Cloud
A collection of visible vapor, or watery particles, suspended in the upper atmosphere.
A mass or volume of smoke, or flying dust, resembling vapor.
A dark vein or spot on a lighter material, as in marble; hence, a blemish or defect; as, a cloud upon one's reputation; a cloud on a title.
That which has a dark, lowering, or threatening aspect; that which temporarily overshadows, obscures, or depresses; as, a cloud of sorrow; a cloud of war; a cloud upon the intellect.
A great crowd or multitude; a vast collection.
A large, loosely-knitted scarf, worn by women about the head.
To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds; as, the sky is clouded.
To darken or obscure, as if by hiding or enveloping with a cloud; hence, to render gloomy or sullen.
To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish; to damage; -- esp. used of reputation or character.
To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors; as, to cloud yarn.
To grow cloudy; to become obscure with clouds; -- often used with up.
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Cloud Quotations
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.
George W. Bush
Why is Cloud 9 so amazing? What is wrong with Cloud 8? That joke came off the top of my head, and the top of my head ain't funny!
Mitch Hedberg
Every silver lining has a cloud.
Mary Kay Ash
I fell off my pink cloud with a thud.
Elizabeth Taylor
Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us; and it was very still; but there were whispers.
Black Elk
The soldiers did go away and their towns were torn down; and in the Moon of Falling Leaves (November), they made a treaty with Red Cloud that said our country would be ours as long as grass should grow and water flow.
Black Elk
Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.
Pythagoras
The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.
Elizabeth Gaskell
Since I was 16, I've felt a black cloud hangs over me. Since then, I have taken pills for depression.
Amy Winehouse
Cloud Translations
cloud in Danish is sky
cloud in Dutch is wolk
cloud in Finnish is pilvi
cloud in French is nue, nuage
cloud in German is Wolke, Wolke, Schatten
cloud in Norwegian is sky
cloud in Portuguese is nuvem
cloud in Spanish is sombrc, nube
cloud in Swedish is sky, moln
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