land
土地,陆地,地,陆上
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Definitions
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- : any part of the earth's surface not covered by a body of water; the part of the earth's surface occupied by continents and islands: Land was sighted from the crow's nest.
- : an area of ground with reference to its nature or composition: arable land.
- : an area of ground with specific boundaries: to buy land on which to build a house.
- : rural or farming areas, as contrasted with urban areas: They left the land for the city.
- : Law. any part of the earth's surface that can be owned as property, and everything annexed to it, whether by nature or by the human hand.any legal interest held in land.
- : Economics. natural resources as a factor of production.
- : a part of the surface of the earth marked off by natural or political boundaries or the like; a region or country: They came from many lands.
- : the people of a region or country
- : Audio. the flat surface between the grooves of a phonograph record.
- : a realm or domain: the land of the living.
- : a surface between furrows, as on a millstone or on the interior of a rifle barrel.
- : Scot. a tenement house.
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- : to bring to or set on land: to land passengers or goods from a ship; to land an airplane.
- : to bring into or cause to arrive in a particular place, position, or condition: His behavior will land him in jail.
- : Informal. to catch or capture; gain; win: to land a job.
- : Angling. to bring to land, or into a boat, etc., as with a hook or a net.
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- : to come to land or shore: The boat lands at Cherbourg.
- : to go or come ashore from a ship or boat.
- : to alight upon a surface, as the ground, a body of water, or the like: to land on both feet.
- : to hit or strike the ground, as from a height: The ball landed at the far side of the court.
- : to strike and come to rest on a surface or in something: The golf ball landed in the lake.
- : to come to rest or arrive in a particular place, position, or condition: to land in trouble; to land up 40 miles from home.
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- : land on, Informal. to reprimand; criticize: His mother landed on him for coming home so late.
Phrases
- land in
- land on
- land up
- cloud-cuckoo land
- fall (land) on one's feet
- fat of the land
- la-la land
- lay of the land
- never-never land
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
This is largely due to land use changes, namely the conversion of more fire-prone savannah in Central Africa to agricultural land, Swansea University wildfire researcher Cristina Santin Nuno told Carbon Brief.
Another option is to head over to HipCamp, an online directory of private land that’s open to camping, where you’ll find everything from yurts and cabins to treehouses and simple campsites on which to pitch your tent.
In the case of more recent boundaries, such as the Pleistocene-Holocene transition, it is not as easy to find an outcrop on land that documents the transition, so plumbing of paleoclimate archives is required.
What’s most needed is way to reboot our relationship with the oil palm—to find a way to produce more oil on less land.
The land belonged to his in-laws, and they didn’t want anyone else on the property.
For every nanosecond that I miraculously lift off the ground, I land with an inordinately loud thud.
It was supposed to land in Singapore at 8:57 a.m. local time.
The Federal Duck Stamp Act raised the fee on stamps needed to hunt waterfowl on federal land from $15 to $25.
In this American dream, we are emotionally tied to the people and land of our communities.
Chickens require significantly less land, water, and energy than all other meat options except farmed salmon.
Then with your victorious legions you can march south and help drive the Yankee invaders from the land.
It is a lofty and richly-decorated pile of the fourteenth century; and tells of the labours and the wealth of a foreign land.
Worst danger zone, the open sea, now traversed, but on land not yet out of the wood.
It was more like the boarding of a ship than any land fight I had ever seen or imagined.
We see the whole land, even if but at a distance, instead of being limited merely to the spot where our foot treads.