Hide vs Cloud - What's the difference?

In transitive terms the difference between hide and cloud

is that hide is to put (something) in a place where it will be harder to discover or out of sight while cloud is to mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colours.

In intransitive terms the difference between hide and cloud

is that hide is to put oneself in a place where one will be harder to find or out of sight while cloud is to become foggy or gloomy, to become obscured from sight.

As a proper noun Cloud is

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hide

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) hiden, huden, from (etyl) . Related to (l) and (l).

Verb

To put (something) in a place where it will be harder to discover or out of sight.

* 1856 , (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part III Chapter XI, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling

The blind man, whom he had not been able to cure with the pomade, had gone back to the hill of Bois-Guillaume, where he told the travellers of the vain attempt of the druggist, to such an extent, that Homais when he went to town hid himself behind the curtains of the "Hirondelle" to avoid meeting him.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Timothy Garton Ash)

, volume=189, issue=6, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli , passage=Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.}}

To put oneself in a place where one will be harder to find or out of sight.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= William E. Conner

, title= An Acoustic Arms Race , volume=101, issue=3, page=206-7, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Nonetheless, some insect prey take advantage of clutter by hiding in it. Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.}}

Synonyms

* (transitive) conceal, hide away, secrete * (intransitive) go undercover, hide away, hide oneself, hide out, lie low

Antonyms

* (transitive) disclose, expose, reveal, show, uncover * (intransitive) reveal oneself, show oneself

Derived terms

* hide and seek / hide-and-seek * hideaway * hideout * hide one's light under a bushel * hider * one can run but one can't hide

Noun

(en noun)

(countable) (mainly British) A covered structure from which hunters, birdwatchers, etc can observe animals without scaring them.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) , 'to cover'. More at (l).

Noun

(en noun)

(countable) The skin of an animal.

(obsolete, or, derogatory) The human skin.

* Shakespeare

O tiger's heart, wrapped in a woman's hide !

(uncountable, informal, usually, US) One's own life or personal safety, especially when in peril.

* 1957 , (Ayn Rand), Francisco d'Anconia's speech in (Atlas Shrugged):

The rotter who simpers that he sees no difference between the power of money and the power of the whip, ought to learn the difference on his own hide —as I think he will.

Synonyms

* (animal skin) pelt, skin * (land measure) carucate

Derived terms

* cowhide * damn your hide * have someone's hide * rawhide * tan someone's hide

Verb

To beat with a whip made from hide.

* 1891 , Robert Weir, J. Moray Brown, Riding

He ran last week, and he was hided , and he was out on the day before yesterday, and here he is once more, and he knows he's got to run and to be hided again.

Etymology 3

From (etyl) hide, from (etyl) . More at (l), (l).

Noun

(en noun)

A medieval land measure equal to the amount of land that could sustain one free family; usually 100 acres. Forty hides equalled a barony.

Anagrams

* 1000 English basic words English irregular verbs

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