cloud

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noun

1 mass of very small drops of water in the sky

ADJECTIVE

▪ dense, heavy, thick

▪ light

▪ fluffy, puffy (esp. AmE), wispy (esp. AmE)

▪ cirrus, cumulonimbus, cumulus, etc.

▪ high, low

▪ broken, scattered

▪

skies of broken cloud

▪ fast-moving, scudding (literary)

▪ black, dark, grey/gray, white

▪ rain, storm, thunder

▪

Rain clouds were looming on the horizon.

▪ ominous, threatening

… OF CLOUD

▪ band, bank, blanket, layer, mass, wisp

▪

a layer of high cloud

VERB + CLOUD

▪ seed (= to place a substance in a cloud to make it produce rain)

CLOUD + VERB

▪ form, gather, mass

▪

Dark clouds were gathering in the west.

▪ cover sth, envelop sth, obscure sth

▪ break, clear, disperse, lift, part

▪

The clouds broke a little, and the sun came out.

▪ drift, float, hang, hover, loom, move, pass, race, roll, scud (literary), swirl

▪

Thick cloud hung over the moor.

▪

A cloud passed over the sun.

▪

White clouds scudded across the sky.

CLOUD + NOUN

▪ bank, cover, layer

▪

The cloud cover is quite dense today.

▪ formation

PREPOSITION

▪ above the clouds, below the clouds

▪

We were flying above the clouds.

▪ through the clouds

▪

She could see the sun through the clouds.

PHRASES

▪ a break in the cloud, a break in the clouds

2 mass of smoke, dust, etc.

ADJECTIVE

▪ great, huge

▪

a great cloud of black smoke

▪ dense, thick

▪ billowing, swirling

▪ mushroom

▪

the mushroom cloud from a nuclear bomb

▪ dust, gas, radioactive, smoke

VERB + CLOUD

▪ create, form

▪

The wind blew across the beach, forming clouds of sand.

▪ belch, release

PREPOSITION

▪ cloud of

▪

a thick cloud of steam

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verb

Cloud is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑eye, ↑face, ↑tear

Cloud is used with these nouns as the object: ↑judgement, ↑mind, ↑vision