Word for high clouds

The idea for the Describing Words engine came when I was building the engine for Related Words (it’s like a thesaurus, but gives you a much broader set of related words, rather than just synonyms). While playing around with word vectors and the «HasProperty» API of conceptnet, I had a bit of fun trying to get the adjectives which commonly describe a word. Eventually I realised that there’s a much better way of doing this: parse books!

Project Gutenberg was the initial corpus, but the parser got greedier and greedier and I ended up feeding it somewhere around 100 gigabytes of text files — mostly fiction, including many contemporary works. The parser simply looks through each book and pulls out the various descriptions of nouns.

Hopefully it’s more than just a novelty and some people will actually find it useful for their writing and brainstorming, but one neat little thing to try is to compare two nouns which are similar, but different in some significant way — for example, gender is interesting: «woman» versus «man» and «boy» versus «girl». On an inital quick analysis it seems that authors of fiction are at least 4x more likely to describe women (as opposed to men) with beauty-related terms (regarding their weight, features and general attractiveness). In fact, «beautiful» is possibly the most widely used adjective for women in all of the world’s literature, which is quite in line with the general unidimensional representation of women in many other media forms. If anyone wants to do further research into this, let me know and I can give you a lot more data (for example, there are about 25000 different entries for «woman» — too many to show here).

The blueness of the results represents their relative frequency. You can hover over an item for a second and the frequency score should pop up. The «uniqueness» sorting is default, and thanks to my Complicated Algorithm™, it orders them by the adjectives’ uniqueness to that particular noun relative to other nouns (it’s actually pretty simple). As you’d expect, you can click the «Sort By Usage Frequency» button to adjectives by their usage frequency for that noun.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source mongodb which was used in this project.

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You can’t increase the resolution of the image in plt.show() since that is determined by your screen, but you can increase the size. This allows it to scale, zoom, etc. without blurring. To do this pass dimensions to WordCloud, e.g.

wordcloud = WordCloud(width=800, height=400).generate(text)

However, this just determines the size of the image created by WordCloud. When you display this using matplotlib it is scaled to the size of the plot canvas, which is (by default) around 800×600 and you again lose quality. To fix this you need to specify the size of the figure before you call imshow, e.g.

plt.figure( figsize=(20,10) )
plt.imshow(wordcloud)

By doing this I can successfully create a 2000×1000 high resolution word cloud.

For your second question (removing the border) first we could set the border to black, so it is less apparent, e.g.

plt.figure( figsize=(20,10), facecolor='k' )

You can also shrink the size of the border by using tight_layout, e.g.

plt.tight_layout(pad=0)

The final code:

# Read the whole text.
text = open(path.join(d, 'constitution.txt')).read()
wordcloud = WordCloud(width=1600, height=800).generate(text)
# Open a plot of the generated image.

plt.figure( figsize=(20,10), facecolor='k')
plt.imshow(wordcloud)
plt.axis("off")
plt.tight_layout(pad=0)
plt.show()

By replacing the last two lines with the following you can get the final output shown below:

plt.savefig('wordcloud.png', facecolor='k', bbox_inches='tight')

The Urban Thesaurus was created by indexing millions of different slang terms which are defined on sites like Urban Dictionary. These indexes are then used to find usage correlations between slang terms. The official Urban Dictionary API is used to show the hover-definitions. Note that this thesaurus is not in any way affiliated with Urban Dictionary.

Due to the way the algorithm works, the thesaurus gives you mostly related slang words, rather than exact synonyms. The higher the terms are in the list, the more likely that they’re relevant to the word or phrase that you searched for. The search algorithm handles phrases and strings of words quite well, so for example if you want words that are related to lol and rofl you can type in lol rofl and it should give you a pile of related slang terms. Or you might try boyfriend or girlfriend to get words that can mean either one of these (e.g. bae). Please also note that due to the nature of the internet (and especially UD), there will often be many terrible and offensive terms in the results.

There is still lots of work to be done to get this slang thesaurus to give consistently good results, but I think it’s at the stage where it could be useful to people, which is why I released it.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: @krisk, @HubSpot, and @mongodb.

Finally, you might like to check out the growing collection of curated slang words for different topics over at Slangpedia.

Please note that Urban Thesaurus uses third party scripts (such as Google Analytics and advertisements) which use cookies. To learn more, see the privacy policy.

‘HIGH-ALTITUDE CLOUDS’ is a 18 letter
Phrase
starting with H and ending with S

Crossword answers for HIGH-ALTITUDE CLOUDS

• 1
  high clouds
  
  

  1) высокие (густые, дождевые, кучевые) облака

  English-Russian combinatory dictionary > high clouds

• 2
  high clouds
  
  

  English-Russian dictionary of geology > high clouds

• 3
  high clouds
  
  

  Универсальный англо-русский словарь > high clouds

• 4
  high clouds
  
  

  Англо-русский словарь по гражданской авиации > high clouds

• 5
  high clouds
  
  

  Новый англо-русский словарь > high clouds

• 6
  high clouds
  
  

  верхняя облачность, облака верхнего яруса

  English-Russian aviation meteorology dictionary > high clouds

• 7
  high
  
  

  high n

  антициклон

  aircraft high tension wiring

  электропроводка высокого напряжения на воздушном судне

  extremely high frequency

  крайне высокая частота радиосвязи

  flight over the high seas

  полет над открытым морем

  high airfield

  высокогорная посадочная площадка

  high bypass ratio engine

  двигатель с высокой степенью двухконтурности

  high clouds

  облака верхнего яруса

  high compression ratio engine

  двигатель с высокой степенью сжатия

  high density air traffic

  интенсивное воздушное движение

  high density traffic environment

  условия при высокой плотности воздушного движения

  high drag configuration

  конфигурация при высоком сопротивлении

  higher intermediate fare

  верхний предел тарифа промежуточного класса

  high frequency

  высокая частота радиосвязи

  high frequency propagation

  распространение волн высокочастотного диапазона

  high intensity runway lights

  огни ВПП высокой интенсивности

  high latitude

  высокие широты

  high level network

  сеть с высокой пропускной способностью

  high level significant weather chart

  карта особых явлений погоды в верхних слоях атмосферы

  high lift configuration

  конфигурация при высокой подъемной силе

  high nose-up attitude

  положение с высоко поднятой носовой частью фюзеляжа

  high pitch

  большой шаг

  high pressure filter

  фильтр высокого давления

  high pressure pump

  насос высокого давления

  high pressure rotor

  ротор высокого давления

  high speed taxiway

  скоростная рулежная дорожка

  high wing

  высокорасположенное крыло

  move the blades to higher

  утяжелять воздушный винт

  very high frequency direction finder

  высокочастотный пеленгатор

  English-Russian aviation dictionary > high

• 8
  high
  
  

  I [haɪ]

  adj

  1) высокий (о предметах, вещах)

  The sun is high. — Солнце стоит высоко.

  The snow was knee high. — Снег доходит до колен. /Снегу было по колено.

  — high voice

  
  — two metres high
  — high in the sky

  
  — it is high time to do smth

  2) большой, сильный, интенсивный

  — high blood pressure

  
  — high fever
  — high pulse
  — high wind
  — high heat
  — high summer
  — high colour
  — at a high speed

  3) высокий, дорогой

  Prices have never been so high. — Цены никогда не поднимались так высоко.

  
  — high pay
  — at a high cost

  4) хороший, лучший

  
  — high school
  — higher education
  — in the high sense of the word
  — have a high respect for smb
  — have a high opinion of smb, smth
  — deserve high praise
  — be in high spirits

  •

  USAGE:

  (1.) Прилагательное high не употребляется относительно роста человека. Русское предложение «Он высокий человек» соответствует английскому He is a tall man. Tall и high различаются основанием предмета: узкое основание — tall: a tall post высокий столб; a tall window высокое и узкое/готическое окно; но high wall (building, mountain) высокая стена (высокое здание, высокая гора). (2.) See deep, adj

  II [haɪ]

  adv

  He held his head. — Он высоко держал голову

  English-Russian combinatory dictionary > high

• 9
  high(-level) clouds
  
  

  Англо-русский словарь технических терминов > high(-level) clouds

• 10
  high(-level) clouds
  
  

  Англо-русский словарь технических терминов > high(-level) clouds

• 11
  high-level clouds
  
  

  English-Russian dictionary of geology > high-level clouds

• 12
  high ice clouds
  
  

  Универсальный англо-русский словарь > high ice clouds

• 13
  high-level clouds
  
  

  Универсальный англо-русский словарь > high-level clouds

• 14
  high ice clouds
  
  

  English-Russian aviation meteorology dictionary > high ice clouds

• 15
  cloud
  
  

  1) облако; мн. ч. облачность

  2) скопление; сгусток

  5) муть || мутнеть

  •

  Англо-русский словарь технических терминов > cloud

• 16
  cloud
  
  

  cloud n

  облако

  anvil cloud

  облако, напоминающее по виду наковальню

  ascending clouds

  восходящие облака

  below cloud

  ниже облака

  break out a cloud base

  пробивать облачность

  break through clouds

  пробивать облачность

  broken clouds

  разорванное облако

  cirrus thread clouds

  нитевидные перистые облака

  cloud bank

  гряда облаков

  cloud base

  нижняя кромка облаков

  cloud base height

  высота нижней границы облаков

  cloud breaking procedure

  способ пробивания облачности

  cloud ceiling

  высота нижней границы облаков

  cloud distribution

  распространение облачности

  cloud drift

  движение облаков

  cloud form

  форма облаков

  cloud formation

  образование облака

  cloud gap

  просвет в облачности

  cloud height

  высота облачности

  cloud layer

  слой облачности

  cloud level

  высота облачности

  cloud seeding

  рассеяние облачности

  cloud sheet

  слой облаков

  cloud thickness

  толщина облачности

  cloud top

  верхняя граница облаков

  cloud vertigo

  головокружение при полете в сплошной облачности

  dense upper clouds

  плотный верхний слой облака

  descending clouds

  нисходящие облака

  descend through clouds

  пробивать облачность

  enter clouds

  входить в облачность

  false cirrus clouds

  ложные перистые облака

  fractus clouds

  разорванное облако

  funnel clouds

  воронкообразное облако

  heap clouds

  кучевые облака

  high clouds

  облака верхнего яруса

  lenticular clouds

  чечевицеобразные облака

  lifting clouds

  восходящие облака

  low clouds

  облака нижнего яруса

  middle clouds

  облака среднего яруса

  nil clouds

  нулевая облачность

  orograhic clouds

  орографическое облако

  ragged clouds

  разорванное облако

  rotor clouds

  вихревые облака

  scattered clouds

  рассеянные облака

  thunderstorm clouds

  грозовые облака

  turbulence in clouds

  турбулентность в облаках

  variable cloud base

  нижняя кромка облаков переменной высоты

  variable clouds

  облака переменной высоты

  wave clouds

  стоячие облака

  English-Russian aviation dictionary > cloud

• 17
  cloud
  
  

  English-Russian combinatory dictionary > cloud

• 18
  cloud
  
  

  Англо-русский словарь по гражданской авиации > cloud

• 19
  облака верхнего яруса
  
  

  Англо-русский словарь технических терминов > облака верхнего яруса

• 20
  cloud
  
  

  Englsh-Russian aviation and space dictionary > cloud