STRATUS Antonyms

• usually coiled

• a wispy white cloud (usually of fine ice crystals) at a high altitude (4 to 8 miles)

• a slender flexible animal appendage as on barnacles or crinoids or many insects; often tactile

• of or related to cumulous clouds

• a globular cloud

• a collection of objects laid on top of each other

• droplets of water vapor suspended in the air near the ground

• an atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance

• confusion characterized by lack of clarity

• make less visible or unclear

• atmospheric moisture or dust or smoke that causes reduced visibility

• confusion characterized by lack of clarity

• become hazy, dull, or cloudy

• harass by imposing humiliating or painful tasks, as in military institutions

• the state of the sky when it is covered by clouds

• gloomy semidarkness caused by cloud cover

• a long whipstitch or overhand stitch overlying an edge to prevent raveling

• a cast that falls beyond the intended spot

• filled or abounding with clouds

• make overcast or cloudy

• sew over the edge of with long slanting wide stitches

• sew with an overcast stitch from one section to the next

• the quantity of water falling to earth at a specific place within a specified period of time

• the process of forming a chemical precipitate

• the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist)

• the act of casting down or falling headlong from a height

• an unexpected acceleration or hastening

• overly eager speed (and possible carelessness)

• a violent weather condition with winds 64-72 knots (11 on the Beaufort scale) and precipitation and thunder and lightning

• a violent commotion or disturbance

• a direct and violent assault on a stronghold

• behave violently, as if in state of a great anger

• take by force

• rain, hail, or snow hard and be very windy, often with thunder or lightning

• blow hard

• attack by storm; attack suddenly

• According to the World Meteorological Organization, a mid-level, principal cloud type, generally formless and dark grey in colour, which forms from altostratus occurring in layers at the middle altitude of the troposphere (usually above 2400 metres). Nimbostratus usually brings precipitation as the mid-level clouds thicken and subside into the low level of the troposphere. Frontal or cyclonic lift can also carry the top of a deep nimbostratus layer into the high levels of the troposphere. Also classified or characterized as multi-level; abbreviated Ns.

• A principal low-level cloud type, predominantly stratiform, in the form of a gray and/or whitish layer or patch, which nearly always has dark parts and is nonfibrous.