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Land

Definitionen

Englisch > Deutsch
land
1. Substantiv:
2. [1] Geologie, Planetologie: die nicht von Wasser überdeckte Erdoberfläche; das Land
[1] „The first North American settlers migrated from Siberia by way of the Bering land bridge approximately 15,000 or more years ago.“
3. Verb:
4. [1] landen
[1] „NASA's shuttle fleet -- Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour -- flew a total of 135 missions. Each one began at Kennedy's Launch Complex 39. Of those missions, 78 ended with a Kennedy landing; 54 concluded with a touchdown on the dry lake bed at Edwards Air Force Base in California; and one landed at White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico.“
Englisch > Englisch
land
1. subst. The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
Most insects live on land.
2. subst. 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. subst. A country or region.
They come from a faraway land.
4. subst. A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
5. subst. The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.
wet land; good or bad land for growing potatoes
6. subst. A general country, state, or territory.
He moved from his home to settle in a faraway land.
7. subst. (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. subst. (agriculture) The ground left unploughed between furrows; any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.
9. subst. (Irish English, colloquial) A fright.
He got an awful land when the police arrived.
10. subst. (electronics) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
11. subst. In a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
12. subst. (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. subst. (obsolete) The ground or floor.
14. subst. (nautical) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.
15. subst. 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. subst. (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. subst. lant; urine
Deutsch > Englisch
Land
1. subst. country (territory of a nation)
2. subst. state, province (political division of a federation retaining a notable degree of autonomy)
3. subst. land (real estate or landed property)
4. subst. land (part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water)
5. subst. country, countryside (rural area, as opposed to a town or city)