Определение -land в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь
- Adélie Land
- One of the five French Southern and Antarctic Lands, a subdivision of the Antarctic
- Arnhem Land
- An area of 97,000 sq. km in the north-eastern corner of the Northern Territory, Australia, controlled by the Northern Land Council, inhabited by local Aboriginals
- Franz Josef Land
- An archipelago in the Arctic Ocean in the north of Russia, north of Novaya Zemlya, east of Svalbard
- Holy Land
- That part of Asia, consisting mostly of Israel and Palestine, in which most Biblical events are set
- La-la land
- Los Angeles, California (or Hollywood.)
- La-la land
- British Columbia
- La-la land
- The fictional place where wandering, sleeping, or dreaming minds are metaphorically said to end up
Don't worry boss, the guards are in La-La Land. They won't be up for many hours.
- Land of Israel
- A region in the Middle East promised by God to the descendants of Abraham
- Land of Liberty
- The United States of America
- Land of the Free
- The United States of America
- Land of the Long White Cloud
- New Zealand (probably a reference to the appearance of mountainous land when seen on the horizon from a canoe after an ocean voyage)
- Oklahoma land rush
- The chaotic period following the opening of Indian territory to settlement in 1889 as the US state of Oklahoma
The Oklahoma land rush was a pivotal event in the history of the American West.
- Promised Land
- Any place for which one has been searching for an extended period of time, upon whose finding one's woes will be alleviated
- Promised Land
- The area then known as Judea which was promised to the Israelites by God according to oral tradition recorded in Genesis
- TV land
- the television industry
- TV land
- the world as depicted on television
- Van Diemen's Land
- The former name (until 1856) of the then-British colony and current state of Australia now known as Tasmania
- Yankee land
- United States. A country in North America. Official name: United States of America. Abbreviation: US
- cloud-cuckoo-land
- An imaginary place where silly or unrealistic people metaphorically reside
- common land
- collectively, all the common land in one of those two countries
I've always grazed my animals on the common land and I'm not going to stop now.
- common land
- an area of land in the United Kingdom or Ireland that is open to the public at all times and until the 18th century would have been land that was free for anybody to graze their animals on (often shortened to common)
The common land up at Chailey's always good for a walk.
- crash land
- To land an aircraft or spacecraft in an emergency, either in an inappropriate place or under dangerous conditions; usually results in damage to the craft and the possibility of loss of life
- crash-land
- Alternative spelling of crash land
- estate in land
- An ownership interest in a physical area of land with a set geographic location; real estate; real property
- estates in land
- plural form of estate in land
- fantasy land
- An ideal place that does not exist in reality
In the movie Back to School, an economics professor suggests building a factory in a place where no political corruption must be calculated into the costs; the protagonist replies How about fantasy land?.
- fat of the land
- The greatest part of anything; the finest and most abundant share of resources; the cream of the crop
And take your father and your households, and come unto me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.
- glebe-land
- Area of land belonging to a parish in medieval times
Prior to the Reformation the farm buildings (since rebuilt and considerably dwindled) had appertained, like much of the glebe-land around Valmouth, to the Abbots of St. Veronica, when at the confiscation of the monasteries by the Crown one Thierry Monfaulcon Tooke, tennis-master to the Court of King Henry VIII, feinting to injure himself one day while playing with the royal princesses, had been offered by Henry, through their touching entreaties in consideration of his mishap, the Abbey Farm of St. Veronica's, then recently vacated by the monks .
- in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king
- Among others with a disadvantage or disability, the one with the mildest disadvantage or disability is regarded as the greatest
- in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king
- Even someone without much talent or ability is considered special by those with no talent or ability at all
- la-la land
- A state of mind characterized by a frivolous or unrealistic lack of seriousness
- land
- The space between the rifling grooves in a gun
- land
- To alight, to descend from a vehicle
10. You will be civil and attentive to passengers, giving proper assistance to ladies and children getting in or out, and never start the car before passengers are fairly received or landed.
- land
- To acquire; to secure
- land
- To arrive at land, especially a shore, or a dock, from a body of water
- land
- a fright
He got an awful land when the police arrived.
- land
- A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland
- land
- To come into rest
- land
- In a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits
- land
- To deliver
- land
- Of or relating to land
- land
- A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires
- land
- Residing or growing on land
- land
- To bring to land
Use the net to land the fish.
- land
- To descend to a surface, especially from the air
The plane is about to land.
- land
- Ground that is suitable for farming
Plant the potatoes in the land.
- land
- 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.
- land
- A country or region
They come from a faraway land.
- land
- The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water
Most insects live on land.
- land ahoy
- Interjection shouted by the ship's watch to inform the crew that land has been spotted
- land bridge
- in biogeography: an isthmus or other land connection between what at other times are separate land masses
- land bridge
- Travel by ferry from one country, via another country by road, then by another ferry crossing to a third country. An example is from Ireland by ferry to the UK, by road to the opposite coast, then ferry to France
- land bridges
- plural form of land bridge
- land degradation
- The decline in the overall quality of soil, water or vegetation condition commonly caused by human activities
- land down under
- Australia, most often used by non-Australians
Do you come from the land down under?.
- land girl
- A member of the Women's Land Army
- land girls
- plural form of land girl
- land grant
- A grant of land by the US government to encourage the development of western states, especially land transportation and practical higher education
- land gull
- the great black-backed gull
- land gulls
- plural form of land gull
- land lines
- plural form of land line
- land marks
- plural form of land mark
- land mine
- A mine that is placed on land and designed to explode when stepped upon or touched
- land mines
- plural form of land mine
- land of opportunity
- A nickname for the United States
- land of plenty
- A utopia that provides for all one's needs
We haven't one chance for life in a hundred thousand if we don't find food and water upon Caprona. This water coming out of the cliff is not salt; but neither is it fit to drink, though each of us has drunk. It is fair to assume that inland the river is fed by pure streams, that there are fruits and herbs and game. Shall we lie out here and die of thirst and starvation with a land of plenty possibly only a few hundred yards away? We have the means for navigating a subterranean river. Are we too cowardly to utilize this means?.
- land on one's feet
- To be lucky, or successful, often in difficult situations
- land rights for gay whales
- a parody of typical greenie policies and those that support them
- land rushes
- plural form of land rush
- land yacht
- A vehicle used in land sailing, consisting of little more than of a carriage and a sail
- land yachts
- plural form of land yacht
- land-grant
- Alternative spelling of land grant
- live off the land
- to sustain a living by eating produce that one harvests or hunts from the countryside
- mealie land
- A maize field
- morning-land
- The Orient, the East
Still the old leaven remains behind: here, as elsewhere in the “Morning-land,” you cannot hold your own without employing the voie de fait.
- native land
- Alternative name of native soil
- never-never land
- A fantastic or imaginary place
- no man's land
- Tracts of uninhabited territory close to the Iron Curtain
- no man's land
- The area between the backcourt and the space close to the net, from which it is difficult to return the ball
- no man's land
- The ground between trenches where a soldier from either side would be easily targeted
- no man's land
- Territory, often disputed, that cannot be inhabited because of fear of conflict, especially:
- no man's land
- The stretch of land between the border posts of two contiguous sovereign states, sometimes separated by great distance
- no man's land
- A place where no one can or should be
Now, George, if you’re going to consider this question from the point of view of poetry, you’re off to No Man’s Land, where I won’t follow you.
- no man's land
- Land not claimed by any recognized sovereign state; terra nullius
- no-man's-land
- Alternative spelling of no man's land
- revenue land
- agricultural land that may not be used for industrial or residential purposes
- spit of land
- An island
- spit of land
- A peninsula
- land
- {n} a country, region, earth, ground, urine
- land
- {v} to set, put or come on shore, to arrive
- land on one's feet
- (deyim) Also, fall on one's feet. Overcome difficulties, be restored to a sound or stable condition. For example, Don't worry about Joe's losing his job two years in a row—he always falls on his feet, or The company went bankrupt, but the following year it was restructured and landed on its feet. This term alludes to the cat and its remarkable ability to land on its paws after falling from a great height. [Mid-1800s]
- Land
- lond
- Land
- developed
- Land
- available
- land
- The earth's surface, extending downward to the center of the earth and upward infinitely into space, including things permanently attached by nature, such as trees and water
- land
- and everything annexed to it, whether by nature, as trees, water, etc
- land
- If someone or something lands you with a difficult situation, they cause you to have to deal with the difficulties involved. The other options simply complicate the situation and could land him with more expense. = saddle, lumber with
- land
- To go on shore from a ship or boat; to disembark; to come to the end of a course
- land
- The earth's surface in its natural condition, extending down to the center of the globe, its surface and all things affixed to it, and the air- space above the surface
- land
- The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing
- land
- The ground left unplowed between furrows; any one of several portions into which a field is divided for convenience in plowing
- land
- (a) Bureau of the Census Dry land and land temporarily or partly covered by water such as marshes, swamps, and river flood plains (omitting tidal flats below mean high tide); streams, sloughs, estuaries, and canals less than one-eighth of a stature mile wide; and lakes, reservoirs, and ponds less than 40 acres in area (b) Forest Inventory and Analyses Dry land and land temporarily or partly covered by water such as marshes, swamps, and river flood plans (omitting tidal flats below mean high tide); minimum width of streams, sloughs, estuaries, and canals is 120 feet and minimum size of lakes, reservoirs, and ponds is 1 acre
- land
- The ground or floor
- land
- The portion of the original smoothbore remaining after the grooves are cut in order to produce a rifle
- land
- When someone or something lands, they come down to the ground after moving through the air or falling. Three mortar shells had landed close to a crowd of people
- land
- reach or come to rest; "The bird landed on the highest branch"; "The plane landed in Istanbul"
- land
- to land on your feet: see foot. American inventor who developed (1932) the light-polarizing plastic film called Polaroid and incorporated it into lenses for cameras and sunglasses. He also invented the one-step photographic process (1947). In economics, the resource that encompasses the natural resources used in production. In classical economics, the three factors of production are land, labour, and capital. Land was considered to be the "original and inexhaustible gift of nature." In modern economics, it is broadly defined to include all that nature provides, including minerals, forest products, and water and land resources. While many of these are renewable resources, no one considers them "inexhaustible." The payment to land is called rent. Like land, its definition has been broadened over time to include payment to any productive resource with a relatively fixed supply. Van Diemen's Land Arnhem Land feudal land tenure Franz Josef Land land mine land reform Land's End Land Edwin Herbert Land Grant College Act of 1862 Pure Land Buddhism Rupert's Land Prince Rupert's Land Yazoo land fraud
- land
- United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one-step photographic process (1909-1991) the land on which real estate is located; "he built the house on land leased from the city"
- land
- 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
- land
- arrive on shore; "The ship landed in Pearl Harbor"
- land
- The solid part of the surface of the earth; - - opposed to water as constituting a part of such surface, especially to oceans and seas; as, to sight land after a long voyage
- land
- the territory occupied by a nation; "he returned to the land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries"
- land
- relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land; "land vehicles"
- land
- Ground, in respect to its nature or quality; soil; as, wet land; good or bad land
- land
- the solid part of the earth's surface; "the plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land"; "the earth shook for several minutes"; "he dropped the logs on the ground"
- land
- material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use); "the land had never been plowed"; "good agricultural soil"
- land
- real estate
- land
- If you land something that is difficult to get and that many people want, you are successful in getting it. He landed a place on the graduate training scheme His flair with hair soon landed him a part-time job at his local barbers
- land
- The inhabitants of a nation or people
- land
- Land is an area of ground, especially one that is used for a particular purpose such as farming or building. Good agricultural land is in short supply. 160 acres of land. a small piece of grazing land
- land
- The surface of the earth extending down to the center and upward to the sky, including all natural things thereon such as trees, crops, or water; plus the minerals below the surface and the air rights above
- land
- extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use; "the family owned a large estate on Long Island"
- land
- To set or put on shore from a ship or other water craft; to disembark; to debark
- land
- You can use land to refer to a country in a poetic or emotional way. America, land of opportunity
- land
- the people who live in a nation or country; "a statement that sums up the nation's mood"; "the news was announced to the nation"; "the whole country worshipped him"
- land
- shoot at and force to come down; "the enemy landed several of our aircraft"
- land
- an area of the earth's surface, the characteristics of which embrace all reasonably stable, or predictably cyclic, attributes of the biosphere vertically above and below this area, including those of the atmosphere, the soil and underlying geology, the hydrology, the plant and animal populations, and the results of past and present human activity, to the extent that these attributes exert a significant influence on present and future uses of the land by humans
- land
- The entire complex of surface and near surface attributes of the solid portions of the surface of the earth, which are significant to man Water bodies occurring within land masses are included in some land classification systems
- land
- To checkin (add) new/updated code to the source code, usually to fix bugs or add enhancements
- land
- Commonly called the O D of the inner and the I D of the outer
- land
- To land goods somewhere means to unload them there at the end of a journey, especially by ship. The vessels will have to land their catch at designated ports
- land
- or by the hand of man, as buildings, fences, etc
- land
- In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, as the level part of a millstone between the furrows, or the surface of the bore of a rifled gun between the grooves
- land
- the surface of the Earth, the materials beneath, the air above and all things fixed to the soil
- land
- a politically organized body of people under a single government; "the state has elected a new president"; "African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an industrialized land"
- land
- You can refer to an area of land which someone owns as their land or their lands. Their home is on his father's land His lands were poorly farmed
- land
- If you land in an unpleasant situation or place or if something lands you in it, something causes you to be in it. He landed in a psychiatric ward This is not the first time his exploits have landed him in trouble
- land
- {f} arrive on the ground, alight; set on the ground; bring to shore; drop anchor; climb onto dry ground; exit from a ship; arrive at, end up in (a place, situation, etc.); obtain, get a hold of
- land
- territory over which rule or control is exercised; "his domain extended into Europe"; "he made it the law of the land"
- land
- a domain in which something is dominant; "the untroubled kingdom of reason"; "a land of make-believe"; "the rise of the realm of cotton in the south"
- land
- Urine
- land
- A general term for the environment of the earth not covered completely by water In addition to soils includes minerals, waterways, plant cover, etc
- land
- The mainland, in distinction from islands
- land
- Any portion, large or small, of the surface of the earth, considered by itself, or as belonging to an individual or a people, as a country, estate, farm, or tract
- land
- cause to come to the ground; "the pilot managed to land the airplane safely"
- land
- If you talk about the land, you mean farming and the way of life in farming areas, in contrast to life in the cities. Living off the land was hard enough at the best of times
- land
- deliver (a blow); "He landed several blows on his opponent's head
- land
- Material of the earth, including the soil, rock and other substances
- land
- Real property; the surface of the earth and that which is affixed to it permanently, that which is below it, and the space above it; synonymous with "real property", "realty", and "real estate" Sometimes used to mean only the unimproved surface of the earth
- land
- The entire material universe exclusive of people and their products
- land
- {s} of or pertaining to land; that operates on land; that takes place on land
- land
- gate dimension parallel to the direction of melt flow
- land
- A fixed asset account which reflects the cost of land owned by a government
- land
- the land on which real estate is located; "he built the house on land leased from the city"
- land
- Land owned by the University The capitalized amount recorded for purchases of land includes the purchase price; closing costs, such as title, attorney and recording fees; and costs incurred in getting the land in condition for its intended use, such as clearing, grading, and filling
- land
- breeze gentle breeze blowing from the land towards the sea and affecting coastal areas
- land
- The earth's surface, extending downward to the center of the earth and upward infinitely into space
- land
- Any ground, soil, or earth whatsoever, as meadows, pastures, woods, etc
- land
- the surface of the earth; any part of the surface of the earth
- land
- - The lip of the container to which the closure liner or land seal linerless feature compresses or conforms to tolerance
- land
- Unrecorded optical surface area between pits, grooves, or marks, further away from the entrance surface than pits
- land
- If something lands somewhere, it arrives there unexpectedly, often causing problems. Two days later the book had already landed on his desk = arrive
- land
- Land is the part of the world that consists of ground, rather than sea or air. It isn't clear whether the plane went down over land or sea. a stretch of sandy beach that was almost inaccessible from the land
- land
- United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one-step photographic process (1909-1991)
- land
- operating or living or growing on land
- land
- deliver (a blow); "He landed several blows on his opponent's head"
- land
- bring ashore; "The drug smugglers landed the heroin on the beach of the island"
- land
- bring into a different state; "this may land you in jail"
- land
- When someone lands a plane, ship, or spacecraft, or when it lands, it arrives somewhere after a journey. The jet landed after a flight of just under three hours The crew finally landed the plane on its belly on the soft part of the runway
- land
- To catch and bring to shore; to capture; as, to land a fish
- land
- {i} country; state; nation; kingdom; estate; countryside; shore, dry land; ground; real estate
- land
- Any part of the surface of the earth
- land
- the earth, and the raw materials contained in it or growing on it
- land
- working the land as an occupation or way of life; "farming is a strenuous life"; "there's no work on the land any more"
- land
- The lip of the container to which the closure liner or land seal linerless feature compresses or conforms to tolerance
- land
- touch ground