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sky
(skī)n. pl. skies (skīz)
1. The expanse of air over any given point on the earth; the upper atmosphere as seen from the earth's surface.
2. often skies The appearance of the upper atmosphere, especially with reference to weather: Threatening skies portend a storm.
3. The celestial regions; the heavens: stars in the southern sky.
4. The highest level or degree: reaching for the sky.
v. skied (skīd), sky·ing, skies (skīz)
v.tr.
1. To hit or throw (a ball, for example) high in the air.
2. To hang (a painting, for example) high up on the wall, above the line of vision.
v.intr. Sports
To jump very high in order to make a play, as in getting a rebound in basketball.
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sky
(skaɪ)n, pl skies
1. (Physical Geography) (sometimes plural) the apparently dome-shaped expanse extending upwards from the horizon that is characteristically blue or grey during the day, red in the evening, and black at night.
2. (Astronomy) outer space, as seen from the earth
3. (Physical Geography) (often plural) weather, as described by the appearance of the upper air: sunny skies.
4. the source of divine power; heaven
5. informal the highest level of attainment: the sky's the limit.
6. to the skies highly; extravagantly
vb, skies, skying or skied
7. (Rowing) rowing to lift (the blade of an oar) too high before a stroke
8. (Ball Games, other than specified) (tr) informal to hit (a ball) high in the air
[C13: from Old Norse skӯ; related to Old English scio cloud, Old Saxon skio, Old Norse skjār transparent skin]
ˈskyˌlike adj
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sky
(skaɪ)n., pl. skies, n.
1. the region of the clouds or the upper air; upper atmosphere of the earth.
2. the heavens or firmament, appearing as a great arch or vault.
3. the supernal or celestial heaven.
4. the climate: the sunny skies of Italy.
5. Obs. a cloud.
v.t. 6. to raise, throw, or hit aloft or into the air.
7. to hang (a painting) high on a wall, above the line of vision.
Idioms: out of a or the clear (blue) sky, without any advance warning.
Often, skies (for defs. 1-4).[1175–1225; Middle English < Old Norse skȳ cloud, c. Old English scēo, Old Saxon skio cloud]
sky′like`, adj.
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sky
(skī) The atmosphere, as seen from a given point on the Earth's surface.
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Sky
the top row of paintings in an exhibition gallery, 1891.Examples: sky of fame, 1597; of pictures, 1891.
Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
Sky
See Also: CLOUD(S), MOON, SKY COLOR
- Bleak [sky] … as if the sun had just slipped off the edge of the world —Susan Welch
- A blue, cloudless sky spread like a field of young violets —Hugh Walpole
- The cloudless sky was like an inverted bowl that hemmed it in —W. Somerset Maugham
- The clouds formed like a beach and the stars were strewn among them like shells and moraine —John Cheever
- A cloudy grey sky through which the sun shone opaque like an Alka Seltzer —Jilly Cooper
- The evening sky, with its head dark and its scarves of color, looked like an Italian woman with an orange in her hand —Christina Stead
- The expanse of the sky was like an infinite canvas on which human beings were incapable of projecting images from their human life because they would seem out of scale and absurd —Anaïs Nin
- The gray (Seattle) sky lies around her, filmy and thick, like you could eat it —Barry Hannah
- The grey, soft, muffled sky moved like the sea on a silent day —Nadine Gordimer
- The horizon was like an open mouth —David Ignatow
- Lifeless sky … like the first day of creation —Edith Wharton
- Light spread across the horizon like putty —T. Coraghessan Boyle
- Skies like inverted cups —John Rechy
- Sky … as clear as a window —Beryl Markham
- Sky as clear, as firm-looking, as blue marble —David Ignatow
- Sky as drab as a cast-iron skillet —Jessamyn West
- Sky … as soft as clouds of blue and white hyacinths —Ellen Glasgow
- The sky bloomed like a dark rose —James Reiss
- The sky covered with stars … like dots in a child’s puzzle —Helen Hudson
- Sky … flat and unreal as a glimpse of distant ocean —Sharon Sheehe Stark
- The sky … flung itself over the earth like a bolt of blue cloth —Dianne Benedict
- (Over the city) the sky hangs like a giant silken tent —Erich Maria Remarque
- The sky hangs like lead —Erich Maria Remarque
- The sky hisses and bubbles like a cauldron —W. P. Kinsella
- The sky hovering overhead like a soundless dirigible that was about to crash —Heinrich Böll
- The sky hung over the valley … like a slack white sheet —Elizabeth Bowen
- The sky is darkening like a stain —W. H. Auden
- The sky is like a heavy lid —Ridgely Torrence
- The sky is like a human mind, with uncountable shifting pictures and caverns and heights and misty places, and lakes of blue, and big sheets of forgetting, and rainbows, illusions, thunderheads, mysteries —John Hersey
- The sky is like a page from a book that hasn’t been written —François Camoin
- The sky is like a peach-colored sheet drawn taut at the horizon —Russell Banks
- A sky like a dirty old slate —M. J. Farrell
- A sky like a dustbin-lid —William Mcllvanney
- Sky like a forget-me-not —Joyce Cary
- Sky like a great glass eye —George Garrett
- Sky like an immense blue gentian —Henry Van Dyke
- Sky like a pig’s backside —Sylvia Plath
- A sky like a tinted shell —Helen Hudson
- The sky looked billowy, as if you could catch the corners of it and toss the stars around as in a net —Ada Jack Carver
- Sky, pale and unreal as a photographer’s background screen —Katherine Mansfield
- The sky seemed to be spread like a bottomless lake above them —William Styron
- The sky shone like enamel —John Cheever
- The sky swayed like a blue balloon on a string —Ross Macdonald
- A sky that looked like water, broad, blue, its clouds rolling like great, feathery waves —Charles Johnson
- The sky was full of little puffs of white clouds, like the ships we saw sailing far out to sea —Wilbur Daniel Steele
- The sky [on a windy day] was like an unmade bed —Helen Hudson
- The sky was like glass —James Reiss
- The sky was like muslin —John Ashbery
- The sky was like new-cleaned window glass full of its own shine —Joyce Cary
- The sky was … like wet gray paper —Paul Horgan
- The sky was overcast, monotone, as if it were made of pale gray rubber —Jean Thompson
- The sky was pale and smudged like a dirty sheet —George Garrett
- Smoke drifted across the sky looking like a gigantic horse’s mane blowing in the wind —Boris Pasternak
- A starless sky as dark and thick as ink —Émile Zola
- The sun bubbled in the sky, giving off clouds like puffs of steam —Helen Hudson
- Winter skies hover over Iowa like a gray dome —W. P. Kinsella
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Gerund: skying
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Noun | 1. | sky - the atmosphere and outer space as viewed from the earth atmosphere - the envelope of gases surrounding any celestial body blue air, blue sky, wild blue yonder, blue - the sky as viewed during daylight; "he shot an arrow into the blue" cloud - a visible mass of water or ice particles suspended at a considerable altitude earth, globe, world - the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on; "the Earth moves around the sun"; "he sailed around the world" mackerel sky - a sky filled with rows of cirrocumulus or small altocumulus clouds rainbow - an arc of colored light in the sky caused by refraction of the sun's rays by rain |
Verb | 1. | sky - throw or toss with a light motion; "flip me the beachball"; "toss me newspaper" fling - throw with force or recklessness; "fling the frisbee" submarine - throw with an underhand motion lag - throw or pitch at a mark, as with coins throw back, toss back - throw back with a quick, light motion; "She tossed back her head" |
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sky
noun heavens, firmament, upper atmosphere, azure (poetic), welkin (archaic), vault of heaven The sun is already high in the sky.
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sky
nounverb
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Translations
جنةسَمَاءسَماء، جَو
небе
oblohanebe
himmel
ĉielo
taivasyötaivastähtitaivas
nebo
égégbolt
himinnhiminn, himinhvelfing
空
하늘
caelum
dangoraižisdangusiki padebesiųkad ir kiek kainuotųkaina nesvarbu
debesis
niebofirmamentniebiosa
nebonebesa
himmelsky
ท้องฟ้าฟ้าสวรรค์
небо
bầu trờithiên đườngtrời
sky
[skaɪ]A. N → cielo m
under blue skies → bajo un cielo azul
the skies over England → el cielo en Inglaterra
to praise sb to the skies → poner a algn por las nubes
the sky's the limit (fig) → no hay límite
out of a clear blue sky (fig) → de repente, inesperadamente
under blue skies → bajo un cielo azul
the skies over England → el cielo en Inglaterra
to praise sb to the skies → poner a algn por las nubes
the sky's the limit (fig) → no hay límite
out of a clear blue sky (fig) → de repente, inesperadamente
B. CPD sky marshal N → agente mf de seguridad (en vuelos comerciales)
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
sky
[ˈskaɪ]Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
sky
n → Himmel m; under the open sky → unter freiem Himmel; in the sky → am Himmel; the sky’s the limit! → nach oben sind keine Grenzen gesetzt; out of a clear (blue) sky → aus heiterem Himmel; to praise somebody to the skies → jdn in den Himmel heben, jdn über den grünen Klee loben (inf)
sky
:sky advertising
n → Luftwerbung f
skybeam
n → Skybeamer m
sky blue
n → Himmelblau nt
sky-blue
adj → himmelblau
skycap
n (US) → Gepäckträger(in) m(f)
skydiver
n → Fallschirmspringer(in) m(f)
skydiving
n → Fallschirmspringen nt
sky
:sky-high
adj
prices → schwindelnd hoch; confidence → unermesslich
(= tall) → himmelhoch
skyjack
vt → entführen
n → Flugzeugentführung f
skyjacker
n → Luftpirat(in) m(f), → Flugzeugentführer(in) m(f)
skylark
n → Feldlerche f
skylight
n → Oberlicht nt; (in roof also) → Dachfenster nt
skyline
n (= horizon) → Horizont m; (of building, hills etc) → Silhouette f; (of city) → Skyline f, → Silhouette f
sky marshal
n (esp US Aviat) → Sky-Marshal m, zur Verhinderung von Flugzeugentführungen mitfliegender Sicherheitsbeamter
sky park
n (US)
(on top of skyscraper) Parkanlage auf dem Dach eines Wolkenkratzers
sky pilot
n (Mil sl) → Schwarzrock m (inf)
skyrocket
n → (Feuerwerks)rakete f
skyscape
n → Wolkenlandschaft f
skyscraper
n → Wolkenkratzer m
skysurfer
n (Sport) → Skysurfer(in) m(f)
skysurfing
n (Sport) → Skysurfen nt, → Skysurfing nt
sky
:skyway
n → Luftweg m
skywriting
n → Himmelsschrift f
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sky
[skaɪ] n → cieloto sleep under the open sky → dormire sotto le stelle or all'aperto
to praise sb to the skies → portare alle stelle qn
the sky's the limit (fig) (fam) → non ci sono limiti
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
sky
(skai) – plural skies (often with the) – noun the part of space above the earth, in which the sun, moon etc can be seen; the heavens. The sky was blue and cloudless; We had grey skies and rain throughout our holiday; The skies were grey all week.
ˌsky-ˈblue adjective, noun (of) the light blue colour of cloudless sky. She wore a sky-blue dress.
ˈsky-diving noun the sport of jumping from aircraft and waiting for some time before opening one's parachute.
ˈsky-diver nounˌsky-ˈhigh adverb, adjective
very high. The car was blown sky-high by the explosion; sky-high prices.
ˈskyjack verb to hijack a plane.
ˈskyjacker nounˈskylight noun
a window in a roof or ceiling. The attic had only a small skylight and was very dark.
ˈskyline noun the outline of buildings, hills etc seen against the sky. the New York skyline; I could see something moving on the skyline.
ˈskyrocket verb to rise sharply; to increase rapidly and suddenly. Housing prices have skyrocketed.
ˈskyrocket noun a rocket firework that explodes in brilliant colourful sparks.
ˈskyscraper noun a high building of very many storeys, especially in the United State.
the sky's the limit there is no upper limit eg to the amount of money that may be spent. Choose any present you like – the sky's the limit!
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sky
→ سَمَاء obloha himmel Himmel ουρανός cielo taivas ciel nebo cielo 空 하늘 lucht himmel niebo céu небо himmel ท้องฟ้า gök bầu trời 天空Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009