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land·ing (lan′diŋ)
noun
- the act of coming to shore or of going or putting ashore
- a place where a ship or boat takes on or unloads cargo or passengers
- a platform at the end of a flight of stairs
- the act of alighting, or coming to the ground, as after a flight, jump, or fall
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Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
landing
n.
The act of reaching shore
arriving, docking, berthing, wharfing, piloting, making port, steering, casting anchor, anchoring, dropping anchor, disembarkation; see also arrival 1.The place where landing, sense 1, is possible
The act of reaching the earth
setting down, grounding, getting in, arriving, deplaning, reaching an airport, touchdown, splashdown, completing a mission, vertical landing, settling, alighting, ballooning in*.
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Preposition: on
- d-day: Special armored vehicles were therefore developed to support the infantrymen landing on D-Day.
Converse of object
- commemorate: Visible across the bay is Point Loma where a statue of Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo commemorates the landing of the first European in 1542.
Adjective modifier
- d-day: Its historical claim to fame is being involved in the D-Day landings of American troops on to the Normandy beaches in 1944.
Modifies a noun
- craft: Relief aboard a tank landing craft followed by news of my brother killed in Burma end of August.
Noun used with modifier
- moon: The Apollo moon landing is topping many of these lists.
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I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving thegoal, beforethisdecadeisout, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth.
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