skyscraper

«skyscraper» in Mova's school dictionary: a very tall building with many floors, in a city — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a skyscraper, skyscrapers)

meaning for a pupil

A skyscraper is a very tall building with many floors, in a city. tree →

sense in the lessons

In geography and maths: cities like New York, Toronto and Sydney have skyscrapers; maths problems ask about floors, heights and lifts. Phrases: «a 100-storey skyscraper», «the tallest skyscraper».

examples

• New York has many skyscrapers. tree →
• The skyscraper has 80 floors. tree →
• We went up the skyscraper in a fast lift. tree →
• If each floor is 4 m high, a 50-floor skyscraper is 200 m tall. tree →
• From the top of the skyscraper the cars looked tiny. tree →
• Skyscrapers are built with steel frames. tree →

note

One word: sky + scraper (it seems to scrape the sky). In maths, height = number of floors × height of one floor (roughly).

In the corpora

• Its hollow stems with solid joints are strong and light, so Hong Kong builders still tie bamboo poles into scaffolding round skyscrapers.
• The largest known cave passage is Son Doong in Vietnam, big enough to hold a city block with skyscrapers.
• Skyscraper lifts move several metres a second, and the fastest in the world travel at around 20 metres a second.
• A skyscraper is a strong steel or concrete core and frame standing on deep foundations; its glass walls are only a skin.
• A skyscraper's strong steel or concrete core and frame carry the weight down to deep foundations; the walls are just a skin.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «skyscraper» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.