[
UK
/lˈænd/
]
[ US /ˈɫænd/ ]
[ US /ˈɫænd/ ]
VERB
-
deliver (a blow)
He landed several blows on his opponent's head -
cause to come to the ground
the pilot managed to land the airplane safely -
shoot at and force to come down
the enemy landed several of our aircraft -
arrive on shore
The ship landed in Pearl Harbor -
reach or come to rest
The plane landed in Istanbul
The bird landed on the highest branch -
bring into a different state
this may land you in jail -
bring ashore
The drug smugglers landed the heroin on the beach of the island
NOUN
-
a domain in which something is dominant
a land of make-believe
the rise of the realm of cotton in the south
the untroubled kingdom of reason -
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 -
agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life
there's no work on the land any more
farming is a strenuous life -
the solid part of the earth's surface
the plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land
he dropped the logs on the ground
the earth shook for several minutes -
the people who live in a nation or country
the news was announced to the nation
a statement that sums up the nation's mood
the whole country worshipped him -
a politically organized body of people under a single government
African nations
students who had come to the nation's capitol
an industrialized land
the country's largest manufacturer
the state has elected a new president -
the land on which real estate is located
he built the house on land leased from the city -
the territory occupied by a nation
he returned to the land of his birth
he visited several European countries -
extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use
the family owned a large estate on Long Island -
territory over which rule or control is exercised
his domain extended into Europe
he made it the law of the land
How To Use land In A Sentence
- 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 GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
- The aircraft descended into a wetland area and had since been forgotten about as it sank below the surface. Times, Sunday Times
- The critics call its recipes bland, unhelpful, unoriginal and unhealthy. The Sun
- Druses were common throughout the mesophyll tissues, and peltate, glandular trichomes were present on both epidermises.
- Their dried dung is found everywhere, and is in many places the only fuel afforded by the plains; their skulls, which last longer than any other part of the animal, are among the most familiar of objects to the plainsman; their bones are in many districts so plentiful that it has become a regular industry, followed by hundreds of men (christened "bone hunters" by the frontiersmen), to go out with wagons and collect them in great numbers for the sake of the phosphates they yield; and Bad Lands, plateaus, and prairies alike, are cut up in all directions by the deep ruts which were formerly buffalo trails. VIII. The Lordly Buffalo
- A damning indictment for a Paul Bartel film, Lust in the Dust is found guilty of being bland and lame.
- Brigalow vegetation is found to the east, and gidgee (A. cambagei) woodlands or shrublands are scattered across the region on alluvium or other more fertile clay soils. Eastern Australia mulga shrublands
- Anybody who has ever been on a North Queensland pastoral lease knows that you can go 20, 30, 40 miles day after day and all you will see is a few brumbies and some wild pigs; you will not see any cattle anywhere.
- Moreover some parts of gain will devolute to Italian Red Cross seriously employed in the disastrous earthquake land that hit the middle lands of Italia few weeks ago. MacMegasite
- Ireland does not have another manufacturing facility with a similar capacity to absorb glass cullet (crushed glass).
