cloud
(kloud)
[Middle English, hill, cloud, from Old English clūd, rock, hill.]
noun
- 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.
- A mass, as of dust, smoke, or steam, suspended in the atmosphere or in outer space.
- A large moving body of things in the air or on the ground; a swarm: a cloud of locusts.
- Something that darkens or fills with gloom.
- A dark region or blemish, as on a polished stone.
- Something that obscures.
- Suspicion or a charge affecting a reputation.
- A collection of charged particles: an electron cloud.
verb: cloud·ed, cloud·ing, clouds.
transitive verb
- To cover with or as if with clouds: Mist clouded the hills.
- To make gloomy or troubled.
- To obscure: cloud the issues.
- To cast aspersions on; sully: Scandal clouded the officer's reputation.
intransitive verb
- To become cloudy or overcast: The sky clouded over.
idioms
- in the clouds
- Imaginary; unreal; fanciful. Impractical.
derivatives
- cloud́less
- adjective
