Definitions for Landing

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Landing land·ing

Spelling: [lan-ding]

IPA: /ˈlæn dɪŋ/

Landing is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 134 anagrams from letters in Landing (adgilnn).

Definitions for Landing

noun

1. the act of a person or thing that lands:
2. a place where persons or goods are landed, as from a ship:
3. Architecture. a platform between flights of stairs. the floor at the head or foot of a flight of stairs.
4. Shipbuilding. the overlap of two plates or planks, as in a clinker-built shell. the distance between the center of a rivet hole and the edge of the plate or shape into which it is cut.
5. any part of the earth's surface not covered by a body of water; the part of the earth's surface occupied by continents and islands:
6. an area of ground with reference to its nature or composition:
7. an area of ground with specific boundaries:
8. rural or farming areas, as contrasted with urban areas:
9. Law. any part of the earth's surface that can be owned as property, and everything annexed to it, whether by nature or by the human hand. any legal interest held in land.
10. Economics. natural resources as a factor of production.
11. a part of the surface of the earth marked off by natural or political boundaries or the like; a region or country:
12. the people of a region or country.
13. Audio. the flat surface between the grooves of a phonograph record.
14. a realm or domain:
15. a surface between furrows, as on a millstone or on the interior of a rifle barrel.
16. Scot. a tenement house.

Idioms

1. land / fall on one's feet. feet (def 3).
2. see how the land lies, to investigate in advance; inform oneself of the facts of a situation before acting: Compare lay of the land.

Verb phrases

1. land on, Informal. to reprimand; criticize:

verb (used with object)

1. to bring to or set on land:
2. to bring into or cause to arrive in a particular place, position, or condition:
3. Informal. to catch or capture; gain; win:
4. Angling. to bring (a fish) to land, or into a boat, etc., as with a hook or a net.

verb (used without object)

1. to come to land or shore:
2. to go or come ashore from a ship or boat.
3. to alight upon a surface, as the ground, a body of water, or the like:
4. to hit or strike the ground, as from a height:
5. to strike and come to rest on a surface or in something:
6. to come to rest or arrive in a particular place, position, or condition (sometimes followed by up):

Origin of Landing

late Middle English word dating back to 1400-50; See origin at land, -ing¹

Examples for Landing

Earthlings, we can celebrate the accomplishment of landing a probe on a new world.

We had little or no order in landing, each boat pulling as hard as she could.

German artillery chased the landing craft where they milled off shore.

Fronting the landing place are five trees, among which, he said, the money was hid.

landing on any other world is hard, but Comet 67P is especially challenging, even apart from the low gravity.

We got to the landing and ran through the open door bin Laden entered.

They were found to be too strong; and the men, after landing, returned to the vessels.

When he had reached the first landing, Lizzie called after him.

Such was the penalty for landing two buckets of Liverpool salt at Liverpool!

The Lion Air captain had left his rookie copilot to make the landing until he realized he was in trouble.