different between shoe vs cloud

English

Etymology

From Middle English sho, shoo, from Old English s??h (“shoe”), from Proto-West Germanic *sk?h, from Proto-Germanic *sk?haz (“shoe”), of unclear etymology; possibly a derivation from *skehan? (“to move quickly”), from Proto-Indo-European *skek- (“to move quickly, jump”).

Eclipsed non-native Middle English sabatine, sabatoun (“shoe”) from Medieval Latin sabat?num, sabatum (“shoe, slipper”) (compare Old Occitan sabat?, Spanish zapato (“shoe”)).

The archaic plural shoon is from Middle English shon, from Old English sc?n, sc?um (“shoes”, dative plural) and sc?na (“shoes'”, genitive plural); it is cognate with Scots shuin (“shoes”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: sho?o, IPA^(key): /?u?/
• Rhymes: -u?
• Homophones: shoo, shew, SHU

Noun

shoe (plural shoes or (archaic or regional) shoon or shoen)

1. A protective covering for the foot, with a bottom part composed of thick leather or plastic sole and often a thicker heel, and a softer upper part made of leather or synthetic material. Shoes generally do not extend above the ankle, as opposed to boots, which do.

2. A piece of metal designed to be attached to a horse's foot as a means of protection; a horseshoe.

3. (card games) A device for holding multiple decks of playing cards, allowing more games to be played by reducing the time between shuffles.
4. Something resembling a shoe in form, position, or function, such as a brake shoe.
   1. A band of iron or steel, or a ship of wood, fastened to the bottom of the runner of a sleigh, or any vehicle which slides on the snow.
   2. A drag, or sliding piece of wood or iron, placed under the wheel of a loaded vehicle, to retard its motion in going down a hill.
   3. The part of a railroad car brake which presses upon the wheel to retard its motion.
   4. (architecture) A trough-shaped or spout-shaped member, put at the bottom of the water leader coming from the eaves gutter, so as to throw the water off from the building.
   5. A trough or spout for conveying grain from the hopper to the eye of the millstone.
   6. An inclined trough in an ore-crushing mill.
   7. An iron socket or plate to take the thrust of a strut or rafter.
   8. An iron socket to protect the point of a wooden pile.
   9. (engineering) A plate, or notched piece, interposed between a moving part and the stationary part on which it bears, to take the wear and afford means of adjustment; called also slipper and gib.
   10. Part of a current collector on electric trains which provides contact either with a live rail or an overhead wire (fitted to a pantograph in the latter case).
5. The outer cover or tread of a pneumatic tire, especially for an automobile.

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Derived terms

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Translations

See also

• footwear
• socks

Verb

shoe (third-person singular simple present shoes, present participle shoeing, simple past shod or shoed, past participle shodden or shod or shoed)

1. To put shoes on one's feet.
   • 1995, Michel Potay, The Gospel Delivered in Arès, 26:6

2. To put horseshoes on a horse.
   • 1874— Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd, chapter XXXII

     "Old Jimmy Harris only shoed her last week, and I'd swear to his make among ten thousand."

3. To equip an object with a protection against wear.

Derived terms

• beshoe
• unshoe

Related terms

• unshod

Translations

Anagrams

• HEOs, Heos, Hose, hoes, hose

Middle English

Pronoun

shoe

1. Alternative form of sche

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)

1. (obsolete) A rock; boulder; a hill.
2. 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.

3. Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.
4. Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.
5. (figuratively) Anything unsubstantial.
6. A dark spot on a lighter material or background.
7. A group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying.

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

9. (computing, with "the") The Internet, regarded as an abstract amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing.
10. (figuratively) A negative or foreboding aspect of something positive: see every cloud has a silver lining or every silver lining has a cloud.
11. (slang) Crystal methamphetamine.
12. 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)

1. (intransitive) To become foggy or gloomy, or obscured from sight.

2. (transitive) To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds.

3. (transitive) To make obscure.

4. (transitive) To make less acute or perceptive.

5. (transitive) To make gloomy or sullen.
6. (transitive) To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish (reputation or character).
7. (transitive) To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors.
8. (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)

1. (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)

1. A small elevation; a hill.
2. A clod, lump, or boulder.
3. A cloud (mass of water vapour) or similar.
4. The sky (that which is above the ground).
5. 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)

1. 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. 56^b16

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)

1. (computing) cloud