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Definition of Landing
1. Noun. An intermediate platform in a staircase.
2. Noun. Structure providing a place where boats can land people or goods.
Specialized synonyms: Dock, Dockage, Docking Facility
Terms within: Landing Stage
Generic synonyms: Construction, Structure
Group relationships: Harbor, Harbour, Haven, Seaport
3. Noun. The act of coming down to the earth (or other surface). "His landing on his feet was catlike"
Terms within: Landing Approach
Specialized synonyms: Touchdown, Aircraft Landing, Airplane Landing, Splashdown
Derivative terms: Land, Land
4. Noun. The act of coming to land after a voyage.
Specialized synonyms: Amphibious Landing, Debarkation, Disembarkation, Disembarkment
Derivative terms: Land, Land
Definition of Landing
1. a. Of, pertaining to, or used for, setting, bringing, or going, on shore.
2. n. A going or bringing on shore.
Definition of Landing
1. Noun. corridor ¹
2. Noun. coming to earth, as of an airplane or any descending object ¹
3. Noun. an in-between platform or large bottom-most or top-most step of a staircase ¹
4. Noun. a place on a shoreline where a boat lands ¹
5. Verb. (present participle of land) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Landing
1. a place for discharging or taking on passengers or cargo [n -S]
Medical Definition of Landing
1. Of, pertaining to or used for, setting, bringing, or going, on shore. Landing charges, charges or fees paid on goods unloaded from a vessel. Landing net, a small, bag-shaped net, used in fishing to take the fish from the water after being hooked. Landing stage, a floating platform attached at one end to a wharf in such a manner as to rise and fall with the tide, and thus facilitate passage between the wharf and a vessel lying beside the stage. Landing waiter, a customhouse officer who oversees the landing of goods, etc, from vessels; a landwaiter. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Landing
Literary usage of Landing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"And another adopted by said Board of Trustees May 5,1878, in the following words: "
That the public landing on the Ohio River, between Division and Mam ..."
2. Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant by Ulysses Simpson Grant (1885)
"THE ARMY AT PITTSBURG landing—INJURED BY A FALL —THE CONFEDERATE ATTACK AT
SHILOH—THE FIRST DAY'S FIGHT AT SHILOH GENERAL SHERMAN —CONDITION OF THE ..."
3. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1908)
"thought of landing in Yorkshire. But the unkindly wind forced him to run for the
west coast, though it made up for this by binding King James' fleet in the ..."
4. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1908)
"thought of landing in Yorkshire. But the unkindly wind forced him to run for the
west coast, though it made up for this by binding King James' fleet in the ..."
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