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land⋅ing

  [lan-ding]
Use landing in a Sentence
–noun
1. the act of a person or thing that lands: The pilot brought his plane in for a landing.
2. a place where persons or goods are landed, as from a ship: The boat moored at the landing.
3. Architecture.
a. a platform between flights of stairs.
b. the floor at the head or foot of a flight of stairs.
4. Shipbuilding.
a. the overlap of two plates or planks, as in a clinker-built shell.
b. the distance between the center of a rivet hole and the edge of the plate or shape into which it is cut.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME; see land, -ing 1
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land

  [land]
–noun
1. any part of the earth's surface not covered by a body of water; the part of the earth's surface occupied by continents and islands: Land was sighted from the crow's nest.
2. an area of ground with reference to its nature or composition: arable land.
3. an area of ground with specific boundaries: to buy land on which to build a house.
4. rural or farming areas, as contrasted with urban areas: They left the land for the city.
5. Law.
a. any part of the earth's surface that can be owned as property, and everything annexed to it, whether by nature or by the human hand.
b. any legal interest held in land.
6. Economics. natural resources as a factor of production.
7. a part of the surface of the earth marked off by natural or political boundaries or the like; a region or country: They came from many lands.
8. the people of a region or country
9. Audio. the flat surface between the grooves of a phonograph record.
10. a realm or domain: the land of the living.
11. a surface between furrows, as on a millstone or on the interior of a rifle barrel.
12. Scot. a tenement house.
–verb (used with object)
13. to bring to or set on land: to land passengers or goods from a ship; to land an airplane.
14. to bring into or cause to arrive in a particular place, position, or condition: His behavior will land him in jail.
15. Informal. to catch or capture; gain; win: to land a job.
16. Angling. to bring (a fish) to land, or into a boat, etc., as with a hook or a net.
–verb (used without object)
17. to come to land or shore: The boat lands at Cherbourg.
18. to go or come ashore from a ship or boat.
19. to alight upon a surface, as the ground, a body of water, or the like: to land on both feet.
20. to hit or strike the ground, as from a height: The ball landed at the far side of the court.
21. to strike and come to rest on a surface or in something: The golf ball landed in the lake.
22. to come to rest or arrive in a particular place, position, or condition (sometimes fol. by up): to land in trouble; to land up 40 miles from home.
—Verb phrase
23. land on, Informal. to reprimand; criticize: His mother landed on him for coming home so late.
—Idioms
24. land on one's feet. foot (def. 40).
25. see how the land lies, to investigate in advance; inform oneself of the facts of a situation before acting: You should see how the land lies before making a formal proposal. Compare lay of the land.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME (n. and v.), OE (n.); c. D, G, ON, Goth land; akin to Ir lann, Welsh llan church (orig. enclosure), Breton lann heath. See lawn 1

Related forms:
landlike, adjective
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land   (lānd)   
n.  
  1. The solid ground of the earth.
    1. Ground or soil: tilled the land.
    2. A topographically or functionally distinct tract: desert land; prime building land.
    3. A nation; a country.
    4. The people of a nation, district, or region.
    5. lands Territorial possessions or property.
    6. A tract that may be owned, together with everything growing or constructed on it.
    7. A landed estate.
    8. An agricultural or farming area: wanted to buy a house on the land.
    9. 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).
    1. A nation; a country.
    2. The people of a nation, district, or region.
    3. lands Territorial possessions or property.
    4. A tract that may be owned, together with everything growing or constructed on it.
    5. A landed estate.
    6. An agricultural or farming area: wanted to buy a house on the land.
    7. 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).
  4. Public or private landed property; real estate.
  5. Law
    1. A tract that may be owned, together with everything growing or constructed on it.
    2. A landed estate.
    3. An agricultural or farming area: wanted to buy a house on the land.
    4. 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).
    1. An agricultural or farming area: wanted to buy a house on the land.
    2. 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).
  7. An area or realm: the land of make-believe; the land of television.
  8. The raised portion of a grooved surface, as on a phonograph record.
v.   land·ed, land·ing, lands

v.   tr.
    1. To bring to and unload on land: land cargo.
    2. To set (a vehicle) down on land or another surface: land an airplane smoothly; land a seaplane on a lake.
    3. To catch and pull in (a fish): landed a big catfish.
    4. Informal To win; secure: land a big contract.
  2. Informal To cause to arrive in a place or condition: Civil disobedience will land you in jail.
    1. To catch and pull in (a fish): landed a big catfish.
    2. Informal To win; secure: land a big contract.
  4. Informal To deliver: landed a blow on his opponent's head.
v.   intr.
    1. To come to shore: landed against the current with great difficulty.
    2. To disembark: landed at a crowded dock.
  2. To descend toward and settle onto the ground or another surface: The helicopter has landed.
  3. Informal To arrive in a place or condition: landed at the theater too late for the opening curtain; landed in trouble for being late.
  4. 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.]
land·ing   (lān'dĭng)   
n.  
    1. The act or process of coming to land or rest, especially after a voyage or flight.
    2. A termination, especially of a voyage or flight.
    3. An intermediate platform on a flight of stairs.
    4. The area at the top or bottom of a staircase.
  2. A site for loading and unloading passengers and cargo.
    1. An intermediate platform on a flight of stairs.
    2. The area at the top or bottom of a staircase.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Landing

Land"ing\, a. Of, pertaining to or used for, setting, bringing, or going, on shore.

Landing charges, charges or fees paid on goods unloaded from a vessel.

Landing net, a small, bag-shaped net, used in fishing to take the fish from the water after being hooked.

Landing stage, a floating platform attached at one end to a wharf in such a manner as to rise and fall with the tide, and thus facilitate passage between the wharf and a vessel lying beside the stage.

Landing waiter, a customhouse officer who oversees the landing of goods, etc., from vessels; a landwaiter.

Landing

Land"ing\, n. 1. A going or bringing on shore.

2. A place for landing, as from a ship, a carriage. etc.

3. (Arch.) The level part of a staircase, at the top of a flight of stairs, or connecting one flight with another.

Landing place. me as Landing, n., 2 and 3.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : landing
Spanish: aterrizaje, desembarco,
German: die Landung, Landungs-…,
Japanese: 着陸
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