Phone vs Sky - What's the difference?
phone | sky |
A device for transmitting conversations and other sounds in real time across distances.
To call (someone) on the telephone.
(phonetics) A speech segment that possesses distinct physical or perceptual properties, considered as a physical event without regard to its place in the phonology of a language.
(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.
* The Century
(colloquial) to drink something from a container without one's lips touching the container
As nouns the difference between phone and sky
is that phone is a device for transmitting conversations and other sounds in real time across distances while sky is a cloud.As verbs the difference between phone and sky
is that phone is to call (someone) on the telephone while sky is to hit, kick or throw (a ball) extremely high.phone
English
(wikipedia phone)Etymology 1
Shortening of (telephone).Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* cell phone * clamshell phone * flip phone * mobile phone * phone sex * phone tag * smartphoneSee also
*Verb
(phon)Synonyms
* call, ring, telephoneDerived terms
* phone it in * phone upEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)sky
English
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.
