Meanings (ES + gloss)
nimbo • nube
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 flec…
nube
Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.
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 annua…
nube
Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.
But in one part of the horizon a cloud lay, and the rulers of India were oppressed with a sense of coming disaster. This cloud had begun to form in 1873, and had been continually g…
nube
A group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying.
He opened the door and was greeted by a cloud of bats.
so great a cloud of witnesses
nube
The Internet, regarded as an abstract amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing.
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 sea…
[…]the cloud could do this, it could do that. The cloud could be powerful and intelligent. It became a business buzzword and a selling point.
Phrases
Cloud PeakKordylewski cloudLand of the Long White CloudRed CloudWhite CloudWilson cloudaccessory cloudacloudbanner cloudbecloudblow a cloudbrown cloudcap cloudcloud 9cloud bankcloud basecloud bowcloud breadcloud burstcloud canalcloud ceilingcloud chambercloud chasercloud chasingcloud cisticolacloud computingcloud covercloud cuckoo landcloud cuckoo-landcloud deckcloud deercloud earcloud eggcloud forestcloud genuscloud holecloud kitchencloud masscloud miningcloud nine