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# sky

«sky» in Mova's school dictionary: **The space above the Earth where you see clouds, the Sun…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (the sky, skies)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The space above the Earth where you see clouds, the Sun, the Moon and the stars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sky/#m1)

2) The weather or look of it: blue skies, grey skies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sky/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science: the sky looks blue in the day because air scatters blue sunlight more; at sunset it turns red and orange; at night we see stars and planets. Looking at the sky helps forecast weather (dark clouds mean rain). Never look straight at the Sun. Phrases: in the sky, blue sky, night sky, clear sky, the sky's the limit, skyscraper, sky-high.

### examples

- The sky is blue today. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sky/#x1)
- Birds fly across the sky. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sky/#x2)
- At night the sky is full of stars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sky/#x3)
- Dark clouds filled the sky before the storm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sky/#x4)
- The sky turned pink at sunset. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sky/#x5)
- Skyscrapers are very tall buildings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sky/#x6)
- We hope for clear skies on sports day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sky/#x7)
- Prices went sky-high. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sky/#x8)
- Little by little the sky cleared. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sky/#x9)

### note

Usually «the sky». Plural «skies» (y → ies) is used for weather: sunny skies. «The sky's the limit» means there is no limit. The sky is not a solid roof; it is air and space.

### In the corpora

- [So common questions, like why the sky is blue, get good answers, because thousands of people have explained them well.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/3-sounding-right-and-being-right/3/)
- [Big flat brushes suit skies and backgrounds; small round brushes with a pointed tip suit details.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/14-painting-paints-brushes-mess-and-mistakes/5/)
- [An old Scandinavian folk story said lemmings fell from the sky in storms, because they appeared so suddenly in boom years.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/150-myth-check-do-lemmings-jump-off-cliffs/13/)
- [Birds crash into windows because they see reflected trees and sky, and stickers on the glass break up the reflection.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/216-garden-birds-robins-blackbirds-tits-and-feeders/11/)
- [Young sunflowers turn to follow the sun across the sky, then swing back east at night.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/377-ukraine-s-plants-sunflowers-viburnum-poppies-lime-trees-and-steppe-grasses/2/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sky» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sky/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.