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Solstice vs Sky - What's the difference?

solstice | sky |

As a noun solstice

is one of the two points in the ecliptic at which the sun is furthest from the celestial equator this corresponds to one of two days in the year when the day is either longest or shortest.

As an acronym sky is

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

solstice

Noun

(en noun)
  • One of the two points in the ecliptic at which the sun is furthest from the celestial equator. This corresponds to one of two days in the year when the day is either longest or shortest.
  • * 1924 , , Metaphysics . Translated by W. D. Ross. Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA: The Classical Library, 2001. Available at: . Book 1, Part 2.
  • For all men begin, as we said, by wondering that things are as they are, as they do about self?moving marionettes, or about the solstices or the incommensurability of the diagonal of a square with the side;

    Synonyms

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    Derived terms

    * summer solstice * winter solstice * solstitial

    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)

    Verb

  • (sports) to hit, kick or throw (a ball) extremely high.
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  • , 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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