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  • noun Plural form of cloud.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cloud.

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Examples

  • VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Earthquake clouds'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Several great pix and a video showing “earthquake clouds” that preceded the China quake.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Earthquake clouds 2008

  • Are angels vailing clouds, or roses blown] [Hammer: angels vailing clouds] [Warburton exercised his sarcasm on this] I know not why Sir T. Hanmer's explanation should be treated with so much contempt, or why _vailing clouds_ should be

    Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Samuel Johnson 1746

  • I think everything exists for a reason, and the reason we have rain clouds is to make rain.

    Bunny and a Book 2008

  • I think everything exists for a reason, and the reason we have rain clouds is to make rain.

    Bunny and a Book 2008

  • My opinion about the "purpose" of rain clouds is just as credible, or fanciful, as yours or anyone else's.

    Bunny and a Book 2008

  • My opinion about the "purpose" of rain clouds is just as credible, or fanciful, as yours or anyone else's.

    Bunny and a Book 2008

  • The day we stop honoring our corn plants, making ceremonies to call the rain clouds from the ocean, and leaving offerings in the fields to calm the winds, will be the day that many on earth go hungry.

    The Huichols: a culture in transition 2006

  • The day we stop honoring our corn plants, making ceremonies to call the rain clouds from the ocean, and leaving offerings in the fields to calm the winds, will be the day that many on earth go hungry.

    The Huichols: a culture in transition 2006

  • The idea of storing some types of enterprise data in the clouds is an idea whose time may finally have come.

    Nirvanix Adds $5M to Keep Data in the Cloud 2009

  • (I'm sure all will be revealed in the FeldReader;) The major problem with most tag clouds, is that more items = a bigger cloud.

    Archive 2006-01-01 Ben Barren 2006

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  • Clouds sorrowing together in the dark

    Forget that they themselves

    Have hidden the sun.

    R. Tagore

    March 9, 2007