a visible collection of particles of water or ice suspended in the air, usually at an elevation above the earth's surface.
any similar mass, especially of smoke or dust.
a dim or obscure area in something otherwise clear or transparent.
a patch or spot differing in color from the surrounding surface.
anything that obscures or darkens something, or causes gloom, trouble, suspicion, disgrace, etc.
a great number of insects, birds, etc., flying together: a cloud of locusts obscuring the sun.
Digital Technology.Usually the cloud . any of several, often proprietary, parts of the internet that allow online processing and storage of documents and data as well as electronic access to software and other resources: More and more software companies are encouraging users to store their work in the cloud.
adjectiveDigital Technology.
of or relating to cloud computing: cloud software; cloud servers.
relating to or doing business on the internet: Google and other cloud companies.
verb (used with object)
to overspread or cover with, or as with, a cloud or clouds: The smoke from the fire clouded the sun from view.
to overshadow; obscure; darken: The hardships of war cloud his childhood memories.
to make gloomy.
(of distress, anxiety, etc.) to reveal itself in (a part of one's face): Worry clouded his brow.
to make obscure or indistinct; confuse: Don't cloud the issue with unnecessary details.
to place under suspicion, disgrace, etc.
to variegate with patches of another color.
verb (used without object)
to grow cloudy; become clouded.
(of a part of one's face) to reveal one's distress, anxiety, etc.: His brow clouded with anger.
Idioms for cloud
in the clouds,
in a condition of absent-mindedness; lost in reverie.
impractical: Their schemes are usually up in the clouds.
on a cloud, Informal. exceedingly happy; in high spirits: On the night of the prom the seniors were on a cloud.
under a cloud, in disgrace; under suspicion: After going bankrupt he left town under a cloud.
Origin of cloud
First recorded before 900; Middle English; Old English clūd “rock, hill”; akin to clod,Greek gloutós “buttock”; see gluteus
19. Cloud,fog,haze,mist differ somewhat in their figurative uses. Cloud connotes especially daydreaming: His mind is in the clouds.Fog and haze connote especially bewilderment or confusion: to go around in a fog ( haze ). Mist has an emotional connotation and suggests tears: a mist in one's eyes.
OTHER WORDS FROM cloud
cloudlike,adjectivein·ter·cloud,verb (used with object)
Accenture isn’t a cloud technology company, but it is the leading partner for most of the cloud companies in implementing wide-ranging enterprise applications.
Why Accenture thinks the ‘Henry Ford moment of the digital era’ is coming|Alan Murray|September 17, 2020|Fortune
Alongside the IPO, Snowflake also sold shares privately to Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway and to top cloud software developer Salesforce.
Snowflake CEO: Doubling of stock price after IPO reflects ‘frothy’ market|Aaron Pressman|September 16, 2020|Fortune
Investors understand the cloud business model well and that makes a high-growth company like Snowflake attractive.
Here’s who made a killing from Snowflake’s blockbuster IPO|Verne Kopytoff|September 16, 2020|Fortune
Two of Snowflake’s founders worked at database giant Oracle for more than a decade before striking out on their own to create a new design for databases in the cloud.
Snowflake’s shares soar 112% after IPO|Aaron Pressman|September 16, 2020|Fortune
The test also included a mini cloud server, which allowed quicker connections to cloud software apps.
Verizon plans to offer indoor 5G networks by year-end|Aaron Pressman|September 16, 2020|Fortune
An innovative gift is the Qardioarm, a blood pressure monitor that records readings and uploads them to the cloud.
Nothing Says I Love You Like Data|The Daily Beast|December 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The FSLN-controlled legislative assembly approved the mega-project under a cloud of secrecy in a record seven days.
China’s Nicaragua Canal Could Spark a New Central America Revolution|Nina Lakhani|November 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Eric lobbies for an industry of benign usefulness, non-partisan in nature, and over which no cloud of serious controversy looms.
Up to a Point: In Defense of Lobbyists|P. J. O’Rourke|October 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Google, the Great Meddler in the Cloud, asks why we would resist strapping cameras and televisions to our heads.
America’s Meddlers Are Our Worst Enemies|Stefan Beck|October 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST
That brings us back to the cloud system monitored by the Cassini mission between July 20 and 22.
A Cloud Forms Over Saturn’s Mysterious Moon|Matthew R. Francis|August 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I expect my arrival at the office will be the signal for a cloud of dust in which he will disappear, heading for the first train.
The Opened Shutters|Clara Louise Burnham
The star of his genius mounted, without a cloud to obscure it, in the firmament of the Church.
The Lives of the Saints, Volume III (of 16): March|Sabine Baring-Gould
The cloud of blessing floats over our heads, but we fail to stretch forth the electric rod of prayer to fetch it down!
The Hart and the Water-Brooks;|John R. Macduff
They tell me that vapours rise up from the land and lie above it like a cloud.
The House Under the Sea|Sir Max Pemberton
He sent out a cloud of tobacco smoke and set back his shoulders.
The Tempering|Charles Neville Buck
British Dictionary definitions for cloud
cloud
/ (klaʊd) /
noun
a mass of water or ice particles visible in the sky, usually white or grey, from which rain or snow falls when the particles coagulateSee also cirrus, cumulonimbus, cumulus, stratus
any collection of particles visible in the air, esp of smoke or dust
a large number of insects or other small animals in flight
something that darkens, threatens, or carries gloom
jewellerya cloudlike blemish in a transparent stone
(modifier)of or relating to cloud computinga cloud application
in the cloudsnot in contact with reality
under a cloud
under reproach or suspicion
in a state of gloom or bad temper
on cloud nineinformalelated; very happy
verb
(when intr, often foll by over or up) to make or become cloudy, overcast, or indistinct
(tr)to make obscure; darken
(tr)to confuse or impairemotion clouded his judgment
to make or become gloomy or depressed
(tr)to place under or render liable to suspicion or disgrace
to render (liquids) milky or dull or (of liquids) to become milky or dull
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. Clouds are formed when air that contains water vapor cools below the dew point.
A distinguishable mass of particles or gas, such as the collection of gases and dust in a nebula.