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(n)
(uncountable) A thick cloud that forms near the ground; the obscurity of such a cloud.
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(countable, uncountable) Water or other liquid finely suspended in air. (Compare fog, haze.)
(v)
To confuse, mystify (a person); to make less acute or perceptive, to cloud (a person’s faculties).
To become covered in haze.
(transitive) To cause to become obscure or muddled.
An animal with a mottled or spotted skin or coat.
(countable) A distinguishing blotch of colour.
(rare, obsolete) A blemish.
A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food.
(adj)
Willing to act dishonestly for personal gain; accepting bribes.
Covered with clouds; overshadowed; darkened; (meteorology) more than 90% covered by clouds.
Difficult to understand; abstruse.
Very fine solid particles (smoke, dust) or liquid droplets (moisture) suspended in the air, slightly limiting visibility. (Compare fog, mist.)
(meteorology) Condensed water falling from a cloud.
Solid remains of a fire.
(slang) The penis.
Covered with or characterised by clouds.
Oxidation or discoloration, especially of a decorative metal exposed to air.
Of the sky, weather, etc.: the state of being cloudy.
The atmosphere above a given point, especially as visible from the surface of the Earth as the place where the sun, moon, stars, and clouds are seen.
A soft tap or blow; a blow or peck from a bird's beak; an aimed blow.
The downwards force an object experiences due to gravity.
(informal, by extension of Moon) Any natural satellite of a planet.
A dark image projected onto a surface where light (or other radiation) is blocked by the shade of an object.
Something hung up or spread out to hide or protect the face, or hide an object from view; usually of gauze, crepe, or similar diaphanous material.
(countable) A small quantity of gas or smoke in the air.
A picture, likeness, diagram or representation, usually drawn on paper.
A bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other.
(uncountable) Haziness, blurriness.
(less common in the US) A sweet mixture of fruit boiled with sugar and allowed to congeal. Often spread on bread or toast or used in jam tarts
The act or process of making or becoming clear.
(transitive) To dominate something and make it seem insignificant.
(uncountable) Darkness where light, particularly sunlight, is blocked.
(transitive) To make dark or darker by reducing light.
(transitive) To make dim; to obscure or darken.
A type of metabolic shock the body undergoes when a substance (such as a drug) on which a patient is dependent is withheld.
A binary operator composite of NOT OR; negation of OR function.
The quality of being wan; wanness.
(transitive) To give a false or misleading account of; pervert.
The act by which something is distinguished or told apart.
(transitive) To throw into confusion or disorder.
(obsolete) disturbance
(transitive) to puzzle, perplex, baffle, bewilder (somebody); to afflict by being complicated, contradictory, or otherwise difficult to understand
The vane (“flattened, web-like part”) of a feather, especially when on a quill pen or the fletching of an arrow.
A large number of insects, especially when in motion or (for bees) migrating to a new colony.
A province in southwestern China, bordering Myanmar (Burma), Laos and Vietnam. Capital: Kunming.
A surname from Korean.
(N)
a petascale supercomputer located at the National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.
The capital and largest city of Western Sahara.
Cloudy diffused matter such as mist, steam or fumes suspended in the air.
A large white, puffy cloud that develops through convection.
A gray rain cloud.
(meteorology) A principal high-level cloud type, typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments, wisps, or narrow bands.
A noxious mixture of particulates and gases that is the result of urban air pollution.
A heavy cloth laid over a coffin or tomb; a shroud laid over a corpse.
(computing) A small-scale cloud data center deployed at the edge.
(astronomy) A cloud in outer space consisting of gas or dust (e.g. a cloud formed after a star explodes).
A depressing, despondent, or melancholic atmosphere.
A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance; any slender, flexible structure or group.
A large wave, swell, surge, or undulating mass of something, such as water, smoke, fabric or sound
(intransitive) To race along swiftly (especially used of clouds).
(physical) Movement; that which moves or is moved.
The hot gaseous form of water, formed when water changes from the liquid phase to the gas phase (at or above its boiling point temperature).
(computing) An interconnected set of clouds, in cloud computing.
Resembling vapor; vaporous.
Of or relating to a cumulus cloud.
Resembling a cloud or clouds; thus, often, fluffy
Alternative form of cloud bank. [A wall of clouds, rising above horizon or observed from a distance, but not overhead.]
The top portion of a cumulonimbus cloud, which tends to be flattened or fibery in appearance, and may be indicative of thunderstorm activity.
British standard spelling of vapor.
(meteorology) A large, dark cloud, usually a cumulonimbus, charged with electricity and producing thunder and lightning.
Alternative spelling of rain cloud. [A cloud from which rain is falling or may fall.]
(meteorology) A cloud with a tall structure and flat base, often associated with thunderstorms.
A work of art or other image depicting sky and clouds.
Occurring within a cloud.
(astronomy) Of, or, pertaining to, the Magellanic Clouds
Rain, snow and other precipitation products of the condensation of atmospheric water vapour
The use of a computer or computers.
A bank of fog.
The action of the verb to scud.
(meteorology) Shining or glowing at night, especially of very high-altitude clouds that reflect sunlight long after sunset; nightshining.
(computing) Creating a virtual version of common computing hardware at the same abstraction level.
Something which holds the greatest attention; the chief point of interest.
Of or relating to vapour; also, having the characteristics or consistency of vapour.
(countable and uncountable) The clear blue colour of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of this colour.
A company, business, organization, or other purposeful endeavor.
Of or pertaining to macrophysics.