cloud

(Αγγλικός)

Verb

1. (intransitive) To become foggy or gloomy, or obscured from sight.
2. (transitive) To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds.
3. Of the breath, to become cloud; to turn into mist.
4. (transitive) To make obscure.
5. (transitive) To make less acute or perceptive.
6. (transitive) To make gloomy or sullen.
7. (transitive) To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish (reputation or character).
8. (transitive) To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors.
9. (intransitive) To become marked, darkened or variegated in this way.

Noun

1. (obsolete) A rock; boulder; a hill.
2. A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
3. Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.
4. Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy. Example: The clouds were grey so James thought it was about to rain.
5. (figuratively) Anything unsubstantial.
6. A dark spot on a lighter material or background.
7. A group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying.
8. An elliptical shape or symbol whose outline is a series of semicircles, supposed to resemble a cloud.
9. A telecom network (from their representation in engineering drawings).
10. (with-definite-article) The Internet, regarded as an abstract amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing.
11. (figuratively) A negative or foreboding aspect of something positive: see every cloud has a silver lining or every silver lining has a cloud.
12. (slang) Crystal methamphetamine.
13. A large, loosely-knitted headscarf worn by women.
14. (Internet, endearing, humorous) A white cat.

Προφέρεται ως (IPA)

/klaʊd/

Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

Κληρονομήθηκε από Μέσα Αγγλικά: cloud

Κληρονομήθηκε από Παλαιά Αγγλικά: clūd

Συγγενές με Σκωτικά: clood

Συγγενές με Ολλανδικά: kluit

Συγγενές με Γερμανικά: Kloß

Συγγενές με Δανικά: klode

Συγγενές με Σουηδικά: klot

Συγγενές με Ισλανδικά: klót

Συγγενές με Αγγλικά: clod

Συγγενές με Ολλανδικά: wolk

Συγγενές με Γερμανικά: Wolke

In summary

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).

Έννοιες

σύννεφο

νέφος

θολώνω

συννεφιάζω

βουρκώνω

σκεπάζω

σκιάζω

συγχίζω

θαμπάδα

’sinefo

ξηρή αχλύς

θόλωμα

ασθενής ομίχλη

ξηρή αχλύς/θόλωμα

σμήνος εντόμων

ομίχλη

κρύβω

καλύπτω

νεφέλη

Συνώνυμα

fog

🌫️

mist

obscure

darken

dim

befog

overcast

cover

becloud

swarm

haze

clouds

☁️

sully

obnubilate

shade

smoke

sadden

muddy

haze over

blur

benight

storm cloud

upset

taint

befuddle

shadow

shoal

sky

overshadow

cloudy weather

bedim

pod

mottle

blear

exaltation

dust

flight

✈️

distress

flock

bevy

defile

circle

⭕

dapple

school

🏫

overcloud

corrupt

cascade

cartload

bemuse

busyness

Προτάσεις

When will there be a cloud in Australia ?

Πότε θα υπάρξει ένα σύννεφο στην Αυστραλία;

I wandered lonely as a cloud .

Περιπλανήθηκα μοναχικά ως σύννεφο.