单词 | cloudlet |
释义 | cloudletn. A little cloud. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > [noun] > a cloud > small cloud speck1744 cloudlet1788 shred1835 1788 S. T. Coleridge First Advent Love 2 Eve's first star thro' fleecy cloudlet peeping. 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam Epil. 207 A shade falls on us like the dark From little cloudlets on the grass. View more context for this quotation 1872 R. A. Proctor Ess. Astron. ii. 20 Multitudes of star-cloudlets scattered among the myriads of minute stars which produce the milky light of the Magellanic Clouds. 1885 Times 10 Apr. 5/5 The war cloudlet vanished as quickly as it had risen. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1788 |
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