CLOUDS

"CLOUDS" is a plural of: cloud.

Date "CLOUDS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Dream Interpretation

Science

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Adversity

Pressure of the times, iron age, evil day, time out of joint; hard times, bad times, sad times; rainy day, cloud, dark cloud, gathering clouds, ill wind; visitation, infliction; affliction; (painfulness); bitter pill; care, trial; the sport of fortune.

Concealment

Behind a screen; undercover, under an eclipse; in ambush, in hiding, in disguise; in a cloud, in a fog, in a mist, in a haze, in a dark corner; in the shade, in the dark; clouded, wrapped in clouds, wrapt in clouds; invisible; buried, underground, perdu; secluded.

Danger

Cause for alarm; source of danger. rock ahead, breakers ahead; storm brewing; clouds in the horizon, clouds gathering; warning; alarm.

Disclosure

Be disclosed; transpire, come to light; come in sight; (be visible); become known, escape the lips; come out, ooze out, creep out, leak out, peep out, crop-out; show its face, show its colors; discover; itself; break through the clouds, flash on the mind.

Height

Adverb: on high, high up, aloft, up, above, aloof, overhead; airwind; upstairs, abovestairs; in the clouds; on tiptoe, on stilts, on the shoulders of; over head and ears; breast high.

Imagination

Ideal, unreal; in the clouds, in nubibus; unsubsantial; illusory; (fallacious).

Inattention

Absent, abstracted, distrait; absentminded, lost; lost in thought, wrapped in thought; rapt, in the clouds, bemused; dreaming on other things, musing on other things; preoccupied, engrossed; (attentive); daydreaming, in a reverie; Noun: off one's guard; (inexpectant); napping; dreamy; caught napping.

Inexpectation

Unexpected, unanticipated, unpredicted, unlooked for, unforeseen, unhoped for; dropped from the clouds; beyond expectation, contrary to expectation, against expectation, against all expectation; out of one's reckoning; unheard of; (exceptional); startling, surprising; sudden; (instantaneous).

Be unexpected; Adjective: come unawares; adVerb: turn up, pop, drop from the clouds; come upon one, burst upon one, flash upon one, bounce upon one, steal upon one, creep upon one; come like a thunder clap, burst like a thunderclap, thunder bolt; take by surprise, catch by surprise, catch unawares, catch napping; yach.

Omen

Bird of ill omen; signs of the times; gathering clouds; warning.

Threat

Noun: threat, menace; defiance; abuse, minacity, intimidation; denunciation; fulmination; commination; (curse); gathering clouds; (warning).

Warning

Handwriting on the wall, mene mene tekel upharsin, red flag, yellow flag; fog-signal, foghorn; siren; monitor, warning voice, Cassandra, signs of the times, Mother Cary's chickens, stormy petrel, bird of ill omen, gathering clouds, clouds in the horizon, death watch.

Crosswords: CLOUDS

You are in the clouds, and we are in the basement (Goonies; writing credit: Chris Columbus)

Those rain clouds might (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

The dark side clouds everything (Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones; writing credit: George Lucas)

That's where clouds are born (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

The cute one, the one everybody looks out for and gives presents to. And sometimes they even make the birds sing to me or the clouds spell out my name (Malcolm in the Middle; writing credit: Daniel Frenette)

We're flying above the clouds, I can see happiness from here (Above The Clouds; performing artist: Amber)

Love runs deeper than any ocean, it clouds you're mind with emotion (Everybody Plays the Fool; performing artist: Aaron Neville)

Those ol' clouds that rain so blue (When Somebody Loves You; performing artist: Alan Jackson)

And seein as to how I'm so fly me and the clouds can speak (If I Could Go; performing artist: Angie Martinez)

Just aim beyond the clouds (I Made It Through The Rain; performing artist: Barry Manilow)

Keep your head in the clouds. You're the first to know when it rains, and it's easier to see the silver lining. (references; author: unknown)

Clouds of Witness (1972)

London Clouds (1970)

Storm Clouds Over the Colonies (1957)

Out of the Clouds (1955)

Painting the Clouds with Sunshine (1951)

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Books

• Dropped from the Clouds (reference)

• The Weather Wizard's Cloud Book: How You Can Forecast the Weather Accurately and Easily by Reading the Clouds (reference)

• Four Texts on Socrates: Plato's Euthyphro, Apology of Socrates, and Crito and Aristophanes' Clouds (reference)

• Concentration Fluctuations and Averaging Time in Vapor Clouds (reference)

• Clouds of witness : and The unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• History Undercover - Clouds Of Death: The Scourge Of Biochemical Warfare (reference)

• Valley Obscured By Clouds (reference)

• Lord Peter Wimsey - Clouds of Witness (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Obscured By Clouds (reference)

• Obscured by Clouds [LIMITED EDITION] [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] [SOUNDTRACK] [IMPORT] (reference)

• John Luther Adams: Clouds of Forgetting, Clouds of Unknowing (reference)

• Clouds Taste Metallic (reference)

• Clouds Without Water (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Nick & Nora Clouds Trimline Phone (reference)

• Precise Mousing Surface Purple Clouds (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Boppy Luxe - Clouds (reference)

• Koala Baby Cozy Fleece Receiving Blanket - Clouds (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Shown is the Clinical Center and the Ambulatory Care and Research Facility (ACRF) viewed from Building 31. The ACRF houses outpatient clinics and some laboratories. In the foreground are trees that are just turning yellow and the sky is blue with some wispy clouds. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

Clouds and Sunglint over Indian Ocean. Credit: NASA.

A huge, billowing pair of gas and dust clouds is captured in this stunning Hubble telescope ... Credit: NASA.

Frosty white water ice clouds and swirling orange dust storms above a vivid rusty landscape ... Credit: NASA.

False color image of Venus' clouds as imaged by the NIMS instrument on Galileo. Credit: NASA.

Ultraviolet image of Venus' clouds as seen by HST's Wide-Field/Planetary Camera 2. Credit: NASA.

These cloud formations were seen over the western Aleutian Islands. Their color variations are probably due to differences in temperature and in the size of water droplets that make up the clouds. Credit: NASA.

Each of these swirling clouds is a result of a meteorological phenomenon known as a Karman vortex. These vortices appeared over Alexander Selkirk Island in the southern Pacific Ocean. Rising precipitously from the surrounding waters, the island's highest point is nearly a mile (1.6 km) above sea level. As wind-driven clouds encounter this obstacle, they flow around it to form these large, spinning eddies. Credit: NASA.

Bizarre clouds in the Gulf of Mexico. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Same bizarre clouds in the Gulf of Mexico. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

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Possibly, she went up among the clouds.

He felt clouds full of thunderings and lightnings gathering upon his head

Fleming had a box of crayons and one night during free study he had coloured the earth green and the clouds maroon

In the last part of May the sky grew pale and the clouds that had hung in high puffs for so long in the spring were dissipated

I looked towards my windows and could see nothing but the clouds and sky.

Lowliness is young ambition's ladder, whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend

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Economic History

Ireland

There are, however, threatening clouds on the horizon that will need to be watched, if the Irish government's goal of negotiating a "soft landing" for the Irish economy -- annual growth rates of 4-5 percent -- is not to turn into a "harder landing" or actual retrenchment. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "CLOUDS": bank of clouds ♦ below clouds ♦ break in the clouds ♦ break through the clouds ♦ bring clouds ♦ broken clouds ♦ chemistry of clouds ♦ classification of clouds ♦ clouds gathering ♦ clouds in the horizon ♦ cover with clouds ♦ fleecy clouds ♦ gathering clouds ♦ have one's head in the clouds ♦ heap clouds ♦ high clouds ♦ in and out of clouds ♦ In the clouds ♦ layer clouds ♦ liquid content of clouds ♦ live in the clouds ♦ low clouds ♦ Magellenic clouds ♦ noctilucent clouds ♦ overlaid with clouds ♦ rift in the clouds ♦ scattered clouds ♦ spindrift clouds ♦ storm clouds ♦ variety of clouds ♦ war clouds ♦ water content of clouds. Additional references.

Ending with "CLOUDS": dust-clouds, rain-clouds, star-clouds, storm-clouds.

Containing "CLOUDS": person-who-knowswhat-the-maker-of-clouds-is-thinking.

Albanian

reja të prera (spindrift clouds). (various references)

Arabic 

‏سحاب. (various references)

Bulgarian 

разкъсване на облачността (rift in the clouds), леки перести облаци (spindrift clouds). (various references)

Chinese 

霞 (all of a sudden, copper drum, drizzle, red clouds), 霮 (denseness of clouds, obstinate disease, restrain, to stop), 霨 (anchor, rising of clouds), 雯 (multicolored clouds), 烏雲 (black clouds), 曀 (obscure, sun hidden by clouds), 曇 (dark clouds), 撥雲見日 (dispel the clouds and see the sun - restore justice). (various references)

Czech

chodit s hlavou v oblacích (have one's head in the clouds). (various references)

Danish

vandindhold i skyer (water content of clouds), stakkede skyer (heap clouds), spredte skyer (scattered clouds), skyklassifikation (classification of clouds, cloud classification), skyernes kemi (chemistry of clouds, cloud chemistry), skybanke (bank of clouds, cloud bank), lysende natskyer (noctilucent cloud, noctilucent clouds), lave skyer (low clouds), lagskyer (layer clouds, stratus), høje skyer (high clouds). (various references)

Dutch

chemie van wolken (chemistry of clouds, cloud chemistry), wolkenindeling (classification of clouds, cloud classification), wolkenclassificatie (classification of clouds, cloud classification), wolkenbank (bank of clouds, cloud bank), watergehalte van wolken (water content of clouds), verstrooide wolken (scattered clouds), stapelwolken (heap clouds), lichtgevende nachtwolken (noctilucent clouds), laagwolken (layer clouds), laag wolkendek (low clouds), hoge wolken (high clouds). (various references)

Finnish

yläpilvet (high clouds), valoisa yöpilvi (noctilucent clouds), synkät pilvet (dark clouds), puolipilvistä (scattered clouds), pilvimuuri (bank of clouds, cloud bank, cloud bar), pilviluokitus (classification of clouds, cloud classification), pilvien vesisisältö (water content of clouds), loistava yöpilvi (noctilucent clouds), kerrospilvi (layer clouds), hattarapilvi (heap clouds), alapilvet (low clouds). (various references)

French

contenu en eau des nuages (water content of clouds), classification des nuages (classification of clouds, cloud classification), chimie des nuages (chemistry of clouds, cloud chemistry), variété de nuages (variety of clouds), pulvérisation de nuages de poussière (grinding out of dust clouds), nuages phosphorescents (noctilucent clouds), nuages nocturnes lumineux (noctilucent clouds), nuages en couches (layer clouds), nuages bas (low clouds), nuages épars (scattered clouds), nuages élevés (high clouds), nuages à développement vertical (heap clouds), floconneux (fleecy clouds), banc de nuages (bank of clouds, cloud bank), au-dessous des nuages (below clouds). (various references)

German

Wolken, Bewölkung (cloudiness). (various references)

Greek 

σωρειτόμορφα νέφη (heap clouds), υδάτινο περιεχόμενο των νεφών (water content of clouds), υψηλά νέφη (high clouds), χημεία των νεφών (chemistry of clouds, cloud chemistry), χαμηλά νέφη (low clouds), φωτεινά νυκτερινά νέφη (noctilucent clouds), ταινία νεφών (bank of clouds, cloud bank), ταξινόμηση των νεφών (classification of clouds, cloud classification), διασκορπισμένα σύννεφα (scattered clouds). (various references)

Hebrew 

עננה (cloudling, gloom, obscurity). (various references)

Hungarian

fellegekben jár (have one's head in the clouds, to be in the clouds), álmodozik (daydream, to be in the clouds, to fantasize), álmodozó ember (have one's head in the clouds, star-gazer). (various references)

Italian

nuvole. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

彩雲 (glowing clouds). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

あんうん (dark clouds), ちぎれぐも (scattered clouds), にゅうどうぐも (cumulo-nimbus, gigantic columns of clouds), せきうん (cumulus clouds), せんうん (threat of war, war clouds), かざぐも (elements, situation, state of affairs, winds and clouds), こくうん (black clouds, dark clouds, national fortunes or destiny), こうそううん (altostratus clouds), こうせきうん (altocumulus clouds), わたぐも (fleecy clouds), うんえん (clouds and smoke, landscape), あいたいたる (trailing clouds), うんぴょう (above the clouds), むらくも (cloud masses, gathering clouds), ゆきぐも (snow-laden clouds), やえぐも (layers of clouds), やえくも (layers of clouds), よこぐも (wall or bank of clouds), じょうそううん (upper clouds), みつうん (dense clouds, overcast), はくうん (white clouds), ていうん (low-hanging clouds), あまぐも (clouds in the sky, rain cloud), さいうん (glowing clouds), ずいうん (auspicious clouds), マゼランうん (Magellanic Clouds), しうん (purple congratulatory clouds), くろくも (black clouds, dark clouds), しらくも (ringworm, white clouds), くもまにあらわれたつき (moon peeping from behind the clouds), くもま (rift between clouds), くものうえ (above the clouds, the Imperial Court), くもかすみ (clouds and haze, disappearing, fleeing), ふううん (elements, situation, state of affairs, winds and clouds), ぼうん (twilight clouds), たかぐもり, うすぐも (thin clouds), うろこぐも (cirrocumulus clouds), うんすい (clouds and water, itinerant priest), うんきゃく (cloud movements, overhanging clouds), うんかい (sea of clouds), うんか (clouds and haze, disappearing, fleeing, leafhopper), うんこう (height of clouds, motion, operating, revolution), うんむ (clouds and fog), うんじょう (above the clouds, bringing up, carrying up, clouds and earth, great difference, the heavens), くもあし (cloud movements, movement of clouds, overhanging clouds). (various references)

Manx

bodjallyn loamragh (woolly clouds). (various references)

Pig Latin

oudsclay.(various references)

Portuguese

conteúdo de água nas nuvens (water content of clouds), classificação das nuvens (classification of clouds, cloud classification), cadeia de núvens (heap clouds), química das nuvens (chemistry of clouds, cloud chemistry), nuvens baixas (low clouds), nuvens altas (high clouds), nuvem nuctilucente (noctilucent clouds), núvens em camada (layer clouds), banco de nuvens (bank of clouds, cloud bank). (various references)

Romanian

umbrit (overlaid with clouds, shadowy, shady), trãi cu capul în nori (have one's head in the cloud, live in the clouds), ascuns de nori (overlaid with clouds). (various references)

Russian 

гряда облаков (bank of clouds), грозовые тучи (lowering clouds), мрачные (lowering clouds), перистый облако (fleecy clouds), перистые облака (spindrift clouds). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

paperjasti oblaci (spindrift clouds), oblačiti (bring clouds, clothe, dress, habit). (various references)

Spanish

las nubes. (various references)

Swedish

vatteninnehållet i moln (water content of clouds), molnklassifikation (classification of clouds, cloud classification), molnbank (bank). (various references)

Turkish

savaş bulutları (war clouds), hayâl aleminde olmak (have one's head in the clouds), dalgın olmak (have one's head in the clouds), aklı bir karış havada olmak (have one's head in the clouds). (various references)

Ukrainian

промінь надії (break in the clouds). (various references)

nubila, nubilis, nubilo. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "CLOUDS": cloudscape, cloudscapes. (additional references)

Words ending with "CLOUDS": beclouds, overclouds, thunderclouds, unclouds. (additional references)

Misspellings

"CLOUDS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: celous, claud, Claudes, cloid, clours, Coludi, coudes, coudos, coulds, Crouds, Kaloude. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: clods, cloud, colds, could, locus, scold, scudo.

-2 letters: clod, cods, cold, cols, cuds, docs, dols, duos, loud, olds, ouds, scud, sold, soul, udos.

-3 letters: cod, col, cos, cud, doc, dol, dos, duo, ods, old, oud, sod, sol, sou, udo.

-4 letters: do, lo, od, os, so, us.

+1 letter: couldst.

+2 letters: beclouds, closured, colludes, couldest, cuckolds, occludes, outscold, slouched, unclosed, unclouds.

+3 letters: acidulous, calloused, caudillos, cauldrons, cloudiest, cloudless, cloudlets, clupeoids, colluders, colubrids, concludes, consulted, convulsed, counseled, credulous, custodial, decolours, decouples, delicious, diclinous, dishclout, glucoside, lodicules, ludicrous, nucleoids, osculated, outscolds, scoundrel, subcooled.

+4 letters: celluloids, chondrules, cloudburst, cloudiness, cloudlands, cloudscape, concluders, confusedly, consumedly, counselled, cuddlesome, decalogues, decorously, dicumarols, diplodocus, disclosure, dishclouts, dulcimores, fluoresced, glucosides, glucosidic, nidicolous, nucleoside, outclassed, outmuscled, outscolded, outslicked, overclouds, pediculous, pseudocoel, ridiculous, scandalous, scoundrels, solicitude, truckloads, undercools, unenclosed, unschooled.