(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.
Touchdown
Definition:
(n.) The act of touching the football down behind the opponents' goal .
Example Sentences:
(1) Matt Schaub has done nothing so far today to persuade them otherwise, completeing 13 of 21 passes for 134 yards, no touchdowns and one interception.
(3) The Chiefs lost key running back Jamaal Charles to a suspected concussion early but it did not appear to affect KC as Alex Smith threw four touchdown passes and Knile Davis ran for a score to help the Chiefs to a 38-10 lead early in the third quarter of the wild card game.
(4) On Sunday, Foles did something that only six other players have achieved in NFL history, throwing for seven touchdowns in a single game as the Eagles obliterated the Oakland Raiders 49-20 .
(5) Peyton Manning won football's MVP award this season, broke Marino's 21-year-old record for most touchdowns in a season (49), and has thrown for more than 29,000 career yards, but all he has to show for it this morning is another playoff hangover administered by the New England Patriots' defense … The numbers are great, but all he really wants to be is Tom Brady."
(6) Quick outs • Random subplot of the week: Peyton Manning throwing Denver’s first touchdown to Jacob Tamme, a man who rarely gets much attention in that high-powered Broncos offense, but who has been riding to every home game with the quarterback, plus receiver Eric Decker, for the last two years .
(7) LeGarrette Blount provided more than half of those, rushing for 166 yards and four touchdowns to tie one franchise playoff record and break another.
(8) The kinematic analysis revealed non-significant results for hip, knee and ankle joint angles at touchdown for the various stride rates.
(9) Buccaneers 17-42 Saints When Drew Brees runs in for a touchdown in the fourth, that's pretty much end of the game.
(10) It touched a lot of us, it added fuel to our fire,” Mason, who raised his hands following a fourth-quarter touchdown, told the Associated Press after the Rams’ 52-0 win.
(11) Average movement velocity, foot velocity at touchdown, and body mass were variables demonstrating weak or nonsignificant correlations with the rearfoot parameters.
(12) The quarterback's passing figures – 22-of-33 for 287 yards and three touchdowns – are not to be sniffed at, but what truly stood out was his poise, the manner with which he hung in the pocket, keeping his eyes downfield to the last moment even when defenders were closing in around him.
(13) A trademark 40-yard touchdown run by Marshawn Lynch levelled the scores before San Francisco edged in front again when QB Colin Kaepernick passed to Anquan Boldin in the end zone.
(14) 7.28pm GMT 49ers 6-10 Panthers, 1:05, 2nd quarter 2nd and 5 on the Carolina 25, Kaepernick connects with Boldin for a 15 yard pass and only nine yards separate the 49ers from their first touchdown.
(15) "At the time I didn't think I was doing that great – I was really focused on the offensive side, where I was playing wide receiver and only caught one touchdown," Crawford told me last April.
(16) But now, it will be tough to take out Foles, who has 13 touchdown passes and no interceptions this season.
(17) Freshman kicker Cade Foster missed the attempt which fell into the arms of Auburn's Chris Davis who returned it from 109 yards for the game winning touchdown.
(18) 3.05am GMT Florida State 10-21 Auburn, :12, 2nd quarter The ruling on the touchdown is confirmed because duh.
(19) The purpose of this investigation was therefore to show whether the pronation angle and the torsion angle differ when running barefoot, with spikes, and with running shoes (forefoot touchdown, N = 9 left and right).
(20) Winston is on pace (190.1) to break quarterback Russell Wilson's record for best passer efficiency rating in a season and set Football Bowl Subdivision freshman records for yards passing (3,820) and touchdown passes (38).