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Skyline vs Landscape - What's the difference?

skyline | landscape |

As nouns the difference between skyline and landscape

is that skyline is the line at which the earth and sky meet, horizon while landscape is a portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains.

As verbs the difference between skyline and landscape

is that skyline is to outline something against the sky while landscape is create or maintain a landscape.

skyline

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (earth sciences) The line at which the earth and sky meet, horizon.
  • The horizontal silhouette of a city or building against the sky.

    • Synonyms

    * (l)

    Verb

  • To outline something against the sky.
    • ----

    landscape

    English

    (wikipedia landscape)

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains.
  • A picture representing a scene by land or sea, actual or fancied, the chief subject being the general aspect of nature, as fields, hills, forests, water. etc.
  • The pictorial aspect of a country.
  • (printing) a mode of printing where the horizontal sides are longer than the vertical sides
  • A space, indoor or outdoor and natural or man-made (as in "designed landscape ")
  • (figuratively) a situation that is presented, a scenario
    • The software patent landscape has changed considerably in the last years

    Antonyms

    * (printing mode) portrait

    Meronyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * landscape gardener * landscape gardening * -scape

    Verb

    (landscap)
  • Create or maintain a landscape.

    • See also

    * dreamscape * moonscape * seascape

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    * English calques English words suffixed with -scape