Cloud vs Film - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) A rock; boulder; a hill.
A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
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*: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.
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, title= Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.
A group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying.
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An elliptical shape or symbol whose outline is a series of semicircles, supposed to resemble a cloud.
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The Internet, regarded as an amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing.
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, title= (figuratively) A negative aspect of something positive: see every cloud has a silver lining or every silver lining has a cloud.
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, title= (slang) Crystal methamphetamine.
A large, loosely-knitted headscarf worn by women.
To become foggy or gloomy, to become obscured from sight.
To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds.
To make obscure.
To make gloomy or sullen.
* Shakespeare
* Milton
To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish (reputation or character).
* Shakespeare
To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colours.
* Alexander Pope
A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.
* Alexander Pope
(photography) A medium used to capture images in a camera.
A motion picture.
A slender thread, such as that of a cobweb.
* Shakespeare
To record a motion picture on photographic film
To cover with a thin skin or pellicle.
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Cloud is a related term of film.
As a proper noun cloud
is .As a noun film is
photographic film.cloud
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Noun
(en noun)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.}}
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.}}
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.}}
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* (English Citations of "cloud")Hyponyms
* See alsoDerived 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 * thundercloudVerb
(en verb)- The glass clouds when you breathe on it.
- The sky is clouded .
- All this talk about human rights is clouding the real issue.
- One day too late, I fear me, noble lord, / Hath clouded all thy happy days on earth.
- Be not disheartened, then, nor cloud those looks.
- I would not be a stander-by to hear / My sovereign mistress clouded so, without / My present vengeance taken.
- to cloud yarn
- the nice conduct of a clouded cane
film
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(wikipedia film)Noun
(en noun)- a clear plastic film for wrapping food
- He from thick films shall purge the visual ray.
- Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film .
Synonyms
* (motion picture) movieDerived terms
* filmic * filmmaker * filmmaking * filmography * filmology * filmy * on filmVerb
(en verb)- "A Hollywood studio was filming on-location in NYC."
- It will but skin and film the ulcerous place.