cloud: translation
•Roman•
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noun
1 mass of very small drops of water in the sky
ADJECTIVE
▪ dense, heavy, thick
▪ light
▪ fluffy, puffy (esp. AmE), wispy (esp. AmE)
▪ cirrus, cumulonimbus, cumulus, etc.
▪ high, low
▪ broken, scattered
▪ fast-moving, scudding (literary)
▪ black, dark, grey/gray, white
▪ rain, storm, thunder
▪ Rain clouds were looming on the horizon.
▪ ominous, threatening
… OF CLOUD
▪ band, bank, blanket, layer, mass, wisp
VERB + CLOUD
▪ seed (= to place a substance in a cloud to make it produce rain)
CLOUD + VERB
▪ form, gather, mass
▪ Dark clouds were gathering in the west.
▪ cover sth, envelop sth, obscure sth
▪ break, clear, disperse, lift, part
▪ The clouds broke a little, and the sun came out.
▪ drift, float, hang, hover, loom, move, pass, race, roll, scud (literary), swirl
▪ Thick cloud hung over the moor.
▪ A cloud passed over the sun.
▪ White clouds scudded across the sky.
CLOUD + NOUN
▪ bank, cover, layer
▪ The cloud cover is quite dense today.
▪ formation
PREPOSITION
▪ above the clouds, below the clouds
▪ We were flying above the clouds.
▪ through the clouds
▪ She could see the sun through the clouds.
PHRASES
▪ a break in the cloud, a break in the clouds
2 mass of smoke, dust, etc.
ADJECTIVE
▪ great, huge
▪ a great cloud of black smoke
▪ dense, thick
▪ billowing, swirling
▪ mushroom
▪ the mushroom cloud from a nuclear bomb
▪ dust, gas, radioactive, smoke
VERB + CLOUD
▪ create, form
▪ The wind blew across the beach, forming clouds of sand.
▪ belch, release
PREPOSITION
▪ cloud of
•Roman•
II.•/Roman•
verb
Cloud is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑eye, ↑face, ↑tear
Cloud is used with these nouns as the object: ↑judgement, ↑mind, ↑vision