landing
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
landing (plural landings)
- An arrival at a surface, as of an airplane or any descending object.
- Antonym: takeoff
- A place on a shoreline where a boat lands.
- Hyponym: fleet landing
- A level area at the top of a flight of stairs, or connecting one flight with another.
- Hyponym: half-landing
- 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 84:
- She crept up the stairs [...] On she went, across the landing, from which sprang the tall window, and up the next flight until she reached the top.
- (in the plural) The amount of fish caught, as in a specific area or on a particular expedition.
- 1997, Mark Kurlansky, Cod, page 132:
- The huge quantity of landings was periodically causing fish prices to crash, creating unprecedented havoc in the marketplace.
Usage notes edit
When referring to an arrival at a surface by an aircraft or other normally-controllable object, landing is generally reserved for cases in which the object is actually under (at least partial) control; an uncontrolled arrival at the surface by such an object is usually referred to as a crash or impact. In contrast, for uncontrollable objects (such as a meteoroid or artillery shell), landing is generally used (although impact is also usable).
Derived terms edit
- airlanding
- balked landing
- belly landing
- bicycle landing gear
- black landing
- Chinese landing
- crash-landing
- crash landing
- deadstick landing
- emergency landing
- entry-descent-landing
- forced landing
- gear-up landing
- half-landing
- happy landing
- happy landings
- hard landing
- instrument landing system
- Knights Landing
- landing corridor
- landing craft
- landing craft tank
- landing field
- landing gear
- landing net
- landing pad
- landing page
- landing page
- landing party
- landing ship
- landing stage
- landing strip
- landing vehicle tracked
- landing waiter
- Mays Landing
- moon landing
- pancake landing
- soft landing
- stick the landing
- superhero landing
- tandem landing gear
- three-point landing
- touch-and-go landing
- water landing
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Verb edit
landing
- present participle and gerund of land
Anagrams edit
Cebuano edit
Etymology edit
From English landing, present participle of land (“to land, to touch down”), from Middle English land, lond, from Old English land, lond (“earth, land, soil, ground; defined piece of land, territory, realm, province, district; landed property; country (not town); ridge in a ploughed field”), from Proto-Germanic *landą (“land”), from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: lan‧ding
Verb edit
landing
- (aviation) to land; to descend to a surface, especially from the air to touch down
- to come to be in a condition or situation
Quotations edit
For quotations using this term, see Citations:landing.
Derived terms edit
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Derived from landen + -ing. Compare English landing and German Landung.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
landing f (plural landingen, diminutive landinkje n)
- landing, touchdown of an airplane or any other airborne object
- the act of disembarking a ship, particularly in military contexts
Derived terms edit
Maltese edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English landing.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
landing m (plural landings)
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of landing | ||||||||
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singular | plural | |||||||
1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |||
perfect | m | landingjt | landingjt | landing | landingjna | landingjtu | landingw | |
f | landingt | |||||||
imperfect | m | nlanding | tlanding | jlanding | nlandingw | tlandingw | jlandingw | |
f | tlanding | |||||||
imperative | landing | landingw |
Related terms edit
Norman edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English landing.
Noun edit
landing m (plural landings)
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
landing f or m (definite singular landinga or landingen, indefinite plural landinger, definite plural landingene)
- a landing (e.g. by an aircraft)
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “landing” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
landing f (definite singular landinga, indefinite plural landingar, definite plural landingane)
- a landing (e.g. by an aircraft)
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “landing” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.