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Sky vs Roof - What's the difference?

sky | roof |

As nouns the difference between sky and roof

is that sky is a cloud while roof is the cover at the top of a building.

As verbs the difference between sky and roof

is that sky is to hit, kick or throw (a ball) extremely high while roof is to cover or furnish with a roof.

As a proper noun Roof is

a Chinese constellation located near Aquarius and Pegasus, one of the 28 lunar mansions and part of the larger Black Turtle.

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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    roof

    English

    (wikipedia roof)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The cover at the top of a building.
  • * , chapter=1
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path […]. It twisted and turned,
  • * 1931 , Robert L. May, Rudolph'', ''The Red-Nosed Reindeer , Montgomery Ward (publisher), draft:
    • The very first sound that you’ll hear on the roof / (Provided there’s fog) will be Rudolph’s small hoof.
  • The upper part of a cavity.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 1, author=John Sinnott, work=BBC Sport
    • , title= Aston Villa 2-0 Wigan , passage=As Bent pulled away to the far post, Agbonlahor opted to go it alone, motoring past Gary Caldwell before unleashing a shot into the roof of the net.}}
  • (mining) The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein.

    • Usage notes

    * The plural rooves'' is uncommon and is considered by some to be incorrect, though it is parallel to more common plurals like ''hooves'' and ''staves. * In referring to the top of a building, refers both to the object itself (“the roof was blown off in the tornado”) and to the location of being on the roof (“it can be dangerous to go on the roof to fix the antenna”). In the later sense (of “location”) it is often used attributively, largely interchangeably with rooftop.

    Synonyms

    * (cover at top of building) , thatch * (in a cavity)

    Derived terms

    * barrel roof * built-up roof * burn the roof * coach roof * hip roof * hit the roof * mansard roof * raise the roof * rooftop * rooftree * shed roof * single-ply roof * steep-slope roof * sunroof * through the roof

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cover or furnish with a roof.

    • Derived terms

    * roofer * unroof