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 →

2) A mass of smoke, dust or steam that looks like this. tree →

3) Something that makes people sad or worried: a cloud over the day. tree →

4) The cloud: computers on the internet where you store files. tree →

5) Verb: to become cloudy or unclear; cloud over (sky becomes cloudy). tree →

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 →
• Dark clouds mean it might rain. tree →
• Clouds are made of tiny drops of water. tree →
• A cloud of smoke came from the bonfire. tree →
• The sky clouded over in the afternoon. tree →
• We save our work to the cloud. tree →
• She was on cloud nine after winning. tree →
• Fluffy white clouds are called cumulus clouds. tree →
• It looked like soft little woolly clouds! tree →

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.
• Whales breathe through a blowhole on top of the head, and the spout is warm wet breath forming a cloud of mist.
• In Looney Tunes the Road Runner zooms off in a cloud of dust, says «meep meep», and Wile E.
• Some deep-sea shrimp squirt a glowing cloud to confuse a hunter, a little like squid ink but made of light.
• Breath is warm and carries water vapour, which turns into tiny droplets you can see as a cloud in cold air.

Trees and pragmatics

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