cloud : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a cumulus cloud at an intermediate altitude of 2 or 3 miles
  altocumulus.
  

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• noun a stratus cloud at an intermediate altitude of 2 or 3 miles
  altostratus.
  

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• verb feel extreme happiness or elation
  walk on air; exult; jump for joy.
  

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• noun a cloud at a high altitude consisting of a series of regularly arranged small clouds resembling ripples
  cirrocumulus.
  

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• noun a thin uniform layer of hazy cloud at high altitude
  cirrostratus.
  

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• noun a wispy white cloud (usually of fine ice crystals) at a high altitude (4 to 8 miles)
  cirrus.
  

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• noun a layer of clouds seen from a distance
  

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• noun apparatus that detects the path of high-energy particles passing through a supersaturated vapor; each particle ionizes molecules along its path and small droplets condense on them to produce a visible track
  cloud chamber.
  

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• noun the state of the sky when it is covered by clouds
  cloudiness; overcast.
  

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• noun Spanish grass with light feathery panicles grown for dried bouquets
  Agrostis nebulosa.
  

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• noun a state of extreme happiness
  blissfulness; bliss; seventh heaven; walking on air.
  

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• (Law), a defect of title, usually superficial and capable of removal by release, decision in equity, or legislation.

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• verb become covered with clouds
  cloud over; overcloud.
  
  • The sky clouded over
• verb become overcast
  
  • the sky clouded over

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• noun a person who seeds clouds
  seeder.
  

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• verb become covered with clouds
  cloud over; overcloud.
  
  • The sky clouded over

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Cloud"-built adjective

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1. Built of, or in, the clouds; airy; unsubstantial; imaginary. Cowper.

   So vanished my cloud-built palace. Goldsmith.

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Cloud"-burst` noun

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1. A sudden copious rainfall, as the whole cloud had been precipitated at once.

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Cloud"-capped` adjective

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1. Having clouds resting on the top or head; reaching to the clouds; as, cloud-capped mountains.

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Cloud"-com*pel`ler noun

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1. Cloud-gatherer; -- an epithet applied to Zeus. Poetic. Pope.

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• adjective satellite filled or abounding with clouds
  overcast; clouded; sunless.
  

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• noun an imaginary place where you say people are when they seem optimistically out of touch with reality
  

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• noun the process whereby water particles become visible in the sky
  clouding.
  

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• noun a dark cloud of great vertical extent charged with electricity; associated with thunderstorms
  thundercloud; cumulonimbus.
  

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• noun a globular cloud
  cumulus.
  

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• noun a cloud of dust suspended in the air
  

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• adjective satellite guided by whim and fancy
  flighty; flyaway; scatterbrained.
  
  • flighty young girls

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• in the realm of facy and imagination; beyond reason; visionary.

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• noun the larger of the two Magellanic Clouds visible from the southern hemisphere
  

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• noun either of two small galaxies orbiting the Milky Way; visible near the south celestial pole
  

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• (Astron.), three conspicuous nebulæ near the south pole, resembling thin white clouds.

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• noun a luminous iridescent cloud at a high altitude that may be seen when the sun is a few degrees below the horizon
  mother-of-pearl cloud.
  

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• noun a large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom and rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a nuclear bomb)
  mushroom cloud; mushroom.
  

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• noun a large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom and rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a nuclear bomb)
  mushroom cloud; mushroom.
  

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• noun a luminous iridescent cloud at a high altitude that may be seen when the sun is a few degrees below the horizon
  mother-of-pearl cloud.
  

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• noun a dark grey cloud bearing rain
  nimbus; nimbus cloud.
  

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• noun (astronomy) a hypothetical huge collection of comets orbiting the sun far beyond the orbit of Pluto; perturbations (as by other stars) can upset a comet's orbit and may send it tumbling toward the sun
  

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• noun a dark grey cloud bearing rain
  nimbus; nimbus cloud.
  

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• noun leader of the Oglala who resisted the development of a trail through Wyoming and Montana by the United States government (1822-1909)
  

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• noun a town in central Minnesota on the Mississippi River; granite quarries
  Saint Cloud.
  

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• noun the smaller of the two Magellanic Clouds visible from the southern hemisphere
  

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• noun a town in central Minnesota on the Mississippi River; granite quarries
  Saint Cloud.
  

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• noun a heavy dark cloud presaging rain or a storm
  

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• noun a large dark low cloud
  stratus.
  

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• to be under suspicion or in disgrace; to be in disfavor.

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• . (Meteor.) Same as Cumulo-stratus.

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• noun an ominous sign that war threatens
  

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• noun apparatus that detects the path of high-energy particles passing through a supersaturated vapor; each particle ionizes molecules along its path and small droplets condense on them to produce a visible track
  cloud chamber.
  

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