sky
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
sky/skʌɪ/
▶noun (pl. skies) (often the sky) the region of the atmosphere and outer space seen from the earth.
■ literary heaven, or heavenly power.
▶verb (skies, skying, skied) informal hit (a ball) high into the air.– phrases
the sky is the limit there is practically no limit.
to the skies very highly; enthusiastically.
under the open sky out of doors.
the sky is the limit there is practically no limit.
to the skies very highly; enthusiastically.
under the open sky out of doors.
– derivatives
skyey adjective,
skyless adjective,
skyward adjective & adverb,
skywards adverb.
skyey adjective,
skyless adjective,
skyward adjective & adverb,
skywards adverb.
– origin ME, from ON ský ‘cloud’.
'sky' also found in these Oxford entries:
Adonis blue
- afterglow
- airglow
- anthelion
- aurora
- blue
- blue-sky
- bolt
- celestial
- cerulean
- clear
- cloud
- cloud cover
- cloudy
- conjunction
- countershading
- crash
- cyclorama
- dawn
- Digambara
- Dog Star
- empyrean
- etch
- ether
- evening star
- firmament
- forked lightning
- gegenschein
- heaven
- heavenly
- horizon
- iceblink
- ingress
- intransitive
- Jupiter
- light pollution
- lour
- mackerel sky
- microwave background
- Milky Way
- mirage
- okta
- opposition
- overcast
- overhead
- paraselene
- parhelion
- pie
- pole
- quadrature
