cloud

Signification

Verb

1. To become foggy or gloomy, or obscured from sight.
2. To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds.
3. Of the breath, to become cloud; to turn into mist.
4. To make obscure.
5. To make less acute or perceptive.
6. To make gloomy or sullen.
7. To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish (reputation or character).
8. To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors.
9. 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.
5. 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. The Internet, regarded as an abstract amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing.
11. 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.

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/klaʊd/

Étymologie

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).

Phrases

When will there be a cloud in Australia ?

Quand y aura-t-il un nuage en Australie?