SKYSCRAPERS

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Небоскребы

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SKYSCRAPERS — Skyscrapers are very tall buildings that contain offices or places to live. The first were built in Chicago in the …
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SKYSCRAPERS — Небоскрёб
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SKYSCRAPERS — Небоскребы
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STAMFORD — City (pop., 2000: 117,083), southwestern Connecticut, U.S. Stamford lies at the mouth of the Rippowam River on Long Island Sound …
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SKYSCRAPER — Very tall multistoried building. The term originally applied to buildings of 10–20 stories, but now generally describes Bessemer process for …
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ROCKEFELLER CENTER — Complex of 14 limestone skyscrapers set amid a series of outdoor spaces on a 12-acre (5-hectare) site, built between 1929 …
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PETRONAS TOWERS — Twin stainless-steel-clad skyscrapers, linked by a skybridge, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Designed by Cesar Pelli (b. 1926) and completed in …
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PEREGRINE FALCON — or duck hawk Falco peregrinus ) found worldwide but rare today because of bioaccumulation of pesticides. Peregrines are 13–19 in. …
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MODERNISM — In the arts, a radical break with the past and concurrent search for new forms of expression. Modernism fostered a …
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KAHN, LOUIS I(SADORE) — born Feb. 20, 1901, Osel, Estonia, Russian Empire died March 17, 1974, New York, N.Y., U.S. Estonian-born U.S. architect. He …
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HOOD, RAYMOND M(ATHEWSON) — born March 29, 1881, Pawtucket, R.I., U.S. died Aug. 14, 1934, Stamford, Conn. U.S. architect. He studied at the Massachusetts …
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CURTAIN WALL — Nonbearing wall of glass, metal, or masonry attached to a building's exterior structural frame. After World War II, low energy …
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SOAPBOX — I. ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun 1. a. : a small box or receptacle designed to hold a bar of soap b. : …
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SKYLINE — I. ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun 1. : an apparent line in the landscape at the juncture of earth and sky : horizon …
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HUMAN
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HONEYCOMB — I. ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English honycomb, from Old English hunigcamb, from hunig honey + camb comb …
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WONDERINGLY — adverb : in a wondering manner looked wonderingly at the skyscrapers
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SKYSCRAPERED — | ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷pə(r)d adjective : having or marked by skyscrapers skyscrapered cities
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OUTCLIMB — (ˈ) ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ transitive verb Etymology: out- + climb 1. : to outdo in climbing outclimbs the other children 2. : to …
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DIVERSIFY — də̇ˈvərsəˌfī, -və̄s-, -vəis- also dīˈ- verb ( -ed/-ing/-es ) Etymology: Medieval Latin diversificare, from Late Latin diversificus varied, from Latin …
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CITYSCAPE — ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌskāp noun ( -s ) Etymology: city + -scape 1. : a pictorial representation of a city 2. : a …
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ULTRAHIGH — /ul'treuh huy"/ , adj. extremely high: ultrahigh skyscrapers of 100 stories. [ 1945-50; ULTRA- + HIGH ]
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MANHATTANIZE — v. change the appearance of a city by building skyscrapers close together; build skyscrapers close together
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TOWER — any structure that is relatively tall in proportion to the dimensions of its base. It may be either freestanding or …
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SKYSCRAPER — very tall, multistoried building. The name first came into use during the 1880s, shortly after the first skyscrapers were built, …
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ARCHITECTURE, HISTORY OF WESTERN
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INTERNATIONAL STYLE — architectural style that developed in Europe and the United States in the 1920s and '30s and became the dominant tendency …
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HOOD, RAYMOND M(ATHEWSON) — born March 29, 1881, Pawtucket, R.I., U.S. died Aug. 14, 1934, Stamford, Conn. U.S. architect noted for his designs of …
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SKYSCRAPER — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB build ▪ People building skyscrapers have the same problem. ▪ The complexity of the …
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SKYSCRAPER — n. Very tall multistoried building. The term originally applied to buildings of 1020 stories, but now generally describes high-rises of …
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