Skyname詞源 1

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  A surname.

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  A unisex given name from English.

  • The bad thing was she took my son Skiff with her. It's a dumb name I know, but at the time he was born all the kids were being called things like Sky and Saffron and Powie, and I was really sold on sailing.

skynoun詞源 1/skaɪ/

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  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.
  • For beſides the groues, / The skyes, the fountaines, euery region neare / Seeme all one mutuall cry. I neuer heard / So muſicall a diſcord, ſuch ſweete thunder.
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  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.
  • We’re not sure how long the cloudy skies will last.
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  archaicliteraryUsually preceded by the: the abode of God or the gods, angels, the souls of deceased people, etc.; heaven; also, powers emanating from heaven.

  • This mortal has incurred the wrath of the skies.
  • Now am I dead, now am I fled, my ſoule is in the sky.
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  mathematicssciencesThe set of all lightlike lines (or directions) passing through a given point in space-time.

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  obsoleterareinformalIn an art gallery: the upper rows of pictures that cannot easily be seen; also, the place where such pictures are hung.

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  obsoleteA cloud.

skyverb詞源 1/skaɪ/

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  informalTo drink (a beverage) from a container without one's lips touching the container.

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  datedinformalTo 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.

  • 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.
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  datedslangTo toss (something) upwards; specifically, to flip (a coin).

  • 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; […]
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  hobbieslifestylesportsTo clear (a high jump bar, hurdle, etc.) by a large margin.

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  ball-gamesgameshobbiesTo hit, kick, or throw (a ball) extremely high.

  • 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.
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  ball-gamesgameshobbiesTo miss a goal by kicking the ball over the crossbar.

  • He laid on the two best chances, both wasted by Pratt, who skied one and stubbed his toe on the other.
  • 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.
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  obsoleteTo raise (the price of an item on auction, or the level of the bids generally) by bidding high.

  • 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.
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  To move quickly, as if by flying; to fly; also, to escape, to flee (especially by airplane).

skynoun詞源 2/skaɪ/

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  obsoleteslangA disagreeable person; an enemy.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• Skye
• sky blue