Wymowy (7)
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/ˈklaʊ̯d/
Uwagi dotyczące wymowy
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[ˈkʰl̥aʊ̯d]
Uwagi dotyczące wymowy
- General-American
- Received-Pronunciation
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/ˈklæʊ̯d/
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[ˈkʰl̥æʊ̯d]
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/ˈklaːd/
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[ˈkʰl̥aːd]
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klaʊd
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A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
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While he thus ſpake, there came a cloud, and ouerſhadowed them, ⁊ they feared, as they entred into the cloude.
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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.
Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.
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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.
Anything reminiscent of a cloud.
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The ship moved forward under a cloud of sail.
Anything which makes things foggy, unclear or gloomy.
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But in one part of the horizon a cloud lay, and the rulers of India were oppressed with a sense of coming disaster. This cloud had begun to form in 1873, and had been continually growing larger; it threw a shadow over gold-debtor nations, and shed a depressing influence over gold-using countries.
Anything unsubstantial.
Użycie- przenośne
A dark spot on a lighter material or background.
A group or swarm of insects, various animals or people, especially when flying.
Użycie- collective
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He opened the door and was greeted by a cloud of bats.
so great a cloud of witnesses
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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.
An elliptical shape or symbol whose outline is a series of semicircles, supposed to resemble a cloud.
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The comic-book character's thoughts appeared in a cloud above his head.
A telecom network (from their representation in engineering drawings).
The Internet, regarded as an abstract amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing.
Użycie- with-definite-article
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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.
[…]the cloud could do this, it could do that. The cloud could be powerful and intelligent. It became a business buzzword and a selling point.
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“But there’s no fucking cloud,” says Crabapple, “there’s other people’s computers. There are vast datacentres that are sucking up water and electricity and rare-earth metals, literally boiling up the planet […]”
A negative or foreboding aspect of something positive: see every cloud has a silver lining or every silver lining has a cloud.
Użycie- przenośne
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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.
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.
Crystal methamphetamine.
Użycie- slangowe
A large, loosely-knitted headscarf worn by women.
A white cat.
Użycie- Internet
- endearing
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A rock; boulder; a hill.
Użycie- wyszłe z użycia
Czasownik
To become foggy or gloomy, or obscured from sight.
Użycie- nieprzechodnie
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The glass clouds when you breathe on it.
To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds.
Użycie- przechodnie
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The sky is clouded.
Of the breath, to become cloud; to turn into mist.
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The horses stamping Their warm breath clouding In the sharp and frosty morning Of the day.
To make obscure.
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All this talk about human rights is clouding the real issue.
To make less acute or perceptive.
Użycie- przechodnie
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Your emotions are clouding your judgement.
The tears began to well up and cloud my vision.
To make gloomy or sullen.
Użycie- przechodnie
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One day too late, I fear me, noble lord, Hath clouded all thy happy days on earth.
Be not disheartened, then, nor cloud those looks.
To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish (reputation or character).
Użycie- przechodnie
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I would not be a stander-by to hear My sovereign mistress clouded so, without My present vengeance taken.
To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors.
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to cloud yarn
The nice conduct of a clouded cane
To become marked, darkened or variegated in this way.
Użycie- nieprzechodnie
Rzeczownik
any collection of particles (e.g., smoke or dust) or gases that is visible
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a visible mass of water or ice particles suspended at a considerable altitude
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out of touch with reality
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his head was in the clouds
a cause of worry or gloom or trouble
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the only cloud on the horizon was the possibility of dissent by the French
suspicion affecting your reputation
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after that mistake he was under a cloud
a group of many things in the air or on the ground
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a swarm of insects obscured the light
clouds of blossoms
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it discharged a cloud of spores
Czasownik
make overcast or cloudy
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Fall weather often overcasts our beaches
make less visible or unclear
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The stars are obscured by the clouds
the big elm tree obscures our view of the valley
billow up in the form of a cloud
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The smoke clouded above the houses
make gloomy or depressed
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Their faces were clouded with sadness
place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
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sully someone's reputation
make less clear
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the stroke clouded memories of her youth
colour with streaks or blotches of different shades
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make milky or dull
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The chemical clouded the liquid to which it was added