Meaning

10 senses
  1. (informal, transitive)To drink (a beverage) from a container without one's lips touching the container.

  2. (dated, informal, transitive)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. (dated, slang, transitive)To toss (something) upwards; specifically, to flip (a coin).

  4. (transitive)To clear (a high jump bar, hurdle, etc.) by a large margin.

  5. (transitive)To hit, kick, or throw (a ball) extremely high.

  6. (transitive)To miss a goal by kicking the ball over the crossbar.

  7. (intransitive)To move quickly, as if by flying; to fly; also, to escape, to flee (especially by airplane).

  8. (intransitive)To hit, kick, or throw a ball extremely high.

  9. (intransitive)To raise an oar too high above the water.

  10. (obsolete, transitive)To raise (the price of an item on auction, or the level of the bids generally) by bidding high.

More definitions
  • throw or toss with a light motion

Examples

1272 sentences
  1. The sky is full of stars.

    Небо повне зірок.

    ruНа небе полно звёзд.

    deDer Himmel ist voller Sterne.

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  2. He was looking at the sky.

    Він дивився на небо.

    ruОн смотрел на небо.

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  3. He looked up at the sky.

    Він глянув на небо.

    ruОн посмотрел вверх на небо.

    deEr sah den Himmel.

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  4. She looked up at the sky.

    Вона подивилася на небо.

    ruОна посмотрела на небо.

    deSie sah zum Himmel hinauf.

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  5. Were there any stars in the sky?

    На небі були зірки?

    ruНа небе были звёзды?

    deWaren überhaupt Sterne am Himmel?

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Origin

The noun is derived from Middle English sky (“sky; cloud; mist”), also spelled ski, skie,

The noun is derived from Middle English sky (“sky; cloud; mist”), also spelled ski, skie, [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”).

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Forms

skies, skying, skied, skied
Base formsky · to sky
3rd person singularskies
Present participleskying
Past simpleskied / skyed
Past participleskied / skyed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theysky
he, she, itskies

Past simpleLesson

all personsskied

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave skied
he, she, ithas skied

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill sky

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Collocations

9 patterns
  • in the sky
  • the sky is
  • at the sky
  • of the sky
  • sky is blue
  • sky is clear
  • from the sky
  • blue sky
  • the sky has

See also

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