sky

1. sky (noun) — sense 1

Definition: The atmosphere above a given point, especially as visible from the surface of the Earth as the place where the sun, moon, stars, and clouds are seen.

Example: That year, a meteor fell from the sky.

2. sky (noun) — sense 2

Definition: With a descriptive word: the part of the sky which can be seen from a specific place or at a specific time; its climate, condition, etc.

Example: I lay back under a warm Texas sky.

3. sky (noun) — sense 3

Definition: Usually preceded by the: the abode of God or the gods, angels, the souls of deceased people, etc.; heaven; also, powers emanating from heaven.

Example: This mortal has incurred the wrath of the skies.

4. sky (verb) — sense 4

Definition: To drink (a beverage) from a container without one's lips touching the container.

5. sky (verb) — sense 5

Definition: To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the top of a wall, where it cannot easily be seen; (by extension) to put (something) in an undesirable place.

Example: The artists—I mean the younger brood, and not the Brother Academicians who "skied" his pictures—were the first and the most enthusiastic in his [George Fuller's] praise.

6. sky (verb) — sense 6

Definition: To toss (something) upwards; specifically, to flip (a coin).

Example: In ‘skying’ a coin for the purpose of deciding a point at issue between two parties, two methods are in vogue: there is either the ‘slow torture’ of spinning the coin thrice, the decision to go against the tosser-up, if the other party, twice out of the three times, guesses right on which side the coin shall fall; or, the ‘sudden death’ method in which one toss is decisive; […]