Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The line along which the surface of the earth and the sky appear to meet; the horizon.
- noun The outline of a group of buildings or a mountain range seen against the sky.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
line at which theearth andsky meet,horizon . - noun The horizontal
silhouette of acity orbuilding against the sky. - verb To
outline something against the sky.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet
- noun the outline of objects seen against the sky
Etymologies
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Examples
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In the Shanghai of last year, I'm sure the skyline is more developed then when you were there in 2004.
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In the Shanghai of last year, I'm sure the skyline is more developed then when you were there in 2004.
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The Los Angeles skyline is changing, and its going for gold – LEED Gold, that is.
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Also, winds in skyline cities such as NY only really change at intersections; if he jumped into a firly long straight street he probably would have had no trouble at all. da soc
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - What is this dude up to? 2008
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The latest proposed tower to sprout up among the ever-changing skyline is the Burj Al-Taqa Energy Tower for the Middle East.
BURJ AL-TAQA: Zero-Energy Tower for the Middle East | Inhabitat 2007
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The latest proposed tower to sprout up among the ever-changing skyline is [...] enKlosure » Blog Archive » Shades of Green Says:
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The skyline is brutally impressive in the way cathedrals must once have been when nothing was taller.
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The one that stares out the Manhattan skyline from the banks of the Navesink, the river that cuts through this town that lost more people on that day four years ago than any other place besides New York itself.
Essays 2006
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The one that stares out the Manhattan skyline from the banks of the Navesink, the river that cuts through this town that lost more people on that day four years ago than any other place besides New York itself.
Talkin' Shop 2006
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What's the point of going out to enjoy the world if the best bit of the skyline is completely invisible?
The One With The Running Through Treacle kisobel 2006
oroboros commented on the word skyline
Mountain skyline juts
Purple gray against azure
Like infinite script
March 10, 2007
oroboros commented on the word skyline
Like reflections in a forest pool
Straightening after a tossed stone,
The mind slowly stills.
My hands are empty; my gaze rests on the hills...
"Reveal your secret story O wise mountains," I ask.
But the cipher of the skyline script remains unbroken.
Such silent...divine...calligraphy.
May 4, 2008