Толковый словарь английского языка - cloud
Cloud
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I. noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, rock, ~, from Old English clūd; perhaps akin to Greek gloutos buttock Date: 14th century a visible mass of particles of condensed vapor (as water or ice) suspended in the atmosphere of a planet (as the earth) or moon, something resembling or suggesting a ~: as, a light filmy, puffy, or billowy mass seeming to float in the air , b. a usually visible mass of minute particles suspended in the air or a gas, an aggregation of usually obscuring matter especially in interstellar space, an aggregate of charged particles (as electrons), a great crowd or multitude ; swarm , something that has a dark, lowering, or threatening aspect , something that obscures or blemishes , a dark or opaque vein or spot (as in marble or a precious stone), II. verb Date: 1562 intransitive verb to grow ~y, 2. to become troubled, apprehensive, or distressed in appearance , to become blurry, dubious, or ominous, to billow up in the form of a ~, transitive verb 1. to envelop or hide with or as if with a ~ , to make opaque especially by condensation of moisture , to make murky especially with smoke or mist , to make unclear or confused , taint , sully , to cast gloom over
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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. Phrases and idioms 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. Derivatives cloudless adj. cloudlessly adv. cloudlet n. Etymology: OE clud mass of rock or earth, prob. rel. to CLOD CLOUDBERRY n. (pl. -ies) a small mountain bramble, Rubus chamaemorus, with a white flower and an orange-coloured fruit. ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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