The sky

Definition

sky /skaÇ/ n [U, sing] (usu the sky [sing], or a sky or skies [pl] when following an adj ) ေကာင္းကင္။ မိုး။ a clear blue sky ❍ a patch of blue sky ❍ sunny/cloudy/grey skies ❍ birds flying across the sky ❍ the night sky ❍ look up at the sky ❍ a starry sky/(the) starry skies ❍ The sky's gone very dark—I think it's going to rain. ❍ The sky has clouded over now. ❏ praise, etc sb/sth to the skies [ IDM ] မိုးထိေအာင္ ေျမႇာက္သည္။ It's not fair! Her work always gets praised to the skies and mine is ignored. ❏ sky-blue adj, n [U] မိုးျပာေရာင္။ ❏ sky-high adj, adv မိုးထိုးေနေသာ။ မိုးထိေအာင္ ေခါင္ခိုက္ ေနေသာ။ sky-high interest rates ❍ Property prices have gone sky-high. ❏ sky-rocket v (ေဈးႏႈန္းစသည္) တစ္ဟုန္ထိုး တက္သည္။ Insurance costs have sky-rocketed. ❏ the sky's the limit [ IDM ] ( infml saying ) အကန္႔အသတ္ မရိွ။ အဆံုးအစမရိွ။ With talent like his, the sky's the limit.

Examples

1. At noon the sun is directly above us in the sky.
2. Air pollution is clearly visible in the skies over the city.
3. A clear blue sky
4. [the sky] : The night sky was filled with stars.
5. [a of sky] : A patch of blue sky among the clouds
6. [skies] : Tomorrow we expect clear skies in the morning
7. with rain in the afternoon.