skyscraper oor Xhosa

skyscraper

/ˈskaɪˌskɹeɪp.ə(ɹ)/, /ˈskaɪˌskɹeɪpɚ/ naamwoord

(archaic) A small sail atop a mast of a ship.

Vertalings in die woordeboek Engels - Xhosa

intengiso egqiba iphepha lonke

A graphic ad that is the full height of a page and normally 120 pixels wide.

Skyscraper

Soortgelyke frases

skyscraper banner
ibhena egcwele iphepha

skyscraper ad
intengiso egcwele iphepha

voorbeelde

For example, because of the law of gravity, a man cannot jump off a skyscraper without harming or killing himself.
Ngokomzekelo, ngenxa yomthetho womxhuzulane, umntu akanakutsiba kurhec’ izulu wesakhiwo aze angenzakali okanye afe.

Pest controllers were amazed when they were called to catch a fox on the 72nd floor of a skyscraper under construction in central London.
Abantu ababulala izinambuzane bamangaliswa xa bafumana impungutye kumgangatho wama-72 wesakhiwo eside esasisakhiwa kumbindi weLondon.

“The complexity of building supercomputers, erecting skyscrapers, or even designing whole cities pales beside the task of imbuing machines with humanlike motor skills, synthetic sight, smell, hearing, and touch, plus something that approximates human intelligence,” observed the journal Business Week.
Iphephandaba iBusiness Week lithi: “Ukwakha iikhompyutha ezinobuxhakaxhaka obuninzi, izakhiwo ezingoorhec’ izulu, okanye isixeko kulula kakhulu xa kuthelekiswa nokwenza umatshini onobuchule obufana nobomntu, owenziwe ngathi uyabona, uyajoja, uyeva, uyaphatha, yaye obonakala usondele emntwini ngokuba krelekrele.”

Some architects are using it in designing skyscrapers, offices, and homes.
Amanye amagcisa okwakha asebenzisa yona ekwenzeni oorhec’ izulu, iiofisi namakhaya.

He asserts that fear of a worldwide computer failure in the year 2000 “has turned thoroughly secular individuals into unlikely millenarians” who fear the advent of disasters like “mass panic, government paralysis, food riots, planes crashing into skyscrapers.”
Uthi ukoyika kwabantu ukusilela kweekhompyutha ngonyaka wama-2000 “kuye kwaguqula abantu abangalunanze nganto unqulo bazibona sebekholelwa kwiwaka leminyaka” besoyika ukuhla kweziganeko ezifana “neziphithiphithi, ukuwohloka koorhulumente, ukujijisana ngokutya, neenqwelo-moya ezintlaleka koorhec’ izulu bezakhiwo.”

The citizens of England’s cosmopolitan capital are grateful for the prompt response provided for their medical emergencies, whether these involve just one person or many and whether they occur underground or high up in a skyscraper.
Abantu abahlala kumbindi wesixeko saseNgilani bakuvuyela kakhulu ukubona intsabelo ekhawulezileyo yonyango lokuqala, enoba kwenzakele umntu omnye okanye abaninzi, okanye ingozi ingaphantsi komhlaba okanye kurhec’ izulu wesakhiwo.

They are found amid the skyscrapers of the capital and in the remotest country village.
Nokuba ungaya kwisixeko esilikomkhulu okanye kumaphandle asemagqagaleni, uya kufika ekho.

The sight of such predators running after prey against the backdrop of glittering city skyscrapers is not soon forgotten.
Ukubona ezi zilwanyana zisukela amaxhoba emva kwezo zakhiwo zide zesixeko ngumbono ongenakukhawuleza ulibaleke.

My train takes me hurtling past tightly packed tenements and densely populated skyscrapers.
Uloliwe endihamba ngaye usisityambele esenza utshetshetshe phakathi kwezo zakhiwo ezinamagumbi aqeshisayo naxineneyo noorhec’ izulu bezakhiwo ezinyakazelayo ngabemi.

Certainly it is possible to say that a development analogous to the adoption of high-rise buildings or even skyscrapers ashore will not take place in shipbuilding.
Kunokwenzeka ukuthi inkqubela phambili ifane nolwamnkelo ngokusemthethweni lonyuko oluphezulu lwezakhiwo okanye izikweli nezibhakabhaka elunxwemeni nakuthatha indawo ekwakhiweni lwenqanawa.

Sturdy bones, flexible muscles, and a responsive nervous system are topped by a brain far superior to any animal brain and with capacities that a computer the size of a skyscraper could not begin to contain.
Amathambo omeleleyo, izihlunu ezithambileyo nemithambo-luvo ixhomekeke kubuchopho obubugqwesa lee ubuchopho baso nasiphi na isilwanyana nobunobuchule obungaphezulu lee kunekhompyutha elingana nesona sakhiwo sikhulu.

While high and lofty things —such as that statue as well as obelisks, steeples, and skyscrapers— may impress humans, this is not the case with God.
Ngoxa abantu besenokuchukumiseka zizinto eziphakamileyo—ezinjengalo mfanekiso, iibhakana, neenqaba ezinde—uThixo yena akachukunyiswa zizinto ezinjalo.

Many thrill seekers take part in extreme sports, including death-defying stunts such as climbing the sides of city skyscrapers without safety equipment, snowboarding down steep 20,000-foot [6,000 m] mountains, bungee jumping off high towers and bridges, parachuting out of airplanes while strapped to another jumper’s back, or climbing sheer ice-covered cliffs with nothing but a pair of small pickaxes in their hands.
Inkoliso yabantu abathanda imidlalo ebangela imincili idla ngokudlala imidlalo eyingozi kakhulu, kuquka ukunyuka koorhec’ izulu bezakhiwo ingenazixhobo zakuzikhusela, ityibilize ekhephini kwiintaba eziphakame kangangeemitha ezingama-6 000, itsibe kwizakhiwo neebhulorho eziphakamileyo ibotshelelwe ngentambo, itsibe kwiinqwelo-moya ngeparachute okanye inyuke iintaba ezinomkhenkce isebenzisa imikholwane nje kuphela.

Skyscrapers climbed up into the clouds.
Izakhiwo eziphakamileyo zazinyuka zisingisele emafini.