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Landing   /lˈændɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Landing  n.  
1.
A going or bringing on shore.
2.
A place for landing, as from a ship, a carriage. etc.
3.
(Arch.) The level part of a staircase, at the top of a flight of stairs, or connecting one flight with another.
4.
(Aeronautics) The act or process of bringing an aircraft to land after having been in the air; as, the pilot made a perfect three-point landing. Contrasted with take-off.
Landing place. me as Landing, n., 2 and 3.


verb
Land  v. t.  (past & past part. landed; pres. part. landing)  
1.
To set or put on shore from a ship or other water craft; to disembark; to debark. "I 'll undertake to land them on our coast."
2.
To catch and bring to shore; to capture; as, to land a fish.
3.
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.
4.
Specifically: (Aeronautics) To pilot (an airplane) from the air onto the land; as, to land the plane on a highway.


Land  v. i.  
1.
To come to the end of a course; to arrive at a destination, literally or figuratively; as, he landed in trouble; after hithchiking for a week, he landed in Los Angeles.
2.
Specifically: To go on shore from a ship or boat; to disembark.
3.
Specifically: To reach and come to rest on land after having been in the air; as, the arrow landed in a flower bed; the golf ball landed in a sand trap; our airplane landed in Washington.


adjective
Landing  adj.  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.





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"Landing" Quotes from Famous Books



... The pirates, expecting to make a good deal of money out of their prisoners, were equally aware of this fact, and their first act on landing was to post a notice that the captives they had for sale were Spaniards. Nothing was left to Vincent and his companions, who did not know a word of the language of the country, but to endure their ...
— Life of St. Vincent de Paul • F.A. [Frances Alice] Forbes
... met-with term, "fishery," in Colonial writings took on a special meaning as the industry developed. It was used in the sense of what the present Virginia lawbook calls a "regularly hauled fishing landing." ...
— The Bounty of the Chesapeake - Fishing in Colonial Virginia • James Wharton
... on the sea, so I fancied that all boats were like this one, and that it was no good complaining. After six days of rough sea we landed at Alicante. Oh, that landing, how well I remember it! I had to jump from boat to boat, from plank to plank, with the risk of falling into the water a hundred times over, for I am naturally inclined to dizziness, and the little gangways, ...
— My Double Life - The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt • Sarah Bernhardt
... lick a god into shape, certainly the cow could do it. You may see her perform this office for young Taurus any spring. She licks him out of the fogs and bewilderments and uncertainties in which he finds himself on first landing upon these shores, and up on to his feet in an incredibly short time. Indeed, that potent tongue of hers can almost make the dead alive any day, and the creative lick of the old Scandinavian mother cow is only a large-lettered rendering of the ...
— The Galaxy - Vol. 23, No. 1 • Various
... Patricia came up the stairs, one night, laggingly. Cuff was on the landing with his token of devotion. The girl picked him up, kissed his smooth body and went on, more slowly. Joan had the table set for the dainty dinner by the broad western window. She turned ...
— The Shield of Silence • Harriet T. Comstock


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