What's the difference between cloudy and nubilous?
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.
Nubilous
Definition:
(a.) Cloudy.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was as if these middle-aged back-office executives were as famous as Lost's nubile stars.
(2) Carrie Fisher has given us the thing even the most far-flung space fantasist has struggled to imagine – a middle-aged mother who is just as powerful and important as she was as a nubile princess.
(3) Both girls are nubile and enjoy a normal school attendance.
(4) But when I picked up a copy of the paper, my confusion gave way to an emotion now familiar to me when confronted with the sight of nubile, healthy breasts – awkwardness.
(5) Emmanuelle Riva is now 85, Jean-Louis Trintignant is 81; because films from the 1950s preserve their nubile youth – Riva in bed with her Japanese lover in Hiroshima Mon Amour , Trintignant worshipping the bosom of Bardot in And God Created Woman – it's alarming to see them now with stiff but fragile limbs and worn, sagging faces.
(6) On paper, She Monkeys sounds like UniLad's wet dream: nubile Swedish girls experiment with their sexuality.
(7) Still got the Lego students, though ... YorkerBouncer 15 August 2013 1:02pm Right, I have now scrolled to the bottom of this A-Level so-called "story" and there have been absolutely no pictures of nubile girls jumping.
(8) Any remarks Uncle Disgusting made about the comeliness of said nubile females were countered in print either with an onomatopoeic representation of someone vomiting (which, if memory serves, went “SPEEEEEEEOOOOOW!”) or with the phrase “pass the sickbag, Alice”.
(9) Elsewhere, there's needless repetition of the phrase "crazy ball" and a video that consists entirely of nubile young men and women being covered in melted chocolate.
(10) The incidence of anovulation increased over the age period of 20-25 yr, with a peak at 25 yr. A close parallel was found of the period of anovulation and the period of nubility.
(11) "Hef employs an elaborate system of procurement to keep the pipeline filled with willing nubile women," she explains.
(12) I don’t want to play someone’s wife and become a joke about plastic surgery.” Cattrall also talked about industry “pressure to stay young, and be young and bubbly and nubile: it’s suffocating”, but said she is much more encouraged by trends in high-quality television drama in recent years.
(13) Some stores think nothing of placing nubile female figures or risqué manga next to more mainstream fare.
(14) Any ageing rocker who surrounded himself with nubile females was referred to as “Uncle Disgusting”.
(15) It's clear, then, that Dodgson had a submerged erotic fascination with the nubile female form.
(16) (In universities, at around the same time, the new field of evolutionary psychology was explaining that heterosexual human mating rituals were a compromise between males who wanted sex and females who wanted protection – and had to rely on their nubility to get it.)