sky

Signification

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. 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. Ellipsis of sky blue.
5. The set of all lightlike lines (or directions) passing through a given point in space-time.
6. (informal,obsolete) 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) To drink (a beverage) from a container without one's lips touching the container.
2. (informal) 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. (slang) To toss (something) upwards; specifically, to flip (a coin).
4. To clear (a high jump bar, hurdle, etc.) by a large margin.
5. To hit, kick, or throw (a ball) extremely high.
6. (obsolete) To raise (the price of an item on auction, or the level of the bids generally) by bidding high.
7. To move quickly, as if by flying; to fly; also, to escape, to flee (especially by airplane).
8. To hit, kick, or throw a ball extremely high.
9. To raise an oar too high above the water.

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/skaɪ/

Étymologie

The noun is derived from Middle English ski, skie, sky (“firmament, heavens, sky; cloud; cloud of mist or vapour; fog, mist; (astrology) certain configuration of the heavens; (astronomy) sphere of the celestial realm; (physiology) cloudiness, smoky residue (for example, in urine)”) [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.

Phrases

The airplane rose gracefully into the sky .

L'avion se leva gracieusement dans le ciel.