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land
     1. n. The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
           Most insects live on land.
     2. n. Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and on which buildings can be erected.
           There are 50 acres of land in this estate.
     3. n. A country or region.
           They come from a faraway land.
     4. n. A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
     5. n. The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.
           wet land; good or bad land for growing potatoes
     6. n. A general country, state, or territory.
           He moved from his home to settle in a faraway land.
     7. n. (often, in combination) realm, domain.
           I'm going to Disneyland.
           Maybe that's how it works in TV-land, but not in the real world.
     8. n. (agriculture) The ground left unploughed between furrows; any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.
     9. n. (Irish English, colloquial) A fright.
           He got an awful land when the police arrived.
     10. n. (electronics) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
     11. n. In a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
     12. n. (travel) The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.
           Our city offices sell a lot more land than our suburban offices.
     13. n. (obsolete) The ground or floor.
     14. n. (nautical) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.
     15. n. In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, such as the level part of a millstone between the furrows.
     16. n.          (ballistics) The space between the rifling grooves in a gun.
     17. v. (intransitive) To descend to a surface, especially from the air.
           The plane is about to land.
     18. v. (dated) To alight, to descend from a vehicle.
     19. v. (intransitive) To come into rest.
     20. v. (intransitive) To arrive at land, especially a shore, or a dock, from a body of water.
     21. v. To bring to land.
           It can be tricky to land a helicopter.
           Use the net to land the fish.
     22. v. To acquire; to secure.
     23. v. To deliver.
     24. adj. Of or relating to land.
     25. adj. Residing or growing on land.
     26. n. lant; urine
Svenska > Engelsk
land
     1. n-n. a land, a country, a nation, a state
     2. n-n. land, ground, earth, territory; as opposed to sea or air
           Land i sikte! - Land ho!
           Efter kriget tvangs förlorande staterna avträda mycket land. - After the war, the losing states had to cede much land.
     3. n-n. land, countryside, earth, ground suitable for farming; as opposed to towns and cities
           livet på landet - life in the countryside
           stad och land - town and country
     4. n-n. a garden plot, short for trädgårdsland; small piece of ground for growing vegetables, flowers, etc.

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Exempelmeningar

It's all in how you land.
This is a land of huge agricultural potential.
Let their land be farmed right.
Also, the government was abandoning the right of a member of the cabinet to sit in the highest court in the land.
If you're going to give me anything, at least let my bid for the land be ample!



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