skyline

IPA: skˈaɪɫaɪn

The line that seems to be the boundary of the sky and the ground; the horizon.
The horizontal silhouette of a city or building against the sky.
A path of movement, especially military movement, producing a silhouette above terrain features visible from the location of likely observers.
(journalism) A panel on the front page of a newspaper outlining some of the features to be found inside.
(Cincinnati) food, often Cincinnati chili, purchased from a Skyline Chili restaurant.
(databases) Short for skyline operator. [(databases) A proposed operator, for use in database queries, that filters out results that are worse than others according to multiple criteria.]

Examples of "skyline" in Sentences

The Los Angeles skyline is changing, and its going for gold – LEED Gold, that is.
The skyline is brutally impressive in the way cathedrals must once have been when nothing was taller.
In the Shanghai of last year, I'm sure the skyline is more developed then when you were there in 2004.
What's the point of going out to enjoy the world if the best bit of the skyline is completely invisible?
The latest proposed tower to sprout up among the ever-changing skyline is the Burj Al-Taqa Energy Tower for the Middle East.
The latest proposed tower to sprout up among the ever-changing skyline is [...] enKlosure » Blog Archive » Shades of Green Says:
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
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.