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befog
English
Etymology
From be- +? fog.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -??
Verb
befog (third-person singular simple present befogs, present participle befogging, simple past and past participle befogged)
- To envelop in fog or smoke.
- 1916, E. F. Benson, “The Spiritual Pastor” in The Freaks of Mayfair, London: T.N. Foulis, p. 186,[1]
- Clouds of the most expensive incense befog the chancel […]
- 1953, Jean Stafford, “Cops and Robbers” (original title: “The Shorn Lamb”) in The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford, New York: Dutton, 1984, p. 432,
- Sad, in her covert, Hannah saw that her mother was now sitting straight against the headboard and was smoking a cigarette in long, meditative puffs; the smoke befogged her frowning forehead.
- 1916, E. F. Benson, “The Spiritual Pastor” in The Freaks of Mayfair, London: T.N. Foulis, p. 186,[1]
- To confuse, mystify (a person); to make less acute or perceptive, to cloud (a person’s faculties).
- 1871, Carl Schurz, Speech in the U.S. Senate, 27 January, 1871, in Frederic Bancroft (ed.), Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz, New York: Putnam, 1913, Volume II, p. 151,[2]
- The voice of interested sycophancy is apt to fill their ears and to befog their judgment.
- 1921, Harold MacGrath, The Pagan Madonna, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page, Chapter 14, p. 177,[3]
- “ […] He’s been blarneying you. You’ve let his plausible tongue and handsome face befog you.”
- 1938, Rabindranath Tagore, “Worshippers of Buddha” in The Visva-Bharati Quarterly, Volume 4, Part 1, May–July 1938, p. 28,[4]
- […] they pray that they may befog minds with untruths
- and poison God’s sweet air of breath,
- 1981, Ramsey Campbell, The Nameless, New York: Tor, 1985, Chapter Eight, p. 75,[5]
- Everything looked gray and shabby, the faces as much as the clothes. She thought it was less the shade than the noise which was befogging her vision, choking her thoughts.
- 1871, Carl Schurz, Speech in the U.S. Senate, 27 January, 1871, in Frederic Bancroft (ed.), Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz, New York: Putnam, 1913, Volume II, p. 151,[2]
- To obscure, make less clear (a subject, issue, etc.).
- 1918, John H. Stokes, The Third Great Plague: A Discussion of Syphilis for Everyday People, Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders, Chapter 2, pp. 15-16,[6]
- There is only one way to understand syphilis, and that is to give it impartial, discriminating discussion as an issue which concerns the general health. To color it up and hang it in a gallery of horrors, or to befog it with verbal turnings and twistings, are equally serious mistakes.
- 1918, John H. Stokes, The Third Great Plague: A Discussion of Syphilis for Everyday People, Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders, Chapter 2, pp. 15-16,[6]
References
- befog in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Hungarian
Etymology
be- +? fog
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?b?fo?]
- Hyphenation: be?fog
- Rhymes: -o?
Verb
befog
- (transitive, of ears, mouth, eyes) to cover
- (transitive, of a draught animal) to harness (to attach a draught animal to a carriage)
- (transitive, of a person) to make someone work
- (transitive) to clamp (to grip tightly in a vice)
Conjugation
Derived terms
- befogás
(Expressions):
- befogja a száját
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cloud
English
Etymology
From Middle English cloud, cloude, clod, clud, clude, from Old English cl?d (“mass of stone, rock, boulder, hill”), from Proto-Germanic *kl?taz, *klutaz (“lump, mass, conglomeration”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to ball up, clench”).
Cognate with Scots clood, clud (“cloud”), Dutch kluit (“lump, mass, clod”), German Low German Kluut, Kluute (“lump, mass, ball”), German Kloß (“lump, ball, dumpling”), Danish klode (“sphere, orb, planet”), Swedish klot (“sphere, orb, ball, globe”), Icelandic klót (“knob on a sword's hilt”). Related to English clod, clot, clump, club. Largely displaced native Middle English wolken, wolkne from Old English wolcen (whence Modern English welkin), the commonest Germanic word (compare Dutch wolk, German Wolke).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: kloud, IPA(key): /kla?d/
- Rhymes: -a?d
Noun
cloud (plural clouds)
- (obsolete) A rock; boulder; a hill.
- 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 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.
- Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.
- (figuratively) Anything unsubstantial.
- A dark spot on a lighter material or background.
- A group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying.
- so great a cloud of witnesses
- An elliptical shape or symbol whose outline is a series of semicircles, supposed to resemble a cloud.
- (computing, with "the") The Internet, regarded as an abstract amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing.
- (figuratively) A negative or foreboding aspect of something positive: see every cloud has a silver lining or every silver lining has a cloud.
- (slang) Crystal methamphetamine.
- A large, loosely-knitted headscarf worn by women.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:cloud.
Hyponyms
- See also Thesaurus:cloud
Derived terms
Translations
See cloud/translations § Noun.
See also
- Appendix:English collective nouns
Verb
cloud (third-person singular simple present clouds, present participle clouding, simple past and past participle clouded)
- (intransitive) To become foggy or gloomy, or obscured from sight.
- (transitive) To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds.
- (transitive) To make obscure.
- (transitive) To make less acute or perceptive.
- (transitive) To make gloomy or sullen.
- (transitive) To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish (reputation or character).
- (transitive) To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors.
- (intransitive) To become marked, darkened or variegated in this way.
Translations
Further reading
- cloud on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- clouds on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Anagrams
- could, culdo-
French
Pronunciation
Noun
cloud m (uncountable)
- (computing, Anglicism, with le) the cloud.
Synonyms
- le nuage
See also
- informatique en nuage
- infonuagique
Middle English
Alternative forms
- clowd, cloude, clowde, clud, clude
Etymology
From Old English cl?d, from Proto-West Germanic *kl?t, from Proto-Germanic *kl?taz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /klu?d/
Noun
cloud (plural cloudes)
- A small elevation; a hill.
- A clod, lump, or boulder.
- A cloud (mass of water vapour) or similar.
- The sky (that which is above the ground).
- That which obscures, dims, or clouds.
Related terms
- cloudy
Descendants
- English: cloud
- Scots: clud, clood
References
- “cl?ud, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Old Irish
Etymology
From clo- +? -ud.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?kl?o.uð/
Noun
cloüd m (genitive cloita)
- verbal noun of cloïd: subduing
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 56b16
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 56b16
Descendants
- Middle Irish: clód
- Irish: cló
- Scottish Gaelic: clòthadh
Inflection
Mutation
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “clód”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Spanish
Noun
cloud m (plural clouds)
- (computing) cloud
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