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clouds

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Rocher, rocher, colline

A rock; boulder; a hill.

Examples :

"The children loved to play hide-and-seek among the clouds in the park, their laughter echoing around the massive rock formations. "

Les enfants adoraient jouer à cache-cache parmi les rochers du parc, leurs rires résonnant autour des formations rocheuses massives.

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Nuages

A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.

Examples :

"The clouds in the sky looked like fluffy white cotton. "

Les nuages dans le ciel ressemblaient à du coton blanc et duveteux.

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Nuages

Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.

Examples :

"The factory's smokestacks released thick clouds of gray smoke into the sky. "

Les cheminées de l'usine ont libéré d'épais nuages de fumée grise dans le ciel.

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Obscurité, nuages

Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.

Examples :

"Financial worries cast clouds over their family vacation. "

Les soucis financiers ont jeté une ombre sur leurs vacances en famille.

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Illusions, chimères

Anything unsubstantial.

Examples :

"His ambitious dreams turned out to be just clouds, vanishing with the first sign of difficulty. "

Ses rêves ambitieux se sont avérés n'être que des chimères, s'évanouissant au premier signe de difficulté.

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Taches, nuages

A dark spot on a lighter material or background.

Examples :

"The otherwise pristine white tablecloth had clouds of spilled coffee near my plate. "

La nappe blanche, par ailleurs immaculée, présentait des taches de café renversé près de mon assiette.

appearance mark

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Nuages

A group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying.

Examples :

"He opened the door and was greeted by a cloud of bats."

Il ouvrit la porte et fut accueilli par un nuage de chauves-souris.

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Nuage

An elliptical shape or symbol whose outline is a series of semicircles, supposed to resemble a cloud.

Examples :

"The comic strip used "clouds" around the characters' heads to show they were thinking. "

La bande dessinée utilisait des « nuages » autour de la tête des personnages pour montrer qu'ils réfléchissaient.

appearance sign

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Le cloud, l'Internet

(with "the") The Internet, regarded as an abstract amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing.

Examples :

"The company decided to store all its important documents in the clouds to avoid losing them if their office computer crashed. "

L'entreprise a décidé de stocker tous ses documents importants dans le cloud pour éviter de les perdre en cas de crash de l'ordinateur de bureau.

internet computing technology space

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Aspect négatif, revers

A negative or foreboding aspect of something positive: see every cloud has a silver lining or every silver lining has a cloud.

Examples :

"The project's success had some clouds; the budget was tight and the deadline was looming. "

Le succès du projet avait des revers : le budget était serré et l'échéance approchait.

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Crystal meth, méthamphétamine

Crystal methamphetamine.

Examples :

"The dealer offered him some clouds, but he refused. "

Le dealer lui a proposé du crystal meth, mais il a refusé.

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Nuages

A large, loosely-knitted headscarf worn by women.

Examples :

"My grandmother always wears one of her colorful clouds to keep her hair neat while she's gardening. "

Ma grand-mère porte toujours l'un de ses nuages colorés pour garder ses cheveux en ordre pendant qu'elle jardine.

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S'obscurcir, s'assombrir

To become foggy or gloomy, or obscured from sight.

Examples :

"The glass clouds when you breathe on it."

La vitre s'obscurcit quand on souffle dessus.

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Assombrir, couvrir de nuages

To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds.

Examples :

"The sky is clouded."

Le ciel est couvert de nuages.

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Assombrir, obscurcir

To make obscure.

Examples :

"All this talk about human rights is clouding the real issue."

Toutes ces discussions sur les droits de l'homme obscurcissent la véritable question.

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Obscurcir, assombrir

To make less acute or perceptive.

Examples :

"The tears began to well up and cloud my vision."

Les larmes ont commencé à monter et à obscurcir ma vision.

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Assombrir, attrister

To make gloomy or sullen.

Examples :

"The news that the project was canceled clouded his mood for the rest of the day. "

La nouvelle que le projet était annulé a assombri son humeur pour le reste de la journée.

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Assombrir, ternir, entacher

To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish (reputation or character).

Examples :

"The accusation of cheating severely clouds her reputation at school. "

L'accusation de tricherie entache gravement sa réputation à l'école.

character moral value

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Veiner, tacher

To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors.

Examples :

"to cloud yarn"

Veiner le fil.

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S'obscurcir, s'assombrir

To become marked, darkened or variegated in this way.

Examples :

"The spilled ink began to cloud the surface of the white paper, making it difficult to read. "

L'encre renversée a commencé à assombrir la surface du papier blanc, rendant la lecture difficile.

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