Land

[lænd]

解释:

(noun.) 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'.

(noun.) 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'.

(noun.) United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one step photographic process (1909-1991).

(noun.) the land on which real estate is located; 'he built the house on land leased from the city'.

(verb.) reach or come to rest; 'The bird landed on the highest branch'; 'The plane landed in Istanbul'.

(verb.) cause to come to the ground; 'the pilot managed to land the airplane safely'.

(verb.) arrive on shore; 'The ship landed in Pearl Harbor'.

(verb.) bring ashore; 'The drug smugglers landed the heroin on the beach of the island'.

(verb.) deliver (a blow); 'He landed several blows on his opponent's head'.

整理:保罗--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) Urine. See Lant.

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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.

(n.) Ground, in respect to its nature or quality; soil; as, wet land; good or bad land.

(n.) The inhabitants of a nation or people.

(n.) The mainland, in distinction from islands.

(n.) The ground or floor.

(n.) The ground left unplowed between furrows; any one of several portions into which a field is divided for convenience in plowing.

(n.) Any ground, soil, or earth whatsoever, as meadows, pastures, woods, etc., and everything annexed to it, whether by nature, as trees, water, etc., or by the hand of man, as buildings, fences, etc.; real estate.

(n.) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; -- called also landing.

(n.) 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.

(v. t.) To set or put on shore from a ship or other water craft; to disembark; to debark.

(v. t.) To catch and bring to shore; to capture; as, to land a fish.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. i.) To go on shore from a ship or boat; to disembark; to come to the end of a course.

校对:帕蒂

同义词及近义词：

n. [1]. Ground, soil, earth.[2]. Region, country, district, tract.[3]. Real estate.

v. a. Disembark, put on shore, set on shore.

v. n. Disembark, debark, go on shore, come to land.

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同义词及反义词：

SYN:Plant, place, fix

ANT:Extricate, {[rt-iiiovu]?}, disestablish, upset

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解释:

n. earth the solid portion of the surface of the globe: a country: a district: soil: real estate: a nation or people: (Scot.) a group of dwellings or tenements under one roof and having a common entry.—v.t. to set on land or on shore.—v.i. to come on land or on shore.—ns. Land′-ā′gent a person employed by the owner of an estate to let farms collect rents &c.; Land′-breeze a breeze setting from the land towards the sea; Land′-crab a family of crabs which live much or chiefly on land.—v.t. Land′damn (Shak.) to banish from the land.—adj. Land′ed possessing land or estates: consisting in land or real estate.—ns. Land′er one who lands; Land′fall a landslip: an approach to land after a voyage also the land so approached; Land′-fish (Shak.) a fish on land any one acting contrary to his usual character; Land′-flood a flooding or overflowing of land by water: inundation; Land′force a military force serving on land as distinguished from a naval force; Land′-grab′ber one who acquires land by harsh and grasping means: one who is eager to occupy land from which others have been evicted; Land′-grab′bing the act of the land-grabber; Land′-herd a herd of animals which feed on land; Land′-hold′er a holder or proprietor of land; Land′-hung′er greed for the acquisition of land; Land′ing act of going on land from a vessel: a place for getting on shore: the level part of a staircase between the flights of steps.—adj. relating to the unloading of a vessel's cargo.—ns. Land′ing-net a kind of scoop-net for landing a fish that has been caught; Land′ing-place a place for landing as from a vessel; Land′ing-stage a platform for landing passengers or goods carried by water often rising and falling with the tide; Land′-job′ber a speculator in land; Land′-job′bing; Land′lady a woman who has property in land or houses: the mistress of an inn or lodging-house.—adj. Land′less (Shak.) without land or property.—v.t. Land′lock to enclose by land.—-adj. Land′-locked almost shut in by land protected by surrounding masses of land from the force of wind and waves.—ns. Land′lord the owner of land or houses: the master of an inn or lodging-house; Land′lordism the authority or united action of the landholding class; Land′-lubb′er a landsman (a term used by sailors); Land′mark anything serving to mark the boundaries of land: any object on land that serves as a guide to seamen: any distinguishing characteristic; Land′-meas′ure a system of square measure used in the measurement of land; Land′-meas′uring the art of estimating the superficial content of portions of land; Land′-own′er one who owns land; Land′-own′ership.—adj. Land′-own′ing.—ns. Land′-pī′lot (Milt.) a guide on land; Land′-pī′rate a highway robber: a fellow who makes a practice of swindling sailors in port; Land′rail the crake or corncrake so named from its cry; Land′-rak′er (Shak.) a vagabond; Land′-reeve the assistant to the land-steward of a great estate; Land′-roll a clod-crusher; Land′-scrip (U.S.) negotiable government certificate entitling to possession of certain public land by individuals or corporate bodies; Land′-shark a land-grabber: one who plunders sailors on shore; Land′skip (same as Landscape); Land′slide Land′slip a portion of land that falls down generally from the side of a hill usually due to the undermining effect of water; Lands′man Land′man one who lives or serves on land: one inexperienced in seafaring; Land′-spring water lying near the surface easily drawn upon by shallow wells; Land′-stew′ard a person who manages a landed estate; Land′-survey′ing (see Surveying); Land′-tax a tax upon land; Land′-turn a land-breeze; Land′-wait′er a custom-house officer who attends on the landing of goods from ships.—adv. Land′ward toward the land.—adj. lying toward the land away from the sea-coast: situated in or forming part of the country as opposed to the town: rural.—n. Land′wind a wind blowing off the land.—Land League an association founded in Ireland by Michael Davitt in 1879 and organised by C. S. Parnell to procure reduction and rearrangement of rents and to promote the substitution of peasant-proprietors for landlords—condemned as an illegal conspiracy in 1881; Landed interest the combined interest of the land-holding class in a community.—Make the land to discover the land as the ship approaches it; Set the land to observe by the compass how the shore bears from the ship.

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