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cloud

/kloud/US // klaʊd //UK // (klaʊd) //

云,云层,云雾,云端

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
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    • : a visible collection of particles of water or ice suspended in the air, usually at an elevation above the earth's surface.
    • : any similar mass, especially of smoke or dust.
    • : a dim or obscure area in something otherwise clear or transparent.
    • : a patch or spot differing in color from the surrounding surface.
    • : anything that obscures or darkens something, or causes gloom, trouble, suspicion, disgrace, etc.
    • : a great number of insects, birds, etc., flying together: a cloud of locusts obscuring the sun.
    • : Digital Technology.Usually the cloud . any of several, often proprietary, parts of the internet that allow online processing and storage of documents and data as well as electronic access to software and other resources: More and more software companies are encouraging users to store their work in the cloud.
adj.形容词 adjective
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    Digital Technology.

    • : of or relating to cloud computing: cloud software; cloud servers.
    • : relating to or doing business on the internet: Google and other cloud companies.
v.有主动词 verb
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    • : to overspread or cover with, or as with, a cloud or clouds: The smoke from the fire clouded the sun from view.
    • : to overshadow; obscure; darken: The hardships of war cloud his childhood memories.
    • : to make gloomy.
    • : to reveal itself in: Worry clouded his brow.
    • : to make obscure or indistinct; confuse: Don't cloud the issue with unnecessary details.
    • : to place under suspicion, disgrace, etc.
    • : to variegate with patches of another color.
v.无主动词 verb
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    • : to grow cloudy; become clouded.
    • : to reveal one's distress, anxiety, etc.: His brow clouded with anger.

Phrases

  • cloud over
  • head in the clouds
  • on cloud nine
  • silver lining, every cloud has
  • under a cloud

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Accenture isn’t a cloud technology company, but it is the leading partner for most of the cloud companies in implementing wide-ranging enterprise applications.

  • Alongside the IPO, Snowflake also sold shares privately to Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway and to top cloud software developer Salesforce.

  • Investors understand the cloud business model well and that makes a high-growth company like Snowflake attractive.

  • Two of Snowflake’s founders worked at database giant Oracle for more than a decade before striking out on their own to create a new design for databases in the cloud.

  • The test also included a mini cloud server, which allowed quicker connections to cloud software apps.

  • (Somewhere, on another cloud, live gigabytes of photos from these very parties).

  • An innovative gift is the Qardioarm, a blood pressure monitor that records readings and uploads them to the cloud.

  • By Alex Orlov for Life by DailyBurn Do dark, chilly days make your mood cloud over this time each year?

  • The FSLN-controlled legislative assembly approved the mega-project under a cloud of secrecy in a record seven days.

  • People were singing the national anthem as the whole front of the National Palace was obscured by a smoke cloud.

  • For several months he remained under a political cloud, charged with incompetency to quell the Philippine Rebellion.

  • Bacteria, when present in great numbers, give a uniform cloud which cannot be removed by ordinary filtration.

  • Two years later this promising recruit, having fallen foul of the military authorities, had to leave the service under a cloud.

  • The menace of a thunder-cloud approached as in his childhood's dream; disaster lurked behind the quiet outer show.

  • A present remedy of all is the speedy coming of a cloud, and a dew that meeteth it, by the heat that cometh, shall overpower it.