cloudの意味・使い方・発音

cloud

英 [klaʊd] 美 [klaʊd]

雲云

PIE*gleiの粘着性のある、ねばねばした、から。語源的には粘土、塊、clodと同じで、粘着性のあるものから塊になったもの。原義は土、石であり、後に雲を指すようになり、skyの意味は雲から空に移行した。

cloud: cloud: [OE] In Old English the word for ‘cloud’ was weolcen (whence modern English welkin, a poetical term for ‘sky’), which is related to German wolke ‘cloud’. At that time Old English clūd, the ancestor of cloud, meant ‘mass of rock, hill’ (it is probably related to clod). As applied to ‘clouds’, presumably from a supposed resemblance between cumulus clouds and lumps of earth or rock, it dates from the 13th century.
=> clod
cloud (n.): Old English clud "mass of rock, hill," related to clod. Metaphoric extension to "raincloud, mass of evaporated water in the sky" is attested by c. 1200 based on similarity of cumulus clouds and rock masses. The usual Old English word for "cloud" was weolcan. In Middle English, skie also originally meant "cloud."

The four fundamental types of cloud classification (cirrus, cumulus, stratus, nimbus) were proposed by British amateur meteorologist Luke Howard (1772-1864) in 1802. Figuratively, as something that casts a shadow, from early 15c.; hence under a cloud (c. 1500). In the clouds "removed from earthly things; obscure, fanciful, unreal" is from 1640s. Cloud-compeller translates (poetically) Greek nephelegereta, a Homeric epithet of Zeus.
cloud (v.): early 15c., "overspread with clouds, cover, darken," from cloud (n.). From 1510s as "to render dim or obscure;" 1590s as "to overspread with gloom." Intransitive sense of "become cloudy" is from 1560s. Related: Clouded; clouding.

2.The American edition of " Cloud Street "is already in its third printing.: アメリカ版の『雲の街』は3回目の印刷です。

3.A sudden break in the cloud allowed rescuers to spot Michael Benson.: 天気の突然の晴れが救助隊を助けてマイケル?ベンソンを見つけた。

4.I saw Sean 's face cloud over at this blatant lie.: この赤裸々な嘘を聞いたショーンの顔が曇っているのを見た。

5.When Michael was born I was on cloud nine.: マイケルが生まれたとき、私は北を見つけることができなくて喜んでいました。