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sky | sny |

As nouns the difference between sky and sny

is that sky is a cloud while sny is upward curving observed in the planks of a wooden ship or boat.

As verbs the difference between sky and sny

is that sky is to hit, kick or throw (a ball) extremely high while sny is move, proceed.

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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    sny

    English

    Etymology 1

    First attested in late Middle English; from the (etyl)

    Verb

  • (obsolete, rare, intransitive) (l), (l)

    • References

    * “ †?Sny, v.'']” listed on page 343 of volume IX, part I (Si–St) of '''' [1st ed., 1919]
    ??†?Sny,''' ''v.''?''Obs.''?—?1?In 5 '''sny?e.'''?[Of obscure origin.]?''intr.''?To move, proceed.?[¶?''a''?'''1400–50 ''Alexander     4095 Þan sny?es þar, out of þat snyth hill.., A burly best. * “ †sny, v.'']” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989

    Etymology 2

    First attested in 1674; its etymology is unknown.

    Alternative forms

    * ) * (l), sny, (l) * (l)

    Verb

  • , (l), (l), be (l), with (l).
  • * 1913 ,
    • “And did you kill it?”
    “I did, for they’re a nuisance. The place is fair snied wi’ ?em.”

    References

    * “ Sny, v.'']” listed on page 343 of volume IX, part I (Si–St) of ''A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles'' [1st ed., 1919]
    ??Sny''' (), ''v.''?Now ''dial.''?Forms: 7 '''snithe,''' 9 '''snive;''' 7, 9 '''snie,''' 8–9 '''sny,''' 9 '''snye;''' 7, 9 '''snee.'''?[Of obscure origin.]?''intr.''?To abound, swarm, teem, be infested, ''with'' something.?[¶?'''1674''' Ray ''N.C. Words'' 44 To ''Snee'' or ''snie'', to abound or swarm. He ''snies'' with Lice, he swarms with them.?'''1675''' V. Alsop ''Anti-sozzo'' 503 Certainly never did man so snithe with prejudices against Truth.?''c''?'''1746''' J. Collier (Tim Bobbin) ''View Lanc. Dial.'' Gloss., ''Snye'', to swarm.?'''1849''' Howitt ''Year Bk. Country'' 242/32 The villages in the forest sny with children.?'''1882''' ''Echo'' 16 Jan. 4/1 The place literally ‘snives’ with rabbits.?'''1897 J. Prior ''Ripple & Flood     xix, The watter snies wi’ fish. * “ sny, v.'']” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989

    Etymology 3

    First attested in 1711; its etymology is unknown; compare snying and the (etyl) .

    Noun

    (snies)
  • (shipbuilding) of a wooden (l) or (l).
  • # An upward (l) at the (l) of a plank.
  • # of a wooden (l) from (l) toward its (l) and its (l).

    • References

    * “ Sny, sb.'']” listed on page 343 of volume IX, part I (Si–St) of ''A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles'' [1st ed., 1919]
    ??Sny''' (), ''sb.''?''Shipbuilding.''?[Cf. Snying ''vbl. sb.'']?(See quots. 1846 and 1875.)?[¶]?'''a.'''?'''1711''' W. Sutherland ''Shipbuild. Assist.'' 54 In working up a round Buttock of a Ship, the lower Edge of the Planks will have a sudden Sny aft.?'''1846''' A. Young ''Naut. Dict.'' 288 In shipbuilding, a plank is said to have sny, when its edge has an upward curve.?[¶?'''b.'''?''c''?'''1850''' ''Rudim. Nav.'' (Weale) 149 The great sny occasioned in full bows..is..to be prevented by introducing steelers.?'''1875 Knight ''Dict. Mech.'' 2232/1 ''Sny     ,..the trend of the lines of a ship upward from amidship toward the bow and the stern. * “ sny, n.'']” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989

    Etymology 4

    First attested with this spelling in 1893; see snye.

    Noun

    (snies)
  • * 1893 , and Other Stories (1896), page unknown
    • “Well, Mars Tom, my idea is like dis. It ain’t no use, we can’t kill dem po’ strangers dat ain’t doin’ us no harm, till we’ve had practice?—?I knows it perfectly well, Mars Tom?—??deed I knows it perfectly well. But ef we takes a’ ax or two, jist you en me en Huck, en slips acrost de river to-night arter de moon’s gone down, en kills dat sick fam’ly dat’s over on the Sny , en burns dey house down, en?—”
  • * 1948 , ), volume 36, page 151
    • The word snye'', ''sny'' or ''snie has been used for many years to describe a channel behind an island, with slack current or partly dried, or some such similar feature.

    References

    * “ snye]” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989

    Anagrams

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