What's the difference between cloud and nimbus?

Cloud


Definition:

  • (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.

Nimbus


Definition:

  • (n.) A circle, or disk, or any indication of radiant light around the heads of divinities, saints, and sovereigns, upon medals, pictures, etc.; a halo. See Aureola, and Glory, n., 5.
  • (n.) A rain cloud; one of the four principal varieties of clouds. See Cloud.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Two such systems (emphasized in this article) are under development here at CCF in joint efforts with Nimbus Corporation and the University of Washington, respectively.
  • (2) The development effort, which began separately in 1977 and has been conducted jointly by Nimbus and the Cleveland Clinic since 1980, has demonstrated that the above features can be incorporated in a reliable LVAS.
  • (3) Others showed the seated Buddha surrounded by a body halo and nimbus , the Bodhisattva Maitreya in a cape or the evil child-devouring yaksha Atavika who the Buddha miraculously converted to his dharma .
  • (4) Revascularization was accomplished on beating, nonworking hearts, with right (40 of 43) and left (43 of 43) ventricles supported by Nimbus Hemopumps (4 of 43) or Bio-Medicus centrifugal ventricular assist devices for an average of 112 minutes.
  • (5) Nimbus, Inc., (Rancho Cordova, CA) and the University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA) are collaborating to develop an implantable rotary blood pump that can be used as a left ventricular assist system (LVAS).
  • (6) The Nimbus pump is an indwelling, electromagnetic powered left ventricular (LV) assist device inserted transfemorally.
  • (7) One in particular, the CCF-Nimbus system, consisting of a biolized surface blood pump, an electrohydraulic energy converter, and a compliance chamber to handle the variable volume behind the PP, is described in depth in this discussion.
  • (8) The pumping unit consists of two CCF biolized pusher plate pumps, and a Nimbus electrohydraulic energy converter.
  • (9) The courses of 10 patients (nine men and one woman; mean age, 54 years) were reviewed to determine the long-term results of treatment with the Hemopump (Nimbus Medical, Inc., Rancho Cordova, CA) left ventricular assist device.
  • (10) A completely implantable total artificial heart (TAH) is being developed based on many years of research performed at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and Nimbus, Inc.
  • (11) Twelve patients underwent the attempt at surgical insertion of the Nimbus pump.
  • (12) The E4T is a totally implantable total artificial heart (TAH) resulting from many years of research work at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation (CCF) and Nimbus, Inc.
  • (13) This will be essential as the cumulo-nimbus clouds of concern gather over the entire banking sector.
  • (14) The most characteristic features of HCMP were as follows: 1) muscle fiber hypertrophy, 2) hypertrophy of cardiomyocyte nuclei, 3) perinuclear cardiomyocyte nimbus, 4) disorganization of muscle fibers, 5) the decrease of the nucleus-cytoplasmic ration.
  • (15) The kits examined included immunoenzymometric assays (Tandem Icon hCG, Model Plus, Diapreg-25, Pregnastick, Nimbus) and reverse hemagglutination inhibition assays (NeoPregnosticon 75 Duoclon, Pregtest).

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