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sky
English
Alternative forms
- skie (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English sky, from Old Norse ský (“cloud”), from Proto-Germanic *skiwj?, *skiwô (“cloud, cloud cover, haze”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover, hide, cloud”).
Partially displaced Middle English heven, from Old English heofon (whence English heaven). Compare German Himmel and Dutch hemel.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ska?/, enPR: sk?
- Rhymes: -a?
- Homophones: Sky, Skye
Noun
sky (plural skies)
- The atmosphere above a given point, especially as visible from the ground during the day.
- The part of the sky which can be seen from a specific place or at a specific time; its condition, climate etc.
- So this was my future home, I thought! […] Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
- She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
- Heaven.
- Ellipsis of sky blue
- (mathematics, theoretical physics) The set of all lightlike lines (or directions) passing through a given point in space-time.
- (colloquial, dated) In an art gallery, the upper rows of pictures that cannot easily be seen.
- (obsolete) A cloud.
Usage notes
Usually the word can be used correctly in either the singular or plural form, but the plural is now mainly poetic.
Synonyms
- firmament
- heaven
- lift
- (the set of lightlike lines) celestial sphere
Derived terms
Related terms
- skylark
- the sky's the limit
- reach for the sky
Translations
See sky/translations § Noun.
Verb
sky (third-person singular simple present skies, present participle skying, simple past and past participle skied or skyed) (transitive)
- (slang) To toss upwards.
- 1894, Cornelis Stoffel, Studies in English, Written and Spoken (page IX)
- In 'skying' a coin for the purpose of deciding a point at issue between two parties, two methods are in vogue: […]
- 1894, Cornelis Stoffel, Studies in English, Written and Spoken (page IX)
- (sports) To hit, kick or throw (a ball) extremely high.
- (sports) To clear (a hurdle, high jump bar, etc.) by a large margin.
- (colloquial, dated) To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the top of a wall, where it cannot be well seen.
- The Century
- Brother Academicians who skied his pictures.
- The Century
- (colloquial) To drink something from a container without one's lips touching the container.
References
- “sky”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
Anagrams
- KYS, YKS, YSK, Yks., kys
Danish
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [?sky?]
Etymology 1
Possibly from Middle Low German sch?we, sch?, from Proto-West Germanic *skeuh, cf. English shy and German scheu
Adjective
sky (neuter sky, plural and definite singular attributive sky)
- shy
Synonyms
- bly
- genert
References
- “sky,4” in Den Danske Ordbog
Etymology 2
From Old Norse ský, from Proto-Germanic *skiwj? (“cloud, cloud cover”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover, conceal”).
Noun
sky c (singular definite skyen, plural indefinite skyer)
- cloud
Inflection
References
- “sky,1” in Den Danske Ordbog
Etymology 3
From French jus, from Latin i?s (“gravy, broth, sauce”). The Danish word was probably borrowed via German Jus or Schü, pronounced IPA(key): [??y?], with a regular substitution of German /?/ with Danish /sk/.
Noun
sky c (singular definite skyen, not used in plural form)
- gravy, stock (a kind of soup)
- jelly (made of gravy)
- (cooking) aspic
References
- “sky,2” in Den Danske Ordbog
Etymology 4
Possibly from Middle Low German sch?wen, derived from the adjective.
Verb
sky (imperative sky, present skyr or skyer, past skyede, past participle skyet)
- To shun.
References
- “sky,3” in Den Danske Ordbog
Middle English
Alternative forms
- ski, skie, ske, skye, scki, schi, schye, scy, skey, skige, ski?e, sky?e
Etymology
From Old Norse ský, from Proto-Germanic *skiwj?. Doublet of skew.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ski?/
Noun
sky (plural skyes)
- The atmosphere or sky; that which lies above the ground.
- A cloud or mist (mass of water droplets).
- (rare, astronomy) A certain layout or part of the sky.
- (rare, physiology) Clouds in urine.
Descendants
- English: sky
- Scots: sky, skie, skey, ske
- Yola: skee
References
- “sk?(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-07-23.
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From Middle Low German schuwe
Adjective
sky (neuter singular sky, definite singular and plural sky or skye, comparative skyere, indefinite superlative skyest, definite superlative skyeste)
- shy
Synonyms
- blyg
- sjenert
Etymology 2
From Old Norse ský, from Proto-Germanic *skiwj? (“cloud, cloud cover”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover, conceal”).
Noun
sky f or m (definite singular skya or skyen, indefinite plural skyer, definite plural skyene)
- cloud
Derived terms
Etymology 3
Possibly from Middle Low German schuwen
Verb
sky (imperative sky, present tense skyr, simple past skydde, past participle skydd, present participle skyende)
- To avoid, shun.
Derived terms
- avsky
References
- “sky” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?y?/
Etymology 1
From Middle Low German schuwe
Adjective
sky (neuter singular sky, definite singular and plural sky or skye, comparative skyare, indefinite superlative skyast, definite superlative skyaste)
- shy
Etymology 2
From Old Norse ský. Akin to English sky.
Noun
sky f (definite singular skya, indefinite plural skyer, definite plural skyene)
- cloud
Derived terms
Etymology 3
Possibly from Middle Low German schuwen
Verb
sky (present tense skyr, past tense skydde, past participle skydd or skytt, passive infinitive skyast, present participle skyande, imperative sky)
- To avoid, shun.
Derived terms
- avsky
References
- “sky” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse ský, from Proto-Germanic *skiwj?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?y?/
Noun
sk? n
- cloud
- sky
Declension
Descendants
- Swedish: sky
Scots
Etymology
From Middle English sky, from Old Norse ský.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ska?]
Noun
sky (plural skies)
- sky
- It's a fair braw sky we'v got the nicht. It's quite a beautiful sky we've got tonight.
- daylight (especially at dawn)
- A wis up afore the sky. I was up before sunrise.
- skyline, outline against the sky (especially of a hill)
- He saw the sky o a hill awa tae the west. He saw the outline of a hill in the west.
Derived terms
- sky laverock
- sky-goat
- skybrek
- skysettin
- tuith in the sky
Verb
sky (third-person singular present skies, present participle skies, past skyin, past participle skiet)
- (of weather) To clear up.
- To shade the eyes with the hand (so as to see better).
- To hold up to the light and examine.
Swedish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?y?/
Etymology 1
From Old Swedish sk?, from Old Norse ský, from Proto-Germanic *skiwj?, compare English sky.
Noun
sky c
- (countable) heaven
- (countable) sky
- (countable) cloud
Declension
Etymology 2
From French jus.
Noun
sky c
- (uncountable, cooking) The liquid that remains in a frying pan after the fried meat is ready.
Etymology 3
From Middle Low German sch?wen, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *skiuhijan.
Verb
sky (present skyr, preterite skydde, supine skytt, imperative sky)
- To avoid (due to fear or disgust), shun.
Conjugation
sky From the web:
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floor
English
Etymology
From Middle English flor, flore, from Old English fl?r (“floor, pavement, ground, bottom”), from Proto-Germanic *fl?r?, *fl?rô, *fl?raz (“flat surface, floor, plain”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh?ros (“floor”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh?- (“flat”). Cognate with West Frisian flier (“floor”), Dutch vloer (“floor”), German Flur (“field, floor, entrance hall”), Swedish flor (“floor of a cow stall”), Irish urlár (“floor”), Scottish Gaelic làr (“floor, ground, earth”), Welsh llawr (“floor, ground”), Latin pl?nus (“level, flat”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: flô, IPA(key): /fl??/
- (General American) enPR: flôr, IPA(key): /fl??/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: fl?r, IPA(key): /flo(?)?/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /flo?/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
- Homophone: flaw (in non-rhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)
- Homophones: flow, floe (non-rhotic with dough-door merger (AAVE, non-rhotic Southern accents))
Noun
floor (plural floors)
- The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.
- A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.
- Ground (surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground).
- The lower inside surface of a hollow space.
- A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.
- The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.
- A storey/story of a building.
- In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.
- Hence, the right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.
- (nautical) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
- (mining) A horizontal, flat ore body; the rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
- (mining) The bottom of a pit, pothole or mine.
- (mathematics) The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.
- (gymnastics) An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface.
- (gymnastics) A floor-like carpeted surface for performing gymnastic movements.
- (finance) A lower limit on the interest rate payable on an otherwise variable-rate loan, used by lenders to defend against falls in interest rates. Opposite of a cap.
- A dance floor.
- 1983, "Maniac", Michael Sembello and Dennis Matkosky:
- She's a maniac, maniac on the floor / And she's dancing like she never danced before
- 1987, "Walk the Dinosaur", Was (Not Was):
- Open the door, get on the floor / Everybody walk the dinosaur
- 1983, "Maniac", Michael Sembello and Dennis Matkosky:
- The trading floor of a stock exchange, pit; the area in which business is conducted at a convention or exhibition.
Synonyms
- (bottom part of a room): see Thesaurus:floor
- (right to speak): possession (UK)
Antonyms
- ceiling
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Verb
floor (third-person singular simple present floors, present participle flooring, simple past and past participle floored)
- To cover or furnish with a floor.
- To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.
- (driving, slang) To accelerate rapidly.
- To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.
- To amaze or greatly surprise.
- (colloquial) To finish or make an end of.
- (mathematics) To set a lower bound.
Translations
Further reading
- Floor (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Floor in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
References
Anagrams
- Floro
Middle English
Noun
floor
- Alternative form of flor
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