Meaning of "sky" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SKY

From Old Norse skӯ; related to Old English scio cloud, Old Saxon skio, Old Norse skjār transparent skin.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF SKY

sky  [skaɪ]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SKY

Sky is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb sky in English.

WHAT DOES SKY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Sky

The sky is everything that lies a certain distance above the surface of the Earth, including the atmosphere and outer space. 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 traveling. The celestial sphere is conventionally divided into regions called constellations. Usually, the term sky is used from the point of view of the Earth's surface; however, the exact meaning of the term can vary. For example, in some cases the sky is defined as only the denser portions of the atmosphere. During daylight, the sky appears to be blue because air scatters blue sunlight more than it scatters red. At night, the sky appears to be a mostly dark surface or region scattered with stars. During the day, the Sun can be seen in the sky, unless obscured by clouds. In the night sky the moon, planets and stars are visible in the sky. Some of the natural phenomena seen in the sky are clouds, rainbows, and aurorae. Lightning and precipitation can also be seen in the sky during storms. Birds, insects, aircraft, and kites are often considered to fly in the sky.

Definition of sky in the English dictionary

The first definition of sky in the dictionary is the apparently dome-shaped expanse extending upwards from the horizon that is characteristically blue or grey during the day, red in the evening, and black at night related adjectives celestial empyrean. Other definition of sky is outer space, as seen from the earth. Sky is also weather, as described by the appearance of the upper air.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO SKY

PRESENT

Present

I sky

you sky

he/she/it skies

we sky

you sky

they sky

Present continuous

I am skying

you are skying

he/she/it is skying

we are skying

you are skying

they are skying

Present perfect

I have skied

you have skied

he/she/it has skied

we have skied

you have skied

they have skied

Present perfect continuous

I have been skying

you have been skying

he/she/it has been skying

we have been skying

you have been skying

they have been skying

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I skied

you skied

he/she/it skied

we skied

you skied

they skied

Past continuous

I was skying

you were skying

he/she/it was skying

we were skying

you were skying

they were skying

Past perfect

I had skied

you had skied

he/she/it had skied

we had skied

you had skied

they had skied

Past perfect continuous

I had been skying

you had been skying

he/she/it had been skying

we had been skying

you had been skying

they had been skying

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will sky

you will sky

he/she/it will sky

we will sky

you will sky

they will sky

Future continuous

I will be skying

you will be skying

he/she/it will be skying

we will be skying

you will be skying

they will be skying

Future perfect

I will have skied

you will have skied

he/she/it will have skied

we will have skied

you will have skied

they will have skied

Future perfect continuous

I will have been skying

you will have been skying

he/she/it will have been skying

we will have been skying

you will have been skying

they will have been skying

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would sky

you would sky

he/she/it would sky

we would sky

you would sky

they would sky

Conditional continuous

I would be skying

you would be skying

he/she/it would be skying

we would be skying

you would be skying

they would be skying

Conditional perfect

I would have sky

you would have sky

he/she/it would have sky

we would have sky

you would have sky

they would have sky

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been skying

you would have been skying

he/she/it would have been skying

we would have been skying

you would have been skying

they would have been skying

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you sky
we let´s sky
you sky

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to sky

Past participle

skied

Present Participle

skying

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «SKY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «sky» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of sky

azure · firmament · heavens · rangi · upper atmosphere · welkin

TRANSLATION OF SKY

Find out the translation of sky to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of sky from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «sky» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 天空
• Translator English - Spanish: cielo
• English: sky
• Translator English - Hindi: आकाश
• Translator English - Arabic: سَمَاء
• Translator English - Russian: небо
• Translator English - Portuguese: céu
• Translator English - Bengali: আকাশ
• Translator English - French: ciel
• Translator English - Malay: langit
• Translator English - German: Himmel
• Translator English - Japanese: 空
• Translator English - Korean: 하늘
• Translator English - Javanese: Langit
• Translator English - Vietnamese: bầu trời
• Translator English - Tamil: வானத்தில்
• Translator English - Marathi: आकाश
• Translator English - Turkish: gökyüzü
• Translator English - Italian: cielo
• Translator English - Polish: niebo
• Translator English - Ukrainian: небо
• Translator English - Romanian: cer
• Translator English - Greek: ουρανός
• Translator English - Afrikaans: lug
• Translator English - Swedish: himmel
• Translator English - Norwegian: himmel

10 QUOTES WITH «SKY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word sky.

1

Georg Buchner

The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled.

2

Smedley Butler

The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits - ah! that is another matter - twenty, sixty, one hundred, three hundred, and even eighteen hundred per cent - the sky is the limit.

3

William Merritt Chase

I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky.

4

Pauly D

I haven't gone sky diving yet and I want to do that, real bad. I love adrenaline and going fast.

5

Ted Danson

If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky.

6

Clyde Edgerton

Kristina, my wife, and I thought about this one day when the kids were, of course, watching television. And we took a big blanket and put it in the backyard and said, 'Let's go out on our back and look at the sky and call it sky television.' We saw all kinds of things.

7

Lorrie Fair

They are always telling us that Carolina Blue is not a color, that it is really Columbia blue or sky blue. But there is no bad blood amongst the teammates. All of our kidding is in good fun.

8

Thomas Friedman

When I wrote 'The World Is Flat,' I said the world is flat. Yeah, we're all connected. Facebook didn't exist; Twitter was a sound; the cloud was in the sky; 4G was a parking place; LinkedIn was a prison; applications were what you sent to college; and Skype, for most people, was a typo.

9

Sonia Gandhi

Together we can face any challenges as deep as the ocean and as high as the sky.

10

Barry Gibb

But even now, when people see me in the street, they point upwards to the sky.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SKY»

Discover the use of sky in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to sky and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Half the Sky

Fierce, moral, pragmatic, full of amazing stories of courage and inspiration, HALF THE SKY is essential reading for every global citizen.

Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn, 2010

Lucy in the Sky

A diary by an unnamed 16-year-old drug addict from an upper middle-class neighborhood in Santa Monica documents the ruination of her life after experimenting with drugs and alcohol at a party, after which she rejects everything she once ...

Anonymous, 2012

The Sculptor in the Sky

You can not have a life, you can not lose a life... You are life. It is you who hold the power to decide yourself back onto the path you intended...the path of welcoming and becoming your own bliss.

Teal Scott, 2011

Open Sky

Writer and political activist Paul Virilio makes a passionate critique of information technology and the global media.

Paul Virilio, 1997

Why the Sky is Blue: Discovering the Color of Life

"--"Die Welt" Praise for the original German edition: "This is a multilayered book that makes a seemingly commonplace observation the starting point of an exciting journey of discovery . . .

Götz Hoeppe, 2007

Achieving the Single European Sky: Goals and Challenges

This book, the first to cover the SES in depth, presents unparalleled insight into a versatile and complex undertaking which will determine the future of air traffic management in Europe.

Daniel Calleja Crespo, 2011

A Walk through the Southern Sky: A Guide to Stars and ...

No equipment is needed to use this practical guide: apart from normal sight and clear skies. Magically illustrated, this is an ideal introduction to launch the young astronomer on a journey across the starlit skies.

Milton Heifetz, Wil Tirion, 2007

The Big Sky: A Novel

Relates the adventures of Boone Caudill, a mountain man in the American West of the mid-nineteenth century.

Alfred Bertram Guthrie, 2002

This Same Sky: A Collection of Poems from Around the World

A multicultural anthology of poems represents the poetic voices, observations, traditions, and stories of people from some sixty countries around the world.

Naomi Shihab Nye, 2008

They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky: The True Story of Three ...

Describes the life-threatening ordeals endured by the authors and tens of thousands of other children escaping African civil war in the late 1980s, including near-starvation, illnesses, and massacres.

Alephonsion Deng, Benson Deng, Benjamin Ajak, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SKY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term sky is used in the context of the following news items.

Police Fire At Car At Tour De France Barriers

Sky News. Switch to US Edition. Clear search. Search. Watch Live ... Sky News on Facebook · Sky News on Twitter · Sky News on YouTube · Sky News on ... «Sky News, Jul 15»

EU opens anti-trust case against Sky and US film studios

The European Commission has accused Sky TV in the UK and six major Hollywood studios of breaking EU competition rules by blocking access to movie ... «BBC News, Jul 15»

Tour de France: Chris Froome data released amid doping claims

Team Sky have released some of Chris Froome's performance data at the Tour de France in an effort to end doping speculation, with boss Sir Dave Brailsford ... «BBC Sport, Jul 15»

Lance Armstrong admits blame for Chris Froome's doping questions

Armstrong was speaking exclusively to Sky Sports News HQ upon his arrival in southern France, ahead of his participation in a charity ride taking place one day ... «SkySports, Jul 15»

Carl Froch going out on top, says old foe Andre Ward

Ward told Sky Sports News HQ: "You have to respect the way he went about it, and the fact he not only stepped up but beat just about all the guys he fought at ... «SkySports, Jul 15»

Six Nations: BBC and ITV battle to keep tournament out of Sky's hands

As Sky's bid was not substantially higher, the BBC opened talks with ITV, ... The BBC has this year lost the rights for golf's Open Championship to Sky from 2017 ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»

Venus and Jupiter: Together at Last

The two brightest planets are gliding closer together in the early evening sky, and their celestial dance culminates with an ultra-close pairing on June 30th. «Sky & Telescope, Jun 15»

Venus and Jupiter Put on a Show at Dusk

At the beginning of June, the two planets were 20° apart in the sky, about twice the width of your fist held at arm's length. Week by week, Jupiter and the stars ... «Sky & Telescope, Jun 15»

Brailsford says it won't be easy to pick Sky's Tour nine

Regardless of who gets the final nod for the Tour de France, Team Sky is sure to field a strong squad to back Chris Froome's bid for a second title. Photo: Tim De ... «velonews.competitor.com, Jun 15»

HSBC Poised To Unveil Thousands More Job Cuts

Sky News understands that Stuart Gulliver, HSBC's chief executive, will set out a revised target for headcount reductions that will be implemented by the end of ... «Sky News, Jun 15»