cloud — Từ điển tiếng Anh

Danh từ

1. A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.

   Ví dụ

   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.

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

   Ví dụ

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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.

3. Anything reminiscent of a cloud.

   Ví dụ

   The ship moved forward under a cloud of sail.

4. Anything which makes things foggy, unclear or gloomy.

   Ví dụ

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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.

5. Anything unsubstantial.

   Cách dùng

   • nghĩa bóng

6. A dark spot on a lighter material or background.

7. A group or swarm of insects, various animals or people, especially when flying.

   Cách dùng

   • collective

   Ví dụ

   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.

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

   Ví dụ

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

9. A telecom network (from their representation in engineering drawings).

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

    Cách dùng

    • with-definite-article

    Ví dụ

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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 […]”

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

    Cách dùng

    • nghĩa bóng

    Ví dụ

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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.

12. Crystal methamphetamine.

    Cách dùng

    • tiếng lóng

13. A large, loosely-knitted headscarf worn by women.

14. A white cat.

    Cách dùng

    • Internet
    • endearing
    • hài hước

15. A rock; boulder; a hill.

    Cách dùng

    • không còn dùng

Động từ

1. To become foggy or gloomy, or obscured from sight.

   Cách dùng

   • nội động từ

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   foggloom

   Ví dụ

   The glass clouds when you breathe on it.

2. To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds.

   Cách dùng

   • ngoại động từ

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   becloud

   Ví dụ

   The sky is clouded.

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

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   fogmist

   Ví dụ

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

4. To make obscure.

   Cách dùng

   • ngoại động từ

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   becloudbedarkenbedimfog

   Ví dụ

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

5. To make less acute or perceptive.

   Cách dùng

   • ngoại động từ

   Ví dụ

   Your emotions are clouding your judgement.

   The tears began to well up and cloud my vision.

6. To make gloomy or sullen.

   Cách dùng

   • ngoại động từ

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   begloomengloom

   Ví dụ

   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.

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

   Cách dùng

   • ngoại động từ

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   besmirchdenigratestain

   Ví dụ

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

8. To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors.

   Cách dùng

   • ngoại động từ

   Ví dụ

   to cloud yarn

   The nice conduct of a clouded cane

9. To become marked, darkened or variegated in this way.

   Cách dùng

   • nội động từ

Danh từ

1. any collection of particles (e.g., smoke or dust) or gases that is visible

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   physical phenomenon

2. a visible mass of water or ice particles suspended at a considerable altitude

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   atmospheric phenomenon

3. out of touch with reality

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   unrealityirreality

   Ví dụ

   his head was in the clouds

4. a cause of worry or gloom or trouble

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   gloomgloominessglumness

   Ví dụ

   the only cloud on the horizon was the possibility of dissent by the French

5. suspicion affecting your reputation

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   suspicion

   Ví dụ

   after that mistake he was under a cloud

6. a group of many things in the air or on the ground

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   swarm

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   groupgrouping

   Ví dụ

   a swarm of insects obscured the light

   clouds of blossoms

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   it discharged a cloud of spores

Động từ

1. make overcast or cloudy

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   overcast

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   darken

   Ví dụ

   Fall weather often overcasts our beaches

2. make less visible or unclear

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   obscurebefogbecloudobnubilatehaze overfogmist

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   hideconceal

   Ví dụ

   The stars are obscured by the clouds

   the big elm tree obscures our view of the valley

3. billow up in the form of a cloud

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   billowwallow

   Ví dụ

   The smoke clouded above the houses

4. make gloomy or depressed

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   affectimpressmovestrike

   Ví dụ

   Their faces were clouded with sadness

5. place under suspicion or cast doubt upon

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   defilesullycorrupttaint

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   marimpairspoildeflowervitiate

   Ví dụ

   sully someone's reputation

6. make less clear

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   changealtermodify

   Ví dụ

   the stroke clouded memories of her youth

7. colour with streaks or blotches of different shades

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   mottledapple

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   spot

8. make milky or dull

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   dull

   Ví dụ

   The chemical clouded the liquid to which it was added