Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective resembling a cloud.
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- adjective Resembling a
cloud orclouds ; thus, often,fluffy
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- adjective resembling a cloud
Etymologies
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Examples
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Throw in the notion of cloudlike systems that are effectively operating system-agnostic, and this move seems even less logical.
CNET News.com 2010
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Throw in the notion of cloudlike systems that are effectively operating system-agnostic, and this move seems even less logical.
Boycott Novell 2010
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Throw in the notion of cloudlike systems that are effectively operating system-agnostic, and this move seems even less logical.
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Throw in the notion of cloudlike systems that are effectively operating system-agnostic, and this move seems even less logical.
Boycott Novell 2010
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And she'll gently tutor guests in the adjoining tea garden on how to properly drink an Ostfriesen tea: first crackle the sugar, then drizzle cream over the back of a spoon to create wulkje , or cloudlike, profusions like those at the North Sea, and finally drink, don't mix.
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The piece will consist of some 350 carved and painted Chinese characters for the word "bird" in various historical scripts—all hung from the ceiling of the Morgan's soaring entry court in a cloudlike cluster that will rise dramatically from the floor to the top of a 50-foot glass wall.
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You can see it from street level, too, as you emerge from the Waterfront Metro station, a bold expanse of canted glass, supported by inclined wooden columns and capped by a shimmering, white, cloudlike roof.
Arena Stage's new building: a brilliant addition, and a challenge, to the city Philip Kennicott 2010
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There are various forms of bokashi, for example atenashi bokashi "not-indicated colour gradation", frequently used in this series, in which the cloudlike colour gradation is applied to an area of the woodblock not indicted by the artist, for example in the sky or water surfaces.
Jane Chafin: Hiroshige: One Hundred Famous Views of Edo: A Luscious -- and Affordable -- Must-Have Art Book Jane Chafin 2011
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Lucy Skaer's "Cell #1 with rules and exceptions" from 2005, based on a photograph of a jail cell, transforms the image by filling in the negative spaces between the bars with small, even anal-compulsive strips of banded color, interrupted by cloudlike shadow-forms where the page is left blank.
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I found their hand-stretched shams to be incomparably soft and their silk-filled pillows cloudlike.
Better Beauty Sleep Aleksandra Crapanzano 2012
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