Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A low-altitude cloud formation consisting of a horizontal layer of gray clouds.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A continuous horizontal sheet of cloud, generally of uniform thickness. It is essentially a fine-weather cloud, and is characteristic of areas of high pressure. In the evening and morning of fine days it frequently appears as a low foggy canopy overspreading the whole or a part of the sky, and disappears as the heat of the day increases. All low detached clouds which look like lifted fog and are not consolidated into definite form are stratus. It is the lowest of the clouds. Abbreviated s. See cut under
cloud . - n. See cloud, 1. The International Conference, at Innsbruck in Sept., 1905, officially adopted the following for international use: “Instead of ‘raised fog in a horizontal layer’ stratus should be defined as ‘a uniform layer of cloud similar to fog but which does not rest on the ground’: the complete absence of details distinguishes the stratus from other compact forms of cloud.”
Wiktionary
- n. meteorology A principal, low-level cloud type in the form of gray layer with a rather uniform base, usually not associated with precipitation, and capable of producing corona phenomena and a weak, uniform luminance; abbreviated St.
GNU Webster's 1913
WordNet 3.0
- n. a large dark low cloud
Etymologies
- From Latin strātus, past participle of sternere, to stretch, extend. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Most likely, it was one of the 10 great species of clouds, beginning with low- altitude cumulus ("cotton-wool puffs"), stratocumulus ("a low layer or patch of cloud") and stratus (a "gray overcast layer").”
“But the sky ... beautiful layers of cloud: cirrus, cumulus, stratus lying in runs from horizon to horizon.”
“I kept to my hands and knees, like a little drunk myself, creeping down the hallway under the stratus cloud of smoke, under the radar, until I found the door with the dark stairs going down.”
“This sounds more like a wake than a new deal administration, except for the party-time swearing-in festivities that do absolutely nothing to change the stratus-quo. —”
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“Inside is the chronometer-certified Breitling Calibre 32 movement, and the watch can be purchased with a volcano black, Air Force blue, tungsten gray or stratus silver dial.”
“ When Haymes explained how the postcards would be displayed in the gallery, in patches ranging from the walls to the ceiling, almost like clouds, cumulus in places, stratus in others, most agreed the project not only had potential but could actually mirror something about the human condition.”
“The low-lying stratus, stratocumulus, cumulus, nimbostratus, and cumulonimbus are where all the action is.”
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“Consider the entry on cumulonimbus: While most of us might be familiar with the four common cloud names — cumulus (heaped), stratus (layered), cirrus (curl of hair) and nimbus (rain) — Ms. Jenkins reveals that the publication of the first popular " International Cloud Atlas " at the end of the 19th century expanded this taxonomy to 10 cloud types, including the mountainous cumulonimbus, listed as Cloud Nine.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘stratus’.
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Brand Theft Auto
A marque list for cars--models or companies who've used common words as their name.
explorer, navigator, frontier, mustang, quest, cougar, sidekick, legend, legacy, ranger, voyager, civic and 266 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Clouds
We owe our current names for clouds to Luke Howard. Wikipedia tells us that "Howard was not the first to attempt a classification of clouds—Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744–1829) had earlier proposed a ...
wane-cloud, stratus, cirrostratus, cirro-stratus, strato-cirrus, altostratus, salmon-cloud, cumulus, altocumulus lenti..., sonder-cloud, rain-cloud, nimbostratus and 205 more...
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elvesoncrack's Words
lachrymose, blustering, fjord, chihuahua, chiffon, catalytic, stile, gefilte, prosh, thwart, ralph, ickle and 379 more...
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hifi_del_norte's Words
vegetable, spatula, bang, fluctuate, carnage, simple, audio, hi-fi, empanada, bonnie, gazpacho, memoirs and 108 more...
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Sci
crepuscular ray, acronychal, acronyc, stratus, twain cloud, selva, Tucana, diaphanous, gossamer, tern, tairn, medrick and 3 more...
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Whether the Weather
Should I bring an umbrella?
hurricane, tsunami, fog, tornado, thunderstorm, cyclone, blizzard, drizzle, hail, snow, sleet, graupel and 37 more...
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Land and climate
obsidian, desert, snowfall, rainfall, hill, cloud, sunflower, meadow, woods, starlight, weed, mineral and 68 more...
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weathering heights
weather words
ground clouds, haze, mizzle, murk, brume, film, gloom, sunshine, frosty, storm, cirrostratus, cumulonimbus and 57 more...
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Cloud Words
cumulus, stratus, cirrus, nimbus, cumulonimbus, sheep, cotton, scud, ominous, accumulation, partly, fluffy and 9 more...
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