skyscraper

English - Turkish

Definition of skyscraper in English Turkish dictionary

gökdelen

Gökdelenler güzel yapılardır. - Skyscrapers are beautiful structures.

Gökdelen şehrin ortasındadır. - The skyscraper is in the center of the city.

(isim) gökdelen

skyscraper hive

(Arılık) çok katlı kovan

a skyscraper

Bir gökdelen

English - English

Definition of skyscraper in English English dictionary: Anything very tall or high
It was no surprise to see Hanley bat a skyscraper out to left.; A very tall building with a great number of floors
Then he noticed, as a prosaic business man will notice suddenly, that a skyscraper which he has passed daily for months is out of line with its neighbor, that the seat behind the new little girl was unoccupied and that she stood alone in the aisle during exercises.; A small sail atop a mast of a ship; A skyscraper is a very tall building in a city. Very tall multistoried building. The term originally applied to buildings of 10-20 stories, but now generally describes high-rises of more than 40-50 stories. James Bogardus (1800-1874) built the pioneering Cast Iron Building, New York (1848), with a rigid iron frame providing the main support for upper-floor and roof loads. The refinement of the Bessemer process for making steel (lighter and stronger than iron) made extremely tall buildings possible. Chicago's Home Insurance Co. Building (1884-85), by William Le Baron Jenney (1832-1907), was the first tall building to use a steel skeleton. Structurally, skyscrapers consist of a substructure supported by a deep foundation of piles or caissons beneath the ground, an aboveground superstructure of columns and girders, and a curtain wall hung on the structural framework. Tube structures, braced tubes, and trussed tubes were developed to give skyscrapers the ability to resist lateral wind and seismic forces. The bundled-tube system, developed by Fazlur Khan (1928-1982), uses narrow steel tubes clustered together to form exceptionally rigid columns, and has been used to build some of the world's tallest skyscrapers (e.g., Sears Tower). Skyscraper design and decoration have passed through several stages: Louis Sullivan emphasized verticality; the firm of McKim, Mead, & White (see Charles F. McKim, Stanford White) stressed Neoclassicism. The International Style was ideally suited to skyscraper design. Originally a form of commercial architecture, skyscrapers have increasingly been used for residential purposes as well. See also setback; A name for the one of the fancy sails alleged to have been sometimes set above the skysail; {i} very tall building; A skysail of a triangular form; a very tall building with many stories; A very tall building; Hence, anything usually large, high, or excessive; high-rise building
skyscrapers: plural of skyscraper