LANDING Synonyms

• accomplishment of an objective

• the act of arriving at a certain place

• someone who arrives (or has arrived)

• the act of passengers and crew getting off of a ship or aircraft

• the act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes

• a score in American football; being in possession of the ball across the opponents' goal line

• a landing (as the wheels touch the landing field); especially of airplanes

• lighted up by or as by fire or flame

• to come to rest, settle

• come down

• structure providing a place where boats can land people or goods

• a politically organized body of people under a single government

• the territory occupied by a nation

• the people who live in a nation or country

• an area outside of cities and towns

• a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography)

• extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use

• territory over which rule or control is exercised

• the solid part of the earth's surface

• a rational motive for a belief or action

• the loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface

• a relation that provides the foundation for something

• a position to be won or defended in battle (or as if in battle)

• the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground

• material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use)

• a relatively homogeneous percept extending back of the figure on which attention is focused

• a connection between an electrical device and a large conducting body, such as the earth (which is taken to be at zero voltage)

• (art) the surface (as a wall or canvas) prepared to take the paint for a painting

• the first or preliminary coat of paint or size applied to a surface

• fix firmly and stably

• confine or restrict to the ground

• place or put on the ground

• instruct someone in the fundamentals of a subject

• bring to the ground

• hit or reach the ground

• throw to the ground in order to stop play and avoid being tackled behind the line of scrimmage

• (baseball) a hit that travels along the playing field.

• cover with a primer; apply a primer to

• connect to a ground

• use as a basis for; found on

• a politically organized body of people under a single government

• United States prohibitionist who raided saloons and destroyed bottles of liquor with a hatchet (1846-1911)

• the people who live in a nation or country

• a federation of tribes (especially Native American tribes)

• the federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies

• the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation

• the way something is with respect to its main attributes

• the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state

• a politically organized body of people under a single government

• (chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container)

• a state of depression or agitation

• the territory occupied by a nation

• express in words

• put before

• indicate through a symbol, formula, etc.

• extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use

• take something or somebody with oneself somewhere

• cause to come into a particular state or condition

• cause to happen or to occur as a consequence

• go or come after and bring or take back

• bring into a different state

• be accompanied by

• advance or set forth in court

• bestow a quality on

• be sold for a certain price

• attract the attention of

• induce or persuade

• the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico)

• a politically organized body of people under a single government

• a world organization of autonomous states that are united in allegiance to a central power but are not subordinate to it or to one another

• a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them

• a particular environment or walk of life

• territory over which rule or control is exercised

• (mathematics) the set of values of the independent variable for which a function is defined

• people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest

• the content of a particular field of knowledge

• being or moving lower in position or less in some value

• soft fine feathers

• English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896)

• (American football) a complete play to advance the football

• (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil

• fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)

• spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position

• away from a more central or a more northerly place

• paid in cash at time of purchase

• from an earlier time

• to a lower intensity

• in an inactive or inoperative state

• extending or moving from a higher to a lower place

• becoming progressively lower

• being put out in a game of baseball

• understood perfectly

• lower than previously

• shut

• not functioning (temporarily or permanently)

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• drink down entirely

• eat up completely, as with great appetite

• bring down or defeat (an opponent)

• shoot at and force to come down

• cause to come or go down

• improve or perfect by pruning or polishing

• the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on

• the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on

• the abode of mortals (as contrasted with Heaven or Hell)

• the loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface

• the solid part of the earth's surface

• the abode of mortals (as contrasted with Heaven or Hell)

• once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles), associated with the humour black bile

• the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife

• a connection between an electrical device and a large conducting body, such as the earth (which is taken to be at zero voltage)

• hide in the earth like a hunted animal

• connect to the earth

• everything you own; all of your assets (whether real property or personal property) and liabilities

• extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use

• a major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country (especially in the United Kingdom) and formerly possessing distinct political rights

• the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock

• agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life

• relating to farming or agriculture