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As an acronym sky

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

As a noun dead is

tooth.

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.
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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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    • 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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    dead

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (not comparable) No longer living.
    • All of my grandparents are dead .
  • (hyperbole) Figuratively, not alive; lacking life
  • * 1600 , (William Shakespeare), (As You Like It) , Act III, Scene 3:
    • When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's good wit seconded with the forward child, understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room.
  • (of another person) So hated that they are absolutely ignored.
    • He is dead to me.
  • Without emotion.
    • She stood with dead face and limp arms, unresponsive to my plea.
  • Stationary; static.
    • the dead''' load on the floor''; ''a '''dead lift .
  • Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.
    • dead''' air''; ''a '''dead glass of soda .
  • Unproductive.
    • dead''' time''; '''''dead fields ; also in compounds.
  • Completely inactive; without power; without a signal.
    • OK, the circuit's dead . Go ahead and cut the wire.
    Now that the motor's dead you can reach in and extract the spark plugs.
  • (not comparable) Broken or inoperable.
    • That monitor is dead ; don’t bother hooking it up.
  • (not comparable) No longer used or required.
    • There are several dead laws still on the books regulating where horses may be hitched.
    Is this beer glass dead ?
  • (not comparable, sports) Not in play.
    • Once the ball crosses the foul line, it's dead .
  • Tagged out.
  • (not comparable) Full and complete.
    • dead''' stop''; '''''dead''' sleep''; '''''dead''' giveaway''; '''''dead silence
  • (not comparable) Exact.
    • dead''' center''; '''''dead''' aim''; ''a '''dead''' eye''; ''a '''dead level
  • Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).
    • After sitting on my hands for a while, my arms became dead .
  • (informal) (Certain to be) in big trouble.
    • "You come back here this instant! Oh, when I get my hands on you, you're dead , mister!"
  • Constructed so as not to transmit sound; soundless.
    • a dead floor
  • (obsolete) Bringing death; deadly.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • (legal) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property.
    • A person who is banished or who becomes a monk is civilly dead .
  • (engineering) Not imparting motion or power.
    • the dead spindle of a lathe

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "dead")

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * alive * living

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (lb) Exactly right.
    • dead''' right''; '''''dead''' level''; '''''dead''' flat''; '''''dead''' straight''; '''''dead left
    He hit the target dead in the centre.
  • (lb) Very, absolutely, extremely, suddenly.
    • dead''' wrong''; '''''dead''' set''; '''''dead''' serious''; '''''dead''' drunk''; '''''dead''' broke''; '''''dead''' earnest''; '''''dead''' certain''; '''''dead''' slow''; '''''dead''' sure''; '''''dead''' simple''; '''''dead''' honest''; '''''dead''' accurate''; '''''dead''' easy''; '''''dead''' scared''; '''''dead''' solid''; '''''dead''' black''; '''''dead''' white''; '''''dead empty ;
  • As if dead.
    • dead''' tired''; '''''dead''' quiet''; '''''dead''' asleep''; '''''dead''' pale''; '''''dead''' cold''; '''''dead still
  • * (and other bibliographic particulars) (Charles Dickens)
    • I was tired of reading, and dead sleepy.

    Noun

    (dead)
  • (in the singular) Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.
    • The dead''' of night.'' ''The '''dead of winter.
  • (in the plural) Those who have died.
    • Have respect for the dead .

    Synonyms

    * (those who have died) the deceased

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic) Formerly, "be dead" was used instead of "have died" as the perfect tense of "die".
    • "I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead [????????] in vain." Galatians 2:21, King James Version (1611).
  • To prevent by disabling; stop.
  • * 1826 , The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Edward Reynolds, Lord Bishop of Norwich , collected by Edward Reynolds, Benedict Riveley, and Alexander Chalmers. pp. 227. London: B. Holdsworth.
    • “What a man should do, when finds his natural impotency dead him in spiritual works”
  • To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigour.
  • * Chapman
    • Heaven's stern decree, / With many an ill, hath numbed and deaded me.
  • (UK, transitive, slang) To kill.
  • * 2006 , Leighanne Boyd, Once Upon A Time In The Bricks (page 178)
    • This dude at the club was trying to kill us so I deaded him, and then I had to collect from Spice.
  • * 2008 , Marvlous Harrison, The Coalition (page 106)
    • “What, you was just gonna dead him because if that's the case then why the fuck we getting the money?” Sha asked annoyed.

    Related terms

    * deaden * deadliness * deadly * deadness * death * undead

    Derived terms

    * better dead than red * brain dead/brain-dead * clinically dead * dead air * dead as a dodo * dead as a doorknob * dead as a doornail * dead ball * dead bat * deadbeat * dead body * dead-born/deadborn * dead cat bounce * dead center * dead code * dead donkey * dead duck * dead end * dead giveaway * deadhead * dead heat * dead horse * dead ice * dead-in-shell * dead in the water * dead language * dead last * dead leg * dead letter * deadline/dead line * dead link * deadlock * dead man/dead man's hand * dead march * dead marine * dead meat * dead men * dead metaphor * deadnettle * dead on * dead or alive * deadpan * dead president * dead reckoning * dead rubber * Dead Sea * dead serious * dead set against * dead soldier * dead space * dead sticking * dead to the world * dead tree * dead water * dead weight * deadwood * dead zone * drop dead * * leave for dead * living dead * not be caught dead * over my dead body * play dead * stop dead

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