cloud

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈklaʊ̯d/|[ˈkʰl̥aʊ̯d]    美 /ˈklaʊ̯d/|[ˈkʰl̥aʊ̯d]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
    — While he thus ſpake, there came a cloud, and ouerſhadowed them, ⁊ they feared, as they entred into the cloude.
  2. Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.
    — Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.
  3. Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.
    — But in one part of the horizon a cloud lay, and the rulers of India were oppressed with a sense of coming disaster. This cloud had begun to form in 1873, and had been continually growing larger; it threw a shadow over gold-debtor nations, and shed a depressing influence over gold-using countries.
  4. Anything unsubstantial. figuratively
  5. A dark spot on a lighter material or background.
  6. A group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying.
    — He opened the door and was greeted by a cloud of bats.
  7. An elliptical shape or symbol whose outline is a series of semicircles, supposed to resemble a cloud.
    — The comic-book character's thoughts appeared in a cloud above his head.
  8. A telecom network (from their representation in engineering drawings).
  9. The Internet, regarded as an abstract amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing. with-definite-article
    — Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.
  10. A negative or foreboding aspect of something positive: see every cloud has a silver lining or every silver lining has a cloud. figuratively
    — But when he found that some of his interrogatories were evaded, and others answered undecisively, the look of gentleness which he had assumed, vanished, and his brow wore the cloud of disappointment and of anger.
  11. Crystal methamphetamine. slang
  12. A large, loosely-knitted headscarf worn by women.
  13. A white cat. Internet,endearing,humorous
  14. A rock; boulder; a hill. obsolete
动词 v.
  1. To become foggy or gloomy, or obscured from sight. intransitive
    — The glass clouds when you breathe on it.
  2. To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds. transitive
    — The sky is clouded.
  3. Of the breath, to become cloud; to turn into mist.
    — The horses stamping Their warm breath clouding In the sharp and frosty morning Of the day.
  4. To make obscure. transitive
    — All this talk about human rights is clouding the real issue.
  5. To make less acute or perceptive. transitive
    — Your emotions are clouding your judgement.
  6. To make gloomy or sullen. transitive
    — One day too late, I fear me, noble lord, Hath clouded all thy happy days on earth.
  7. To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish (reputation or character). transitive
    — I would not be a stander-by to hear My sovereign mistress clouded so, without My present vengeance taken.
  8. To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors. transitive
    — to cloud yarn
  9. To become marked, darkened or variegated in this way. intransitive

词形变化

clouds plural cloude alternative,Early,Modern clowd alternative,Early,Modern clouds present,singular,third-person clouding participle,present clouded participle,past clouded past cloude alternative,Early,Modern clowd alternative,Early,Modern

词汇关系

近义词
cloud
下位词
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衍生词
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相关词
fog mist nebulous :Category:Clouds

词源

词源 1
From Middle English cloud, from Old English clūd (“mass of stone, rock, boulder, hill”), from Proto-West Germanic *klūt, from Proto-Germanic *klūtaz, *klutaz (“lump, mass, conglomeration”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to ball up, clench”).
Cognate with Scots clood, clud (“cloud”), Dutch kluit (“lump, mass, clod”), German Low German Kluut, Kluute (“lump, mass, ball”), German Kloß (“lump, ball, dumpling”), Danish klode (“sphere, orb, planet”), Swedish klot (“sphere, orb, ball, globe”), Icelandic klót (“knob on a sword's hilt”). Related to English clod, clot, clump, club. Largely replaced Middle English wolken, from Old English wolcn (whence Modern English welkin), the commonest Germanic word (compare Dutch wolk, German Wolke).
词源 2
From Middle English cloud, from Old English clūd (“mass of stone, rock, boulder, hill”), from Proto-West Germanic *klūt, from Proto-Germanic *klūtaz, *klutaz (“lump, mass, conglomeration”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to ball up, clench”).
Cognate with Scots clood, clud (“cloud”), Dutch kluit (“lump, mass, clod”), German Low German Kluut, Kluute (“lump, mass, ball”), German Kloß (“lump, ball, dumpling”), Danish klode (“sphere, orb, planet”), Swedish klot (“sphere, orb, ball, globe”), Icelandic klót (“knob on a sword's hilt”). Related to English clod, clot, clump, club. Largely replaced Middle English wolken, from Old English wolcn (whence Modern English welkin), the commonest Germanic word (compare Dutch wolk, German Wolke).
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