different between skyscraper vs apartment

English

Etymology

sky +? scraper

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ska??sk?e?p.?(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?ska??sk?e?p?/

Noun

skyscraper (plural skyscrapers)

1. A very tall building with a large number of floors.
   • 1910, William Henry Irwin, The House of Mystery,

     As the curve of Sandy Hook blotted from sight the last, low glimpse of the skyscrapers which point Manhattan, Blake touched Annette's arm.

   • 1912, Elliott O'Donnell, The Sorcery Club,

     The solitary attic—if one could thus designate a space of about three square feet—which comprised Hamar's lodging—had the advantage of being situated in the top storey of a skyscraper—at least a skyscraper for that part of the city.

   • 1917, Herman Gastrell Seely, A Son of the City: A Story of Boy Life,

     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.
2. (nautical, archaic) A small sail atop a mast of a ship; a triangular skysail.
3. (figuratively) Anything very tall or high.
   • 1920, Zane Grey, The Redheaded Outfield and other Baseball Stories,

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

Derived terms

• skyscraper heel
• skyscraperland
• skyscraperless

Descendants

This term has been calqued in many languages.

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• APT (The US Postal Service prefers this variant)
• apt.

Etymology

From French appartement, from Italian appartamento, from Spanish apartamiento (“separation, seclusion”). See apart.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??p??t.m?nt/
• (General American) enPR: ?-pärt'm?nt, IPA^(key): /??p??t.m?nt/

Noun

apartment (plural apartments)

1. (chiefly Canada, US) A complete domicile occupying only part of a building, especially one for rent; a flat.
   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     I am Jonathan. I am in apartment B4. — I am in apartment C2.

2. (archaic) A suite of rooms within a domicile, designated for a specific person or persons and including a bedroom.

   • By this contrivance I got into the inmost court; and, lying down upon my side, I applied my face to the windows of the middle stories, which were left open on purpose, and discovered the most splendid apartments that can be imagined. There I saw the empress and the young princes in their several lodgings, with their chief attendants about them.

3. (obsolete) A division of an enclosure that is separate from others; a compartment
   • 1883 April 23, Slawson v. Grand Street R. Co., 107 U.S. 649, 2 S.Ct. 663, 664,

     The specification described the ordinary fare-box used in street cars and omnibuses, consisting of two apartments, the one directly above the other.... [T]he passenger deposited his fare in an aperture in the top of the upper apartment. It fell upon and was arrested by a movable platform.... This platform turned on an axis acted on by a lever. When turned, the fare fell into the lower apartment, which was a receptacle for holding the fares accumulated....

4. (computing, COM) A conceptual space used for separation in the threading architecture. Objects in one apartment cannot directly access those in another, but must use a proxy.

Synonyms

• (domicile occupying part of a building): flat (UK); unit; (compare with) condominium

Derived terms

• apartment building
• apartment block

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??????? (ap?tomento)
• ? Thai: ??????????? (à-páat-mén)

Translations

See also

• tenement

Malay

Noun

apartment (plural apartment-apartment, informal 1st possessive apartmentku, impolite 2nd possessive apartmentmu, 3rd possessive apartmentnya)

1. apartment