Shoe vs Cloud - What's the difference?
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A protective covering for the foot, with a bottom part composed of thick leather or plastic sole and often a thicker heel, and a softer upper part made of leather or synthetic material. Shoes generally do not extend above the ankle, as opposed to boots, which do.
A piece of metal designed to be attached to a horse's foot as a means of protection; a horseshoe.
A device for holding multiple decks of playing cards, allowing more games to be played by reducing the time between shuffles.
Something resembling a shoe in form, position, or function, such as a brake shoe .
# A band of iron or steel, or a ship of wood, fastened to the bottom of the runner of a sleigh, or any vehicle which slides on the snow.
# A drag, or sliding piece of wood or iron, placed under the wheel of a loaded vehicle, to retard its motion in going down a hill.
# The part of a railroad car brake which presses upon the wheel to retard its motion.
# (architecture) A trough-shaped or spout-shaped member, put at the bottom of the water leader coming from the eaves gutter, so as to throw the water off from the building.
# A trough or spout for conveying grain from the hopper to the eye of the millstone.
# An inclined trough in an ore-crushing mill.
# An iron socket or plate to take the thrust of a strut or rafter.
# An iron socket to protect the point of a wooden pile.
# (engineering) A plate, or notched piece, interposed between a moving part and the stationary part on which it bears, to take the wear and afford means of adjustment; called also slipper and gib.
# Part of a current collector on electric trains which provides contact either with a live rail or an overhead wire (fitted to a pantograph in the latter case).
To put shoes on one's feet.
* …men and women clothed and shod for the ascent…'' — , ''The Gospel Delivered in Arès , 26:6, 1995
To put horseshoes on a horse.
* 1874 — (Thomas Hardy), , chapter XXXII
To equip an object with a protection against wear.
(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.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=29, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.
A group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying.
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*(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.
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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= (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= (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
As a noun shoe
is a protective covering for the foot, with a bottom part composed of thick leather or plastic sole and often a thicker heel, and a softer upper part made of leather or synthetic material shoes generally do not extend above the ankle, as opposed to boots, which do.As a verb shoe
is to put shoes on one's feet.As a proper noun cloud is
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English
(wikipedia shoe)Noun
(en-noun) (shoon is archaic or regional)- Get your shoes on now, or you'll be late for school.
- Throw the shoe from behind the line, and try to get it to land circling (a ringer) or touching the far stake.
- Remember to turn the rotors when replacing the brake shoes , or they will wear out unevenly.
Usage notes
The plural shoon is archaic and no longer in common use.Hyponyms
* moccasin * pump * sandal * slipper * sneaker * stiletto * flip flop * See alsoDerived terms
{{der3, if the shoe fits , the shoe is on the other foot , shoebeam, shoegear , shoe brush, shoebrush , shoegazing , shoehorn , shoemaker , shoe polish , shoeshine , stand in someone's shoes}}See also
* boot * footwear * slipperVerb
- "Old Jimmy Harris only shoed her last week, and I'd swear to his make among ten thousand."
- The billiard cue stick was shod in silver.
cloud
English
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.}}
Quotations
* (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