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Definition: Sky |
SkyNoun1. Outer space as viewed from the earth. Verb1. Throw or toss with a light motion; "flip me the beachball"; "toss me newspaper". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Sky" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the sky". |
Date "sky" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of the sky, signifies distinguished honors and interesting travel with cultured companions, if the sky is clear. Otherwise, it portends blasted expectations, and trouble with women. To dream of floating in the sky among weird faces and animals, and wondering all the while if you are really awake, or only dreaming, foretells that all trouble, the most excruciating pain, that reach even the dullest sense will be distilled into one drop called jealousy, and will be inserted into your faithful love, and loyalty will suffer dethronement. To see the sky turn red, indicates that public disquiet and rioting may be expected. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Geography | Normal term for the state of the atmosphere in respect of the amount, genus, height, etc. of the clouds which are present. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Sky slang for pocket. Explained under the word Chivy (q.v.). Sky To elevate, ennoble, raise. It is a term in ballooning; when the ropes are cut, the balloon mounts upwards to the skies. (See Skied .) "We found the same distinguished personage doing his best to sky some dozen or so of his best friends [referring to the peers made by Gladstone]."- The Times, November 16, 1869. If the sky falls we shall catch larks. A bantering reply to those who suggest some very improbable or wild scheme. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang | Noun. Source: This word originated from the English vocabulary, but carries a different meaning on the field. Definition: Sky in the game of frisbee means high. Context: This is used in the middle of a game between players. Social Source: U of O Ultimate FrisbeePlayers. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB - formerly Sky Television) is a direct broadcast satellite (DBS) service operating in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It was launched in February 1989 and was one of the first DBS services in the world to become operational. Sky TV originated as a four-channel service on the Astra satellite at 19.2° east.The Astra satellite was owned by a Luxembourg-based consortium and controlled from there, but Sky's broadcasts originated in the UK and were subject to British regulation, originally by the Cable Authority and later by the Independent Television Commission.
The failure of rival company British Satellite Broadcasting (BSB) in November 1990 led to a merger, although some of Sky's detractors saw it as a takeover. The new company was called British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB). The merger may have saved Sky financially. Despite its popularity, Sky had very few major advertisers to begin with, and was also beginning to suffer from embarrassing breakdowns. Acquiring BSB's advertising contracts and equipment solved these problems at a stroke.
With the launch of more Astra satellites from 1991 onward BSkyB was able to begin expanding its services (the Astra satellites were all orbitally co-located so that they could be received using the same dish), and the launch of the first Astra 2 series satellite at a new orbital position, 28.2° east, in 1997, enabled the company to launch a new all-digital service, Sky Digital, with the potential to carry hundreds of television and radio channels. Once again Sky faced competition, this time from ONdigital (later renamed ITV Digital), and once more saw off its rivals partly thanks to aggressive marketing and partly because of its rivals' technical and financial failures.
Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, which was originally the sole owner of Sky Television, currently has a 38% stake in the company.
Channels
External Link
- Sky Movies
- Sky News
- Sky One
- Sky Sports
- Sky Travel
- Sky TV homepage
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "British Sky Broadcasting."
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In astronomy and navigation, the celestial sphere is an imaginary rotating sphere of "gigantic radius", concentric with the Earth. All objects in the sky can be thought of as lying upon the sphere. Projected, from their corresponding terran equivalents, are the celestial equator and the celestial poles.
Many ancient societies believed that the stars were equidistant from the Earth and that this sphere was a real model of the universe. This model is a useful abstraction, but not correct. Everything we see in the sky is so very far away, that their distances are impossible to gauge just by looking at them. Since their distances are indeterminate, you only need to know the direction toward the object to locate it in the sky. In this sense, the celestial sphere model is a very practical tool for positional astronomy.
As the Earth rotates on its axis, the objects on the celestial sphere will appear to rotate around the celestial poles every 24 hours, this is diurnal motion. For example the Sun will typically appear to rise in the east and set in the west, as will the stars, planets and moon. On each subsequent night, a given star will rise ~4 minutes earlier than it rose the previous night. Superimposed on diurnal motion is; intrinsic motion as the objects change their relative positions, with respect to Earth. For example, over the course of a year the Sun, relative to the background stars, will follow a bisecting great circle (known as the ecliptic).
See also: prograde and retrograde motion
The celestial sphere is divided by projecting the equator into space. This divides the sphere into the north celestial hemisphere and the south celestial hemisphere. Likewise, one can locate the Celestial Tropic of Cancer, Celestial Tropic of Capricorn, North Celestial Pole, and South Celestial Pole.
As the earth rotates from west to east, the celestial sphere appears to rotate from east to west. Some stars are sufficiently near the celestial poles such that they appear to hover just above the horizon, such stars are circumpolar.
The directions toward various objects in the sky can be quantified by constructing a celestial coordinate system.
see also: circle of latitude, equinox, Moon, solstice, Sun, zodiac
See also: Geocentric universe
External Link
- SkyandTelescope.com SkyChart
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Celestial sphere."
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Diffuse sky radiation is solar radiation reaching the earth's surface after having been scattered from the direct solar beam by molecules or suspensoids in the atmosphere. Also called skylight, diffuse skylight, sky radiation.Of the total light removed from the direct solar beam by scattering in the atmosphere (approximately 25 percent of the incident radiation), about two-thirds ultimately reaches the earth as diffuse sky radiation.
In optics, scattering usually refers to the deflection of photons that occurs when they are absorbed and re-emitted by atoms or molecules. The sky is blue because molecules in the air preferentially scatter blue light.
Scattering is the process by which small particles suspended in a medium of a different index of refraction diffuse a portion of the incident radiation in all directions. In scattering, no energy transformation results, only a change in the spatial distribution of the radiation. Also called scatter.
Along with absorption, scattering is a major cause of the attenuation of radiation by the atmosphere. Scattering varies as a function of the ratio of the particle diameter to the wavelength of the radiation. When this ratio is less than about one-tenth, Rayleigh scattering occurs in which the scattering coefficient varies inversely as the fourth power of the wavelength. At larger values of the ratio of particle diameter to wavelength, the scattering varies in a complex fashion described by the Mie theory; at a ratio of the order of 10, the laws of geometric optics begin to apply.
The Babinet point is one of the three commonly detectable points of zero polarization of diffuse sky radiation, neutral points, lying along the vertical circle through the sun; the other two are the Arago point and the Brewster point.
The Babinet point typically lies only 15° to 20° above the sun, and hence is difficult to observe because of solar glare. The existence of this neutral point was discovered by Babinet in 1840.
The Arago point, so named for its discoverer, is customarily located at about 20° above the antisolar point; but it lies at higher altitudes in turbid air. The latter property makes the Arago distance a useful measure of atmospheric turbidity.
The Brewster point, discovered by Brewster in 1840, is located about 15° to 20° directly below the sun; hence it is difficult to observe because of the glare of the sun.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Diffuse sky radiation."
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The sky is often defined as the place a person sees when he looks up from the earth. Although almost everyone have seen it, the sky is hard to be defined precisely. The concept of the sky, as it is applied here on earth, can be generalized to mean the space seen when one looks upward from the surface of any planet. The sky is also sometimes defined as the denser gaseous zone of a planet's atmosphere.On earth, the sky usually looks blue on a sunny day, turns orange and red during sunrise and sunset, and becomes black at night. Some of the things people see in the sky are clouds, rainbows, and aurorae. Lightning can also be seen in the sky during storms. People also say that birds, airplanes, and kites fly in the sky.
In the field of astronomy, the sky is also called the celestial sphere. This is an imaginary dome where the sun, stars, planets, and the moon are seen to be travelling in. The celestial sphere is divided into regions called constellations. (See also Chinese constellation).
Many cultures ascribed strong religious qualities to Earth's sky, believing it to be the home of the heavens and various deities.
Sky gods/goddesses in different cultures:
Some expressions involving the sky:
- Uranus, Zeus (Greek mythology)
- Shu, Nuit, Horus (Egyptian mythology)
- Cabaguil (Maya mythology)
- Torngasoak (Inuit mythology)
- Anu (Goidelic mythology)
- Ashanti (Ashanti mythology)
- Denka (Dinka mythology)
- Altjira, Baiame (Aboriginal mythology)
- Sin (Haida mythology)
- Shanga (Yoruba mythology)
- Gamab (Khoikhoi mythology)
Sky can also refer to:
- A pie in the sky is something that is wanted very badly but is unobtainable.
- When someone's assumptions and premises about everything he speaks about seem to radically different from everything you know and recognize about the world, you wonder what color the sky is in his world.
- Similarly, because the blue hue of the sky during daytime is such a universally observed and understood phenomenon, people say "as sure as the sky is blue" to mean that something is an indisputable fact.
- Blue skies are evoked as a symbol for good times, optimism and emotional peace.
- To be sky-clad means to be in the nude.
- Similarly, to go skying is a euphemism for stripping or streaking.
- To show that there are no limits on what we can discover or accomplish, you can say, "The sky's the limit!"
- A rock band: see Sky (band)
- A British children's television series of the 1970s: see Sky (series)
- Sky Television (later British Sky Broadcasting) and its digital service Sky Digital.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sky."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| Skylab | English | Sky laboratorium | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: SkySynonyms: flip (v), pitch (v), toss (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Air | Open air; sky, welkin; blue sky; cloud . |
Ascent | Rocket, lark; sky rocket, sky lark; Alpine Club. |
Bubble | Cloud, vapor, fog, mist, haze, steam, geyser; scud, messenger, rack, nimbus; cumulus, woolpack, cirrus, stratus; cirrostratus, cumulostratus; cirrocumulus; mackerel sky, mare's tale, dirty sky; curl cloud; frost smoke; thunderhead. |
Hope | Good omen, good auspices; promise, well grounded hopes; good prospect, bright prospect; clear sky. |
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. | |
Necessity | Star, stars; planet, planets; astral influence; sky, Fates, Parcae, Sisters three, book of fate; God's will, will of Heaven; wheel of Fortune, Ides of March, Hobson's choice. |
Opening | Embrasure, window, casement; abatjour; light; sky light, fan light; lattice; bay window, bow window; oriel; dormer, lantern. |
Summit | Topgallant mast, sky scraper; quarter deck, hurricane deck. |
Noun: summit, summity; top, peak, vertex, apex, zenith, pinnacle, acme, culmination, meridian, utmost height, ne plus utra, height, pitch, maximum, climax, culminating point, crowning point, turning point; turn of the tide, fountain head; water shed, water parting; sky, pole. | |
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. |
Wind | Windiness .Adjective: ventosity; rough weather, dirty weather, ugly weather, stress of weather; dirty sky, mare's tail; thick squall, black squall, white squall. |
World | Heavens, sky, welkin, empyrean; starry cope, starry heaven, starry host; firmament; Midgard; supersensible regions; varuna; vault of heaven, canopy of heaven; celestial spaces. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Sky |
| English words defined with "sky": blue sky ♦ mackerel sky, Mackerel-back sky ♦ Under open sky. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sky": Bird Clear Sky Model, Blue Sky Software ♦ cloudy sky, Cold Night Sky ♦ diffuse sky radiation ♦ Linke blue sky scale ♦ radiant cooling to the night sky ♦ SKY BLUE, sky cloth, sky cooling, Sky Dome, sky drop, SKY FARMERS, sky light, SKY PARLOUR, sky radiation, sky slightly clouded, SKY TEMPERATURE, sky typing, slightly clouded sky ♦ threatening sky ♦ Windows to the Sky acupressure. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "sky": Uraniscoplasty. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Sky" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (abashed, afraid, cloud, self-conscious, shy, timid), Norwegian (cloud), Swedish (avoid, cloud, gravy, heaven, liquor, meat juice, Shan, shun, sky). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Like I've never seen the sky before (Moulin Rouge!; writing credit: Baz Luhrmann; Craig Pearce) Anywhere I can see a whole lotta sky. I get through the days, I even eat the food (The Firm; writing credit: David Rabe) This man swooped down out of the sky and gave him to me (Superman; writing credit: Jerry Siegel; Joe Shuster) With all due respect, Colonel, if you don't follow us to Travis Air Force base, we'll blow you out of the sky. (Outbreak; writing credit: Laurence Dworet; Robert Roy Pool) Sky full o' smoke (Ed Wood; writing credit: Scott Alexander) | |
Lyrics | Oooh, I wanna touch the sky (SKY; performing artist: Sonique) Into a grey sky morning (Best I Ever Had (Grey Sky Morning); performing artist: Vertical Horizon) I look to the sky (Second Chance; performing artist: 38 Special) Boy, I been watching you like a hawk in the sky (Are You That Somebody; performing artist: Aaliyah) Yes one thing that turns this grey sky to blue (The Look Of Love; performing artist: ABC) | |
Clever | It is not raining; the sky leaks. (references; author: unknown) Planet: A body of Earth surrounded by sky. (references; author: unknown) A face without freckles is like a sky without stars. (references; author: unknown) Montana: Land Of The Big Sky, The Unabomber, Right-Wing Crazies, And Very Little Else (references; author: unknown) You are an engineer if your three-year-old son asks why the sky is blue, and you try to explain atmospheric absorption theory. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Sky Pilot (1973) Wild in the Sky (1972) Red Sky at Morning (1971) Terror in the Sky (1971) The Sky Pirate (1970) | |
Song Titles | Spirit In The Sky (performing artist: Norman Greenbaum) SKY HIGH (performing artist: Jigsaw ) Fire in the Sky (performing artist: Jordan Kare) Sky (performing artist: Sonique) Best I Ever Had (Grey Sky Morning) (performing artist: Vertical Horizon) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Shown is the Clinical Center and the Ambulatory Care and Research Facility (ACRF) viewed from Building 31. The ACRF houses outpatient clinics and some laboratories. In the foreground are trees that are just turning yellow and the sky is blue with some wispy clouds. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). |  | Lightning in night sky over Decatur, Georgia. Credit: CDC. |
 | Scientists Look for Signs of Pollution in the Superhighway in the Sky. Credit: NASA. |  | Ochoa on Sky Genie. Credit: NASA. |
 | A Hubble telescope survey of the sky has uncovered exotic patterns, rings, arcs, and crosses ... Credit: NASA. |  | One peek into a small part of the sky, one giant leap back in time. The Hubble telescope has ... Credit: NASA. |
 | Blue sky and blue waters at Waikiki. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Instruments mounted on the roof of the Clean Air Facility. Four separate wavelength pyrometers measuring total radiation from the sun and sky. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Crepuscular rays illuminate half the sky - Antarctic sunset. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Fisherman displaying fish caught in St. Paul Harbor. Umbrella hat frees hands for more important fishing tasks. Umbrella hat necessary to protect from frequent showers, not ward off the midnight sun. Apparently this fisherman did not consult the local weather forecast as a clear sky would indicate few showers . Credit: Fisheries. |
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| "Morning Sky" by Rahul Pilani Commentary: "A picture of a brilliant looking sky I took at 5.30 in the morning." | "Sky 1" by Novak Kulina Commentary: "Sunset on one november night." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Buddha | The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart. |
Gita 11 | If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst forth at once in the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One. |
Jalal-Uddin Rumi | Only from the heart Can you touch the sky. |
John Dryden | The trumpet shall be heard on high The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky! |
John Heywood | When the sky falleth we shall have larks. |
Oscar Wilde | I never saw a man who looked with such a wistful eye upon that little tent of blue which prisoners call the sky. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | The sky is the daily bread of the eyes. |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge | An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars. |
Terence | Some people ask, "What if the sky were to fall?" |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Alice in Wonderland | Carroll, Lewis | He was looking up into the sky all the time he was speaking, and this Alice thought decidedly uncivil |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | An unvaried pall of cloud muffled the whole expanse of sky from zenith to horizon |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | A mysterious frown is becoming visible in the depths of the sky. |
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Hunter S. Thompson | ' And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The sky was pale and cold but there were lights in the castle |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Only the unbalanced sky showed the approach of dawn, no horizon to the west, and a line to the east |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I heard a confused noise about me, but in the posture I lay, could see nothing except the sky. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | I may be either the driftwood in the stream, or Indra in the sky looking down on it. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Benpres has 62% equity in Sky Vision, which owns the brand "Sky Cable". (references) | |
Sky Cable, the country’s largest CATV network, is controlled by the Lopez family’s Benpres Holdings. (references) | ||
Although U.S.-made equipment is more popular with Sky, Home, and Destiny cable operators, the smaller operators are more in need of upgrading. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Kenya | Stellavision also is owned by KANU supporters and operates in collaboration with TV Africa and SKY TV of London. (references) |
Zambia | These services include broadcasts of Cable News Network (CNN), BBC World Sky Television, and the SABC's Africa News. (references) | |
Mauritius | Foreign international news services, such as the United Kingdom's Sky News, France's Canal Plus, and Cable News Network, are available to the public by subscription. (references) | |
Economic History | Luxembourg | Flag: Three horizontal stripes--red, white, and sky blue. (references) |
Mexico | There also are two Spanish language direct-to-home satellite networks, Multivision and Sky. (references) | |
Luxembourg | Since a 1995 agreement, Luxembourg and the United States have shared open sky aviation rights. (references) | |
Travel | Romania | Pick-up for the Hilton Hotel can be provided by the Sky Services company at the Otopeni airport. (references) |
Thailand | The BMTA sky train began operation in December 1999 providing services for commuters in two of Bangkok's most congested business districts, Silom and Sukhumvit . Rates vary, depending on zone and distance but the BTS is an excellent alternative to the long traffic jams, if your destination is within the areas serviced by the system. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | EGOTIST, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me. Megaceph, chosen to serve the State In the halls of legislative debate, One day with all his credentials came To the capitol's door and announced his name. The doorkeeper looked, with a comical twist Of the face, at the eminent egotist, And said: "Go away, for we settle here All manner of questions, knotty and queer, And we cannot have, when the speaker demands To be told how every member stands, A man who to all things under the sky Assents by eternally voting 'I'." |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | When it comes to helping mankind feed the world, the sky is the limit for the cloning and biological engineering field. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | But his imagination is wild and extravagant, escapes incessantly from every restraint of reason and taste, and, in the course of its vagaries, leaves a tract of thought as incoherent and eccentric, as is the course of a meteor through the sky. |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | Oceans and land and sky are avenues for our colossal commerce. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | The sky would not fall if an American president spoke the truth. |
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| "Sky" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.44% of the time. "Sky" is used about 4,979 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 99.44% | 4,951 | 1,982 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.56% | 28 | 65,706 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4,979 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| "Sky" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the sky". | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "sky". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Sky | Female, Male | English | The sky |
| Skye | Female, Male | English | The sky |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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| The following table summarizes names related to "Sky." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Sky | Female, Male | English | N/A |
| Skye | Female, Male | English | Sky |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| New Zealand | Sky City Limited | United Kingdom | British Sky Broadcasting Group plc |
| USA | Big Sky Transportation Co. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "sky": blue sky ♦ blue sky law ♦ blue Sky Software ♦ clear sky ♦ cloudy sky ♦ dirty sky ♦ drift across the sky ♦ heavy sky ♦ high up in the sky ♦ horizon sky ♦ in the sky ♦ it's all pie in the sky ♦ Linke blue sky scale ♦ macherel sky ♦ mackerel sky ♦ out of clear sky ♦ out of the a clear blue sky ♦ overcast sky ♦ patch of blue sky ♦ patches of blue sky ♦ pie in the sky ♦ radiant cooling to the night sky ♦ reach for the sky ♦ scud across the sky ♦ search the sky ♦ sky advertising ♦ sky blue ♦ sky clear ♦ sky cloth ♦ sky condition ♦ sky cooling ♦ sky dive ♦ sky diver ♦ sky drop ♦ sky high ♦ sky jump ♦ Sky Lake ♦ sky lark ♦ sky laverock ♦ sky line ♦ sky pilot ♦ Sky Ranch ♦ sky scraper ♦ sky shade ♦ sky shine(depr) ♦ sky slightly clouded ♦ sky surfing ♦ sky typing ♦ Sky Valley ♦ sky wave ♦ sky wave communication ♦ sleep under the open sky ♦ slightly clouded sky ♦ state of sky ♦ state of the sky ♦ the sky threatens a storm ♦ the sky was overcast ♦ threatening sky ♦ under open sky ♦ under the open sky ♦ uphill sky ♦ watery sky. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "sky": sky-asserting, sky-bar, sky-blue, sky-born, sky-borne, sky-burials, sky-cap, sky-clad, Sky-claw, sky-clawing, sky-colour, sky-coloured, sky-cover, sky-darkening, sky-diving, sky-edge, sky-embracing, sky-ey, sky-filling, sky-fires, sky-flying, sky-gazed, sky-god, sky-goddess, sky-grey, sky-high, sky-high prices, sky-larked, sky-led, sky-light, sky-line, sky-liner, sky-lit, sky-piercing, sky-pilot, sky-proof, sky-reaching, sky-rocket, sky-rocketed, sky-rocketing, sky-rockets, sky-scraper, sky-scraper-packed, sky-scrapers, sky-scraper-stacked, sky-scraping, sky-scything, sky-tv, sky-writing. | |
Ending with "sky": All-sky, blue-sky, clear-sky, Dark-Sky, deep-sky, elephant-of-the-sky, ex-sky, night-sky, open-to-the-sky, pie-in-the-sky, pie-in-the-sky-eyes-in-the-sky, river-light-sky, spy-in-the-sky, summer-sky, tv-in-the-sky, wise-sky. | |
Containing "sky": b-sky-b. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
sky lopez | 4,980 | sky chair | 274 |
sky | 4,587 | sky of arcadia legend | 268 |
sky diving | 2,709 | castle in the sky | 262 |
big sky | 2,482 | big sky airline | 257 |
sky sports | 1,779 | sky tv | 254 |
sky news | 1,381 | red sky | 253 |
blue sky | 1,317 | slifer the sky dragon | 248 |
vanilla sky | 859 | sky blue | 238 |
sky bank | 730 | sky and telescope | 236 |
sky of arcadia | 644 | big sky montana | 230 |
delta sky mile | 504 | sky auction | 219 |
night sky | 489 | sky diving equipment | 218 |
sky sport | 419 | sky digital | 217 |
sky diving magazine | 403 | sky angel | 210 |
crimson sky | 325 | sky picture | 208 |
airline blue sky | 325 | october sky | 199 |
new sky | 321 | why is the sky blue | 179 |
sky harbor airport | 301 | pic of sky lopez | 171 |
big sky country | 294 | big sky mt | 157 |
jennifer sky | 287 | vanilla sky soundtrack | 155 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "sky"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | hemel (heaven). (various references) | |
Albanian | qiell (blue, empyrean, firmament, heaven, welkin), parajsë (Eden, elysium, heaven, paradise). (various references) | |
Arabic | فضاء, قذف عاليا, سماء (heaven), السماء (blue, canopy, empyrean, firmament, vault). (various references) | |
Asturian | cielu. (various references) | |
Aymara | alajhpacha. (various references) | |
Basque | zeru. (various references) | |
Bemba | mulu. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | хвърлям топка нависоко, окачвам много нависоко, небе (blue, canopy, heaven, heavens, sphere), мятам топка нависоко. (various references) | |
Catalan | cel (heaven). (various references) | |
Cebuano | panganod. (various references) | |
Chamorro | langet. (various references) | |
Chinese | 天空 . (various references) | |
Cornish | ebren. (various references) | |
Czech | obloha (blue, firmament, garnish, heavens). (various references) | |
Danish | himmerig (heaven), himmel (heaven). (various references) | |
Dutch | lucht (air, atmosphere, heaven, odor, odour, scent, smell), hemel (baldachin, canopy, heaven). (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | jahuapacha. (various references) | |
Esperanto | ĉielo (heaven). (various references) | |
Faeroese | himmal (heaven). (various references) | |
Farsi | فلک (Bastinado, Heaven, Orbit, Sphere), توپ هواءی زدن (Loft), زیادبالابردن , اسمان (Heaven, Height, Loft), اب وهوا (Climate, Clime, Weather), درمقام منیعی قراردادن . (various references) | |
Finnish | taivas (heaven, skies). (various references) | |
French | ciel. (various references) | |
Frisian | himel (heaven). (various references) | |
German | Himmel (blue, canopy, heaven, roof lining). (various references) | |
Greek | ουρανόσ (heaven, welkin), ουρανός (heaven). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מרום (height, peak), שמים (firmament, heaven), רקיע (canopy, expanse, firmament, heaven). (various references) | |
Hungarian | égbolt (azure, canopy of heaven, cope of heaven, firmament, heaven, vault), ég (burn, celestial sphere, clime, flame, heaven, to be on fire, to burn, to flame), légkör (ambience, atmosphere, environment, flavor, flavour). (various references) | |
Icelandic | himinn (heaven). (various references) | |
Indonesian | langit (divine, heaven), dirgantara (upper atmosphere), cakrawala (firmament, heavens, horizon). (various references) | |
Inuktitut | sila. (various references) | |
Irish | spéir (heaven). (various references) | |
Italian | cielo (canopy, climate, heaven). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 雲井 (court circles or palace), 雲居 (the Imperial Court), 空 , 空中 (air), 空 (emptiness), 九天 (heavens, palace), 久方 (moon), 天空 (air, ether, firmament), 天 (heaven, heavenly, imperial), スエズ運河 (multistory parking garage, scarf, scarlet, scenic mountain road, scout, skirt, sky blue, sky mate, sky restaurant, skydiver, skydiving, skyjack, Skylab, sky-laboratory, skylark, skylight, skyline, skyscraper, squash, student discount air ticket, Suez Canal, sweat), 上空 (high-altitude sky, the skies, upper air). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | くうちゅう (air), そら, きゅうてん (classic, heavens, moxa-treatment points, not running, palace, sudden change, tradition), くもい (court circles or palace, the Imperial Court), ひさかた (moon), スカイ , じょうくう (high-altitude sky, the skies, upper air), てんくう (air, ether, firmament), てん (biography, celebration, ceremony, comment, communication, cultivated rice field, dot, establishment, heaven, law code, legend, life, mark, point, shop, spot, store, tradition). (various references) | |
Kongo | zulu. (various references) | |
Korean | 하늘 (Celestial, Skies). (various references) | |
Lombard | cel (heaven). (various references) | |
Macedonian | nebo. (various references) | |
Manx | speyr (climate, welkin), bwoalley 'syn ardjid. (various references) | |
Maori | rangi. (various references) | |
