Skyscraper vs Duplex - What's the difference?
skyscraper | duplex |
A very tall building with a great number of floors.
* 1910 , (William Henry Irwin),
* 1912 , (w, Elliott O'Donnell),
* 1917 , Herman Gastrell Seely,
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, title= (archaic) A small sail atop a mast of a ship.
(figuratively) Anything very tall or high.
* 1920 , (Zane Grey),
double, made up of two parts
bidirectional (in two directions)
house made up of two dwelling units
(philately) a cancellation combining a numerical cancellation with a second mark showing time, date, and place of posting.
(juggling) throwing motion where two balls are thrown with one hand at the same time.
To make .
To make into a .
(jugging) To make a series of duplex throws.
As nouns the difference between skyscraper and duplex
is that skyscraper is a very tall building with a great number of floors while duplex is house made up of two dwelling units.As an adjective duplex is
double, made up of two parts.As a verb duplex is
to make.skyscraper
English
(wikipedia skyscraper)Noun
(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.
duplex
English
Adjective
(-)- duplex telegraphy