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# skyscraper

noun (a skyscraper, skyscrapers)

«skyscraper» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

A skyscraper is a very tall building with many floors, in a city. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skyscraper/#m1)

### 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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skyscraper/#x1)
- The skyscraper has 80 floors. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skyscraper/#x2)
- We went up the skyscraper in a fast lift. [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skyscraper/#x4)
- From the top of the skyscraper the cars looked tiny. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skyscraper/#x5)
- Skyscrapers are built with steel frames. [tree →](https://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).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «skyscraper» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skyscraper/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«skyscraper» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/skyscraper.html) on Mova free.