land vs water

Definitions

verb

1. deliver (a blow)
2. cause to come to the ground
3. shoot at and force to come down
4. arrive on shore
5. reach or come to rest

noun

1. a domain in which something is dominant
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)
3. agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life
4. the solid part of the earth's surface
5. the people who live in a nation or country

Examples

Lobefins today have dwindled to the lungfishes and the coelacanths ‘dwindled’ as ‘fish’, that is, but mightily expanded on land: we land vertebrates are aberrant lungfish.

The aircraft descended into a wetland area and had since been forgotten about as it sank below the surface.

The critics call its recipes bland, unhelpful, unoriginal and unhealthy.

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Definitions

verb

1. supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams
2. secrete or form water, as tears or saliva
3. provide with water
4. fill with tears

noun

1. once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles)
2. liquid excretory product
3. a facility that provides a source of water
4. binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent
5. the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean)

Examples

But at lunch on the first day we were approached by the helpful Hotel Manager Henri and offered a swap to an overwater bungalow.

He specialized in moonlit and winter scenes, usually including a sheet of water and sometimes also involving the light of a fire, and he also painted sunsets and views at dawn or twilight.

The mysterious jack snipe is a typical bird of the often water-logged northern taiga, birch and willow country.

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