What is the difference between firmament and sky?
firmament | sky |
(uncountable) The vault of the heavens; the sky.
(obsolete) basis.
The field or sphere of an interest or activity.
(archaic) In the geocentric Ptolemaic system, the eighth sphere, which carried the fixed stars.
(lb) A cloud.
The atmosphere above a given point, especially as visible from the ground during the day.
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The part of the sky which can be seen from a specific place or at a specific time; its condition, climate etc.
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*:So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
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*:She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky .
Heaven.
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(sports) to hit, kick or throw (a ball) extremely high.
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(colloquial, dated) To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the top of a wall, where it cannot be well seen.
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(colloquial) to drink something from a container without one's lips touching the container
Sky is a synonym of firmament.
In obsolete terms the difference between firmament and sky
is that firmament is basis while sky is a cloud.As nouns the difference between firmament and sky
is that firmament is the vault of the heavens; the sky while sky is a cloud.As a verb sky is
to hit, kick or throw (a ball) extremely high.firmament
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Noun
(en noun)- And God said, "Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters."
- the international fashion firmament
Derived terms
* firmamentalReferences
* ----sky
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Alternative forms
* skie (obsolete)Noun
(skies)Usage notes
Usually the word can be used correctly in either the singular or plural form, but the plural is now mainly poetic.Synonyms
* firmament * heaven *Derived terms
* (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)Verb
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- Brother Academicians who skied his pictures.