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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
skyscraper
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
build
▪ People building skyscrapers have the same problem.
▪ The complexity of the curtain walls on Worldwide Plaza was, of course, nothing new in the world of building skyscrapers.
▪ Worldwide Plaza turned out to be quite a stiff building as skyscrapers go.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ His office looked out on the other skyscrapers of downtown Dallas.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Elsewhere in Beirut, gleaming steel and glass skyscrapers are rising.
▪ For a moment she wished she were on the top floor of a very, very high skyscraper.
▪ Human creatures under the warm shadows of skyscrapers feeling the heavy pleasure of their nature, and yielding.
▪ It's similar to staggering shell-shocked in alien territory occupied solely by foreboding empty skyscrapers.
▪ It could be the inside of a submarine or the backside of skyscraper.
▪ The moon and the star are personified, the skyscraper is a human skeleton with bones and ribs.
▪ The objective of the competition is to give Glasgow a central skyscraper which would reflect the city's new vigour and status.
▪ To this day the building has a remarkable power in a modern city of concrete skyscrapers and oppressive traffic.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Skyscraper

Skyscraper \Sky"scrap`er\, n.

  1. (Naut.) (1) A skysail of a triangular form. [Rare] (2) A name for the one of the fancy sails alleged to have been sometimes set above the skysail. [Obs.]

  2. A very tall building, especially one over 20 stories high.

  3. Hence, anything usually large, high, or excessive. [Slang or Colloq.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
skyscraper

very tall urban building, 1888, in a Chicago context, from sky (n.) + agent noun of scrape (v.). Used earlier for "ornament atop a building" (1883), "very tall man" (1857), "high-flying bird" (1840), "light sail at the top of a mast" (1794), and the name of a racehorse (1789). Compare cognate French gratte-ciel, from gratter "to scrape" + ciel "sky;" German Wolkenkratzer, from Wolke "cloud" + Kratzer "scraper."\n\ncloud-cleaver, an imaginary sail jokingly assumed to be carried by Yankee ships.

[W. Clark Russell, "Sailors' Word Book," 1883]

Wiktionary
skyscraper

n. A very tall building with a great number of floors.

WordNet
skyscraper

n. a very tall building with many stories

Wikipedia
Skyscraper

A skyscraper is a tall, continuously habitable building of over 10 floors, mostly designed for office, commercial and residential uses. A skyscraper can also be called a high-rise, but the term skyscraper is often used for buildings higher than . For buildings above a height of , the term Supertall can be used, while skyscrapers reaching beyond are classified as Megatall.

One common feature of skyscrapers is having a steel framework that supports curtain walls. These curtain walls either bear on the framework below or are suspended from the framework above, rather than load-bearing walls of conventional construction. Some early skyscrapers have a steel frame that enables the construction of load-bearing walls taller than of those made of reinforced concrete. Modern skyscrapers' walls are not load-bearing and most skyscrapers are characterized by large surface areas of windows made possible by the concept of steel frame and curtain walls. However, skyscrapers can have curtain walls that mimic conventional walls and a small surface area of windows. Modern skyscrapers often have a tubular structure, and are designed to act like a hollow cylinder to resist lateral loads (wind, seismic, etc.). To appear more slender, allow less wind exposure, and in order to transmit more daylight to the ground, many skyscrapers have a design with setbacks; sometimes they are also structurally required.

Skyscraper (play)

Skyscraper is the first full-length play by David Auburn. It premiered Off-Broadway in 1997. It is a serious comedy about the deterioration of ingenuity and art.

Skyscraper (album)

Skyscraper is the second full-length album by David Lee Roth, the original and current lead vocalist of Van Halen. It was released in 1988 on Warner Bros. Records.

Skyscraper (1996 film)

Skyscraper is a 1996 direct-to-video movie starring Anna Nicole Smith. It was directed by Raymond Martino and written by William Applegate Jr. and John Larrabee. The movie's plot borrows heavily from the film Die Hard with Smith taking the lead role.

Skyscraper (magazine)

Skyscraper was an independent music magazine dedicated to coverage of a wide range of progressive and underground music. It was founded by Peter Bottomley and Andrew Bottomley in 1997 and published its first issue in 1998. Its headquarters was in Boulder, Colorado. The magazine covers various genres of music and is often likened to an American version of Mojo. Its format includes in-depth interviews, music reviews, and articles covering books, film, comics, and social and political issues. The quarterly print edition of Skyscraper discontinued after the Spring 2009 issue. The founders started an online magazine in 2010.

Skyscraper (musical)

Skyscraper is a musical that ran on Broadway in 1965 and 1966. The book was written by Peter Stone, and the music by Jimmy Van Heusen with lyrics by Sammy Cahn. Based on the 1945 Elmer Rice play Dream Girl, the Broadway production starred Julie Harris in her first musical.

Skyscraper (software)

Skyscraper Simulator (formerly Skyscraper Project), also known as Skyscraper Sim, Skyscrapersim, Skyscraper 3D, or simply Skyscraper is a free and open-source 3D building simulator created by Ryan Thoryk, currently utilizing the OGRE graphics rendering engine, and formerly using Crystal Space.

Skyscraper (band)

Skyscraper was a UK-based rock band formed during 1992. The original line up consisted of Vic Kemlicz (guitar/vocals) previously of the Camden band Milk, ex- Swervedriver bass guitarist Adi Vines and drummer Oliver Grasset, formerly of the band Pitchfork Skyscraper. From time to time Skyscraper also employed the services of guitarist Fuzz (formerly of Silverfish) to fill out the live sound until the arrival of guitarist Adam Lamprell, previously from the London band The Scissormen, in 1995. Drummer Craig Coggle joined the band in 1996.

Although the band's music was superficially similar to the grunge style that was popular at the time, it contained a melodic inventiveness and a characteristically unusual guitar style which brought the band swift attention. Despite being favourites of the UK rock press, the band split after the recording of their second album, Shooters, in 1997.

Skyscraper (disambiguation)

A skyscraper is a very tall, continuously habitable building.

Skyscraper or Sky Scraper may also refer to:

  • Sky Scraper (Ferris wheel), at Lagoon Amusement Park, Farmington, Utah, US
  • Skyscraper (roller coaster), an upcoming roller coaster at the SkyPlex complex in Orlando, Florida
  • Skyscraper (software), an open-source 3D building simulator
  • Skyscraper sheaf, a mathematical object
  • The Skyscraper (Dubai), a cancelled high-rise building project
  • Skyscraper, a variety of sunflower
  • Skyscraper, a type of web banner used for online advertising
  • Skyscraper! Achievement and Impact, an exhibit at the Liberty Science Center, New Jersey, US
Skyscraper (song)

"Skyscraper" is a song performed by American singer Demi Lovato for her third studio album Unbroken (2011). It was released on July 12, 2011 by Hollywood Records, as the lead single from the album. The song was written by Toby Gad, Lindy Robbins and Kerli Kõiv and produced by Gad. It was inspired by a picture of the apocalypse, in which the world was in ruins and among collapsed buildings, one skyscraper was still standing. When the song was recorded, Lovato was very emotional which triggered outbursts and caused her to start crying. On November 1, 2010, Lovato entered a treatment facility to deal with her personal struggles.

After completing her treatment on January 28, 2011, Lovato re-recorded the song, but kept the original recording as she felt it was "symbolic" to her. This ballad speaks of staying strong and believing in yourself. These two ideals strongly represent the journey Lovato went through the previous year, which speaks through Lovato's breathy and quivering vocals throughout the song. The song opens with a lonely piano and as soon accompanied by heavy percussion. A Spanish version of the song, alternatively titled "Rascacielo" was released on July 22, 2011.

"Skyscraper" debuted at number ten on the Billboard Hot 100, spending a total of 17 weeks on the chart. The song became Lovato's highest-peaked single on the chart since " This Is Me" which peaked at number nine in July 2008. "Skyscraper" sold 176,000 paid digital downloads in the first week of release in the United States, setting a sales record for Lovato. Internationally, the song reached the top 20 in Canada, New Zealand and the United States. The song was certified Gold in Australia. The song has sold over 1.5 million digital downloads in the United States and has been certified platinum by the RIAA.

Skyscraper (horse)

Skyscraper (1786–1807) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse. One of many notable offspring of the great Highflyer, Skyscraper is best known for winning the Epsom Derby of 1789. He competed until he was seven, when after losing two races he was retired to stud.

Skyscraper (1928 film)

Skyscraper is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Howard Higgin. At the 2nd Academy Awards in 1930, Elliott J. Clawson was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay). Prints of the film exist.

Skyscraper (2011 film)

Skyscraper is a 2011 Danish drama film written and directed by Rune Schjøtt.

Skyscraper (roller coaster)

Skyscraper is a Polercoaster, a type of roller coaster, that will be located at the Skyplex complex in Orlando, Florida. Overseen by American and Swiss manufacturers US Thrill Rides and Intamin, the ride is under development and is set to open in 2018. Construction is expected to begin in 2016, along with the groundbreaking of the Skyplex area.

Usage examples of "skyscraper".

And the world, by implication, though having reached from the Archaeozoic to the Present, and from cave dwellings to skyscrapers with roof-gardens, is just as far removed from true Paradise on earth.

Splashes of dawn sunlight struck the metallic blue sheen of the windows on the skyscrapers up at Bethesda Metro, and as Anna walked briskly along it occurred to her, not for the first time, that this was one of the high points of her day.

Savage, wanting the world--not so much the world as Cheaters Slagg, Derek Flammen and their mob--to think him dead, had not gone back to his headquarters atop the skyscraper, except clandestinely, to get such mechanism and apparatus as they thought might be needed.

Many of the skyscrapers had been rooted in lines from the foreign Feeds and were now dark, though in some places flames vented from broken windows, casting primitive illumination over the streets a thousand feet below.

Swift preceded us into one of the loveliest skyscraper gardens I have ever seen.

The effect of the Manichaean condemnation of the body is at once to reduce this impossible skyscraper to less than half its original height.

In northern Australia, Asia and Africa they build tall mounds from their underground nests - the equivalent of people building a skyscraper by hand.

However, the old girl was too shopworn for further mischief and was spending her days of decline as a scrubwoman in the skyscraper.

Compounding this effect, the river also narrows here, creating a sort of sluiceway that would knock down skyscrapers if they were placed in its path.

Here and there were tiny blossoms of flame sprouting forth from the interstices of huge clods, and at intervals he could see lopped, stemlike formations, the lower stories of skyscrapers from which the tops had been sheared by the swish of a thermo-nuclear scythe.

At the other end he carefully set the bronze bust of Plato, packed with enough superdense plastique to bring down a small skyscraper.

Under the dark evening sky, the skyscrapers seemed to become gigantic natural monoliths, and all the supersized structures that so dominated the city, that so marked Coruscant as a monument to the ingenuity of the reasoning species, seemed somehow the mark of folly, of futile pride striving against the vastness and majesty beyond the grasp of any mortal.

The golden rapier-blade shape was among the tallest of the skyscrapers that dominated the downtown cityscape of Salamanca.

We let them play with their earthmovers and their skyscrapers, their factories and their atomic bombs, but some of them are going to get hurt.

Seattle, and from the windows of my apartment I could see out across the rebuilt city, the skyscrapers replaced by green domes of glass silicate whose facets winked like emeralds, nested among gardens and stands of firs.