sky
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Is sky a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (chiefly literary and poetic, archaic) Usually preceded by the: the abode of God or the gods, angels, the souls of deceased people, etc.; heaven; also, powers emanating from heaven.Examples: "This mortal has incurred the wrath of the skies."; "Now am I dead, now am I fled, my ſoule is in the sky."; "Sweet Queen of Parlie, Daughter of the Sphære, / So maist thou be tranſlated to the skies, / And give reſounding grace to all Heav'ns Harmonies."archaicliterarypoetic
2. (mathematics, theoretical physics) The set of all lightlike lines (or directions) passing through a given point in space-time.Synonyms: celestial sphere
3. (obsolete, informal, rare) In an art gallery: the upper rows of pictures that cannot easily be seen; also, the place where such pictures are hung.informalobsoleterare
4. (obsolete) A cloud.obsolete
verb (English)
1. (transitive)informaltransitive
2. (transitive)Examples: "The artists—I mean the younger brood, and not the Brother Academicians who "skied" his pictures—were the first and the most enthusiastic in his [George Fuller's] praise."Antonyms: floordatedinformaltransitive
3. (transitive)Examples: "In ‘skying’ a coin for the purpose of deciding a point at issue between two parties, two methods are in vogue: there is either the ‘slow torture’ of spinning the coin thrice, the decision to go against the tosser-up, if the other party, twice out of the three times, guesses right on which side the coin shall fall; or, the ‘sudden death’ method in which one toss is decisive; […]"datedslangtransitive
4. (transitive)transitive
5. (transitive)Examples: "Hernandez [i.e., Félix Hernández] walked the bases loaded, then fell behind 3–1 in the count to Bobby Abreu, who then skied the next pitch to left for a sacrifice fly."; "Van Persie [i.e., Robin van Persie] skied a penalty, conceded by Gary Caldwell who was sent off, and also hit the post before scoring his third with a shot at the near post."transitive
6. (transitive)Examples: "All of a sudden he appeared as a third competitor, skied the Flying Scud with four fat bids of a thousand dollars each, and then as suddenly fled the field, remaining thenceforth (as before) a silent, interested spectator."obsoletetransitive
noun (English)
1. (UK, slang, obsolete, Westminster School) A disagreeable person; an enemy.UKobsoleteslang
Definition source: Wiktionary