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Low, extensive cloud
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stratus
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"a low layer of cloud," 1803, from Latin stratus "a spreading," from noun use of past participle of sternere (see stratum ).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context meteorology English) A principal, low-level cloud type in the form of a gray layer with a rather uniform base, usually not associated with precipitation, and capable of producing corona phenomena and a weak, uniform luminance; abbreviated '''''S'''t''. ...
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a large dark low cloud [syn: stratus cloud ] [also: strati (pl)]
Usage examples of stratus.
In exchange for a substantial payment, Judge Stratus had promised to alert his patrons at Pollifex Farm the instant he happened upon a blood sample bearing the deoxyribonucleic acid component known as QZ-11-4.
The reason is that both cirrus and stratus have characteristics which in one or the other direction tend away from the pure realm of atmospheric cloud-formation.
If in the stratus the form ceases to consist of distinct particulars, because the entire cloud-mass runs together into a single layer, in the cirrus the form begins to vanish before our eyes, because it dissolves into the surrounding atmospheric space.
The vast marble dome of the State House stood out in massive silhouette, its crowning statue haloed fantastically by a break in one of the tinted stratus clouds that barred the flaming sky.
Or recall with their phases, each one after one, The clouds that came down to the death of the Sun, Cirrus, Stratus, or Nimbus, some evening last year, As unravel the web of one genus!
I saw the flat roofs of those great towers jutting above the bank of stratus, and there were tiny people walking on them.
Occasionally stars showed between the columns of thin stratus clouds, but they gave no light.
There was little snow or ice in the air tonight and just enough stratus cloud to mark the difference between atmosphere and deep space.
He gazed up at the sky to calm himself and watched a strong wind fanning a sheet of stratus clouds across the east.
By noon we had our man, District Justice George Stratus, proud owner of a brand new Sorrel-130 blood analyzer.
It so happened that Judge Stratus was something of a specialist in instant marriage.
Judge Stratus turned out to be a fat and affable paragon of efficiency.
Judge Stratus noticed my pained expression when I handed over the hundred dollars, because he suggested that if we were short on cash, we should stop by the farm and talk to Andre Pollifex.
Vast weather systems can slowly pump up stratus clouds in huge sheets, layer after layer of flat overcast that sometimes covers a quarter of North America.
Sometimes a gentle uplift of moving air, oozing up the long slope from the Great Plains to the foot of the Rockies, can produce vast blanketing sheets of ground-level stratus fog that cover entire states.