different between shroud vs cloud

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??a?d/
• Rhymes: -a?d

Etymology 1

From Middle English shroud, from Old English s?r?d, from Proto-Germanic *skr?d?. Cognate with Old Norse skrúð (“the shrouds of a ship”) ( > Danish, Norwegian skrud (“splendid attire”)).

Noun

shroud (plural shrouds)

1. That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
   • 1636, George Sandys, Paraphrase upon the Psalms and Hymns dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments

     swaddled, as new born, in sable shrouds
2. Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
   • 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, volume 3, chapter 2

     Yet let us go? England is in her shroud – we may not enchain ourselves to a corpse.
3. That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
4. A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
   • 1618, George Chapman, Homeric Hymns

     The shroud to which he won / His fair-eyed oxen.

   • 1554, John Withals, A Dictionarie in English and Latine

     a vault, or shroud, as under a church

5. (nautical) 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.
6. One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.

Synonyms

• sindon

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English schrouden (> Anglo-Latin scrud?re), from Middle English schroud (“shroud”) (see above).

Verb

shroud (third-person singular simple present shrouds, present participle shrouding, simple past and past participle shrouded)

1. To cover with a shroud.
2. To conceal or hide from view, as if by a shroud.

   • One of these trees, with all his young ones, may shroud four hundred horsemen.

   • 1665, John Dryden, The Indian Emperour

     Some tempest rise, / And blow out all the stars that light the skies, / To shroud my shame.

3. To take shelter or harbour.

Translations

Etymology 3

Variant of shred.

Noun

shroud (plural shrouds)

1. The branching top of a tree; foliage.

Verb

shroud (third-person singular simple present shrouds, present participle shrouding, simple past and past participle shrouded)

1. (transitive, Britain, dialect) To lop the branches from (a tree).

   Synonym: shrood

References

• Shroud (sailing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• shroud in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• shroud at OneLook Dictionary Search

Middle English

Alternative forms

• shroude, shroute, sheroude, shrude, shrute
• scrude, sroude, srout, srud, sruð, ssroud (early)

Etymology

From Old English s?r?d.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ru?d/

Noun

shroud (plural shroudes)

1. garment, priestly vestment

Descendants

• English: shroud
• Yola: shrude

References

• “shr?ud, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

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