(n.) A collection of visible vapor, or watery particles, suspended in the upper atmosphere.
(n.) A mass or volume of smoke, or flying dust, resembling vapor.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A great crowd or multitude; a vast collection.
(n.) A large, loosely-knitted scarf, worn by women about the head.
(v. t.) To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds; as, the sky is clouded.
(v. t.) To darken or obscure, as if by hiding or enveloping with a cloud; hence, to render gloomy or sullen.
(v. t.) To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish; to damage; -- esp. used of reputation or character.
(v. t.) To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors; as, to cloud yarn.
(v. i.) To grow cloudy; to become obscure with clouds; -- often used with up.
Example Sentences:
(1) A golden toad (Bufo periglenes) in Monteverde Cloud forest reserve in Puntarenas province of Costa Rica.
(2) The dermatan and keratan sulfate-storing diseases have corneal clouding.
(3) Aircraft pilots Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Getting paid to have your head in the clouds.’ Photograph: CTC Wings Includes: Flight engineers and flying instructors Average pay before tax: £90,146 Pay range: £66,178 (25th percentile) to £97,598 (60th percentile).
(4) Read any technology trends article and you’d be forgiven for thinking all roads lead to the cloud.
(5) Chris Williamson, of data provider Markit, said: "A batch of dismal data and a gloomier assessment of the economic outlook has cast a further dark cloud over the UK's economic health, piling pressure on the government to review its fiscal policy and growth strategy.
(6) In the process, PR firms have grown even more influential in shaping the debate around climate policy, said James Hoggan, who ran his own public relations firm in Vancouver and founded DeSmogBlog , a blog that describes itself as “clearing the PR pollution that clouds climate science”.
(7) They belong to the people who built Choquequirao, one of the most remote Inca settlements in the Andes, and were stashed here by the archaeologists who, over the past 20 years, have been slowly freeing the ruins from the cloud forest.
(8) Its radar will penetrate thick cloud to warn of catastrophic rainfall.
(9) The present standard method for evaluating asbestos fiber concentrations in workroom air excludes fibers less than 5 micron long even though it has been shown that small fiber concentrations dominate in a dust cloud.
(10) Since then, Amazon has expanded into other retail categories, such as food, clothing and electricals, and developed a formidable cloud computing service, its own television shows and an electronic personal assistant for people’s homes.
(11) He said: "Strong feeling must never be allowed to cloud clear judgment about where this country's real long-term economic interests lie.
(12) Ukip is also a very grey revolt, which adds another dark cloud over its long-term prospects – although, of course, generational change takes a long time!
(13) On the day I arrive a time lapse of cloud is drifting across the ridge, above a geometry of Inca stairways and terraces cut into a steep, jungly spur above the Apurímac river, 100 miles west of Cusco in southern Peru.
(14) A 32-year-old insulin-dependent diabetic patient reported recurrent clouding of her short-acting insulin, caused by silicone oil contamination from re-used disposable syringes.
(15) The picture was clouded by job losses at the other end of the age range, after employers exploited a final chance to impose mandatory retirements which were outlawed this month .
(16) Similarly literary and pensive was Clouds of Sils Maria , in which France's Olivier Assayas combined some modish themes — the internet, celebrity gossip, superhero movies — with some hoarier themes regarding the theatre-cinema divide, ageing and female rivalry.
(17) US attorney general Loretta Lynch closed the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email practices with no charges on Wednesday, formally ending a protracted saga that has clouded her campaign with questions of trustworthiness.
(18) Sony has announced a new cloud-based gaming service, which will bring classic PlayStation titles to a range of gadgets, from tablet computers to televisions.
(19) But retweet if you remember destabilizing a region based on falsified claims that everyone in America needed to be afraid of a mushroom cloud, fave if you don’t understand causation.
(20) We should grieve and we should be angry, but we must not let grief or anger cloud our judgment,” he said.
Dapple
Definition:
(n.) One of the spots on a dappled animal.
(a.) Alt. of Dappled
(v. t.) To variegate with spots; to spot.
Example Sentences:
(1) But Kiki Bertens, a smiling, 23-year-old Dutch qualifier who looked pleased just to be here, made a decent fist of her impossible assignment in dappled light on Arthur Ashe and pushed Serena Williams at least to the lower slopes of anxiety on day three of the 2015 US Open.
(2) In addition, all affected members show a characteristic pattern of cutaneous hyperpigmentation, which resembles macular amyloidosis around the neck and waist, but which confers a dappled appearance to the axillae, popliteal fossae, thighs, buttocks, and lower aspect of the abdomen.
(3) Drinking water in dappled forest shade, Boban points to wild asparagus growing by the roadside.
(4) Unfortunately this data is about as much use in predicting the future course of the property market as sun-dappled photos of the summer of 1914.
(5) From the drifts of waxy, geometric paper leaves on the floor, to the dappled lighting; from the wonky litter bin, to the library table as the room's centrepiece; Boyce's room is both impressive and affecting.
(6) These findings are interpreted as obvious gene dosis effects of the incompletely dominant merle gene which is used to produce a characteric harlequin dappling in many breeds of dogs.
(7) After creating the Reading striker’s opener, Carney headed England’s late second in front of a capacity 13,000-plus crowd at a sun-dappled Moncton Stadium.
(8) It's 6.30pm and I'm on the sofa, watching an overgrown blue woolly person with a red security blanket and a bell in his foot, who is squeaking and jingling through a sun-dappled wood in the company of a large, excitable dolly - her hair stands on end when she's especially thrilled - who says, 'Ooh!
(9) As for Serena’s great rival, Sharapova, she was seen off by Kerber in a rollicking fourth-round match on a sun-dappled, cabriolet Centre Court: 7-6, 4-6, 6-4.
(10) The perfect summer lunch, for me at least, will involve a table outdoors, but in dappled shade, a group of people who enjoy eating and drinking, and some seasonal food.
(11) Taiyo, but also to dapple fruit symptoms on peach cv.
(12) Leave time for a meal in the grounds at the idyllic Lodi restaurant, where you can loll in a private gypsy wagon overlooking a sun-dappled courtyard, sip cocktails and work your way through the delicious Mediterranean menu.
(13) Probe HSV-1 detected all the members of HSV group, such as HSV-hop, HSV-grapevine, HSV-cucumber, HSV-citrus and a viroid-like RNA isolated from plum trees affected by plum dapple fruit disease.
(14) Her opening week at the helm ended with a rousing welcome from the party faithful at the nationalists' spring conference on a sun-dappled racecourse in west Wales.
(15) On a computer screen, a bald, muddy seam on the woodland floor is being sown over with green, and the sunny dapple is being added (filming was completed in October 2006, after six months of lightning strikes, flash floods and oak blight).
(16) Chord lengths of air spaces from cranial and caudal lobes of lungs were acquired using a Dapple Systems image analyzer, and a two-population frequency distribution was generated for analysis with an IBM PC.
(17) Dappled apple trees and "perfect" lives riddled with curtain-twitching darknesses, great social humour, heartache, industrial-strength bitchiness and, at their best, plotlines that somehow managed to marry Twin Peaks to The Simpsons , and Marcia Cross as the ever-magnificent Bree.
(18) We have studied the detection of apple scar skin, dapple apple, and pear rusty skin viroids in nucleic acid extracts of infected pome fruit tissues by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) with viroid cDNA-specific primers.
(19) Trees (in fact, the pillars that support the gallery ceiling) loom, their geometric aluminium leaves dappling the light that is cast over the space.
(20) Even the actress Carol White's hair seems to mirror her character's inexorable pitch into poverty, first a gleaming golden halo as she promenades with her fiance Reg in a dappled park, then the neat bob of a housewife and mother, initially flourishing in a posh maisonette with double glazing, then struggling with vermin and bailiffs in a series of increasingly overcrowded and dingy abodes following her husband's sudden unemployment.