Word Finder - clouds

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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.

The clouds were low and moving fast.

Dusty glanced up at the sky, where the clouds had gone from black to slate.

Clouds drifted away from a full moon, drenching the patio with soft lunar light.

Day was breaking, the rain had ceased, and the clouds were dispersing.

At the same instant the sun came fully out from behind the clouds, and the clear sound of the solitary shot and the brilliance of the bright sunshine merged in a single joyous and spirited impression.

A bank of clouds was building to the northeast.

She looked up at the glowing clouds, from which snow had begun to fall again.

Tattered, blue-purple clouds, reddening in the east, were scudding before the wind.

The sun was only just appearing from behind the clouds, the air was fresh and dewy.

On two sides black curling clouds of smoke rose and spread from the fires.

She sat down, leaning her back against the tree, and watched shadows from puffy clouds drift across the surface.

The mean annual rainfall is greater on the slopes of the ranges by which the moisturebearing clouds are intercepted.

For wife he has the spirit of the clouds and waters, Apsaras, and by her became father of the first mortals, Yama and Yami.

For the clouds, mythologically, are birds.

They also played a new version of ' Dark Clouds ', which seems conclusive proof that they accept their past.

Warmed by the spring sunshine he sat in the caleche looking at the new grass, the first leaves on the birches, and the first puffs of white spring clouds floating across the clear blue sky.

Each day fleecy clouds floated across the sky and occasionally veiled the sun, but toward evening the sky cleared again and the sun set in reddish-brown mist.

While the western mountains keep out the moisture, they do not ward off the winds which pour down the steep slopes in the winter and spring and raise clouds of dust.

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.

It is computed that twenty millions of meteors enter the atmosphere every day and would be visible to unassisted vision in the absence of sunlight, moonlight and clouds, while if telescopic meteors are included the number will be increased twentyfold.

This hypothesis, however, does not accord with the theory of the development of the earth from the state of a sphere of molt s en rock surrounded by an atmosphere of gaseous metals by which the first-formed clouds of aqueous vapour must have been absorbed.

During the monsoon the climate is very damp, and at times even cold and raw, thick clouds and mist enveloping the sky for many days together.

During some displays, auroral light appears in irregular areas or patches, which sometimes bear a very close resemblance to illuminated detached clouds.

Meanwhile the clouds of hatred gathered over the queen.

The scholar's wish was to see the clouds of war pass away, and leave thinkers to their peaceful work.

A family swimming trip was narrowly averted by a few clouds!

And the birches with their light and shade, the curly clouds, the smoke of the campfires, and all that was around him changed and seemed terrible and menacing.

Seneca even made the discussion of such problems into a regular discipline, claiming that their concrete character gave an interest in morality to those who had no love for abstractions; while they prevented those who had from losing themselves in the clouds.

The least wind raises clouds of fine dust, which fill the air, render it so opaque as to obscure the noonday sun, and make respiration difficult.

But in the mountainous provinces of the interior and in those along the western coast, deep snow covers the ground throughout the whole winter, and the sky is usually wrapped in a veil of clouds.

The anti-Trinitarian path was one which opened invitingly before a considerable class of critical minds, seeming as it did to lead out into Reformed Church In America a sunny open, remote from the unfathomable depths of mystery and clouds of religious emotion which beset the way of the sincere Catholic and Protestant alike.

Along the whole west coast the climate resembles nothing in the British Islands so much as Cork and Kerry, for there are the same wet gales from a western ocean, the same clouds gathering on the dripping sides of wild mountains, an equal absence of severe frosts and hot sunshine, and a rich and evergreen vegetation.

Osler in the shape of old clouds; their upper portions always appear dragged forward and they lean over, as it were, in the 14.

Signs of this change first appeared publicly in his Shadows of the Clouds, a volume containing two stories of a religious sort, which he published in 1847 under the pseudonym of "Zeta," and his complete.

This range acts as a " breakwater " to the clouds, arresting and condensing the moisture which is carried northwards by the south winds.

They are powerful poems written with great vigour of language, but enveloped in clouds of mysticism.

The old schools and universities were being quietly interpenetrated by the new spirit of humanism, when the sky was suddenly darkened by the clouds of religious conflict.

Formerly, on the eve of a great eruption of Mauna Loa, this crater often spouted forth great columns of flame and emitted clouds of vapour, but in modern times this action has usually been followed by a fracture of the mountain side from the summit down to a point moo ft.

These sudden appearances of vast bodies of lemmings, and their singular habit of persistently pursuing the same onward course of migration, have given rise to various speculations, from the ancient belief of the Norwegian peasants, shared by Olaus Magnus, that they fall down from the clouds, to the hypothesis that they are acting in obedience to an instinct inherited from ancient times, and still seeking the congenial home in the submerged Atlantis, to which their ancestors of the Miocene period were wont to resort when driven from their ordinary dwelling-places by crowding or scarcity of food.

Photographs of the solar disk, taken with the H or K line, show extensive luminous clouds (flocculi) of calcium vapour, vastly greater in area than the sun-spots.

The lower and denser vapour appears as bright clouds, but the cooler vapour, at higher levels, absorbs the light from below and thus gives rise to dark clouds.

General Sabine, Sir John Franklin, Prof. Selim Lemstrom, Dr David Walker (at Fort Kennedy in 1858-1859), Captain Parry (Fort Bowen, 1825) and others - have seen aurora below the clouds or between themselves and mountains.

Then the " hamattan," or hot, dry wind from the Sahara, begins and brings with it clouds of impalpable dust.

Thick clouds for the most part shut out the sun; while the cold current from the Sea of Okhotsk, aided by north-east winds, brings immense ice-floes to the east coast in summer.

An unobstructed view of the great mountain is rarely obtained, however, because of the mists and clouds which cover its cone.

Very high mountain ranges usually consist of many ridges, among which rain-clouds are entangled in their ascent, and in such cases precipitation towards the windward side of the main range, though on the leeward sides of the minor ridges of which it is formed, may occur to so large an extent that before the summit is reached the clouds are exhausted or nearly so, and in this case the total precipitation is less on the leeward than on the windward side of the main range; but in the moderate heights of the United Kingdom it more commonly happens from the causes explained that precipitation is prevented or greatly retarded until the summit of the ridge is reached.

We circled like a pair of mountain buzzards toward thin wispy clouds that were forming at 4000ft.

Colin Parker Tumbling clouds, wheeling gulls... You see, the scenery has a poetic effect on you!

The areas of the sky which contain heavy obscuration usually exhibit clouds of several degrees of opacity.

In subsequent trials with another apparatus, he found that the clouds were sometimes positively and sometimes negatively electrified, and so demonstrated the perfect identity of lightning and electricity.