sky

名词 n. 动词 v.
/skaɪ/    /skaɪ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The atmosphere above a given point, especially as visible from the surface of the Earth as the place where the sun, moon, stars, and clouds are seen.
    — That year, a meteor fell from the sky.
    [I]f you do not all appear like gilt twopences [i.e., counterfeit coins] next to me, and I, in the clear sky of fame, outshine you as much as the full moon outshines the cinders of the element [i.e., the stars] (which look like pinheads next to the moon), then don't believe me: […]
  2. A disagreeable person; an enemy. UK,obsolete,slang
  3. With a descriptive word: the part of the sky which can be seen from a specific place or at a specific time; its climate, condition, etc.
    — I lay back under a warm Texas sky.
  4. Usually preceded by the: the abode of God or the gods, angels, the souls of deceased people, etc.; heaven; also, powers emanating from heaven. archaic,literary,poetic
    — This mortal has incurred the wrath of the skies.
    Comus
  5. Ellipsis of sky blue. abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis
    — But yet methinks, thoſe knots of Sky, do not / So well with the dead colour of her Face.
  6. The set of all lightlike lines (or directions) passing through a given point in space-time.
  7. In an art gallery: the upper rows of pictures that cannot easily be seen; also, the place where such pictures are hung. informal,obsolete,rare
  8. A cloud. obsolete
动词 v.
  1. To drink (a beverage) from a container without one's lips touching the container. informal,transitive
  2. To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the top of a wall, where it cannot easily be seen; (by extension) to put (something) in an undesirable place. dated,informal,transitive
    — 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.
  3. To toss (something) upwards; specifically, to flip (a coin). dated,slang,transitive
    — 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; […]
  4. To clear (a high jump bar, hurdle, etc.) by a large margin. transitive
  5. To hit, kick, or throw (a ball) extremely high. transitive
    — 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.
  6. To miss a goal by kicking the ball over the crossbar. transitive
    — He laid on the two best chances, both wasted by Pratt, who skied one and stubbed his toe on the other.
  7. To raise (the price of an item on auction, or the level of the bids generally) by bidding high. obsolete,transitive
    — 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.
  8. To move quickly, as if by flying; to fly; also, to escape, to flee (especially by airplane). intransitive
  9. To hit, kick, or throw a ball extremely high. intransitive
  10. To raise an oar too high above the water. intransitive

词形变化

skies plural skie alternative skies present,singular,third-person skying participle,present skied participle,past skied past skyed participle,past skyed past skies plural

词汇关系

衍生词
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词源

词源 1
The noun is derived from Middle English sky (“sky; cloud; mist”), also spelled ski, skie, [and other forms], from Old Norse ský (“cloud”), from Proto-Germanic *skiwją (“cloud; sky”), from *skiwô (“cloud; cloud cover, haze; sky”) (whence Old English sċēo (“cloud”) and Middle English skew (“air; sky; (rare) cloud”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover; to conceal, hide”).
Partly displaced Old English heofon, which survives in the reflex heaven, still sometimes used in the sense of sky, but usually in high or poetic register.
The verb is derived from the noun.
Cognates
The English word is cognate with Old English scēo (“cloud”), Old Saxon scio, skio, skeo (“light cloud cover”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian Bokmål sky (“cloud”), Old Irish ceo (“mist, fog”), Irish ceo (“mist, fog”). It is also related to Old English scūa (“shadow, darkness”), Latin obscūrus (“dark, shadowy”), Sanskrit स्कुनाति (skunāti, “he covers”). See also hide, hose, house, hut, shoe.
词源 2
From Volsci (“a tribe who opposed the Romans”).
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