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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skyscraper/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skyscraper/#x1)
- The skyscraper has 80 floors. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skyscraper/#x2)
- We went up the skyscraper in a fast lift. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skyscraper/#x3)
- If each floor is 4 m high, a 50-floor skyscraper is 200 m tall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skyscraper/#x4)
- From the top of the skyscraper the cars looked tiny. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skyscraper/#x5)
- Skyscrapers are built with steel frames. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skyscraper/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/380-china-s-plants-bamboo-ginkgo-lotus-tea-and-rice-paddies/1/)
- [The largest known cave passage is Son Doong in Vietnam, big enough to hold a city block with skyscrapers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/55-coasts-and-caves/16/)
- [Skyscraper lifts move several metres a second, and the fastest in the world travel at around 20 metres a second.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/26-escalators-and-lifts/17/)
- [A skyscraper is a strong steel or concrete core and frame standing on deep foundations; its glass walls are only a skin.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/30-bridges-and-skyscrapers/8/)
- [A skyscraper's strong steel or concrete core and frame carry the weight down to deep foundations; the walls are just a skin.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/30-bridges-and-skyscrapers/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «skyscraper» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skyscraper/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.