ski - What does it mean?
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'ski' is a common misspelling of 'sky'
The correct spelling of 'sky' ends with the letter 'y'.
This incorrect spelling 'ski' ends with the letter 'i'.
'ski' Spelling Rule
In the early Modern English period, words ending in 'i' were changed to end in 'y'. For example, mani, veri, beauti and marri were changed to many, very, beauty and marry. This explains why some words containing a y, feature an i in their plural or past tense form. For example, try, tried; baby, babies; marry, marries.
Definition of 'sky' not 'ski'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
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Derived terms
( top2)
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( mid2)
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( bottom)
Related terms
* skylark
* the sky's the limit
* reach for the sky
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
English words similar to 'ski':sky, say, sei, si, ski, sai, shay, soy, shy, sway, sci, shi, suey, swy, swai
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