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perplex
English
Etymology
From Old French, from Latin perplexus (“entangled, confused”), from per (“through”) + plexus, perfect passive participle of plect? (“plait, weave, braid”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) enPR: p?rpl?ks?, IPA(key): /p??pl?ks/
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: p?pl?ks?, IPA(key): /p??pl?ks/
- Rhymes: -?ks
Verb
perplex (third-person singular simple present perplexes, present participle perplexing, simple past and past participle perplexed)
- (transitive) To cause to feel baffled; to puzzle.
- (transitive) To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated.
- What was thought obscure, perplexed, and too hard for our weak parts, will lie open to the understanding in a fair view.
- (transitive, obsolete) To plague; to vex; to torment.
- 1726, George Granville, Chloe
- Chloe's the wonder of her sex, 'Tis well her heart is tender, How might such killing eyes perplex, With virtue to defend her.
- 1726, George Granville, Chloe
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:confuse
Related terms
- perplexable
- perplexation
- perplexed
- perplexedness
- perplexing
- perplexity
- perplexment
Translations
Adjective
perplex (comparative more perplex, superlative most perplex)
- (obsolete) intricate; difficult
- 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica
- How the soul directs the spirits for the motion of the body, according to the several animal exigents, is as perplex in the Theory, as either of the former.
- 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica
Noun
perplex (plural perplexes)
- (obsolete) A difficulty.
Further reading
- perplex in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- perplex in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- perplex at OneLook Dictionary Search
German
Etymology
From French perplexe, from Latin perplexus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p???pl?ks/
- Hyphenation: per?plex
Adjective
perplex (comparative perplexer, superlative am perplexesten)
- (colloquial, rarely attributive) confused, perplexed, puzzled
- Synonyms: verdutzt, verblüfft, verwirrt
Declension
Related terms
- Perplexität
Further reading
- “perplex” in Duden online
- “perplex” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “perplex” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
Romanian
Etymology
From French perplexe, from Latin perplex.
Adjective
perplex m or n (feminine singular perplex?, masculine plural perplec?i, feminine and neuter plural perplexe)
- perplexed
Declension
perplex From the web:
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- what perplexed scrooge about the clock
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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- what clouds produce rain
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