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English Idioms :: cloud
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cloud - See: EVERY CLOUD HAS A SILVER LINING, IN THE CLOUDS, ON CLOUD NINE, UNDER A CLOUD. |
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Traditional English :: cloud
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cloud - n. & v. --n. 1 a visible mass of condensed watery vapour floating in the atmosphere high above the general level of the ground.
2 a mass of smoke or dust.
3 (foll. by of) a great number of insects, birds, etc., moving together.
4 a a state of gloom, trouble, or suspicion. b a frowning or depressed look (a cloud on his brow).
5 a local dimness or a vague patch of colour in or on a liquid or a transparent body.
6 an unsubstantial or fleeting thing.
7 obscurity. --v. 1 tr. cover or darken with clouds or gloom or trouble.
2 intr. (often foll. by over, up) become overcast or gloomy.
3 tr. make unclear.
4 tr. variegate with vague patches of colour. cloud-castle a daydream. cloud chamber a device containing vapour for tracking the paths of charged particles, X-rays, and gamma rays. clouded leopard a mottled arboreal S. Asian feline, Neofelis nebulosa. cloud-hopping movement of an aircraft from cloud to cloud esp. for concealment. cloud-land a utopia or fairyland. in the clouds 1 unreal, imaginary, mystical.
2 (of a person) abstracted, inattentive. on cloud nine (or seven) colloq. extremely happy. under a cloud out of favour, discredited, under suspicion. with one's head in the clouds day-dreaming, unrealistic. cloudless adj. cloudlessly adv. cloudlet n. [OE clud mass of rock or earth, prob. rel. to CLOD] |
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Related Words
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light
from
nine
shuttle
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painting
ceiling
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low
rider
voyeur
web
red
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daily
times
formation
background
silver
dark
white
fluffy
sea
lenticular
kingdom
hearts
county
community
college
black
hospital
hotel
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Most Often Usage
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light from the cloud
cloud nine shuttle
cloud 9 shuttle
lmc vs u2 take me to the cloud above
take me to the cloud above
cloud above
castle in the cloud
painting cloud on ceiling
how to paint cloud on ceiling
st cloud mn
low rider cloud nine
voyeur web red cloud
a walk in the cloud
st cloud daily times
cloud 10
cloud formation
cloud background
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