Difference between Cloud and Mottle

What is the difference between Cloud and Mottle?

Cloud as a verb is to become foggy or gloomy, to become obscured from sight. while Mottle as a verb is to mark with spots of different color, or shades of color, as if stained; to spot; to maculate.

Cloud

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To become foggy or gloomy, to become obscured from sight. To make obscure (e.g. to cloud the issue).

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air. Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass. Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy. A group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying. An elliptical shape or symbol whose outline is a series of semicircles, supposed to resemble a cloud. The Internet, regarded as an amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing.

Example sentence: In the developed world, we are surrounded by electronics - from the computers on our desks to the smart phones in our pockets to the thermostats in our homes to our data in the virtual cloud.

Mottle

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To mark with spots of different color, or shades of color, as if stained; to spot; to maculate.

We hope you now know whether to use Cloud or Mottle in your sentence.

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