LANDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does landing mean? 

• LANDING (noun)
  The noun LANDING has 4 senses:

1. an intermediate platform in a staircase

2. structure providing a place where boats can land people or goods

3. the act of coming down to the earth (or other surface)

4. the act of coming to land after a voyage

  Familiarity information: LANDING used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LANDING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An intermediate platform in a staircase

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("landing" is a kind of...):

platform (a raised horizontal surface)

Holonyms ("landing" is a part of...):

staircase; stairway (a way of access (upward and downward) consisting of a set of steps)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Structure providing a place where boats can land people or goods

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

landing; landing place

Hypernyms ("landing" is a kind of...):

construction; structure (a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts)

Meronyms (parts of "landing"):

landing stage (platform from which passengers and cargo can be (un)loaded)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "landing"):

dock; dockage; docking facility (landing in a harbor next to a pier where ships are loaded and unloaded or repaired; may have gates to let water in or out)

Holonyms ("landing" is a part of...):

harbor; harbour; haven; seaport (a sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The act of coming down to the earth (or other surface)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

his landing on his feet was catlike

Hypernyms ("landing" is a kind of...):

arrival (the act of arriving at a certain place)

Meronyms (parts of "landing"):

landing approach (the approach to a landing field by an airplane)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "landing"):

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

aircraft landing; airplane landing (landing an aircraft)

splashdown (a landing of a spacecraft in the sea at the end of a space flight)

Derivation:

land (reach or come to rest)

land (cause to come to the ground)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The act of coming to land after a voyage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("landing" is a kind of...):

arrival (the act of arriving at a certain place)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "landing"):

amphibious landing (a military action of coordinated land, sea, and air forces organized for an invasion)

debarkation; disembarkation; disembarkment (the act of passengers and crew getting off of a ship or aircraft)

Derivation:

land (arrive on shore)

land (bring ashore)

 Context examples 

If you recall, the moon landing brought some scary last minutes before actually touching down on the moon.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Water ice will be a key consideration for any potential landing site.

(NASA's Treasure Map for Water Ice on Mars, NASA)

Landing at London, he had hurried on with a mind full of care, for he had heard no word from Hampshire since the short note which had announced his brother's death.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The seamen at their landing observed my canoe, and rummaging it all over, easily conjectured that the owner could not be far off.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The plane would then return to Earth, landing like a plane.

(Hypersonic Space Plane May Soon Be a Reality, VOA)

It is believed a landing mission could follow soon after.

(Icy Warning for Space Missions to Jupiter's Moon, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The graphene film also provided a strong barrier that mosquitos could not bite through, although when wet it did not stop mosquitos from landing on skin.

(Graphene shield shows promise in blocking mosquito bites, National Institutes of Health)

NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity, has been exploring sedimentary rocks within Gale Crater since landing in August 2012.

(NASA Scientists Discover Unexpected Mineral on Mars, NASA)

The storm appeared to approach rapidly, and, on landing, I ascended a low hill, that I might observe its progress.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The United States, the former Soviet Union and more recently China have sent spacecraft to the near side of the moon, but the latest Chinese landing is the first on the far side.

(Chinese Rover Making Tracks on Dark Side of the Moon, VOA)