The Patriot Act increases the government's power to spy in four areas. 1  1. Expanded access to personal records held by third parties. 2  2. More secret searches. 3  3. Expansion of the intelligence exception in wiretap law. 4  4. Expansion of the pen register exception in wiretap law.
Nimbus is a Latin word meaning cloud or rain storm. Nimbo is a prefix and nimbus is a suffix. An example would be: Nimbostratus, a precipitating cloud.
Meaning: A dark grey cloud bearing rain. Classified under: Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made) Synonyms: nimbus; nimbus cloud; rain cloud. Hypernyms (nimbus is a kind of...): cloud (a visible mass of water or ice particles suspended at a considerable altitude) Meronyms (parts of nimbus):