Sky vs Anticenter - What's the difference?
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(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
(astronomy) The point in the sky opposite to that of the centre of the galaxy (when viewed from Earth)
(geology) antiepicenter
(mathematics) The point of concurrence of the four maltitudes of a cyclic quadrilateral
As an acronym sky
is s'uomen '''k'''ielitieteellinen ' y hdistys: linguistic association of finland.As a noun anticenter is
(astronomy) the point in the sky opposite to that of the centre of the galaxy (when viewed from earth).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.