What's the difference between frontage and land?

Frontage


Definition:

  • (n.) The front part of an edifice or lot; extent of front.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Photograph: Eamonn McCabe The building was shallow and unlovely, really two knocked together, but it had a broad frontage, and across it in huge letters Hunt spelled out “Foxtons Estate Agents”.
  • (2) When ships dock here from Antarctica and when daytrippers return after retracing Darwin’s trip across the Beagle Channel a surprising high proportion of passengers utter the same words: “Let’s go to the Irish pub!” The Dublin is no carbon copy from the motherland; instead it has a distinct local look – a shack-like structure, corrugated frontage (green, of course) and small-paned windows.
  • (3) The respective case circumstances and, if available, testimonies were included in our study as well as the special constructional peculiarities of the engine frontages which logically contribute to the appearance of injuries.
  • (4) I don’t have any objections to a Jack the Ripper museum, it’s a commercial enterprise like the London Dungeon and Jack the Ripper walking tours, but what I’m miffed about is the fact that we seem to have been completely deceived, in a way that is rather unpleasant.” Above the museum’s black and red livery frontage are two signs made to resemble London’s official English Heritage blue plaques.
  • (5) Drinking up and moving on, we pass a lovely old department store, its elegant frontage dating back to 1895, then stop at Grey's Inn.
  • (6) A huge mosaic proclaiming “Peace Is Better” graces its frontage.
  • (7) A few weeks later, during a generally peaceful anti-gentrification march on 25 April, half the frontage of Foxtons was smashed in .
  • (8) Jesus denounced his Pharisaic enemies as whited sepulchres, or shining tombs; and that is what the steam-cleaned marble frontage of St Paul's will become if the protesters are evicted to make room for empty pomp: a whited sepulchre, where morality and truth count for nothing against the convenience of the heritage industry.
  • (9) It is, of course, synonymous with New Labour , and her constituency office is in this Islington, in Barnsbury, all quietly expensive cars, leafy streets and white Georgian frontages.
  • (10) I was thinking, hoping, they're going to miss us, because we've got such a small, narrow frontage," she says.
  • (11) Located along the frontage road (old Route 66), near Hope Road on the south side of 1-40.
  • (12) You’re doing a PR frontage, you’re going on and on.
  • (13) The mean wear degree and pattern were compared among four geographical grouping of crania separated by up to 700 miles of river frontage.
  • (14) Typically earthships are built into hillsides which act as an insulator while a glazed frontage faces south, to maximise the sun's natural warmth.
  • (15) In the centre of the area now stands a tarmac square, lined either side with new red-brick buildings, carefully designed to frame this new civic space with active frontages.
  • (16) It is like a building collapsed in an earthquake or destroyed in a bombing; its fake facade cascaded to the ground, revealing a series of cramped, life-sized apartments whose frontage has been torn off.
  • (17) Yet once you’re past the bamboo and palm thatch frontage, this waterfront venue is suitably dark and smoky, with shamrocks decorating the menu, classic rock posters on the walls and a blissfully Marley-free soundtrack of jazz, blues and rock.

Land


Definition:

  • (n.) Urine. See Lant.
  • (n.) The solid part of the surface of the earth; -- opposed to water as constituting a part of such surface, especially to oceans and seas; as, to sight land after a long voyage.
  • (n.) Any portion, large or small, of the surface of the earth, considered by itself, or as belonging to an individual or a people, as a country, estate, farm, or tract.
  • (n.) Ground, in respect to its nature or quality; soil; as, wet land; good or bad land.
  • (n.) The inhabitants of a nation or people.
  • (n.) The mainland, in distinction from islands.
  • (n.) The ground or floor.
  • (n.) The ground left unplowed between furrows; any one of several portions into which a field is divided for convenience in plowing.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; -- called also landing.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To set or put on shore from a ship or other water craft; to disembark; to debark.
  • (v. t.) To catch and bring to shore; to capture; as, to land a fish.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. i.) To go on shore from a ship or boat; to disembark; to come to the end of a course.

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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