SKY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sky mean? 

• SKY (noun)
  The noun SKY has 1 sense:

1. the atmosphere and outer space as viewed from the earth

  Familiarity information: SKY used as a noun is very rare.

• SKY (verb)
  The verb SKY has 1 sense:

1. throw or toss with a light motion

  Familiarity information: SKY used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SKY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The atmosphere and outer space as viewed from the earth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("sky" is a kind of...):

atmosphere (the envelope of gases surrounding any celestial body)

Meronyms (parts of "sky"):

cloud (a visible mass of water or ice particles suspended at a considerable altitude)

rainbow (an arc of colored light in the sky caused by refraction of the sun's rays by rain)

Part meronym:

earth; globe; world (the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sky"):

blue; blue air; blue sky; wild blue yonder (the sky as viewed during daylight)

mackerel sky (a sky filled with rows of cirrocumulus or small altocumulus clouds)

• SKY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they sky    ... he / she / it skies   
Past simple: skied   
Past participle: skied   
-ing form: skying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Throw or toss with a light motion

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

flip; pitch; sky; toss

Context example:

toss me newspaper

Hypernyms (to "sky" is one way to...):

fling (throw with force or recklessness)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "sky"):

submarine (throw with an underhand motion)

lag (throw or pitch at a mark, as with coins)

throw back; toss back (throw back with a quick, light motion)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Sentence example:

The children sky the ball

 Context examples 

As I said before, you, dear Aries, are on a roll with only blue skies ahead.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Now Mr. Laurence is looking up at the sky and the weathercock.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Up above me there was a circle of starlit sky, which showed me that I was lying at the bottom of a deep pit.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If visible to the human eye, this gamma-ray “halo” would appear about 40 times bigger in the sky than a full Moon.

(NASA’s Fermi Mission Links Nearby Pulsar’s Gamma-ray ‘Halo’ to Antimatter Puzzle, NASA)

The first infrared satellite telescope, it observed the sky in infrared wavelengths blocked by Earth's atmosphere, providing the first-ever view of the universe in those wavelengths.

(Spitzer Studies a Stellar Playground With a Long History, NASA)

But I looked neither to rising sun, nor smiling sky, nor wakening nature.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It was because of her loss that she paid no attention to the winged bolt of the sky.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He gazed straight up into the gray sky and knew that he was hungry.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

All you need is one star in the sky on a dirty night to know instantly where you are.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I went across-channel to France, and landed theer, as if I'd fell down from the sky.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)