Definitions for CLOUD

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CLOUD cloud

Spelling: [kloud]

IPA: /klaʊd/

Cloud is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 60 anagrams from letters in CLOUD (cdlou).

Definitions for CLOUD

noun

1. a visible collection of particles of water or ice suspended in the air, usually at an elevation above the earth's surface.
2. any similar mass, especially of smoke or dust.
3. a dim or obscure area in something otherwise clear or transparent.
4. a patch or spot differing in color from the surrounding surface.
5. anything that obscures or darkens something, or causes gloom, trouble, suspicion, disgrace, etc.
6. a great number of insects, birds, etc., flying together:
7. Digital Technology. 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 (usually preceded by the):

Idioms

1. in the clouds, in a condition of absent-mindedness; lost in reverie. impractical:
2. on a cloud, Informal. exceedingly happy; in high spirits:
3. under a cloud, in disgrace; under suspicion:

adjective

1. of or relating to cloud computing:
2. relating to or doing business on the Internet:

verb (used with object)

1. to overspread or cover with, or as with, a cloud or clouds:
2. to overshadow; obscure; darken:
3. to make gloomy.
4. (of distress, anxiety, etc.) to reveal itself in (a part of one's face):
5. to make obscure or indistinct; confuse:
6. to place under suspicion, disgrace, etc.
7. to variegate with patches of another color.

verb (used without object)

1. to grow cloudy; become clouded.
2. (of a part of one's face) to reveal one's distress, anxiety, etc.:

Origin of CLOUD

before 900; Middle English; Old English clūd rock, hill; probably akin to clod

Examples for CLOUD

There was indeed a sun that nothing could cloud, but it seemed to shine far away.

Eric lobbies for an industry of benign usefulness, non-partisan in nature, and over which no cloud of serious controversy looms.

He it is, too, that leaps from cloud to cloud amid the crashing thunder-storm.

I wanted you to see the last of that town under a cloud, so you might not be homesick so soon.

Google, the Great Meddler in the cloud, asks why we would resist strapping cameras and televisions to our heads.

He whirled about in his swivel chair, and blew a cloud of smoke from his mouth.

For days a cloud hung over the fair image of Hester in his mind.

That brings us back to the cloud system monitored by the Cassini mission between July 20 and 22.

An innovative gift is the Qardioarm, a blood pressure monitor that records readings and uploads them to the cloud.

The FSLN-controlled legislative assembly approved the mega-project under a cloud of secrecy in a record seven days.