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Blue Sky

Definition: Blue Sky

Blue Sky

Noun

1. The sky as viewed during daylight; "he shot an arrow into the blue".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Blue Sky

Synonyms: blue (n), blue air (n), wild blue yonder (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Blue Sky

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Air

Open air; sky, welkin; blue sky; cloud .

Hope

Beam of hope, ray of hope, gleam of hope, glimmer of hope, flash of hope, dawn of hope, star of hope; cheer; bit of blue sky, silver lining, silver lining of the cloud, bottom of Pandora's box, balm in Gilead; light at the end of the tunnel.

Supposition

Noun: supposition, assumption, assumed position, postulation, condition, presupposition, hypothesis, blue sky hypothesis, postulate, postulatum, theory; thesis, theorem; data; proposition, position; proposal; (plan); presumption; (belief); divination.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Blue Sky

Specialty definitions using "blue sky": Blue Sky Software, Bolt from the BlueMie ScatteringRayleigh Scatteringstratocumulus. (references)

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Modern Usage: Blue Sky

DomainUsage

Screenplays

And on my right, what could I picture? The blue sky, the desert earth, stretching out into the eerie infinity. (The Good Girl; writing credit: Mike White)

Lyrics

The sun's still shining in the big blue sky (Walking On Broken Glass; performing artist: Annie Lennox)

Clear as a blue sky on a sunny day (Call On Me; performing artist: Chicago)

And rolled beneath a deep blue sky (The End of the Innocence; performing artist: Don Henley)

Under a blue sky with pure white stars (I Love You Always Forever; performing artist: Donna Lewis)

Was as fresh as the bright blue sky (Sweet Child O' Mine; performing artist: Guns N' Roses)

Movie/TV Titles

Travels Under the Blue Sky (1932)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Blue Sky

DomainTitle

Books

  • Picturesque, Tectonic, Romantic: House Design: Helliwell + Smith: Blue Sky Architecture (House Design, 7) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • Blue Sky Awards : Clean Air Initiative (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Blue Sky

Photos:
Blue Sky

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Photo Album: Blue Sky

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

Blue sky and blue waters at Waikiki. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Dirt road leading into the horizen of the blue sky at the Parashant National Monument. Credit: Lynn Chamberlain.

A perspective shot of a Cactus in bloom against the blue sky in the Iornwood Forest Naitonal Monument. Credit: Chris Tincher.

The open road disappears into the horizon as the blue sky touches the ground. Credit: Lynn Chamberlain.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Use in Literature: Blue Sky

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

He no longer saw the night, he saw a blue sky.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Expressions: Blue Sky

Expressions using "blue sky": blue sky law blue Sky Software Linke blue sky scale out of the a clear blue sky patch of blue sky patches of blue sky. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Blue Sky

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

blue sky

1,317

blue sky ceramics

8

airline blue sky

325

new york blue sky law

8

blue sky frog

89

blue sky satellite

7

blue sky tour

61

blue sky background

7

blue sky clayworks

58

blue sky cafe

7

blue sky swim wear

51

atlanta blue sky

7

blue sky law

48

blue sky wallpaper

6

blue sky studio

30

blue sky soda

6

blue sky travel

24

blue sky collectible

6

blue sky soccer

15

alcohol blue sky

6

blue sky software

15

airway blue sky

6

blue sky aviation

12

blue sky securities law

6

air blue sky

11

blue sky hotel

6

blue sky production

11

adventure blue sky

5

blue sky boy

10

blue sky pottery

5

blue sky dvd

10

blue sky swimsuit

5

blue sky inn

10

animation blue sky

5

clear blue sky

10

ataris blue sky

5

blue sky movie

9

blue sky sports

5

blue sky song

8

blue sky mine

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Blue Sky

Language Translations for "blue sky"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Czech

  

zèistajasna (out of the a clear blue sky, out of the blue). (various references)

   

Danish

  

Linkes skala for blaat himmellys (blue-sky scale, Linke blue sky scale, Linke scale). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

hemelblauwschaal van Linke (blue-sky scale, Linke blue sky scale, Linke scale). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

Linken taivaan sinisyyden asteikko (blue-sky scale, Linke blue sky scale, Linke scale). (various references)

   

French

  

loi "bleu ciel", échelle de Linke pour le bleu du ciel (blue-sky scale, Linke blue sky scale). (various references)

   

German

  

Linke-Skala (blue-sky scale, Linke blue sky scale, Linke scale). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κλίμακα LINKE για το κυανό του ουρανού (blue-sky scale, Linke blue sky scale, Linke scale). (various references)

   

Italian

  

scala di Linke per il blu del cielo (blue-sky scale, Linke blue sky scale, Linke scale). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

'雲 (high rank), '空 , '天井 (outdoor, skyrocketing), '天 , 碧空 (azure sky). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

せいう" (fortune, galaxy, high rank, nebula, prosperity, tendency, trend), せいて" (established rites, fine weather, grand ceremony, law code, scriptures), あおぞら, あおて"じょう (outdoor, skyrocketing), へきくう (azure sky). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ueblay yskay

   

Portuguese

  

céu azul. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

un petic de cer albastru (patch of blue sky). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

trozo de cielo azul (patch of blue sky), escala de Linke para azules del cielo (blue-sky scale, Linke blue sky scale, Linke scale). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

blue-sky-lagen (blue sky law), Linkes blåhimmelljusskala (blue-sky scale, Linke blue sky scale, Linke scale), fläckar av blå himmel (patches of blue sky). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Blue Sky

Misspellings

"Blue Sky" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bluesky. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Blue Sky

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-k-l-s-u-y"

-1 letter: bluesy, blueys.

-2 letters: blues, bluey, bulks, bulky, lubes, sulky, yelks, yeuks, yules.

-3 letters: bels, beys, blue, bulk, busk, busy, buys, byes, elks, keys, kues, leks, leku, leys, lube, lues, lyes, lyse, slub, slue, sulk, syke, ukes, yelk, yeuk, yuks, yule.

-4 letters: bel, bey, bus, buy, bye, bys, elk, els, key, kue, lek, leu, ley.

 Words containing the letters "b-e-k-l-s-u-y"
 

+4 letters: unspeakably.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Fiction
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Derivations
13. Anagrams
14. Bibliography


  

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