(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.
Landlady
Definition:
(n.) A woman having real estate which she leases to a tenant or tenants.
(n.) The mistress of an inn or lodging house.
Example Sentences:
(1) • Petra's spinster landladies added caraway seeds to their mix.
(2) He was very intelligent but always slightly sinister,” said Alice Williams, who knew him while landlady of the Rose and Crown pub near Rye.
(3) The landlady of the local Woodman pub, Kath Dewhurst, recalled the multimillionaire dropping in to do the quiz with his wife, Julie.
(4) One landlady, Karen Murphy from the Red, White and Blue pub in Portsmouth, and two importers of the supposedly illicit decoder cards took their appeal to Europe.
(5) We have booked a room at the Zumstein, where the landlady leads us past a dismal old people's home lounge to our room, which is dusty as a tomb.
(6) His friend Arabella Weir , who was his landlady when he moved to London, once said he had a "steely determination".
(7) Jan Perry, the landlady of the Old Mill House pub, Polperro, said she had never known flooding like it.
(8) One in Streatham, a rather prissy one where men weren't allowed to come in [there is a whole section in CIAB on landladies, the horror of].
(9) Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian Bethen Thorpe, an actor and former pub landlady from Highgate, north London, also expects to be among the 200,000 people who face having their benefit stopped under the measures in Wednesday’s budget.
(10) They have included a battle with a Portsmouth pub landlady over the practice of beaming in Premier League matches from abroad and a series of skirmishes between Sky Sports and its rivals over the wholesale prices it charges for its channels.
(11) "But my big fear is that my landlady will decide to sell the house and I will have to move.
(12) We can't bear to hand over £100 for this so do a runner, ending up instead at the Hotel Flora, which is slightly better, even though the landlady refuses to let us see a room first, insisting, "No!
(13) Through her friendship with a rich cast of characters, including eccentric marijuana-growing landlady, Anna Madrigal and quiet young gay man Michael Tolliver (known as Mouse), Maupin's sparkling comedy chronicles Mary Ann's adventures in 70s San Francisco.
(14) Mr Warrell believes many drawings, including a tender study of a sleeping woman, may represent Sophia Booth, the Margate seaside boarding house landlady with whom he is sure Turner had a long sexual relationship.
(15) When he took up residency in Royal Crescent, his landlady would turf him out in the morning so she could clean the room.
(16) In my second year our landlady charged us £32 a week, but we only had to pay half rate at Christmas and Easter and nothing over the summer.
(17) The film charts this time in his life, and his eventual love affair with his landlady, Mrs Booth.
(18) Turn is based on Alexander Rose's 2007 book Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring, which tells how Woodhull, a pub landlady and a fisherman, among others, risked their necks resisting the British occupation of New York.
(19) Landlady Tracy Daly said that everyone had kept warm and cheerful working in shifts to dig a way through snowdrifts piled up against the doors, 1,732ft above sea level.
(20) She was Turner’s Margate landlady, a widow who became his dearly beloved, and with whom he went to live, in secret, in Chelsea.