2012_05_22 Cumulus n. 堆;樁。A heap; pile.

Word of the Day for Tuesday, May 22, 2012
cumulus \KYOO-myuh-luhs\, noun:
1. A heap; pile.
2. A cloud of a class characterized by dense individual elements in the form of puffs, mounds, or towers, with flat bases and tops that often resemble cauliflower.
He was organizing the year's remnants. He was logging and archiving and filing it all. The whole swollen yearlong cumulus.
 -- Dana Spiotta, Stone Arabia
"So where is it at, Minogue," asks the palatal man, aloft in a cumulus of webs and dust and creak.
 -- David Foster Wallace, Girl with Curious Hair
Cumulus stems from the Neo-Latin word meaning "heap, pile." It was first used to describe clouds in the early 1800s.
積雲\圭myuh-LUHS\，名詞：

1。堆;樁。
2。雲類的特點，在平坦的基地和上衣，往往像菜花，泡芙，土堆，或塔的形式密集的個別元素。

他今年的殘餘組織。他記錄和存檔，並提交所有。整個腫為期一年的積雲。
- 達納Spiotta，阿拉伯石

“問：”那麼，它在哪裡，米洛，腭男子，高舉在網和防塵和吱吱的積雲。
- 大衛·福斯特·華萊士，與好奇的頭髮女孩

積雲源於“。堆，一堆”新拉丁一詞的含義它首先被用來描述在19世紀初雲。

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