(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.
Foggy
Definition:
(superl.) Filled or abounding with fog, or watery exhalations; misty; as, a foggy atmosphere; a foggy morning.
(1) Foggy feast Well done Carl Fogarty, the most successful world superbike racing champion ever, now known to a new generation as the winner of I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here .
(2) With wild-type (Foggi variant) (nuclease wt) and the substrates thymidine 3'-phosphate 5'-(p-nitrophenyl phosphate) (PNPdTp), thymidine 3'-methylphosphonate 5'-(p-nitrophenyl phosphate) (PNPdTp*Me), and thymidine 5'-(p-nitrophenyl phosphate) (PNPdT), kcat remains nearly constant at 13 min-1.
(3) Overnight, Cuba’s flag was quietly added to the others that adorn the lobby of the State Department’s headquarters in Foggy Bottom.
(4) "It's started off foggy, then it cleared for a time but then it came down again," said a Heathrow spokeswoman.
(5) Effects of exposure to acidic pollutants have not been studied under foggy conditions; thus there is no directly relevant information from which to estimate the health risk.
(6) When watching a monochromatic Ganzfeld, three wavelength-related phenomena are perceived: (1) the field turns achromatic; (2) the initially bright field fades into a dark or a foggy, gray field; and (3) a sensation of an additional darkness is experienced upon light turn off.
(7) The chamber is so foggy that they must have difficulty recognising one another.
(8) Dumped by my agency to fend for myself, my foggy mind and I (a mind that could not remember conversations held just moments prior or how to use a parking meter) visited numerous specialists for answers.
(9) Havel, they implied, was a foggy-minded, impractical idealist.
(10) Former world superbike champion Carl “Foggy” Fogarty has been crowned king of the jungle on I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!
(11) Donations to the official pro-independence campaign for the most recent reporting period from 25 July to 21 August included £50,000 from Elizabeth Topping, the wife of the former William Hill chief executive Ralph Topping, and £75,000 from Randall Foggie, an SNP council candidate from Kirkcaldy.
(12) It stinks from the top of Capitol Hill to the luxury hotel lobby on Pennsylvania Avenue, all the way to the depths of Foggy Bottom.
(13) In the distance, the skyscrapers of downtown LA look foggy and unreal, like a painted movie backdrop awaiting an alien invasion.
(14) As we drive along Dartmoor’s foggy lanes, Alex tells me that today’s visitors often stumble across similarly fluorescent beasts – but these are less scary glow-in-the-dark ponies, painted with reflective paint to make them more visible to drivers.
(15) [Their sexuality] could have a practical use, spiritually.” In other words, for Arca, the foggy place between the black and white, male and female, and easy and uneasy listening is the most authentic place to be, artistically: “Maybe the real truth is drawing strength from the grey.” In turn, his vivid concepts come alive with Kanda, like the Chris Cunningham to Arca’s Aphex Twin.
(16) Arguments about God's will and the publication of foggy guidelines aren't sufficient to cope with the challenges ahead.
(17) The results of the experiment showed that the period between the time when the average score of Stanford Sleepiness Scale (SSS) reached point four (a little foggy) and the rising time was gradually decreased by repetition of the 22 h-wake and 8 h-sleep cycle.
(18) Under foggy conditions (mean droplet size 10 microns, temperature 50 degrees F), no marked effects on lung function were found.
(19) They are like two guys on a foggy night huddling together for comfort.
(20) They send the message that Australia’s benighted isolation on a lonely island lost in the middle of a foggy sea must be terminated.