landscraperとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

landscraper (複数形 landscrapers)

1. 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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語源 2

land + scraper

名詞

landscraper (複数形 landscrapers)

1. 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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語源 3

Alteration of landscaper.

名詞

landscraper (複数形 landscrapers)

1. (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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