Scrapper vs Skyscraper - What's the difference?
scrapper | skyscraper |
A person who disposes of scraps.
A person who fights doggedly, who exhibits indomitable will.
:He's a real scrapper , even against impossible odds, he always keeps fighting.
A very tall building with a great number of floors.
* 1910 , (William Henry Irwin),
* 1912 , (w, Elliott O'Donnell),
* 1917 , Herman Gastrell Seely,
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=52, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (archaic) A small sail atop a mast of a ship.
(figuratively) Anything very tall or high.
* 1920 , (Zane Grey),
As nouns the difference between scrapper and skyscraper
is that scrapper is a person who disposes of scraps while skyscraper is a very tall building with a great number of floors.scrapper
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(en noun)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.
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.
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.
The new masters and commanders, passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.
The Redheaded Outfield and other Baseball Stories,
- It was no surprise to see Hanley bat a skyscraper out to left.
