Frog vs Cloud - What's the difference?

As a noun frog

is a small tailless amphibian of the order anura that typically hops or frog can be (offensive) a french person or frog can be a leather or fabric loop used to attach a sword or bayonet, or its scabbard, to a waist or shoulder belt.

As a verb frog

is to hunt or trap frogs or frog can be to ornament or fasten a coat, etc with frogs or frog can be to unravel (a knitted garment).

As a proper noun cloud is

frog

English

(wikipedia frog) (commons)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m), ).J.P. Mallory & D.Q. Adams, eds, Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture , s.v. "Jump" (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997), 323. See also (l), (l).

Noun

(en noun)

A small tailless amphibian of the order Anura that typically hops

The part of a violin bow (or that of other similar string instruments such as the viola, cello and contrabass) located at the end held by the player, to which the horsehair is attached

(Cockney rhyming slang) Road. Shorter, more common form of frog and toad

The depression in the upper face of a pressed or handmade clay brick

An organ on the bottom of a horse’s hoof that assists in the circulation of blood

The part of a railway switch or turnout where the running-rails cross (from the resemblance to the frog in a horse’s hoof)

An oblong cloak button, covered with netted thread, and fastening into a loop instead of a button hole.

The loop of the scabbard of a bayonet or sword.

Synonyms

* frosh, frosk, frock * pad, paddock * (railway switch component) common crossing

Derived terms

(Derived terms) * * * bush frog * clawed frog * common frog * Darwin's frog * disc-tongued frog * edible frog * * * fine as frog hair, finer than frog hair * Frog (metathesis: > Gorf) * frog belly * frogbit * frog chorus * frogeater, frog eater * frogeye * frogeyed * frog face * frogfish * frogged * froggery * frogging * froggish * froggy * Froggy * froghopper * a frog in one’s throat * frog kick * frog kingdom * frog legs * froglike * * frogly * frogman * frogmarch, frog-march * frogmouth * frog orchid * frogpond, frog pond * frog pose * The Frog Prince * Frog Prince * frog's-bit * frog's legs * frogspawn, frog spawn * frog spit * frog spittle * frog sticker * frogstool * ghost frog * glass frog * * Kermit the Frog (metathesis: > Kermit the Forg, Kermit the Gorf, Kermit the Grof) * The Leap-Frog * leapfrog, leap-frog * leapfrogged, leap-frogged * leapfrogging * leapfrog test, leap-frog test, leap frog test * litter frog * male frog test * * marsupial frog * moss frog * * painted frog * parsley frog * poison dart frog * * screeching frog * sedge frog * * shovelnose frog * tailed frog * tongueless frog * tree frog * Tukeit Hill frog * * true frog

References

Verb

(frogg)

To hunt or trap frogs.

To use a pronged plater to transfer (cells) to another plate.

Derived terms

* frog stitch

Etymology 2

From (m), stereotypical food of the French. Compare , from (m), corresponding French term for English, likewise based on stereotypical food.

Noun

(en noun)

(offensive) A French person

(Canada, offensive) A French-speaking person from Quebec

Antonyms

* (French person) (l)

References

Etymology 3

Noun

(en noun)

A leather or fabric loop used to attach a sword or bayonet, or its scabbard, to a waist or shoulder belt

An ornate fastener for clothing consisting of a button, toggle, or knot, that fits through a loop

Verb

(frogg)

To ornament or fasten a coat, etc. with frogs

Etymology 4

Supposedly from sounding similar to "rip it".

Verb

(frogg)

To unravel (a knitted garment).

References

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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

* English collective nouns 1000 English basic words