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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.

1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.

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.

2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29:

Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.

Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.

A dark spot on a lighter material or background.

He opened the door and was greeted by a cloud of bats.

so great a cloud of witnesses

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Hebrews 12:1:

The place was horribly haunted by clouds of mosquitoes and every form of flying pest, so we were glad to find solid ground again and to make a circuit among the trees, which enabled us to outflank this pestilent morass, which droned like an organ in the distance, so loud was it with insect life.

1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

A group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying.

The comic-book character's thoughts appeared in a cloud above his head.

An elliptical shape or symbol whose outline is a series of semicircles, supposed to resemble a cloud.

A telecom network (from their representation in engineering drawings)

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.

2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18:

(computing, with "the") The Internet, regarded as an abstract amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing.

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.

1798, Eleanor Sleath, The Orphan of the Rhine:

The only cloud on their night was that injury to Rafael, who was followed off the pitch by his anxious brother Fabio as he was stretchered away down the tunnel.

2011 January 25, Phil McNulty, “Blackpool 2-3 Man Utd”, in BBC:

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(figuratively) A negative or foreboding aspect of something positive: see every cloud has a silver lining or every silver lining has a cloud.

A large, loosely-knitted headscarf worn by women.

núvol

anything which makes things foggy or gloomy

núvol

group of objects suspended above the ground or flying

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).


cloud

The glass clouds when you breathe on it.

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

The sky is clouded.

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

The horses stamping
Their warm breath clouding
In the sharp and frosty morning
Of the day.

1972, “Thick As A Brick”, Ian Anderson (lyrics), performed by Jethro Tull:

Of the breath, to become cloud; to turn into mist.

All this talk about human rights is clouding the real issue.

Your emotions are clouding your judgement.

The tears began to well up and cloud my vision.

(transitive) To make less acute or perceptive.

One day too late, I fear me, noble lord,
 Hath clouded all thy happy days on earth.

1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

Be not disheartened, then, nor cloud those looks.

1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

I would not be a stander-by to hear
 My sovereign mistress clouded so, without
 My present vengeance taken.

c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

(transitive) To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish (reputation or character).

to cloud yarn

The nice conduct of a clouded cane

1714, Alexander Pope, “The Rape of the Lock”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, →OCLC, canto IV:

(transitive) To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors.

(intransitive) To become marked, darkened or variegated in this way.

en-verb

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

clouds (present singular third-person)
clouding (participle present)
clouded (participle past)
clouded (past)

ennuvolar

to become foggy or gloomy, to become obscured from sight

enfosquir

to make obscure (e.g. to cloud the issue)


cloud

(computing, Anglicism, with le) the cloud


cloud

A cloud (mass of water vapour) or similar.

The sky (that which is above the ground).

cloudes (plural)
clowd (alternative)
cloude (alternative)
clowde (alternative)
clud (alternative)
clude (alternative)

English: cloud

Scots: clud, clood

From Old English clūd, from Proto-West Germanic *klūt, from Proto-Germanic *klūtaz.


cloud

Do chloud tra in dligid-sin, ro·gabad in-salm-so.

To overthrow this view, then, this psalm was sung.

cloüd (canonical masculine)
cloita (genitive)
cloud (nominative singular)
cloud (singular vocative)
cloud (accusative singular)
clótho (genitive singular)
cloita (genitive singular)
cloud (dative singular)
cloüd
chloüd
cloüd

Middle Irish: clód

Irish: cló

Scottish Gaelic: clòthadh