloud, and f, the frequency, assuming the latter to be loo when there is no cloud.

A cloud now settled down upon Khartum, and subsequent communications were few and irregular.

To the east Cloud Hill, and to the south Mow Cop, rise sharply to heights exceeding l000 ft.

The cloud which had separated them was thus at last dispersed.

They are enveloped in a cloud of religious sanctions, and serve to mark out by their recurring periods the annual round of common life.

Several small glaciers still remain about the base of Cloud Peak, the highest summit in the range (13,165 ft.).

The condensation of vapour from the ascending currents and their gradual exhaustion as they are precipitated on successive ranges is very obvious in the cloud effects produced during the monsoon, the southern or windward face of each range being clothed day after day with a white crest of cloud whilst the northern slopes are often left entirely free.

The Quakers' title to West Jersey, however, still bore the cloud resulting from the Dutch conquest, and the duke of York had desired to recover all of his original grant to Berkeley and Carteret ever since Governor Nicolls had protested against it.

In 1845 Marx wrote of the Young-Hegelians that to separate history from natural science and industry was like separating the soul from the body, and "finding the birthplace of history, not in the gross material production on earth, but in the misty cloud formation of heaven" (Die heilige Familie, p. 238).

But when the councils met at St Cloud on the following day, the majority of the Five Hundred showed themselves bent on resistance, and even the Ancients gave signs of wavering.

Burke uses, in reference to Hyder Ali, the same image which Demosthenes uses in reference to Philip. "Compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, desolation, into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivity of the mountains.

Once repeated, the horse came to a halt in a cloud of dust, Alex leaping off before it settled.

The car weaved in a cloud of dust, throwing gravel at the trees.

Is it possible, I speculated, to wander lonely as a cloud in the Lake District in the middle of August?

Unfortunately, we weren't even privy to views of Rhino Point, let alone Mount Meru, as the cloud was low.

It passes through dry puna, thick cloud forest and some plantations at the end.

Finally, we headed into the cloud forest in search of the elusive resplendent quetzal.

The variety of activities includes horse-back riding, hiking mountainous paths in the cloud forests, and guided bird-watching tours.

In the wheel rut 's clinging dark watch an arc of bright cloud, blue sky.

Does Caribbean resort royal sandal make more the foot flying cloud.

A cloud passed without any electrical indications, and he began to despair of success.

Ixion abused his pardon by trying to seduce Hera; but the goddess substituted for herself a cloud, by which he became the father of the Centaurs.

The earlier papers deal chiefly with the properties and modes of synthesis of cloud chain hydrocarbons and their derivatives.

On the morning of the z 8th Brumaire (November 9) the Ancients, to whom that power belonged, decreed the transference of the councils to St Cloud.

The hypothesis which best explains all the phenomena is that the light is that of the sun reflected from an extremely tenuous cloud of particles having the form and extent described, and becoming more and more tenuous as the earth's orbit is approached until, immediately outside the orbit, it fades into complete invisibility.

These observations show that the outline on that portion of the light commonly seen in the morning or evening is concave instead of convex, as it would be were the cloud strictly lenticular.