Sky vs Virgin - 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
A person who has never had sexual intercourse, or sometimes, one who has never engaged in any sexual activity at all.
(informal) One who has never used or experienced a specified thing.
Any of several species of gossamer-winged butterflies of the family Lycaenidae.
A female insect producing eggs from which young are hatched, though there has been no fecundation by a male; a parthenogenetic insect.
In a state of virginity; chaste, not having had sexual intercourse.
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Of a physical object, untouched.
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Not yet cultivated, explored, or exploited by humans or humans of certain civilizations.
Of olive oil, obtained by mechanical means, so that the oil is not altered.
Of mixed drinks, not containing alcohol.
As an acronym sky
is s'uomen '''k'''ielitieteellinen ' y hdistys: linguistic association of finland.As a proper noun virgin is
mary, the mother of jesus.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.
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* 1000 English basic words ----virgin
English
(wikipedia virgin)Noun
(en noun)- I've never eaten tofu before – you could say I'm a tofu virgin .
Synonyms
* (person who has never had sexual intercourse) maiden (dated; used of a woman only''), unicorn bait (qualifier), virgo intacta (''medical term; used of a woman only ), vestalAdjective
(-)- Innocence and virgin modesty / That would be wooed, and unsought be won.
- He was now about twenty-three years old, and, though still virgin , the sex instinct that Miriam had over refined for so long now grew particularly strong.
- Helvidius took the plain meaning of scripture to say that Jesus patently had brothers and sisters, so therefore his mother, Mary, had enjoyed a normal family life rather than remaining perpetually virgin .
- the white cold virgin snow upon my heart
- virgin''' prairie'', ''a '''virgin ecosystem'', ''virgin forest
- The virgin lands of the Americas were awaiting the Europeans.
- a virgin daiquiri