Close vs Cloud - What's the difference?

close | cloud |

As a verb close

is (label) to remove a gap.

As a noun close

is an end or conclusion or close can be an enclosed field.

As an adjective close

is closed, shut.

As a proper noun cloud is

close

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Verb

(clos)

(label) To remove a gap.

# To obstruct (an opening).

# To move so that an opening is closed.

#* (Lord Byron) (1788-1824)

What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?

#*:If I close my eyes I can see Marie today as I saw her then. Round, rosy face, snub nose, dark hair piled up in a chignon.

# To make (e.g. a gap) smaller.

# To grapple; to engage in close combat.

#* (1796-1859)

They boldly closed in a hand-to-hand contest.

(label) To finish, to terminate.

# To put an end to; to conclude; to complete; to finish; to consummate.

#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

One frugal supper did our studies close .

# To come to an end.

# (label) To make a sale.

# To make the final outs, usually three, of a game.

# To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc.

To come or gather around; to enclose; to encompass; to confine.

* Bible, (w) ii. 5

The depth closed me round about.

* (George Herbert) (1593-1633)

But now Thou dost Thyself immure and close / In some one corner of a feeble heart; / Where yet both Sinne and Satan, Thy old foes, / Do pinch and straiten Thee, and use much art / To gain Thy thirds' and little part.

(label) To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.

Synonyms

* close off, close up, cover, shut, shut off * shut * (put an end to) end, finish, terminate, wind up, close down * narrow * (terminate a computer program) close out, exit

Antonyms

* open * open * (put an end to) begin, commence, initiate, start * extend, widen * (terminate a computer program) open, start

Derived terms

* autoclosing * case closed * close down * close in * close off * close one's eyes * close out * close ranks * close the door on * close the face * close up *

Noun

(en noun)

An end or conclusion.

We owe them our thanks for bringing the project to a successful close .

* Macaulay

His long and troubled life was drawing to a close .

The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.

* Chapman

The doors of plank were; their close exquisite.

A grapple in wrestling.

(Francis Bacon)

(music) The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.

* Dryden

At every close she made, the attending throng / Replied, and bore the burden of the song.

(music) A double bar marking the end.

Synonyms

* (end) end, finale

Antonyms

* (end) beginning, start

Etymology 2

From (etyl) clos, from (etyl) clausum, participle of (m).

Adjective

(er)

Closed, shut.

* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Matthew chapter 8:

There is nothinge so close , that shall not be openned, and nothinge so hyd that shall not be knowen.

* Dryden

From a close bower this dainty music flowed.

Narrow; confined.

a close''' alley; '''close quarters

* Charles Dickens

a close prison

At a little distance; near.

* , chapter=7

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=[…] St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close -packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=71, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= End of the peer show , passage=Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close . This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.}}

Intimate; well-loved.

# (legal) Of a corporation or other business entity, closely held.

Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.

* Francis Bacon

If the rooms be low-roofed, or full of windows and doors, the one maketh the air close , and the other maketh it exceeding unequal.

Hot, humid, with no wind.

(linguistics, phonetics, of a vowel) Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.

Strictly confined; carefully guarded.

a close prisoner

(obsolete) Out of the way of observation; secluded; secret; hidden.

* Bible, 1 Chron. xii. 1

He yet kept himself close because of Saul.

* Spenser

her close intent

Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced.

a close contest

Short.

to cut grass or hair close

(archaic) Dense; solid; compact.

* John Locke

The golden globe being put into a press, the water made itself way through the pores of that very close metal.

(archaic) Concise; to the point.

close reasoning

* Dryden

Where the original is close no version can reach it in the same compass.

(dated) Difficult to obtain.

Money is close .

(Bartlett)

(dated) Parsimonious; stingy.

* Hawthorne

a crusty old fellow, as close as a vice

Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact.

a close translation

(John Locke)

Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating; strict.

The patient was kept under close observation.

Synonyms

* (at a little distance) close by, near, nearby * (intimate) intimate * muggy, oppressive * (articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate) high

Antonyms

* (at a little distance) distant, far, far away, far off, remote * (intimate) aloof, cool, distant * (articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate) open

Derived terms

* close call * closely * closeness * close shave * close-up * thisclose

Noun

(en noun)

An enclosed field.

(British) A street that ends in a dead end.

(Scotland) A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the ground floor.

(Scotland) The common staircase in a tenement.

A cathedral close.

* Macaulay

closes surrounded by the venerable abodes of deans and canons.

(legal) The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed.

(Bouvier)

Synonyms

* (street) cul-de-sac

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cloud

English

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) A rock; boulder; a hill.

A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.

*:So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds , it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=29, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Unspontaneous combustion , passage=Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.}}

Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.

A group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying.

*(Bible), (w) xii. 1

*:so great a cloud of witnesses

An elliptical shape or symbol whose outline is a series of semicircles, supposed to resemble a cloud.

The Internet, regarded as an amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)

, volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Obama's once hip brand is now tainted , passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}

(figuratively) A negative aspect of something positive: see every cloud has a silver lining or every silver lining has a cloud.

*{{quote-news, year=2011, date=January 25, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC

, title= Blackpool 2-3 Man Utd , passage=The only cloud on their night was that injury to Rafael, who was followed off the pitch by his anxious brother Fabio as he was stretchered away down the tunnel.}}

(slang) Crystal methamphetamine.

A large, loosely-knitted headscarf worn by women.

Quotations

* (English Citations of "cloud")

Hyponyms

* See also

Derived terms

* anvil cloud * brain cloud * cloud bank * cloud base * cloudburst * cloud chamber * cloud computing * cloud cover * cloud mass * cloud nine * cloud number nine * cloud on title * cloud storage * cloud street * cloudish * cloudless adj * cloudlet noun * cloudlike * cloudling * cloudly * cloudy adj. * every cloud has a silver lining * funnel cloud * have one’s head in the clouds * Magellanic Cloud * mammatus cloud * molecular cloud * mushroom cloud * Oort cloud * point cloud * rain cloud * star cloud * tag cloud * thundercloud

Verb

(en verb)

To become foggy or gloomy, to become obscured from sight.

The glass clouds when you breathe on it.

To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds.

The sky is clouded .

To make obscure.

All this talk about human rights is clouding the real issue.

To make gloomy or sullen.

* Shakespeare

One day too late, I fear me, noble lord, / Hath clouded all thy happy days on earth.

* Milton

Be not disheartened, then, nor cloud those looks.

To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish (reputation or character).

* Shakespeare

I would not be a stander-by to hear / My sovereign mistress clouded so, without / My present vengeance taken.

To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colours.

to cloud yarn

* Alexander Pope

the nice conduct of a clouded cane

Anagrams

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