• IPA: /skaɪ/, enPR: skī

sky (plural skies)

1. The atmosphere above a given point, especially as visible from the ground during the day.

   That year, a meteor fell from the sky.

2. The part of the sky which can be seen from a specific place or at a specific time; its condition, climate etc.

   I lay back under a warm Texas sky.

   We're not sure how long the cloudy skies will last.

   • 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 731476803 ↗:

     So this was my future home, I thought! […] Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

   • 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter II, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915, OCLC 40817384 ↗:

     She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.

3. Heaven.

   This mortal has incurred the wrath of the skies.

4. Ellipsis of sky blue#English|sky blue
5. (mathematics, theoretical physics) The set of all lightlike lines (or directions) passing through a given point in space-time.
6. (colloquial, dated) In an art gallery, the upper rows of pictures that cannot easily be seen.
7. (obsolete) A cloud.

• firmament
• heaven
• lift
• (the set of lightlike lines) celestial sphere

• skylark
• the sky's the limit
• reach for the sky

sky (skies, present participle skying; past and past participle skied)

1. (sports) To hit, kick or throw (a ball) extremely high. c en
2. (sports) To clear (a hurdle, high jump bar, etc.) by a large margin.
3. (colloquial, dated) To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the top of a wall, where it cannot be well seen.
   • The Century

     Brother Academicians who skied his pictures.

4. (colloquial) To drink something from a container without one's lips touching the container.

1. Surname
2. A unisex given name.
   • 1981, William Boyd, On the Yankee Station, Hamilton, ISBN 0241104262 page 17:

     The bad thing was she took my son Skiff with her. It's a dumb name I know, but at the time he was born all the kids were being called things like Sky and Saffron and Powie, and I was really sold on sailing.

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