Meaning of land | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
   countable, uncountable
2. lant; urine
   uncountable
3. A surname from Middle English.
4. land, ground (the part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water)
5. Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and acquired and on which buildings and structures can be built and erected.
   countable, uncountable
6. Edwin Herbert, 1909–91, U.S. inventor and physicist.
7. earth, soil (the unconsolidated mineral or organic material on the immediate surface of the earth)
8. A country or region.
   countable, uncountable
9. the practice of extensive or permanent absence from their property by owners. — absentee, n.
   n
10. land, terrain (an area of land or the particular features of it)
11. A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
    countable, uncountable
12. the llth-century Anglo-Saxon estate system in which absolute possession was invested in the holder. — alodialist, allodialist, alodiary, allodiary, n.
13. land, terrain (reserved for growing crops)
14. The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.
    countable, uncountable
15. British, Obsolete, a form of land tenure under which land was held in return for payment of a fixed sum of money in rent or for rendering of service. Also called socage.
    British, Obsolete,
16. homeland (one's country of birth)
17. Realm, domain.
    countable, in-compounds, often, uncountable
18. surveying for the purpose of showing boundary and property lines.
19. The ground left unploughed between furrows.
    countable, uncountable
20. the science of land surveying.
21. Any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.
    countable, uncountable
22. the practice of purchasing land for another person who is not legally entitled to do so.
23. A shock or fright.
    Ireland, colloquial, countable, uncountable
24. the right one landowner has been granted over the land of another, as the right of access to water, right of way, etc., at no charge.
25. A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
    countable, uncountable
26. Obsolete, the science of surveying.
    Obsolete,
27. On a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
    countable, uncountable
28. a European system flourishing between 800-1400 based upon fixed relations of lord to vassal and all lands held in fee (as from the king), and requiring of vassal-tenants homage and service. Also feudality. — feudal, feudalistic, adj.
29. The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.
    countable, uncountable
30. The ground or floor.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
31. The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.
    countable, uncountable
32. In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, such as the level part of a millstone between the furrows.
    countable, uncountable
33. The space between the rifling grooves in a gun.
    countable, uncountable
34. A group of dwellings or tenements under one roof and having a common entry.
    Scotland, countable, historical, uncountable

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Examples

“Most insects live on land.”

“There are 50 acres of land in this estate.”

“They come from a faraway land.”

“wet land”

“good or bad land for growing potatoes”

“I'm going to Disneyland.”

“Maybe that's how it works in TV-land, but not in the real world.”

“He got an awful land when the police arrived.”

“Now, assume that the recording is being done with 100 grooves per inch, and that the record groove is .006 inch wide. This means that the land on either side on any given groove in the absence of sound waves is .004 inch.”

“Our city offices sell a lot more land than our suburban offices.”

“her selfe vppon the land / She did prostrate”

“The FBI maintains a database, the General Rifling Characteristics (GRC) file, which is organized by caliber, number of lands and grooves, direction of twist, and width of lands and grooves, to help an examiner figure out the origin of a recovered bullet.”

“The human eye is a precision instrument. It can detect grooves and lands on a slug more efficiently than any computer.”

“After the success of Secret of Monkey Island (1990), composer Michael Land longed for a more flexible system to integrate his music into a game.”

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