cloud deck
collocation in Englishmeanings of cloud and deck
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cloud
noun
uk
/klaʊd/us
/klaʊd/
a grey or white mass in the sky, made up of very small floating drops ...
deck
noun [C]
uk
/dek/us
/dek/
a flat area for walking on, built across the space between the sides of ...
(Definition of cloud and deck from the Cambridge English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of cloud deck
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Thickening of cloud cover or the invasion of a higher cloud deck is indicative of rain in the near future.
As a system approaches from the west, a persistent cloud deck with associated precipitation forms and lingers across the region for prolonged periods of time.
This star hosts an upper cloud deck absorbing so much heat that below it is a relatively cool stratosphere.
The cloud deck instead absorbs the sun's radiation; between that and the hot, high pressure gas surrounding the mantle, exists a stratosphere of cooler gas.
Fog and drizzle normally are found near the furthest inland extent of the gloom, where the cloud deck is closest to the ground.
This layer coincides with the upper cloud deck.
Venus's windspeeds can be directly measured only in the upper troposphere (tropopause), between 6070 km, altitude, which corresponds to the upper cloud deck.
Stratus is a stable cloud deck which tends to form when a cool, stable air mass is trapped underneath a warm air mass.
In almost every circumstance, the cloud deck ends above ground level, giving the pilot a reasonable chance to recover from the spin before impacting the surface.
Neptune's dark spots are thought to occur in the troposphere at lower altitudes than the brighter upper cloud deck features.
Stratiform clouds can also form in precipitation below the main frontal cloud deck where the colder air is trapped under the warmer air mass being forced above by the front.
Venus has been monitored for circulation of the cloud deck.
These planets form cloud decks of silicates and iron deep in their atmospheres, but this is not predicted to affect the spectrum of the planet.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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