sky

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. The atmosphere above a given point, especially as visible from the surface of the Earth as the place where the sun, moon, stars, and clouds are seen.
2. With a descriptive word: the part of the sky which can be seen from a specific place or at a specific time; its climate, condition, etc.
3. (archaic, literary, poetic) Usually preceded by the: the abode of God or the gods, angels, the souls of deceased people, etc.; heaven; also, powers emanating from heaven.
4. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) Ellipsis of sky blue.
5. The set of all lightlike lines (or directions) passing through a given point in space-time.
6. (informal, obsolete, rare) In an art gallery: the upper rows of pictures that cannot easily be seen; also, the place where such pictures are hung.
7. (obsolete) A cloud.

Verb

1. (informal, transitive) To drink (a beverage) from a container without one's lips touching the container.
2. (dated, informal, transitive) To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the top of a wall, where it cannot easily be seen; (by extension) to put (something) in an undesirable place.
3. (dated, slang, transitive) To toss (something) upwards; specifically, to flip (a coin).
4. (transitive) To clear (a high jump bar, hurdle, etc.) by a large margin.
5. (transitive) To hit, kick, or throw (a ball) extremely high.
6. (obsolete, transitive) To raise (the price of an item on auction, or the level of the bids generally) by bidding high.
7. (intransitive) To move quickly, as if by flying; to fly; also, to escape, to flee (especially by airplane).
8. (intransitive) To hit, kick, or throw a ball extremely high.
9. (intransitive) To raise an oar too high above the water.

Conceptes

cel

atmosfera

paradís

firmament

èter

Heaven

Oposat a

floor

Sinònims

heaven

firmament

heavens

atmosphere

air

weather

light

space

welkin

ether

horizon

skies

toss

pitch

flip

paradise

clear sky

empyrean

blue sky

cloud

☁️

shoot

shy

climate

high up

throw

universe

upper air

outer space

skim

sky-blue

steep

storm

thrust

thunder

🌩️

world

🗺️

year

Eden

Elysian Fields

Elysium

Heaven

Heavenly City

Shangri-la

up above

high-altitude sky

very high

empty air

City of God

part of the sky

starry-sky

azure curtain

Traduccions

ciel

Himmel

cielo

cielo

céu

hemel

ουρανός

caelum

lucht

gök

Luft

سماء

firmamento

cèl

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/skaɪ/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: ski

Cognat amb anglès antic: sċēo

Cognat amb anglès mitjà: skew

Cognat amb anglès antic: scēo

Cognat amb Old Saxon: scio

Cognat amb danès: -

Cognat amb suec: -

Cognat amb noruec bokmål: sky

Cognat amb irlandès antic: ceo

Cognat amb irlandès: ceo

Cognat amb anglès antic: scūa

Cognat amb llatí: obscūrus

Cognat amb sànscrit: स्कुनाति

In summary

The noun is derived from Middle English sky (“sky; cloud; mist”), also spelled ski, skie, [and other forms], from Old Norse ský (“cloud”), from Proto-Germanic *skiwją (“cloud; sky”), from *skiwô (“cloud; cloud cover, haze; sky”) (whence Old English sċēo (“cloud”) and Middle English skew (“air; sky; (rare) cloud”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover; to conceal, hide”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Cognates
The English word is cognate with Old English scēo (“cloud”), Old Saxon scio, skio, skeo (“light cloud cover”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian Bokmål sky (“cloud”), Old Irish ceo (“mist, fog”), Irish ceo (“mist, fog”). It is also related to Old English scūa (“shadow, darkness”), Latin obscūrus (“dark, shadowy”), Sanskrit स्कुनाति (skunāti, “he covers”). See also hide, hose, house, hut, shoe.

Frases

Sometimes I wonder how there can be so many stars in the sky .

A child is looking through a pretend telescope on playground equipment in front of a blue sky .

The airplane rose gracefully into the sky .

The sun burned mercilessly from the sky .