storm cloud


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storm cloud

n
1. (Physical Geography) a heavy dark cloud presaging rain or a storm
2. a herald of disturbance, anger, or violence: the storm clouds of war.
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Noun1.storm cloud - a heavy dark cloud presaging rain or a stormstorm cloud - a heavy dark cloud presaging rain or a storm
cloud - a visible mass of water or ice particles suspended at a considerable altitude
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Translations

storm cloud

nnube f temporalesca
there are storm clouds on the horizon (fig) → c'è aria di burrasca
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References in classic literature ?
It grew like a storm cloud until once more it darkened the sky.
Then Robin Hood gathered his band together in a close rank, with Will Stutely in the midst, and thus they moved slowly away toward Sherwood, and were gone, as a storm cloud moves away from the spot where a tempest has swept the land.
Then all of a sudden, on Easter Monday, a warm wind sprang up, storm clouds swooped down, and for three days and three nights the warm, driving rain fell in streams.
Large drops of rain soon began to fall, and, as the storm clouds came sailing onward, others supplied the void they left behind and spread over all the sky.
Then thirteen hundred miles of desert solitudes; of limitless panoramas of bewildering perspective; of mimic cities, of pinnacled cathedrals, of massive fortresses, counterfeited in the eternal rocks and splendid with the crimson and gold of the setting sun; of dizzy altitudes among fog-wreathed peaks and never-melting snows, where thunders and lightnings and tempests warred magnificently at our feet and the storm clouds above swung their shredded banners in our very faces!
Heavy rain and extremely heavy rain alerts have been issued for most parts of Taiwan due to a strong storm cloud system, the Central Weather Bureau (CWB) said Saturday.
Similarly, Uranus also features a dominant storm cloud around its north pole.
Residents across the county reported seeing a huge storm cloud and lightning but no thunder or rain on Sunday evening (May 27).
[2] CUMULUS CLOUD: A storm cloud forms as rising air cools and water vapor condenses,
Soon, though, a storm cloud darkened our happy lesbionic sky.
But, while providers and contractors have maneuvered for the best deal, new liability has been developing like a dark storm cloud on the horizon.