skies (noun)
11tombstone engineering — noun The practice of letting accidents or failures (perhaps occasioning death, but not necessarily) identify engineering problems. <! feel free to change this to a better quote 2005: The media have the power to drive the FAA to actions that… …
12castle in the air — noun A visionary project or scheme; a day dream; an idle fancy; a pipe dream; any plan, desire, or idea that is unlikely to be ever realized; a near impossibility. Syn: castle in the skies, castle in Spain …
13aethrioscope — noun A device for measuring variations due to different atmospheric conditions, such as cloud or clear skies …
14rain delay — noun The interruption of an outdoor event because of rain, with the expectation that it would continue later. The baseball game went into a rain delay for about an hour before the skies cleared and play resumed …
15okta — noun One eighth of the total area of the celestial dome; used as a measure of cloudiness (one okta means that one eighth of the sky is obscured, two oktas that one quarter is obscured, and so on). ...64% of the low and 50% of the high cloud… …
16mastery — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ absolute, complete, total ▪ technical ▪ He plays the violin with technical mastery, but little feeling. VERB + MASTERY ▪ …
17firmament — noun, literary gazing up to the firmament Syn: the sky, heaven; the heavens, the skies; literary the empyrean, the welkin …
18heaven — noun 1) the good will have a place in heaven Syn: paradise, nirvana, Zion; the hereafter, the next world, the next life, Elysium, the Elysian Fields, Valhalla; literary the empyrean Ant: hell, purgatory 2) …
19sky — noun the sun was shining in the sky to the skies Syn: the upper atmosphere; literary the heavens, the firmament, the blue, the (wide) blue yonder, the welkin, the azure, the empyrean …
20tempest — noun the skies opened and a tempest erupted Syn: storm, gale, hurricane; tornado, whirlwind, cyclone, typhoon …
