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How to pronounce cloud in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms overcast
Type of darken
Has types haze, fog up
Derivation clouding
Type Words
Synonyms swarm
Type of grouping, group
Has types infestation, plague


clouds of blossoms.
it discharged a cloud of spores.
Type Words
Synonyms corrupt, defile, sully, taint
Type of spoil, vitiate, mar, impair, deflower
Type Words
Synonyms becloud, befog, fog, haze over, mist, obnubilate, obscure
Type of conceal, hide
Has types overshadow


The stars are obscured by the clouds.
Type Words
Synonyms dapple, mottle
Type of spot
Has types speckle, stipple, harlequin
Type Words
Type of gloominess, glumness, gloom


the only cloud on the horizon was the possibility of dissent by the French.
Type Words
Type of physical phenomenon
Has types coma, aerosol, cosmic dust, dust cloud, mushroom, mushroom-shaped cloud, mushroom cloud, nebula
Type Words
Type of atmospheric phenomenon
Has types contrail, cloud bank, cirrus cloud, cirrus, cirrostratus cloud, cirrostratus, cirrocumulus cloud, cumulus cloud, mother-of-pearl cloud, condensation trail, cumulus, cumulonimbus cloud, nacreous cloud, thundercloud, nebule, nimbus, nimbus cloud, cirrocumulus, rain cloud, stratus cloud, cumulonimbus, storm cloud, stratus
Derivation cloudy
Type Words
Type of billow, wallow


The smoke clouded above the houses.
Type Words
Type of impress, strike, affect, move


Their faces were clouded with sadness.
Type Words
Type of change, modify, alter


the stroke clouded memories of her youth.
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Type of dull


The chemical clouded the liquid to which it was added.
Type Words
Type of irreality, unreality


his head was in the clouds.
Type Words
Type of suspicion


after that mistake he was under a cloud.

Examples of cloud

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Later, as we entered Sasha's on Shaw, we were hit by a cloud of cigarette smoke.
From the stltoday.com
I have a feeling Apple will create the best cloud experience for Apple products.
From the orlandosentinel.com
With Proferi, the solution resides in the cloud, but this is only the beginning.
From the techcrunch.com
In the cloud, personal data is processed and stored far from where a user lives.
From the online.wsj.com
Cloud computing services make up a growing portion of that segment, Savvis said.
From the abcnews.go.com
A planetary system is born when a molecular cloud core collapses to form a star.
From the sciencedaily.com
The sediment rises around her, and she disappears in a cloud of underwater dust.
From the time.com
Cloud computing may finally mean a way for IT to finally become a profit center.
From the forbes.com
There has been a visible shift to the cloud by most enterprise software players.
From the forbes.com
More examples
  • Any collection of particles (e.g., smoke or dust) or gases that is visible
  • Overcast: make overcast or cloudy; "Fall weather often overcasts our beaches"
  • A visible mass of water or ice particles suspended at a considerable altitude
  • Obscure: make less visible or unclear; "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; "The smoke clouded above the houses"
  • Out of touch with reality; "his head was in the clouds"
  • A cloud is a visible mass of droplets of water or frozen crystals suspended in the atmosphere above the surface of the Earth or another planetary body. A cloud is also a visible mass attracted by gravity, such as masses of material in space called interstellar clouds and nebulae. ...
  • Cosmics Leaving Outdoor Droplets or the CLOUD is an experimental facility being set up at CERN by Jasper Kirkby to investigate the microphysics between galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) and clouds under controlled conditions. ...
  • Cloud is a fictional character in the Marvel Universe.