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Definition: Blue Sky |
Blue SkyNoun1. 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 SkySynonyms: blue (n), blue air (n), wild blue yonder (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Blue Sky |
| Specialty definitions using "blue sky": Blue Sky Software, Bolt from the Blue ♦ Mie Scattering ♦ Rayleigh Scattering ♦ stratocumulus. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
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) | |
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![]() | 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. | ||
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He no longer saw the night, he saw a blue sky. |
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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. |
| 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. |
| 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 céu azul. (various references) un petic de cer albastru (patch of blue sky). (various references) 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) 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) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Blue Sky" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bluesky. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
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. | |
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