cloud vs screen

cloud

verb
  • To make obscure. 

  • To make less acute or perceptive. 

  • To make gloomy or sullen. 

  • To become marked, darkened or variegated in this way. 

  • To become foggy or gloomy, or obscured from sight. 

  • To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds. 

  • To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors. 

  • To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish (reputation or character). 

  • Of the breath, to become cloud; to turn into mist. 

noun
  • Crystal methamphetamine. 

  • A negative or foreboding aspect of something positive: see every cloud has a silver lining or every silver lining has a cloud. 

  • The Internet, regarded as an abstract amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing. 

  • A large, loosely-knitted headscarf worn by women. 

  • A telecom network (from their representation in engineering drawings) 

  • Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy. 

  • A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air. 

  • Anything unsubstantial. 

  • A dark spot on a lighter material or background. 

  • A group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying. 

  • Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass. 

  • An elliptical shape or symbol whose outline is a series of semicircles, supposed to resemble a cloud. 

screen

verb
  • To shelter or conceal. 

  • To stand so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate. 

  • To determine the source or subject matter of a call before deciding whether to answer the phone. 

  • To present publicly (on the screen). 

  • To search chemical libraries by means of a computational technique in order to identify chemical compounds which would potentially bind to a given biological target such as a protein. 

  • To remove information, or censor intellectual material from viewing. To hide the facts. 

  • To fit with a screen. 

  • To filter by passing through a screen. 

  • To examine patients or treat a sample in order to detect a chemical or a disease, or to assess susceptibility to a disease. 

noun
  • A collection of less-valuable vessels that travel with a more valuable one for the latter's protection. 

  • Searching through a sample for a target; an act of screening 

  • A dwarf wall or partition carried up to a certain height for separation and protection, as in a church, to separate the aisle from the choir, etc. 

  • A physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous. 

  • A technique used to identify genes so as to study gene functions. 

  • A stencil upon a framed mesh through which paint is forced onto printed-on material; the frame with the mesh itself. 

  • The visualised data or imagery displayed on a computer screen. 

  • An erection of white canvas or wood placed on the boundary opposite a batsman to make the ball more easily visible. 

  • The viewing surface or area of a movie, or moving picture or slide presentation. 

  • The informational viewing area of electronic devices, where output is displayed. 

  • The protective netting which protects the audience from flying objects 

  • An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate. 

  • A frame supporting a mesh of bars or wires used to classify fragments of stone by size, allowing the passage of fragments whose a diameter is smaller than the distance between the bars or wires. 

  • One of the individual regions of a video game, etc. divided into separate screens. 

  • A disguise; concealment. 

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