cirrus

«cirrus» in Mova's school dictionary: a thin, wispy, white cloud high up in the sky, made of… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (cirrus, cirrus clouds; plural cirri)

meaning for a pupil

1) Cirrus is a thin, wispy, white cloud high up in the sky, made of tiny ice crystals. tree →

2) Cirrus clouds can look like feathers or horses' tails. tree →

sense in the lessons

In geography and science lessons on weather, cirrus is one of the main cloud types: high and thin. They often mean fair weather, but can show that the weather will change in a day or so. The word comes from Latin for a curl of hair.

examples

• Thin cirrus clouds streaked across the blue sky. tree →
• Cirrus clouds are made of ice crystals. tree →
• Cirrus clouds are the highest common clouds. tree →
• Some people call cirrus clouds «mares' tails». tree →
• Draw a cirrus cloud on your weather chart. tree →
• Cirrus clouds can mean the weather will change soon. tree →

note

A science word; usually used as «cirrus clouds». Compare: cumulus (fluffy heaps), stratus (flat grey layers), cumulonimbus (tall storm clouds).

In the corpora

• Cirrus clouds are thin wispy clouds of ice high in the sky.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «cirrus» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.