'Landing' definitions:
Definition of 'landing'
From: WordNet
noun
An intermediate platform in a staircase
noun
Structure providing a place where boats can land people or goods [syn: landing, landing place]
noun
The act of coming down to the earth (or other surface); "the plane made a smooth landing"; "his landing on his feet was catlike"
noun
The act of coming to land after a voyage
Definition of 'Landing'
From: GCIDE
- Land \Land\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Landed; p. pr. & vb. n. Landing.]
- 1. To set or put on shore from a ship or other water craft; to disembark; to debark. [1913 Webster]
- I 'll undertake to land them on our coast. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To catch and bring to shore; to capture; as, to land a fish. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To set down after conveying; to cause to fall, alight, or reach; to bring to the end of a course; as, he landed the quoit near the stake; to be thrown from a horse and landed in the mud; to land one in difficulties or mistakes. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Specifically: (Aeronautics) To pilot (an airplane) from the air onto the land; as, to land the plane on a highway. [PJC]
Definition of 'Landing'
From: GCIDE
- Landing \Land"ing\, a. Of, pertaining to, or used for, setting, bringing, or going, on shore. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Landing'
From: GCIDE
- Landing \Land"ing\, n.
- 1. A going or bringing on shore. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A place for landing, as from a ship, a carriage. etc. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Arch.) The level part of a staircase, at the top of a flight of stairs, or connecting one flight with another. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Aeronautics) The act or process of bringing an aircraft to land after having been in the air; as, the pilot made a perfect three-point landing. Contrasted with take-off. [PJC]
- Landing place. me as Landing, n., 2 and 3. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'landing'
From: GCIDE
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- 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. [1913 Webster]
- A poor parson dwelling upon land [i.e., in the country]. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Ground, in respect to its nature or quality; soil; as, wet land; good or bad land. [1913 Webster]
- 4. The inhabitants of a nation or people. [1913 Webster]
- These answers, in the silent night received, The king himself divulged, the land believed. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 5. The mainland, in distinction from islands. [1913 Webster]
- 6. The ground or floor. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Herself upon the land she did prostrate. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 7. (Agric.) The ground left unplowed between furrows; any one of several portions into which a field is divided for convenience in plowing. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 9. (Naut.) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; -- called also landing. --Knight. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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 (Zool.), 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 (Zool.), 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 of bondage 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. (Zool.) (a) The gray pike, or sauger. (b) The Menobranchus.
- Land service, military service as distinguished from naval service.
- Land rail. (Zool) (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 (Zool.), 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 (Zool.), 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'landing'
From: GCIDE
- Halfpace \Half"pace`\ (-p[=a]s`), n. (Arch.) A platform of a staircase where the stair turns back in exactly the reverse direction of the lower flight. See Quarterpace. [1913 Webster]
- Note: This term and quarterpace are rare or unknown in the United States, platform or landing being used instead. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'landing'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aerodrome,
- air base,
- airdrome,
- airfield,
- airport,
- anchorage,
- anchorage ground,
- approach,
- arrival,
- back stairs,
- balcony,
- basin,
- berth,
- blind landing,
- breakwater,
- bulkhead,
- catafalque,
- coming in,
- companion,
- companionway,
- dais,
- debarkation,
- deplaning,
- disembarkation,
- disembarkment,
- dock,
- dockage,
- docking,
- dockyard,
- dropping anchor,
- dry dock,
- embankment,
- emplacement,
- escalier,
- estrade,
- field,
- fire escape,
- flight of steps,
- floor,
- gallery,
- going ashore,
- groin,
- harbor,
- harborage,
- haven,
- heliport,
- hustings,
- incline,
- island,
- jetty,
- jutty,
- landfall,
- landing field,
- landing pad,
- landing place,
- landing stage,
- launching pad,
- marina,
- mole,
- mooring,
- moorings,
- perron,
- pier,
- platform,
- podium,
- port,
- protected anchorage,
- pulpit,
- quay,
- ramp,
- road,
- roads,
- roadstead,
- rostrum,
- seaport,
- seawall,
- shipyard,
- slip,
- soapbox,
- spiral staircase,
- splashdown,
- stack up,
- stage,
- staircase,
- stairs,
- stairway,
- step terrace,
- stepping-stones,
- steps,
- stile,
- stump,
- terrace,
- touchdown,
- treads and risers,
- tribunal,
- tribune,
- tying up,
- wharf
Words containing 'Landing'
- Land,
- Landed,
- land on,
- land up,
- Bad lands,
- Border land,
- Bottom land,
- Charter land,
- Cooper Landing,
- Court lands,
- Crown land,
- De Land,
- Duchess Landing,
- Fen land,
- Fine of lands,
- Foster land,
- Glenwood Landing,
- Grass land,
- Holy Land,
- Land League,
- Land agent,
- Land blink,
- Land boat,
- Land breeze,
- Land chain,
- Land crab,
- Land fish,
- Land force,
- Land ho,
- Land ice,
- Land leech,
- Land lubber,
- Land measure,
- Land of Nod,
- Land of bondage,
- Land of promise,
- Land of the leal,
- Land office,
- Land pike,
- Land rail,
- Land scrip,
- Land service,
- Land shark,
- Land side,
- Land snail,
- Land spout,
- Land steward,
- Land tortoise,
- Land turtle,
- Land warrant,
- Land wind,
- Landing charges,
- Landing net,
- Landing place,
- Landing stage,
- Landing waiter,
- Law of the land,
- Life land,
- Mays Landing,
- Miller Landing,
- Moss Landing,
- Moss land,
- New land,
- Promised Land,
- Rices Landing,
- Sugar Land,
- The Debatable Land,
- The land league,
- The land of Nod,
- To clear the land,
- To close with the land,
- To lay the land,
- To make land,
- To rib land,
- To set the land,
- To settle the land,
- To shut in the land,
- White land,
- Wild land,
- Woods Landing,
- Worn land,
- Yard of land,
- adelie land,
- aircraft landing,
- airplane landing,
- amphibious landing,
- blind landing,
- coats land,
- common land,
- crash land,
- crash landing,
- cultivated land,
- din land,
- diversionary landing,
- dry land,
- emergency landing,
- enderby land,
- fat of the land,
- forced landing,
- grazing land,
- instrument landing,
- land area,
- land cress,
- land development,
- land drake,
- land grant,
- land line,
- land mass,
- land mile,
- land mine,
- land of enchantment,
- land of lincoln,
- land of opportunity,
- land reform,
- land resources,
- land seal,
- land site,
- land tax,
- land tenure,
- landed estate,
- landed gentry,
- landing approach,
- landing craft,
- landing deck,
- landing field,
- landing flap,
- landing gear,
- landing party,
- landing pattern,
- landing skid,
- landing strip,
- lotus land,
- native land,
- no man's land,
- parcel of land,
- piece of land,
- plot of land,
- shalim land of,
- shalisha land of,
- shinar the land of,
- shual the land of,
- sinim the land of,
- the lay of the land,
- tilled land,
- tob the land of,
- uz the land of,
- victoria land,
- wilkes land,
- zuph land of,
- Cooper Landing, AK,
- De Land Southwest,
- De Land, FL,
- De Land, IL,
- Duchess Landing, OK,
- Glenwood Landing, NY,
- Land O' Lakes,
- Land o' cakes,
- Land of Steady Habits,
- Land-poor,
- Mays Landing, NJ,
- Miller Landing, AK,
- Moss Landing, CA,
- No-man's land,
- North De Land,
- Promised Land, SC,
- Rices Landing, PA,
- Sugar Land, TX,
- Table-land,
- West De Land,
- Woods Landing, WY,
- battle of pittsburgh landing,
- belly-land,
- edwin herbert land,
- force-land,
- polaroid land camera,
- queen maud land,
- to get the lay of the land,
- De Land Southwest, FL,
- Land O' Lakes, FL,
- Never-Never land,
- No-man's-land,
- North De Land, FL,
- Pope-Vannoy Landing,
- West De Land, FL,
- Woods Landing-Jelm,
- cloud-cuckoo-land,
- land-office business,
- three-point landing,
- Pope-Vannoy Landing, AK,
- Woods Landing-Jelm, WY