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What is the difference between skylark and sky?

skylark | sky |

Sky is a related term of skylark.



As nouns the difference between skylark and sky

is that skylark is a small brown passerine bird, Alauda arvensis, that sings as it flies high into the air while sky is a cloud.

As verbs the difference between skylark and sky

is that skylark is to jump about joyfully, frolic; to play around, play tricks while sky is to hit, kick or throw (a ball) extremely high.

skylark

English

(wikipedia skylark) (Alauda arvensis)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small brown passerine bird, Alauda arvensis , that sings as it flies high into the air.
  • Derived terms

    * (Eurasian skylark) (Alauda arvensis ) * (Japanese skylark) () * (oriental skylark) ()

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To jump about joyfully, frolic; to play around, play tricks.
  • * 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick :
  • I cherished no malice towards him, though he had been skylarking with me not a little in the matter of my bedfellow.

    Derived terms

    * skylarker * skylarking

    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.
  • * {{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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