cumulus

n. 积云, 堆积物 [医] 丘

发音

UK /ˈkjuːmjʊləs/
其它
US /ˈkjumjələs/

词形变化

cumuli 复数 cumuli

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A heap or mound.

  2. 2.

    A large white, puffy cloud that develops through convection.

    积云

    气象

    2007 September 1, "Who’s afraid of Google?: The world’s internet superpower faces testing times", in The Economist, The Economist Newspaper Ltd, ISSN 0013-0613, volume 384, number 8544, page 9, Ironically, there is something rather cloudlike about the multiple complaints surrounding Google. The issues are best parted into two cumuli: a set of “public” arguments about how to regulate Google; and a set of “private” ones for Google’s managers, to do with the strategy the firm needs to get through the coming storm.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 5

pile heap mound agglomerate cumulation

上位词 5

collection cloud accumulation aggregation assemblage

下位词 10

shock stack pyre stockpile altocumulus compost heap dunghill funeral pyre midden muckheap

相关短语

cumulus oophorus [医] [载]卵丘 roll cumulus n. 滚轴积云

词源

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *ḱuh₁mósder.? Latin cumulusbor. English cumulus Learned borrowing from Latin cumulus. Doublet of comble. Sense 2 (“type of cloud”) was coined by the British chemist and amateur meteorologist Luke Howard (1772–1864): see the 1803 quotation.

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