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sky

[skahy]

noun, plural skies, verb skied or skyed, sky⋅ing.

–noun Often, skies (for defs. 1–4).

1.	the region of the clouds or the upper air; the upper atmosphere of the earth: airplanes in the sky; cloudy skies.

2.	the heavens or firmament, appearing as a great arch or vault.

3.	the supernal or celestial heaven: They looked to the sky for help.

4.	the climate: the sunny skies of Italy.

5.	Obsolete. a cloud.

–verb (used with object)

6.	Informal. to raise, throw, or hit aloft or into the air.

7.	Informal. to hang (a painting) high on a wall, above the line of vision.

—Verb phrase

8.	sky up, Falconry. (of prey, when flushed) to fly straight upward.

—Idioms

9.	out of a or the clear sky, without advance notice or warning; abruptly: An old beau phoned her out of a clear sky. Also, out of a or the clear blue sky.

10.	to the skies, with lavishness or enthusiasm; extravagantly: to praise someone to the skies. Also, to the sky.

Origin:
1175–1225; ME < ON skȳ cloud, c. OE scēo cloud

Related forms:

skyless, adjective

skylike, adjective

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sky (skī)

n. pl. skies (skīz)

The expanse of air over any given point on the earth; the upper atmosphere as seen from the earth's surface.
The appearance of the upper atmosphere, especially with reference to weather. Often used in the plural: Threatening skies portend a storm.
The celestial regions; the heavens: stars in the southern sky.
The highest level or degree: reaching for the sky.

tr.v. skied (skīd), sky·ing, skies (skīz)

To hit or throw (a ball, for example) high in the air.
To hang (a painting, for example) high up on the wall, above the line of vision.

[Middle English, from Old Norse skȳ, cloud; see (s)keu- in Indo-European roots.]

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Sky

Sky\ (sk[imac]), n.; pl. Skies (sk[imac]z). [OE. skie a cloud, Icel. sk[=y]; akin to Sw. & Dan. sky; cf. AS. sc[=u]a, sc[=u]wa, shadow, Icel. skuggi; probably from the same root as E. scum. [root]158. See Scum, and cf. Hide skin, Obscure.]

1. A cloud. [Obs.]

[A wind] that blew so hideously and high, That it ne lefte not a sky In all the welkin long and broad. --Chaucer.

2. Hence, a shadow. [Obs.]

She passeth as it were a sky. --Gower.

3. The apparent arch, or vault, of heaven, which in a clear day is of a blue color; the heavens; the firmament; -- sometimes in the plural.

The Norweyan banners flout the sky. --Shak.

4. The wheather; the climate.

Thou wert better in thy grave than to answer with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies. --Shak.

Note: Sky is often used adjectively or in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, sky color, skylight, sky-aspiring, sky-born, sky-pointing, sky-roofed, etc.

Sky blue, an azure color.

Sky scraper (Naut.), a skysail of a triangular form. --Totten.

Under open sky, out of doors. "Under open sky adored." --Milton.

Sky

Sky\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Skiedor Skyed; p. pr. & vb. n. Skying.]

1. To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the top of a wall, where it can not be well seen. [Colloq.]

Brother Academicians who skied his pictures. --The Century.

2. To throw towards the sky; as, to sky a ball at cricket. [Colloq.]

Language Translation for : sky

Spanish: cielo,

German: der Himmel,

Japanese: 空

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sky

c.1220, "a cloud," from O.N. sky "cloud," from P.Gmc. *skeujam "cloud, cloud cover" (cf. O.E. sceo, O.S. scio "cloud;" O.H.G. scuwo, O.E. scua, O.N. skuggi "shadow;" Goth. skuggwa "mirror"), from PIE base *(s)keu- "to cover, conceal" (see hide (n.1)). Meaning "upper regions of the air" is attested from c.1300; replaced native heofon in this sense (see heaven). In M.E., the word can still mean both "cloud" and "heaven," as still in the skies, originally "the clouds." Sky-high is from 1818; phrase the sky's the limit is attested from 1920. Sky-dive first recorded 1965; sky-writing is from 1923.

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The atmosphere, as seen from a given point on the Earth's surface. The sky appears to be blue because the wavelengths associated with blue light are scattered more easily than those that are associated with the other colors.

sky

In addition to the idiom beginning with sky, also see blow sky-high; out of a clear blue sky; pie in the sky reach for the sky.

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