What's the difference between disembarking and landing?

Disembarking


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disembark

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Vehicles were stopped and their passengers made to disembark while sniffer dogs went on board.
  • (2) Disembarkation was delayed while officials erected a white tarpaulin on the boat to block the media’s view.
  • (3) At no time was any visitor at any risk, and 48 guests on the ride at the time were safely disembarked.
  • (4) Ten more dead and 900 clandestine migrants ready to disembark,” Salvini said on Wednesday.
  • (5) A waterfront pint at the Plockton Inn ( plocktoninn.co.uk ) while watching the yachties disembark is the perfect reward for the exertions of the climb.
  • (6) Disembarking beside some disused buildings, the Syrians strapped on their lifejackets and carried their smallest children on their shoulders.
  • (7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Migrants in Sicily speak of the hardships they face both at sea and after reaching Europe The Italian coastguard ship carrying the survivors arrived late on Monday night, with all the migrants on board disembarking by 1.45am local time.
  • (8) After sitting on the tarmac for an hour and a half, we disembarked.” It came a day after passengers at Gatwick airport faced chaotic scenes and long queues due to a baggage system problem.
  • (9) It is Greece's summer ritual: the arrival of the island ferry, funnels billowing, horns blaring, gangplanks screeching as wide-eyed tourists prepare to disembark.
  • (10) Disembarking with the others at Ashdod port on Monday, Zuabi, who has parliamentary immunity, was interrogated three times before being freed The remaining four Palestinian citizens of Israel aboard the aid boats were released from Ashkelon prison this morning, but remain under house arrest until next week.
  • (11) Passengers deemed to be migrants were ordered to disembark.
  • (12) Temperatures of passengers arriving at the airport were not taken as they disembarked from the plane from Sierra Leone, she said.
  • (13) "Ukrainian forces launched a 'special operation' on Tuesday against separatist militia in the Russian-speaking east, authorities said, although aside from a landing by airborne troops the action was limited," the story begins : Soldiers disembarked from two helicopters at an airfield at Kramatorsk, where reporters earlier heard gunfire that seemed to prevent an air force plane from landing.
  • (14) The 10 May report on the combat flight contest stated: “Kim Jong-un arrived at the airfield by air at 9:00 am” and later said “Kim Jong-un embarked on the plane.” The article also included several photos of Kim and his wife disembarking from the aircraft and one final photo of the plane taking off.
  • (15) Many countries are expected to refuse to allow MY Phoenix to disembark passengers.
  • (16) "Disembarking at Heathrow with a £1 note in his pocket, my father made his way up north and found a job in a Rochdale cotton mill," said Javid.
  • (17) Unarmed officers detained the men, who are now being questioned in the West Midlands, as they disembarked.
  • (18) Grandi said he would seek to step up UNHCR efforts, including at places of disembarkation for people rescued or intercepted at sea.
  • (19) A small number of mosquitoes infected with the yellow fever virus, disembarking at the same time, established an epidemic of yellow fever in the town.
  • (20) As they arrived, in a 10-seater plane, they were surrounded by colourful birds, but on disembarking, everything felt eerily quiet.

Landing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Land
  • (a.) Of, pertaining to or used for, setting, bringing, or going, on shore.
  • (n.) A going or bringing on shore.
  • (n.) A place for landing, as from a ship, a carriage. etc.
  • (n.) The level part of a staircase, at the top of a flight of stairs, or connecting one flight with another.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 2.35pm: West Ham co-owner David Sullivan has admitted that a deal to land Miroslav Klose is unlikely to go through following the striker's star performances in South Africa.
  • (2) Certainly, Saunders did not land a single blow that threatened to stop his opponent, although he took quite a few himself that threatened his titles in the final few rounds.
  • (3) Moments later, explosive charges blasted free two tungsten blocks, to shift the balance of the probe so it could fly itself to a prearranged landing spot .
  • (4) Roger Madelin, the chief executive of the developers Argent, which consulted the prince's aides on the £2bn plan to regenerate 27 hectares (67 acres) of disused rail land at Kings Cross in London, said the prince now has a similar stature as a consultee as statutory bodies including English Heritage, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment and professional bodies including Riba and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
  • (5) On land, the pits' stagnant pools of water become breeding grounds for dengue fever and malaria.
  • (6) Rule-abiding parents can get a monthly stipend, extra pension benefits when they are older, preferential hospital treatment, first choice for government jobs, extra land allowances and, in some case, free homes and a tonne of free water a month.
  • (7) The worldwide pattern of movement of DDT residues appears to be from the land through the atmosphere into the oceans and into the oceanic abyss.
  • (8) The report warned that 24m acres of unprotected forest lands across the southeastern US are at risk, largely from European biomass operations.
  • (9) City landed the former Barcelona chief executive, Ferran Soriano , and many thought the two former Barça men's recruitment looked a threat to the Italian, especially with Pep Guardiola on sabbatical and looming over any potential vacancies at Europe's top clubs.
  • (10) The court ruling is just the latest attempt to squeeze Abdi off her land.
  • (11) Dealers speculated that Facebook's army of bankers had stepped in to stop the shares falling below $38, a move that would have landed the social network with a public relations disaster on its first day as a public company.
  • (12) Before 1948, the Bedouin tribes lived and grazed their animals on much of the Negev, claiming ancestral rights to the land.
  • (13) Don was racing the Dodge through the Bonneville Salt Flats , where Gary Gabelich had just (on 23 October) broken the land-speed record.
  • (14) Crisis in Yemen – the Guardian briefing Read more “We have the permission for this plane but we have logistical problems for the landing.
  • (15) The power of the landed elite is often cited as a major structural flaw in Pakistani politics – an imbalance that hinders education, social equality and good governance (there is no agricultural tax in Pakistan).
  • (16) Even the landscape is secretive: vast tracts of crown land and hidden valleys with nothing but a dead end road and lonely farmhouse, with a tractor and trailer pulled across the farmyard for protection.
  • (17) About 53% of the continent’s total land mass is used for agriculture.
  • (18) The following year, I organised and took part in a cycle ride from John O'Groats to Land's End, covering 900 miles in nine days through this beautiful country.
  • (19) "The rise in those who are self-employed is good news, but the reality is that those who have turned to freelance work in order to pull themselves out of unemployment and those who have decided to work for themselves face a challenging tax maze that could land them in hot water should they get it wrong," says Chas Roy-Chowdhury, head of taxation at the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants.
  • (20) Rebels succeeded in hitting one of the helicopters with a Tow missile, forcing it to make an emergency landing.

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