different between skyling vs skyline

English

Etymology

From sky +? -ling.

Noun

skyling (plural skylings)

1. A being from the sky or heavens.
   • 1899, Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Dashiell, Scribner's Magazine ... - Volume 26 - Page 124:

     Our actor is either one whose ambitions lead him to hitch his wagon to a star and scorn all sublunary things, or one stolidly content to please — not the aristocratic groundlings, but the skylings.

   • 1962, Clifton Reginald Walker, Destination: Amaltheia - Page 60:

     For the first time I realised with amazing clearness that the sky was no blue expanse overhead but an abyss . . . and that we live in that sky stuck to a speck, the earth, and ought really to be called skylings, not earthlings. Miserable skylings!

   • 2006, Craig E. Waid, The Misadventures of M.a.d.s.: Lightspeed - Page 66:

     A Skyling suddenly swooped down and snatched Starz right off the ground and flew off.

English

Etymology

sky +? line

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ska??la?n/

Noun

skyline (plural skylines)

1. (earth sciences) The line at which the earth and sky meet.

   Synonym: horizon

2. The horizontal silhouette of a city or building against the sky.
3. A path of movement, especially military movement, producing a silhouette above terrain features visible from the location of likely observers.
4. (journalism) A panel on the front page of a newspaper outlining some of the features to be found inside.

Translations

Verb

skyline (third-person singular simple present skylines, present participle skylining, simple past and past participle skylined)

1. To outline something against the sky.

Further reading

• skyline on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Kinsley, Knisely, Knisley

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English skyline.

Noun

skyline m (invariable)

1. skyline

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English skyline.

Noun

skyline m or f (in variation) (plural skylines)

1. skyline (silhouette of a city’s buildings)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English skyline.

Noun

skyline m (plural skylines)

1. skyline