cloud vs shroud

cloud

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

  • To make less acute or perceptive. 

  • To make gloomy or sullen. 

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

  • To make obscure. 

  • 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. 

shroud

verb
  • To conceal or hide from view, as if by a shroud. 

  • To cover with a shroud. 

  • To take shelter or harbour. 

  • To lop the branches from (a tree). 

noun
  • That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment. 

  • One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate. 

  • The branching top of a tree; foliage. 

  • One of a set of ropes or cables (rigging) attaching a mast to the sides of a vessel or to another anchor point, serving to support the mast sideways; such rigging collectively. 

  • A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt. 

  • That which covers or shelters like a shroud. 

  • A streamlined protective covering used to protect the payload during a rocket-powered launch. 

  • Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet. 

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