What's the difference between cloudless and cloudy?

Cloudless


Definition:

  • (a.) Without a cloud; clear; bright.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On what was to become a hot and nearly cloudless day Canadians trudged towards the site, most wearing the national colours, many carrying maple leaf flags in their hair or on their baseball caps or T-shirts.
  • (2) Beneath cloudless skies representatives from some of the disability schemes funded centrally by a new Premier League initiative were practising a range of sports, Michael Owen and Owen Hargreaves were larking about as they prepared to play football blindfold and some of the more inspirational characters inside those clubs were talking about what they do week in, week out.
  • (3) He didn't score an international goal until he was 24, but went on to pile in 47 more in a period of cloudless, late-blooming success.
  • (4) It begins in the hot, crowded duty-free hell of Heathrow's terminal 3 and ends - through the bushes down a snaking mud track - by the marshes under a cloudless blue African sky.
  • (5) Walking up there at a chill, cloudless 7am took me past some of the stations of the cross of the civil rights movement.
  • (6) On a cloudless, airless morning in May, when it's already 30C by 9am, every corner has a sentry of hard-luck cases on crutches and men with teeth like a crossword puzzle.
  • (7) Those selling cruise holidays promise pristine waters, cloudless skies and sunny ports of call.
  • (8) Though copycat software rose up afterwards, downloading music never again felt cloudless.
  • (9) Human skin or [3 alpha-3H]7-dehydrocholesterol exposed to sunlight on cloudless days in Boston (42.2 degrees N) from November through February produced no previtamin D3.
  • (10) The Queen wore a lilac hat and coat and her husband a hat to protect against the late morning spring sunshine as they waved to well-wishers from the open boat beneath an almost cloudless sky.
  • (11) Drive north-east out of Los Angeles, and when the suburban sprawl finally gives out, the terrain looks more and more unearthly – parched scrub, lunar ridges and vast cloudless skies.
  • (12) Yet here she was, stationed on an overpass on a cloudless Wisconsin night, angling a 3ft plywood board so that motorists could read a message she was determined to spread.
  • (13) On a bright, cloudless spring day we drove together through the Kabul valley, past fortified mudbrick compounds surrounded by fields green with ripening barley and divided up with windbreaks of poplar.
  • (14) But increased exposure to ultra-violet light beneath cloudless skies could cause 2,000 extra cases of cataracts each year and 30,000 more cases of skin cancer by the 2050s.

Cloudy


Definition:

  • (n.) Overcast or obscured with clouds; clouded; as, a cloudy sky.
  • (n.) Consisting of a cloud or clouds.
  • (n.) Indicating gloom, anxiety, sullenness, or ill-nature; not open or cheerful.
  • (n.) Confused; indistinct; obscure; dark.
  • (n.) Lacking clearness, brightness, or luster.
  • (n.) Marked with veins or sports of dark or various hues, as marble.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Those without sperm, or with cloudy fluid, will require vasoepididymostomy under general or epidural anesthesia, which takes 4-6 hr.
  • (2) A trend toward a progressive increase in new collagen was noted over time in both the cloudy auto- and allografts.
  • (3) The news wasn’t a surprise, exactly: when a newspaper is available in more outlets than it sells copies, the future obviously looks a little cloudy.
  • (4) Her earlier scheduled execution was called off at the last minute when the drug, pentobarbitol, appeared “cloudy”.
  • (5) The changes in the fundus of a 57-year-old patient (perimacular turbid retinal oedema, cloudy peripapillary exsudates and peripheral retinal hemorrhages) could not be interpreted satisfactorly on a clinical basis.
  • (6) Corrections officials told reporters about 11pm that night that they were postponing the execution “out of an abundance of caution” because the lethal injection drug appeared “cloudy”.
  • (7) Each bubble was covered by an osmiophilic non-homogeneous coat of cloudy and flocculent material, native to its specific locality.
  • (8) Extreme dilatation of collecting ducts and convoluted tubules with epithelial degenerative changes of cloudy swelling, hydropic degeneration and separation from the basement membrane were principal changes in the kidney.
  • (9) There was 600 cc of slightly cloudy and bloody peritoneal fluid.
  • (10) These early atherosclerotic lesions included a localized cloudy thickening with pallor, slight elevation, a non-fibrotic lesion and gray-white or yellowish-white, firm, elevated fibrous plaques.
  • (11) The assays can be performed manually or, with much greater precision, on an 8-channel coagulation meter of new design in which end points are recorded automatically and depend on an abrupt clearing of agitated cloudy suspensions.
  • (12) Things didn't get better – cloudy skies for the first day, the car showed its worst temperament and the phone box I was due to call from to get my results (no mobiles then) didn't work.
  • (13) Cloudy, white urine may be due to urine infections, harmless phosphate crystals, or possibly sexually transmitted infections.
  • (14) In many episodes, there is a strong association with acute enterocolitis, which may precede the onset of cloudy dialysate by many days.
  • (15) North Star recommends visitors avoid October, November and December though, when it is usually cloudy.
  • (16) Follicles also were classified as clear or cloudy; cloudy was associated with flocculent material in the follicular fluid or with an indistinct follicular wall.
  • (17) Snakes in group 2 had cloudy swelling of the proximal tubules at 2 and 4 weeks after the gentamicin was administered.
  • (18) But while Christie’s career has survived that storm, Perry’s prospects look cloudy.
  • (19) In eyes with retinal detachment with cloudy media and severe vitreous traction, combined scleral buckling and vitrectomy may be necessary.
  • (20) Yet the Brazilians who were photographed unleashing their sorrow on a cloudy, darkening evening, in scenes of anguish from Estádio Mineirão to Copacabana beach, were not mourning a massacre, atrocity or anything else that might seem to justify such infinite sadness.

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