different between cloud vs nebulously

English

Etymology

From Middle English cloud, cloude, clod, clud, clude, from Old English cl?d (“mass of stone, rock, boulder, hill”), from Proto-Germanic *kl?taz, *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 displaced native Middle English wolken, wolkne from Old English wolcen (whence Modern English welkin), the commonest Germanic word (compare Dutch wolk, German Wolke).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: kloud, IPA^(key): /kla?d/
• Rhymes: -a?d

Noun

cloud (plural clouds)

1. (obsolete) A rock; boulder; a hill.
2. A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.

   • So this was my future home, I thought! […] Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

3. Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.
4. Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.
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.

   • so great a cloud of witnesses
8. An elliptical shape or symbol whose outline is a series of semicircles, supposed to resemble a cloud.

9. (computing, with "the") The Internet, regarded as an abstract amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing.
10. (figuratively) A negative or foreboding aspect of something positive: see every cloud has a silver lining or every silver lining has a cloud.
11. (slang) Crystal methamphetamine.
12. A large, loosely-knitted headscarf worn by women.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:cloud.

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:cloud

Derived terms

Translations

See cloud/translations § Noun.

See also

• Appendix:English collective nouns

Verb

cloud (third-person singular simple present clouds, present participle clouding, simple past and past participle clouded)

1. (intransitive) To become foggy or gloomy, or obscured from sight.

2. (transitive) To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds.

3. (transitive) To make obscure.

4. (transitive) To make less acute or perceptive.

5. (transitive) To make gloomy or sullen.
6. (transitive) To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish (reputation or character).
7. (transitive) To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors.
8. (intransitive) To become marked, darkened or variegated in this way.

Translations

Further reading

• cloud on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• clouds on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• could, culdo-

French

Pronunciation

Noun

cloud m (uncountable)

1. (computing, Anglicism, with le) the cloud.

Synonyms

• le nuage

See also

• informatique en nuage
• infonuagique

Middle English

Alternative forms

• clowd, cloude, clowde, clud, clude

Etymology

From Old English cl?d, from Proto-West Germanic *kl?t, from Proto-Germanic *kl?taz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klu?d/

Noun

cloud (plural cloudes)

1. A small elevation; a hill.
2. A clod, lump, or boulder.
3. A cloud (mass of water vapour) or similar.
4. The sky (that which is above the ground).
5. That which obscures, dims, or clouds.

Related terms

• cloudy

Descendants

• English: cloud
• Scots: clud, clood

References

• “cl?ud, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Old Irish

Etymology

From clo- +? -ud.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kl?o.uð/

Noun

cloüd m (genitive cloita)

1. verbal noun of cloïd: subduing
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 56^b16

Descendants

• Middle Irish: clód
  • Irish: cló
  • Scottish Gaelic: clòthadh

Inflection

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “clód”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Spanish

Noun

cloud m (plural clouds)

1. (computing) cloud

English

Etymology

nebulous +? -ly

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /?n?b.j?.l?s.li/

Adverb

nebulously (comparative more nebulously, superlative most nebulously)

1. In a manner like that of a cloud or haze.

   The vapour drifted nebulously into the hall.

2. As if viewed through a cloud or haze.
3. Vaguely, without clear purpose or specific intention.

   He waved his hand nebulously in the direction he intended to go.

Quotations

• 1866 - Herman Melville, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War

  The bladed guns are gleaming—
      Drift in lengthened trim,
  Files on files for hazy miles—
      Nebulously dim.

• 1905 - Jack London, The Game, chapter IV

  And there he stood, all but naked, godlike, in a white blaze of light. She had never conceived of the form of God except as nebulously naked, and the thought-association was startling.

• 1920 - Sinclair Lewis, Main Street, chapter XVI, section 2

  Mysteriously aching, nebulously sad, she slipped away, half-convinced but only half-convinced that it was horrible and unnatural, this postponement of release of mother-affection, this sacrifice to her opinionation and to his cautious desire for prosperity.

• 1928 - H. P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu

  For an instant the ship was befouled by an acrid and blinding green cloud, and then there was only a venomous seething astern; where - God in heaven! - the scattered plasticity of that nameless sky-spawn was nebulously recombining in its hateful original form, whilst its distance widened every second as the Alert gained impetus from its mounting steam.

• 1931 - H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness, chapter 6

  Archaic covered bridges lingered fearsomely out of the past in pockets of the hills, and the half-abandoned railway track paralleling the river seemed to exhale a nebulously visible air of desolation.

Related terms

• nebulosity
• nebulous
• nebulousness

Translations