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Definition: Sky-high |
Sky-highAdverb1. (with verb "to blow") destroyed completely; blown apart or to pieces; "they blew the bridge sky-high"; "the committee blew the thesis sky-high". 2. In a lavish or enthusiastic manner; "he extolled her virtues sky-high". 3. To a very high level; "prices have gone sky-high"; "garbage was piled sky-high"; "the men were flung sky-high by the explosion". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sky-high" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references) |
Synonym: Sky-highSynonym: enthusiastically (adv). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Sky-High Saunders (1927) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "Sky-high" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sky-high" is used about 32 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 32 | 61,292 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "sky-high"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | pilviä hipova (reaching to the skies). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | hochgehen (ascend, be blown sky-high, blow up, climb, edge up, get nabbed, go off, go through the roof, go up, rise, rising, surge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | fel az égig, égig érő, égig (sky high), égbenyúló (topping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 까마"히 '은. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | 'sy speyr (aloft, overhead, skywards). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | y-highskay высоко. (various references) precios astronómicos (sky-high prices). (various references) สูงมาก (loftily, skyey). (various references) cao tận mây xanh (skyey), cao ngất trời. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-h-h-i-k-s-y" | |
-2 letters: highs. | |
-3 letters: ghis, high, khis, sigh. | |
-4 letters: ghi, his, khi, shh, shy, ski, sky. | |
-5 letters: hi, is, sh, si. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6B 79 2D 68 69 67 68 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101011 01111001 00101101 01101000 01101001 01100111 01101000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S k y - h i g h |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006B 0079 002D 0068 0069 0067 0068 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5377911574757374 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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