Land vs. Chut

Landnoun

The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.

‘Most insects live on land.’;

Chutverb

(intransitive) To produce this sound.

Landnoun

Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and on which buildings can be erected.

‘There are 50 acres of land in this estate.’;

Landnoun

A country or region.

‘They come from a faraway land.’;

Landnoun

A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.

Landnoun

The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.

‘wet land; good or bad land for growing potatoes’;

Landnoun

A general country, state, or territory.

‘He moved from his home to settle in a faraway land.’;

Landnoun

realm, domain.

‘I'm going to Disneyland.’; ‘Maybe that's how it works in TV-land, but not in the real world.’;

Landnoun

(agriculture) The ground left unploughed between furrows; any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.

Landnoun

A fright.

‘He got an awful land when the police arrived.’;

Landnoun

(electronics) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.

Landnoun

In a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.

Landnoun

(travel) The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.

‘Our city offices sell a lot more land than our suburban offices.’;

Landnoun

(obsolete) The ground or floor.

Landnoun

(nautical) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.

Landnoun

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.

Landnoun

(ballistics) The space between the rifling grooves in a gun.

Landnoun

lant; urine

Landverb

(intransitive) To descend to a surface, especially from the air.

‘The plane is about to land.’;

Landverb

(dated) To alight, to descend from a vehicle.

Landverb

(intransitive) To come into rest.

Landverb

(intransitive) To arrive at land, especially a shore, or a dock, from a body of water.

Landverb

(transitive) To bring to land.

‘It can be tricky to land a helicopter.’; ‘Use the net to land the fish.’;

Landverb

(transitive) To acquire; to secure.

Landverb

(transitive) To deliver.

Landadjective

Of or relating to land.

Landadjective

Residing or growing on land.

Landnoun

Urine. See Lant.

Landnoun

The solid part of the surface of the earth; - opposed to water as constituting a part of such surface, especially to oceans and seas; as, to sight land after a long voyage.

‘They turn their heads to sea, their sterns to land.’;

Landnoun

Any portion, large or small, of the surface of the earth, considered by itself, or as belonging to an individual or a people, as a country, estate, farm, or tract.

‘Go view the land, even Jericho.’; ‘Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,Where wealth accumulates and men decay.’; ‘A poor parson dwelling upon land [i.e., in the country].’;

Landnoun

Ground, in respect to its nature or quality; soil; as, wet land; good or bad land.

Landnoun

The inhabitants of a nation or people.

‘These answers, in the silent night received,The king himself divulged, the land believed.’;

Landnoun

The mainland, in distinction from islands.

Landnoun

The ground or floor.

‘Herself upon the land she did prostrate.’;

Landnoun

The ground left unplowed between furrows; any one of several portions into which a field is divided for convenience in plowing.

Landnoun

Any ground, soil, or earth whatsoever, as meadows, pastures, woods, etc., and everything annexed to it, whether by nature, as trees, water, etc., or by the hand of man, as buildings, fences, etc.; real estate.

Landnoun

The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; - called also landing.

Landnoun

In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, as the level part of a millstone between the furrows, or the surface of the bore of a rifled gun between the grooves.

Landverb

To set or put on shore from a ship or other water craft; to disembark; to debark.

‘I 'll undertake to land them on our coast.’;

Landverb

To catch and bring to shore; to capture; as, to land a fish.

Landverb

To set down after conveying; to cause to fall, alight, or reach; to bring to the end of a course; as, he landed the quoit near the stake; to be thrown from a horse and landed in the mud; to land one in difficulties or mistakes.

Landverb

To pilot (an airplane) from the air onto the land; as, to land the plane on a highway.

Landverb

To come to the end of a course; to arrive at a destination, literally or figuratively; as, he landed in trouble; after hithchiking for a week, he landed in Los Angeles.

Landverb

To go on shore from a ship or boat; to disembark.

Landverb

To reach and come to rest on land after having been in the air; as, the arrow landed in a flower bed; the golf ball landed in a sand trap; our airplane landed in Washington.

Landnoun

the land on which real estate is located;

‘he built the house on land leased from the city’;

Landnoun

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

‘the land had never been plowed’; ‘good agricultural soil’;

Landnoun

the solid part of the earth's surface;

‘the plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land’; ‘the earth shook for several minutes’; ‘he dropped the logs on the ground’;

Landnoun

territory over which rule or control is exercised;

‘his domain extended into Europe’; ‘he made it the law of the land’;

Landnoun

the territory occupied by a nation;

‘he returned to the land of his birth’; ‘he visited several European countries’;

Landnoun

a domain in which something is dominant;

‘the untroubled kingdom of reason’; ‘a land of make-believe’; ‘the rise of the realm of cotton in the south’;

Landnoun

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

‘the family owned a large estate on Long Island’;

Landnoun

the people who live in a nation or country;

‘a statement that sums up the nation's mood’; ‘the news was announced to the nation’; ‘the whole country worshipped him’;

Landnoun

a politically organized body of people under a single government;

‘the state has elected a new president’; ‘African nations’; ‘students who had come to the nation's capitol’; ‘the country's largest manufacturer’; ‘an industrialized land’;

Landnoun

United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one-step photographic process (1909-1991)

Landnoun

working the land as an occupation or way of life;

‘farming is a strenuous life’; ‘there's no work on the land any more’;

Landverb

reach or come to rest;

‘The bird landed on the highest branch’; ‘The plane landed in Istanbul’;

Landverb

cause to come to the ground;

‘the pilot managed to land the airplane safely’;

Landverb

bring into a different state;

‘this may land you in jail’;

Landverb

bring ashore;

‘The drug smugglers landed the heroin on the beach of the island’;

Landverb

deliver (a blow);

‘He landed several blows on his opponent's head’;

Landverb

arrive on shore;

‘The ship landed in Pearl Harbor’;

Landverb

shoot at and force to come down;

‘the enemy landed several of our aircraft’;

Landadjective

relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land;

‘land vehicles’; ‘sea stories’; ‘sea smells’; ‘sea traffic’;

Landadjective

operating or living or growing in water;

‘boats are aquatic vehicles’; ‘water lilies are aquatic plants’; ‘fish are aquatic animals’;

Landnoun

a state of Germany or Austria.

Landverb

put (someone or something) on land from a boat

‘he landed his troops at Hastings’;

Landverb

go ashore; disembark

‘the marines landed at a small jetty’;

Landverb

bring (a fish) to land with a net or rod

‘he landed 43 on Saturday’;

Landverb

succeed in obtaining or achieving (something desirable), especially in the face of competition

‘she landed the starring role in a new film’;

Landverb

come down through the air and rest on the ground or another surface

‘we will shortly be landing at Gatwick’; ‘a fly landed on Tom's nose’;

Landverb

bring (an aircraft or spacecraft) to the ground or the surface of water in a controlled way

‘the co-pilot landed the plane’;

Landverb

reach the ground after falling or jumping

‘he leapt over the fence and landed nimbly on his feet’;

Landverb

(of an object) come to rest after falling or being thrown

‘the plate landed in her lap’;

Landverb

(of something undesirable or unexpected) arrive suddenly

‘there were more problems than ever landing on her desk’;

Landverb

cause someone to be in (a difficult situation)

‘his exploits always landed him in trouble’;

Landverb

inflict (an unwelcome task or difficult situation) on someone

‘the mistake landed the company with a massive bill’;

Landverb

inflict (a blow) on someone

‘I won the fight without landing a single punch’;

Land

Land is the solid surface of Earth that is not permanently submerged in water. The vast majority of human activity throughout history has occurred in land areas that support agriculture, habitat, and various natural resources.