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land       (lānd)  Pronunciation Key  n.   The solid ground of the earth. Ground or soil: tilled the land. A topographically or functionally distinct tract: desert land; prime building land. A nation; a country. The people of a nation, district, or region. lands Territorial possessions or property. A tract that may be owned, together with everything growing or constructed on it. A landed estate. An agricultural or farming area: wanted to buy a house on the land. Farming considered as a way of life: "The 'back to the land movement' began a couple years ago at the peak of South Korea's economic development and has roots in environmentalism and Buddhist philosophy." (Michael Baker). A nation; a country. The people of a nation, district, or region. lands Territorial possessions or property. A tract that may be owned, together with everything growing or constructed on it. A landed estate. An agricultural or farming area: wanted to buy a house on the land. Farming considered as a way of life: "The 'back to the land movement' began a couple years ago at the peak of South Korea's economic development and has roots in environmentalism and Buddhist philosophy." (Michael Baker). Public or private landed property; real estate. Law A tract that may be owned, together with everything growing or constructed on it. A landed estate. An agricultural or farming area: wanted to buy a house on the land. Farming considered as a way of life: "The 'back to the land movement' began a couple years ago at the peak of South Korea's economic development and has roots in environmentalism and Buddhist philosophy." (Michael Baker). An agricultural or farming area: wanted to buy a house on the land. Farming considered as a way of life: "The 'back to the land movement' began a couple years ago at the peak of South Korea's economic development and has roots in environmentalism and Buddhist philosophy." (Michael Baker). An area or realm: the land of make-believe; the land of television. The raised portion of a grooved surface, as on a phonograph record. v.   land·ed, land·ing, lands v.   tr. To bring to and unload on land: land cargo. To set (a vehicle) down on land or another surface: land an airplane smoothly; land a seaplane on a lake. To catch and pull in (a fish): landed a big catfish. Informal To win; secure: land a big contract. Informal To cause to arrive in a place or condition: Civil disobedience will land you in jail. To catch and pull in (a fish): landed a big catfish. Informal To win; secure: land a big contract. Informal To deliver: landed a blow on his opponent's head. v.   intr. To come to shore: landed against the current with great difficulty. To disembark: landed at a crowded dock. To descend toward and settle onto the ground or another surface: The helicopter has landed. Informal To arrive in a place or condition: landed at the theater too late for the opening curtain; landed in trouble for being late. To come to rest in a certain way or place: slipped and landed on his shoulder. [Middle English, from Old English; see lendh- in Indo-European roots.]

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Land       (lānd)  Pronunciation Key  American inventor who developed (1932) the light-polarizing plastic film called Polaroid and incorporated it into lenses for cameras and sunglasses. He also invented the one-step photographic process (1947).

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land
noun
1.	the land on which real estate is located; "he built the house on land leased from the city"
2.	material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use); "the land had never been plowed"; "good agricultural soil"
3.	territory over which rule or control is exercised; "his domain extended into Europe"; "he made it the law of the land" [syn: domain]
4.	the solid part of the earth's surface; "the plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land"; "the earth shook for several minutes"; "he dropped the logs on the ground"
5.	the territory occupied by a nation; "he returned to the land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries" [syn: country]
6.	a domain in which something is dominant; "the untroubled kingdom of reason"; "a land of make-believe"; "the rise of the realm of cotton in the south" [syn: kingdom]
7.	extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use; "the family owned a large estate on Long Island" [syn: estate]
8.	the people who live in a nation or country; "a statement that sums up the nation's mood"; "the news was announced to the nation"; "the whole country worshipped him" [syn: nation]
9.	a politically organized body of people under a single government; "the state has elected a new president"; "African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an industrialized land" [syn: state]
10.	United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one step photographic process (1909-1991)
11.	agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life; "farming is a strenuous life"; "there's no work on the land any more" [syn: farming]
verb
1.	reach or come to rest; "The bird landed on the highest branch"; "The plane landed in Istanbul"
2.	cause to come to the ground; "the pilot managed to land the airplane safely"
3.	bring into a different state; "this may land you in jail" [syn: bring]
4.	bring ashore; "The drug smugglers landed the heroin on the beach of the island"
5.	deliver (a blow); "He landed several blows on his opponent's head"
6.	arrive on shore; "The ship landed in Pearl Harbor"
7.	shoot at and force to come down; "the enemy landed several of our aircraft" [syn: down]

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In addition to the idioms beginning with land, also see cloud-cuckoo land; fall (land) on one's feet; fat of the land; la-la land; lay of the land; never-never land.

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Land

Property or real estate, not including buildings or equipment. Land is not depreciable under IRS tax law.

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Selling land results in a capital gain or loss.

See also: Capital Gain, Capital Loss, Depreciation

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land

A firm's dollar investment in real estate.

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Main Entry: land
Function: noun
1 : an area of the earth usually inclusive of improvements, bodies of water, and natural or man-made objects and extendingindefinitely upward and downward —compare AIR RIGHT
2 : an estate, interest, or right in land<land means both surface and mineral rights —California Public Resources Code>

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Land O Lakes, FL Zip code(s): 34639

Land O Lakes, WI Zip code(s): 54540

Land O' Lakes, FL (CDP, FIPS 39200) Location: 28.22175 N, 82.45381 W
Population (1990): 7892 (3238 housing units)
Area: 27.1 sq km (land), 4.9 sq km (water)

De Land Southwest, FL (CDP, FIPS 16937) Location: 29.00690 N, 81.31096 W
Population (1990): 1249 (524 housing units)
Area: 1.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

Sugar Land, TX (city, FIPS 70808) Location: 29.61878 N, 95.61618 W
Population (1990): 24529 (8579 housing units)
Area: 31.8 sq km (land), 1.6 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 77478, 77479

De Land, IL (village, FIPS 19200) Location: 40.12159 N, 88.64383 W
Population (1990): 458 (196 housing units)
Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 61839

De Land, FL (city, FIPS 16875) Location: 29.03604 N, 81.29752 W
Population (1990): 16491 (7724 housing units)
Area: 25.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

North De Land, FL (CDP, FIPS 49275) Location: 29.04929 N, 81.29820 W
Population (1990): 1493 (627 housing units)
Area: 1.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

West De Land, FL (CDP, FIPS 76087) Location: 29.01543 N, 81.33342 W
Population (1990): 3389 (1319 housing units)
Area: 6.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

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Land

Fa"ther*land"\, n. [Imitated fr. D. vaderland. See Father, and Land.] One's native land; the native land of one's fathers or ancestors.

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Land

Land\, n. Urine. See Lant. [Obs.]

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Land\, n. [AS. land, lond; akin to D., G., Icel., Sw., Dan., and Goth. land. ]

1. The solid part of the surface of the earth; -- opposed to water as constituting a part of such surface, especially to oceans and seas; as, to sight land after a long voyage.

They turn their heads to sea, their sterns to land. --Dryden.

2. Any portion, large or small, of the surface of the earth, considered by itself, or as belonging to an individual or a people, as a country, estate, farm, or tract.

Go view the land, even Jericho. --Josh. ii. 1.

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay. --Goldsmith.

Note: In the expressions "to be, or dwell, upon land," "to go, or fare, on land," as used by Chaucer, land denotes the country as distinguished from the town.

A poor parson dwelling upon land [i.e., in the country]. --Chaucer.

3. Ground, in respect to its nature or quality; soil; as, wet land; good or bad land.

4. The inhabitants of a nation or people.

These answers, in the silent night received, The kind himself divulged, the land believed. --Dryden.

5. The mainland, in distinction from islands.

6. The ground or floor. [Obs.]

Herself upon the land she did prostrate. --Spenser.

7. (Agric.) The ground left unplowed between furrows; any one of several portions into which a field is divided for convenience in plowing.

8. (Law) Any ground, soil, or earth whatsoever, as meadows, pastures, woods, etc., and everything annexed to it, whether by nature, as trees, water, etc., or by the hand of man, as buildings, fences, etc.; real estate. --Kent. Bouvier. Burrill.

9. (Naut.) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; -- called also landing. --Knight.

10. In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, as the level part of a millstone between the furrows, or the surface of the bore of a rifled gun between the grooves.

Land agent, a person employed to sell or let land, to collect rents, and to attend to other money matters connected with land.

Land boat, a vehicle on wheels propelled by sails.

Land blink, a peculiar atmospheric brightness seen from sea over distant snow-covered land in arctic regions. See Ice blink.

Land breeze. See under Breeze.

Land chain. See Gunter's chain.

Land crab (Zo["o]l.), any one of various species of crabs which live much on the land, and resort to the water chiefly for the purpose of breeding. They are abundant in the West Indies and South America. Some of them grow to a large size.

Land fish a fish on land; a person quite out of place. --Shak.

Land force, a military force serving on land, as distinguished from a naval force.

Land, ho! (Naut.), a sailor's cry in announcing sight of land.

Land ice, a field of ice adhering to the coast, in distinction from a floe.

Land leech (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of blood-sucking leeches, which, in moist, tropical regions, live on land, and are often troublesome to man and beast.

Land measure, the system of measurement used in determining the area of land; also, a table of areas used in such measurement.

Land, or House, of bondage, in Bible history, Egypt; by extension, a place or condition of special oppression.

Land o' cakes, Scotland.

Land of Nod, sleep.

Land of promise, in Bible history, Canaan: by extension, a better country or condition of which one has expectation.

Land of steady habits, a nickname sometimes given to the State of Connecticut.

Land office, a government office in which the entries upon, and sales of, public land are registered, and other business respecting the public lands is transacted. [U.S.]

Land pike. (Zo["o]l.) (a) The gray pike, or sauger. (b) The Menobranchus.

Land service, military service as distinguished from naval service.

Land rail. (Zo["o]l) (a) The crake or corncrake of Europe. See Crake. (b) An Australian rail (Hypot[ae]nidia Phillipensis); -- called also pectoral rail.

Land scrip, a certificate that the purchase money for a certain portion of the public land has been paid to the officer entitled to receive it. [U.S.]

Land shark, a swindler of sailors on shore. [Sailors' Cant]

Land side (a) That side of anything in or on the sea, as of an island or ship, which is turned toward the land. (b) The side of a plow which is opposite to the moldboard and which presses against the unplowed land.

Land snail (Zo["o]l.), any snail which lives on land, as distinguished from the aquatic snails are Pulmonifera, and belong to the Geophila; but the operculated land snails of warm countries are Di[oe]cia, and belong to the T[ae]nioglossa. See Geophila, and Helix.

Land spout, a descent of cloud and water in a conical form during the occurrence of a tornado and heavy rainfall on land.

Land steward, a person who acts for another in the management of land, collection of rents, etc.

Land tortoise, Land turtle (Zo["o]l.), any tortoise that habitually lives on dry land, as the box tortoise. See Tortoise.

Land warrant, a certificate from the Land Office, authorizing a person to assume ownership of a public land. [U.S.]

Land wind. Same as Land breeze (above).

To make land (Naut.), to sight land.

To set the land, to see by the compass how the land bears from the ship.

To shut in the land, to hide the land, as when fog, or an intervening island, obstructs the view.

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Land\, n. [AS. land, lond; akin to D., G., Icel., Sw., Dan., and Goth. land. ]

1. The solid part of the surface of the earth; -- opposed to water as constituting a part of such surface, especially to oceans and seas; as, to sight land after a long voyage.

They turn their heads to sea, their sterns to land. --Dryden.

2. Any portion, large or small, of the surface of the earth, considered by itself, or as belonging to an individual or a people, as a country, estate, farm, or tract.

Go view the land, even Jericho. --Josh. ii. 1.

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay. --Goldsmith.

Note: In the expressions "to be, or dwell, upon land," "to go, or fare, on land," as used by Chaucer, land denotes the country as distinguished from the town.

A poor parson dwelling upon land [i.e., in the country]. --Chaucer.

3. Ground, in respect to its nature or quality; soil; as, wet land; good or bad land.

4. The inhabitants of a nation or people.

These answers, in the silent night received, The kind himself divulged, the land believed. --Dryden.

5. The mainland, in distinction from islands.

6. The ground or floor. [Obs.]

Herself upon the land she did prostrate. --Spenser.

7. (Agric.) The ground left unplowed between furrows; any one of several portions into which a field is divided for convenience in plowing.

8. (Law) Any ground, soil, or earth whatsoever, as meadows, pastures, woods, etc., and everything annexed to it, whether by nature, as trees, water, etc., or by the hand of man, as buildings, fences, etc.; real estate. --Kent. Bouvier. Burrill.

9. (Naut.) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; -- called also landing. --Knight.

10. In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, as the level part of a millstone between the furrows, or the surface of the bore of a rifled gun between the grooves.

Land agent, a person employed to sell or let land, to collect rents, and to attend to other money matters connected with land.

Land boat, a vehicle on wheels propelled by sails.

Land blink, a peculiar atmospheric brightness seen from sea over distant snow-covered land in arctic regions. See Ice blink.

Land breeze. See under Breeze.

Land chain. See Gunter's chain.

Land crab (Zo["o]l.), any one of various species of crabs which live much on the land, and resort to the water chiefly for the purpose of breeding. They are abundant in the West Indies and South America. Some of them grow to a large size.

Land fish a fish on land; a person quite out of place. --Shak.

Land force, a military force serving on land, as distinguished from a naval force.

Land, ho! (Naut.), a sailor's cry in announcing sight of land.

Land ice, a field of ice adhering to the coast, in distinction from a floe.

Land leech (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of blood-sucking leeches, which, in moist, tropical regions, live on land, and are often troublesome to man and beast.

Land measure, the system of measurement used in determining the area of land; also, a table of areas used in such measurement.

Land, or House, of bondage, in Bible history, Egypt; by extension, a place or condition of special oppression.

Land o' cakes, Scotland.

Land of Nod, sleep.

Land of promise, in Bible history, Canaan: by extension, a better country or condition of which one has expectation.

Land of steady habits, a nickname sometimes given to the State of Connecticut.

Land office, a government office in which the entries upon, and sales of, public land are registered, and other business respecting the public lands is transacted. [U.S.]

Land pike. (Zo["o]l.) (a) The gray pike, or sauger. (b) The Menobranchus.

Land service, military service as distinguished from naval service.

Land rail. (Zo["o]l) (a) The crake or corncrake of Europe. See Crake. (b) An Australian rail (Hypot[ae]nidia Phillipensis); -- called also pectoral rail.

Land scrip, a certificate that the purchase money for a certain portion of the public land has been paid to the officer entitled to receive it. [U.S.]

Land shark, a swindler of sailors on shore. [Sailors' Cant]

Land side (a) That side of anything in or on the sea, as of an island or ship, which is turned toward the land. (b) The side of a plow which is opposite to the moldboard and which presses against the unplowed land.

Land snail (Zo["o]l.), any snail which lives on land, as distinguished from the aquatic snails are Pulmonifera, and belong to the Geophila; but the operculated land snails of warm countries are Di[oe]cia, and belong to the T[ae]nioglossa. See Geophila, and Helix.

Land spout, a descent of cloud and water in a conical form during the occurrence of a tornado and heavy rainfall on land.

Land steward, a person who acts for another in the management of land, collection of rents, etc.

Land tortoise, Land turtle (Zo["o]l.), any tortoise that habitually lives on dry land, as the box tortoise. See Tortoise.

Land warrant, a certificate from the Land Office, authorizing a person to assume ownership of a public land. [U.S.]

Land wind. Same as Land breeze (above).

To make land (Naut.), to sight land.

To set the land, to see by the compass how the land bears from the ship.

To shut in the land, to hide the land, as when fog, or an intervening island, obstructs the view.

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