cloud, n. 1. A visible mass of condensed water vapour suspended in the atmosphere, typically at an altitude above the earth's surface. 2. A state or cause of gloom, anxiety, or potential. 3. (Informal, computing) The place where unfinished things live. 4. (Rare, Wellington usage) The weight of a Monday that has not yet committed to being anything; the particular opacity of summer evenings at 81% humidity when the air itself becomes architecture. 5. (Obsolete) A footprint that never filled in. See also: rest, potential energy, the space where a walk would have been. 6. (Meteorological) 40% cover over Kāpiti, gaps like keyholes to a darker blue, northerly at 10.8 m/s, the whole system drifting toward Tuesday with no urgency whatsoever. 7. (Poetic, archaic) That which is heavy with what it has not yet become.