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    A skyscraper is a very tall modern city building, the kind that seems to the sky. The name was first used for tall steel-frame buildings in American cities such as New York and Chicago in the 1880s, when steel first let buildings go that high. Today people use it for the famous towers in a city centre. Though actually there is no exact number of floors where a “tall building” becomes a skyscraper; it is a feel-word. A twelve-storey block is usually just a tall building; 101 is a skyscraper. Neutral, slightly . It names the building, not a person.

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組成Compound of sky + scraper (something that scrapes). First applied to tall steel-frame buildings in American cities such as New York and Chicago in the 1880s.

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  • skythe first half — the building seems to touch the sky
  • scraperthe second half — something that scrapes

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skyscrapernoun/ˈskaɪˌskɹeɪpɚ/

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    architectureA very tall building with a large number of floors.

    • The fact that land is a commodity of unlimited extent in America, together with the now appreciated fact that most high buildings have been economic failures, spell the doom of the skyscraper concept.
    • As the curve of Sandy Hook blotted from sight the last, low glimpse of the skyscrapers which point Manhattan, Blake touched Annette's arm.
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    archaicnauticaltransportA small sail atop a mast of a ship; a triangular skysail.

    • Skyscraper. A name given to a skysail when it is triangular.
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    Anything very tall or high.

    • It was no surprise to see Hanley bat a skyscraper out to left.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。