(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.
Promontory
Definition:
(n.) A high point of land or rock projecting into the sea beyond the line of coast; a headland; a high cape.
(n.) A projecting part. Especially: (a) The projecting angle of the ventral side of the sacrum where it joins the last lumbar vertebra. (b) A prominence on the inner wall of the tympanum of the ear.
Example Sentences:
(1) Elizabeth McCaul, CEO of Promontory Europe and former New York Superintendent of Banks, had been asked to act as a special adviser, together with the firm's chief operating officer, Raffaele Cosimo.
(2) Electric middle-latency auditory evoked responses (EMLRs) to transtympanic promontory stimulation were obtained from 19 of 22 ears of profoundly hearing-impaired patients evaluated for cochlear implant candidacy.
(3) The standard procedure consisted of an abdominal sacropexy, with use of Marlex mesh to anchor the vaginal vault to the sacral promontory and retroperitonealization of the mesh.
(4) The electrodes can be implanted in bundles through the round window or into the modiolus; they can, however, also be introduced individually through several drill holes in the promontory for placement in the scala tympani and vestibuli.
(5) Your path begins to rise a little here, heading first east then south east around the rock promontories above.
(6) Although no promontory branch of the internal carotid artery appears, there is a well-developed "promontory canal" containing a nerve trunk.
(7) In 2 patients, the radiotherapeutic field extended downwards only as far as the sacral promontory.
(8) Preimplant screening included audiometric testing, electronystagmogram (ENG), promontory stimulation, computed tomography (CT) scanning, and psychological evaluation.
(9) The relative laser light attenuation by the human skin specimens corresponded to that of the human promontory bone.
(10) Sensations induced by electrical stimulation of the cochlea in humans through a promontory or a round window electrode were studied in sixteen subjects.
(11) Lysozyme was demonstrated by an immunocytochemical technique in the biopsied mucosa obtained from the promontory of the fifteen patients who had chronic middle ear effusions.
(12) Promontory testing (PT) and measurement of cochlear microphonics (CM) enabled us to distinguish between neural and sensory deafness.
(13) A single channel stimulation at the round window or promontory is used.
(14) Affected goats had folded pinnas, and the tympanic cavity was decreased due to multiple, polypoid projections of bone covered by middle ear mucosa which obstructed the view of the cochlear promontory.
(15) The Utah-design multichannel cochlear implant consists of six intracochlear monopolar electrodes, one promontory electrode, and an indifferent electrode.
(16) An ultrasound revealed a uterus incarcerated between the sacral promontory and the pubis.
(17) The operator's left hand tenses the abdominal skin while palpating the sacral promontory.
(18) ), and an alternative to promontory rectopexy: sacral fixation of the rectum, associated sigmoidectomy, Delorme's operation?
(19) We have taken two views and two slices: an AP view to study the contents of the uterus and the morphology of the upper strait; a profile view to measure the diameter between the promontory of the sacrum and posterior surface of the symphysis, and we have programmed the two following slices: a perpendicular slice at the level of the upper strait measuring directly the transverse median diameter; another slice at the level of the sciatic spines to measure directly the diameter between these spines.
(20) To investigate the feasibility of a cochlear implant in the labyrinthectomized ear, promontory electrical testing by transtympanic needle was performed in six patients who had undergone a unilateral transmastoid labyrinthectomy 6 weeks to 5 years previously.