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hamburger | sky |

As a noun hamburger

is a person from hamburg.

As an acronym sky is

s'uomen '''k'''ielitieteellinen ' y hdistys: linguistic association of finland.

hamburger

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A hot sandwich consisting of a patty of cooked ground beef, in a sliced bun, sometimes also containing salad vegetables, condiments, or both.
  • The patty used in such a sandwich.
  • (uncountable) Ground beef, especially that intended to be made into hamburgers.
  • (colloquial, somewhat, vulgar) An animal or human, or the flesh thereof, that has been badly injured as a result of an accident or conflict.
    • The truck hit the deer and turned it into hamburger .
    I'm going to make you into hamburger if you do that again.

    Synonyms

    * (sandwich) beefburger * (patty) hamburger patty

    Hypernyms

    * (sandwich) burger

    Hyponyms

    (sense) * slider * quarter-pounder * cheeseburger

    Coordinate terms

    (sense) * chicken burger * fish burger * lamb burger * pork burger * vegeburger * soyburger

    Derived terms

    * burger * cheeseburger * hamburgerology * vegeburger * soyburger * gardenburger

    sky

    English

    Alternative forms

    * skie (obsolete)

    Noun

    (skies)
  • (lb) A cloud.
  • The atmosphere above a given point, especially as visible from the ground during the day.
  • :
  • 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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    • 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)

    Related terms

    * skylark * the sky's the limit * reach for the sky

    Verb

  • (sports) to hit, kick or throw (a ball) extremely high.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=January 22 , author=Ian Hughes , title=Arsenal 3 - 0 Wigan , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=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.}}
  • (colloquial, dated) To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the top of a wall, where it cannot be well seen.
  • * The Century
    • Brother Academicians who skied his pictures.
  • (colloquial) to drink something from a container without one's lips touching the container

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