Skyscraper - meaning of word?
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The building is soooooo tall it scrapes the sky.  I have no idea what words were popular in the UK in the 1950s.  I'm dying to see who you pick for Best Answer and why.\n-MM
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here is an anagram of my answer, just because it means so much more than words can say http://www.budowle.pl/budowle/grafika/ameryka_polnocna/world_trade_center_16.jpg
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No substance at all. Skyscrapers in New York City are designed to collapse straight down in the event of a catastrophic collapse (like from a severe earthquake).\n\nThis is a necessity because New York City has so many skyscrapers closely packed together. If one fell over sideways, it would cause a chain reaction like dominoes, causing millions of deaths.\n\nWTC7 collapsed due to fire. The firefighters decided not to fight the fire in the building because they knew that the building was empty, and that their efforts were better spent rescuing people trapped under the rubble.\n\nSince the fire was allowed to burn unchecked, it eventually weakened the steel members causing it to collapse.\n\n\nBackground information: The steel in the building DID NOT MELT. Steel has a strange property; when it gets heated to a certain temperature, it loses about half its strength.\n\nIf you don't believe that, think about this: why do city fire codes require steel beams to be sprayed with fireproofing material if steel can't catch fire? The fireproofing material is to prevent the steel from losing it's strength due to high temperatures.
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My heartbeat = my fear about something\n\n"The Whitehouse" is a metonym for the US Government\n\n"Hollywood" is a metonym for the whole movie industry\n\n"September 11th" could almost be considered a metonym for the attacks on the WTC and Pentagon on that day
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No such word.\n\nMaybe foam?  loam?  roam?
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Edifice->\n\nContractor Meaning->\nA large building.  \n\nMerriam-Webster ->\n1 : BUILDING; especially : a large or massive structure\n2 : a large abstract structure <holds together the social edifice \n\nOne-Look Dictionary ->\n(n.) A building; a structure; an architectural fabric; -- chiefly applied to elegant houses, and other large buildings; as, a palace, a church, a statehouse.
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The word you're looking for is "measured"..?
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It's a Japanese word.  It means harbor wave.
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To me it means a house built to suit the owner. Such as a house built for someone in a wheel chair. All the right counter heights, width of doorways & such.
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I think he means that this wall isn't a wall that protect the building, because this wall is buried in ground. But I'm not sure because this word is unknown for me ."Pseudo" means false but  "ashar" . Are you sure for the word? \n\nIs it "ashore" ? that means:\ntoward or onto land from an area of water, or on land after coming from an area of water .\n"ashore" matches better because this wall is onto land.\nHope help
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Try to ask mor clearlly at http://skyscrapercity.com/archive/index.php/t-160977-p-4.html
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(Just in case this isn't a joke, and you really want to know!!)\n\n"Building" meaning the finished OBJECT was originally a NOUN form), and "Building" meaning the PROCESS is at root a VERB form.   The two forms have separate histories, and their "ing" suffixes were originally different.\n\nThe origins of the forms:\n\nThe NOUN form --  in Old English, the suffix -ung (sometimes -ing)  was often used to create nouns.   This exact ending is still seen in German nouns that end with -ung.    The noun can relate to the original verb ("build") in several ways.  Often it refers to something that is the RESULT of the process the verb refers to.\nhttp://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-ung\nhttp://www.tu-chemnitz.de/phil/english/chairs/linguist/real/independent/eafrica/Diss_Diana/dissch4-3.htm\n\nThere are MANY examples of such words in Modern English.  Consider the following houns which refer to objects which, like "building", are ordinarily NOT "in process" when we speak of them:\npainting,  dwelling, saying,  writing,  gathering, bedding, roofing, sacking, clothing, earnings\n\n(There are other, related ways, that Old English formed nouns from verb roots.  One of these is the suffix -(at)ion, such as:  decision, isolation, explanation.  Another is  -ment:  establishment.)\n\n\nThe VERB form -- in Old English, participles ended with -ende (a form still found in German).\n\nIn Middle English these forms fell together.   That is, both the participle and noun ends became "-ing".   In fact, the use of this form  in expressions like "the building of" is a LATE development (whereas "building" as an object is a very old sort of form).\n\nFor the distinction in the suffixes, see Webster's (1913)\nhttp://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=261832
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skyscraper roof.............hahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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This n terms f civil engineering refers to the views in which objects- from a simple line , a 2-D , a 3-D to combinations of 3-D which form a shape( a building).. Views mean when u look from the top how it looks;, from the front, how it looks, etc.. it s quite interesting if u understand the subject..
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go to urbandictionary.com \nthis site has is full of new jargon that is defined by those who use those kinds of words\nsometimes it helps
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Very cool question\n\nCulminate is a verb which means to bring to a peak or reach its highest point.\n\nIt comes from the same Latin meaning as the word "column".\n\nSo since a column is tall, you can remember the meaning of the word easier.\n\nThanks for asking this because now I know too!
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The yiddish word, from my point of view, does have the broad meaning you suggest - it could be any little things, not just promotional items.  More than just knick-knacks.  It could be any physical item, usually smaller than a chair.