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Landscraper vs Landscaper - What's the difference?

landscraper | landscaper |

As nouns the difference between landscraper and landscaper

is that landscraper is a building with a very large footprint; a horizontal megastructure while landscaper is one that does landscaping.

landscraper

English

Etymology 1

By analogy with skyscraper .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A building with a very large footprint; a horizontal megastructure.
  • * 2009 , Dennis Yusko, " Skidmore's sounds of music", The Times-Union , 28 December 2009:
  • But the super structure already has been panned by local author and architectural critic James Howard Kunstler, who has called the building a "landscraper " the size of an aircraft carrier, and compared it unfavorably to a "gigantic brick Yule log" and Darth Vader's mask.

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    Etymology 2

    land'' + ''scraper

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A piece of heavy equipment used to move earth.
  • * 1990 , " Activists protest earth-moving at waste facility site", Mohave Daily MIner , 22 July 1990:
  • "We caught them using a lot of heavy equipment — big landscrapers were moving out tons of dirt," said Marlene Stephens, of Don't Waste Arizona, a coalition of Arizona environmental groups fighting the toxic waste complex.

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    Etymology 3

    Alteration of landscaper .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nonstandard) A gardener or landscaper.
  • * 1926 , Olive Dean Hormel, Co-Ed , Charles Scriber's Sons (1926), page 184:
  • "I loved flowers, too, and grew up in a garden, but it didn't make me single-minded or a landscraper . . . ."

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    landscaper

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One that does landscaping.