(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.
Lant
Definition:
(n.) Urine.
(n.) Any one of several species of small, slender, marine fishes of the genus Ammedytes. The common European species (A. tobianus) and the American species (A. Americanus) live on sandy shores, buried in the sand, and are caught in large quantities for bait. Called also launce, and sand eel.
(n.) See Lanterloo.
Example Sentences:
(1) • Lant Pritchett is a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development and professor of the practice of international development at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government
(2) The order of potency was neurotensin-(8-13) greater than neurotensin greater than xenopsin greater than neuromedin N greater than LANT-6.
(3) The present results indicate that LANT-6 is in ganglion cells and that it may play a role in neurotransmission between retinal ganglion cells and their central target areas.
(4) Radioimmunoassay and chromatographic studies confirmed the presence of LANT-6-related peptides in the turtle brain and corroborated the reduction of LANT-6 observed in the contralateral tectum following monocular enucleation.
(5) Furthermore, xenopsin, LANT-6 and neuromedin N each inhibited the specific binding of [3H]neurotensin to intact N1E-115 cells in a dose-related fashion.
(6) Economist Lant Pritchett on Sheryl Sandberg Sheryl was working in Larry Summers 's office at the World Bank, but he was busy most of the time, so I guess I was an intermediary boss.
(7) | Lant Pritchett Read more “I want my daughters to study in segregated classes but I’m compelled to send them to school regardless.
(8) Previous studies have demonstrated that LANT-6-related material is present in cells of the ganglion cell layer in a variety of vertebrates.
(9) Several molecular forms of LANT-6 were observed, some larger than LANT-6.
(10) Immunocytochemical techniques demonstrated that many of the cells in the ganglion cell layer of the turtle retina could be labeled with an antiserum specific for LANT-6.
(11) The order of affinity of the peptides for the neurotensin receptor was neurotensin-(8-13) greater than xenopsin greater than neurotensin greater than neuromedin N greater than LANT-6.
(12) Second, the central projections of LANT-6-positive cells of the ganglion cell layer were examined by studying the effects of monocular enucleation on the distribution of LANT-6-positive fibers in the central projection targets of the turtle retina.
(13) The LANT-6 immunoreactive cell bodies (12-22 microns) were either oval-, round- or pyriform-shaped and were situated in ganglion cell layer.
(14) This study investigated the presence of the neurotensin-related hexapeptide, LANT-6, in retinal ganglion cells and their central projections in the turtle Pseudemys scripta elegans.
(15) The present report concerns the immunocytochemical staining of vertebrate retinas using an antiserum directed against LANT-6.
(16) Immunoblots showed that the antiserum recognized the original antigen as well as the related peptides neuromedin N and lysine 8- arginine 9- neurotensin 10-13 (LANT-6).
(17) Two to 8 weeks after enucleation, a substantial reduction in LANT-6-positive fibers was observed in all retinal target areas contralateral to the enucleated eye.
(18) The vast majority of the pallidal neurons of the hamster, pigeon, caiman and turtle basal telencephalon were positively labeled by an antiserum against LANT-6, a neurotensin-like hexapeptide.
(19) Multiple chromatographic analyses indicated that while the LANT-6-like immunoreactivity in chicken retina was indistinguishable from synthetic LANT-6, LANT-6-like immunoreactivity in turtle and goldfish retinas was primarily associated with large molecular forms.
(20) The present immunocytochemical localization of LLI within cells in the inner nuclear and ganglion cell layers, coupled with the biochemical characterization of LANT-6 in the vertebrate retinas and brains, suggests that neuropeptides such as LANT-6 may play a role in visual processing both within the retina and within the visual pathways to the brain.