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Skyling vs Skyline - What's the difference?

skyling | skyline |

As nouns the difference between skyling and skyline

is that skyling is a being from the sky or heavens while skyline is (earth sciences) the line at which the earth and sky meet, horizon.

As a verb skyline is

to outline something against the sky.

skyling

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A being from the sky or heavens.
  • *1899 , Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Dashiell, Scribner's Magazine ... - Volume 26 - Page 124 :
    • Our actor is either one whose ambitions lead him to hitch his wagon to a star and scorn all sublunary things, or one stolidly content to please — not the aristocratic groundlings, but the skylings .
  • *1962 , Clifton Reginald Walker, Destination: Amaltheia - Page 60 :
    • For the first time I realised with amazing clearness that the sky was no blue expanse overhead but an abyss . . . and that we live in that sky stuck to a speck, the earth, and ought really to be called skylings', not earthlings. Miserable ' skylings !
  • *2006 , Craig E. Waid, The Misadventures of M.a.d.s.: Lightspeed - Page 66 :
    • A Skyling suddenly swooped down and snatched Starz right off the ground and flew off.

    skyline

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (earth sciences) The line at which the earth and sky meet, horizon.
  • The horizontal silhouette of a city or building against the sky.

    • Synonyms

    * (l)

    Verb

  • To outline something against the sky.
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