The atmosphere and outer space as viewed from the earth.

Roget 338: air etc. (gas) 334; common air, atmospheric air; atmosphere; aerosphere^†.    open air; sky, welkin; blue sky; cloud etc. 353.    weather, climate, rise and fall of the barometer, isobar.    [Science of air] aerology, aerometry^†, aeroscopy^†, aeroscopy^†, aerography^†; meteorology, climatology; pneumatics; eudioscope^†, baroscope^†, aeroscope^†, eudiometer^†, barometer, aerometer^†; aneroid, baroscope^†; weather gauge, weather glass, weather cock.    exposure to the air, exposure to the weather; ventilation; aerostation^†, aeronautics, aeronaut.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 601: involuntariness; instinct, blind impulse; inborn proclivity, innate proclivity; native tendency, natural tendency; natural impulse, predetermination.    necessity, necessitation; obligation; compulsion etc. 744; subjection etc. 749; stern necessity, hard necessity, dire necessity, imperious necessity, inexorable necessity, iron necessity, adverse necessity; fate; what must be.    destiny, destination; fatality, fate, kismet, doom, foredoom, election, predestination; preordination, foreordination; lot fortune; fatalism; inevitableness etc. adj.; spell etc. 993.    star, stars; planet, planets; astral influence; sky, Fates, Parcae, Sisters three, book of fate; God's will, will of Heaven; wheel of Fortune, Ides of March, Hobson's choice.    last shift, last resort; dernier ressort [Fr.]; pis aller etc. (substitute) 147 [Fr.]; necessaries etc. (requirement) 630.    necessarian^†, necessitarian^†; fatalist; automaton.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 318: world, creation, nature, universe; earth, globe, wide world; cosmos; kosmos^†; terraqueous globe^†, sphere; macrocosm, megacosm^†; music of the spheres.    heavens, sky, welkin^†, empyrean; starry cope, starry heaven, starry host; firmament; Midgard; supersensible regions^†; varuna; vault of heaven, canopy of heaven; celestial spaces.    heavenly bodies, stars, asteroids; nebulae; galaxy, milky way, galactic circle, via lactea [Lat.], ame no kawa [Jap.].    sun, orb of day, Apollo^†, Phoebus; photosphere, chromosphere; solar system; planet, planetoid; comet; satellite, moon, orb of night, Diana, silver-footed queen; aerolite^†, meteor; planetary ring; falling star, shooting star; meteorite, uranolite^†.    constellation, zodiac, signs of the zodiac, Charles's wain, Big Dipper, Little Dipper, Great Bear, Southern Cross, Orion's belt, Cassiopea's chair, Pleiades.    colures^†, equator, ecliptic, orbit.    [Science of heavenly bodies] astronomy; uranography, uranology^†; cosmology, cosmography^†, cosmogony; eidouranion^†, orrery; geodesy etc. (measurement) 466; star gazing, star gazer^†; astronomer; observatory; planetarium.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 210: summit, summity^†; top, peak, vertex, apex, zenith, pinnacle, acme, culmination, meridian, utmost height, ne plus utra, height, pitch, maximum, climax, culminating point, crowning point, turning point; turn of the tide, fountain head; water shed, water parting; sky, pole.    tip, tip top; crest, crow's nest, cap, truck, nib; end etc. 67; crown, brow; head, nob^†, noddle^†, pate; capsheaf^†.    high places, heights.    topgallant mast, sky scraper; quarter deck, hurricane deck.    architrave, frieze, cornice, coping stone, zoophorus^†, capital, epistyle^†, sconce, pediment, entablature^†; tympanum; ceiling etc. (covering) 223.    attic, loft, garret, house top, upper story.    [metaphorical use] summit conference, summit; peak of achievement, peak of performance; peaks and troughs, peaks and valleys (in graphs). ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: firmament, hemel, hemelblauw, hemelboog, hemeldak, hoogte, lucht, luchtruim, uitspansel, zwerk

Throw or toss with a light motion.

synoniemen: flip, pitch, toss.