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# cloud

«cloud» in Mova's school dictionary: **A white or grey mass in the sky made of millions of tiny…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a cloud, clouds); verb (cloud, clouds, clouded, clouding; cloud over)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A white or grey mass in the sky made of millions of tiny water drops or ice crystals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cloud/#m1)

2) A mass of smoke, dust or steam that looks like this. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cloud/#m2)

3) Something that makes people sad or worried: a cloud over the day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cloud/#m3)

4) The cloud: computers on the internet where you store files. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cloud/#m4)

5) Verb: to become cloudy or unclear; cloud over (sky becomes cloudy). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cloud/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In science: the water cycle — water evaporates, water vapour cools and condenses into clouds, then falls as rain, snow or hail (precipitation); types: cumulus (fluffy), stratus (flat grey), cirrus (high wispy), cumulonimbus (storm clouds). Dark clouds often mean rain. In computing: saving to the cloud. Phrases: rain clouds, storm clouds, cloud of smoke, on cloud nine, every cloud has a silver lining, cloudy, the cloud.

### examples

- There isn't a cloud in the sky. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cloud/#x1)
- Dark clouds mean it might rain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cloud/#x2)
- Clouds are made of tiny drops of water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cloud/#x3)
- A cloud of smoke came from the bonfire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cloud/#x4)
- The sky clouded over in the afternoon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cloud/#x5)
- We save our work to the cloud. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cloud/#x6)
- She was on cloud nine after winning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cloud/#x7)
- Fluffy white clouds are called cumulus clouds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cloud/#x8)
- It looked like soft little woolly clouds! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cloud/#x9)

### note

Countable: clouds. «Cloudy» = with many clouds. Myth: clouds are not made of steam or smoke — they are tiny water drops or ice. «Every cloud has a silver lining» = something good can come from something bad.

### In the corpora

- [Watercolour can sometimes be lifted with a tissue, and spills can be turned into clouds or water.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/14-painting-paints-brushes-mess-and-mistakes/7/)
- [Whales breathe through a blowhole on top of the head, and the spout is warm wet breath forming a cloud of mist.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/26-whales/7/)
- [In Looney Tunes the Road Runner zooms off in a cloud of dust, says «meep meep», and Wile E.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote/0/)
- [Some deep-sea shrimp squirt a glowing cloud to confuse a hunter, a little like squid ink but made of light.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/175-the-twilight-zone-barreleyes-lanternfish-and-the-biggest-daily-journey-on-earth/12/)
- [Breath is warm and carries water vapour, which turns into tiny droplets you can see as a cloud in cold air.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/262-human-body-deeper-lungs-stomach-and-guts/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cloud» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cloud/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.