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Sky vs Floor - What's the difference?

sky | floor |

As an acronym sky

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

As a noun floor is

the bottom or lower part of any room; the supporting surface of a room.

As a verb floor is

to cover or furnish with a floor.

sky

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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)

    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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    floor

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The bottom or lower part of any room; the supporting surface of a room.
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  • A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor ; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.
  • Ground (surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground).
  • The lower inside surface of a hollow space.
  • A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.
  • The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.
  • A storey/story of a building.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=19 citation , passage=When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor , where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.}}
  • In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.
  • Hence, the right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.
  • (label) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
  • (label) The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
  • (label) A horizontal, flat ore body.
  • (Raymond)
  • (label) The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.
  • (label) An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface.
  • (label) A lower limit on the interest rate payable on an otherwise variable-rate loan, used by lenders to defend against falls in interest rates. Opposite of a cap.
  • Synonyms

    * (right to speak) possession (UK)

    Antonyms

    * ceiling

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cover or furnish with a floor.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, […].}}
  • To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.
  • * As soon as our driver saw an insurgent in a car holding a detonation device, he floored the pedal and was 2,000 feet away when that car bomb exploded. We escaped certain death in the nick of time!
  • To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.
  • * Floored or crushed by him. — Coleridge
  • To amaze or greatly surprise.
  • (colloquial) To finish or make an end of.
  • * I've floored my little-go work — ed Hughes
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