Land vs. Water — What's the Difference?

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.

Water (chemical formula H2O) is an inorganic, transparent, tasteless, odorless, and nearly colorless chemical substance, which is the main constituent of Earth's hydrosphere and the fluids of all known living organisms (in which it acts as a solvent). It is vital for all known forms of life, even though it provides no calories or organic nutrients.

A state of Germany or Austria.

A colourless, transparent, odourless liquid that forms the seas, lakes, rivers, and rain and is the basis of the fluids of living organisms

Put (someone or something) on land from a boat

A stretch or area of water, such as a river, sea, or lake

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

Urine

Cause someone to be in (a difficult situation)

The amniotic fluid surrounding a fetus in the womb, especially as discharged in a flow shortly before birth

Inflict (a blow) on someone

The quality of transparency and brilliance shown by a diamond or other gem.

The solid ground of the earth.

Capital stock that represents a book value greater than the true assets of a company.

Ground or soil

Pour or sprinkle water over (a plant or area) in order to encourage plant growth

A topographically or functionally distinct tract

(of a person's eyes) fill with tears

A nation; a country.

Dilute or adulterate (a drink, typically an alcoholic one) with water

The people of a nation, district, or region.

Increase (a company's debt, or nominal capital) by the issue of new shares without a corresponding addition to assets.

Lands Territorial possessions or property.

A clear, colorless, odorless, and tasteless liquid, H2O, essential for most plant and animal life and the most widely used of all solvents. Freezing point 0°C (32°F); boiling point 100°C (212°F); specific gravity (4°C) 1.0000; weight per gallon (15°C) 8.338 pounds (3.782 kilograms).

Public or private landed property; real estate.

Any of various forms of water

(Law) The solid material of the earth as well as the natural and manmade things attached to it and the rights and interests associated with it.

Often waters Naturally occurring mineral water, as at a spa.

An agricultural or farming area

A body of water such as a sea, lake, river, or stream.

Farming considered as a way of life.

Waters A particular stretch of sea or ocean, especially that of a state or country

An area or realm

A supply of water

The raised portion of a grooved surface, as on a phonograph record.

A water supply system.

To bring to and unload on land

Any of the fluids normally secreted from the body, such as urine, perspiration, tears, or saliva.

To set (a vehicle) down on land or another surface

A fluid present in a body part in abnormal quantities as a result of injury or disease

(Informal) To cause to arrive in a place or condition

The fluid surrounding a fetus in the uterus; amniotic fluid.

To catch and pull in (a fish)

An aqueous solution of a substance, especially a gas

(Informal) To win; secure

A wavy finish or sheen, as of a fabric or metal.

(Informal) To deliver

The valuation of the assets of a business firm beyond their real value.

To come to shore

Stock issued in excess of paid-in capital.

To disembark

The transparency and luster of a gem.

To descend toward and settle onto the ground or another surface

A level of excellence.

(Informal) To arrive in a place or condition

To pour or sprinkle water on; make wet

To come to rest in a certain way or place

To give drinking water to.

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

To lead (an animal) to drinking water.

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.

To dilute or weaken by adding water

A country or region.

To give a sheen to the surface of (fabric or metal).

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

To increase (the number of shares of stock) without increasing the value of the assets represented.

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

To irrigate (land).

Realm, domain.

To produce or discharge fluid, as from the eyes.

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

To salivate in anticipation of food

A shock or fright.

To take on a supply of water, as a ship.

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

To drink water, as an animal.

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

(uncountable) A substance (of molecular formula H₂O) found at room temperature and pressure as a clear liquid; it is present naturally as rain, and found in rivers, lakes and seas; its solid form is ice and its gaseous form is steam.

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

The liquid form of this substance: liquid H₂O.

(obsolete) The ground or floor.

(countable) A serving of liquid water.

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

The aforementioned liquid, considered one of the Classical elements or basic elements of alchemy.

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.

Water in a body; an area of open water.

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

A body of water, almost always a river.

A group of dwellings or tenements under one roof and having a common entry.

A combination of water and other substance(s).

Lant; urine

Mineral water.

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

Spa water.

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

(pharmacy) A solution in water of a gaseous or readily volatile substance.

(intransitive) To come into rest.

Urine.

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

Amniotic fluid or the amniotic sac containing it. Used only in the plural in the UK but often also in the singular in North America. (The Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary says "often used in plural; also: bag of waters".)

(transitive) To bring to land.

Fluids in the body, especially when causing swelling.

To capture or arrest.

A state of affairs; conditions; usually with an adjective indicating an adverse condition.

(transitive) To acquire; to secure.

A person's intuition.

To succeed in having sexual relations with; to score

Excess valuation of securities.

(transitive) (of a blow) To deliver.

The limpidity and lustre of a precious stone, especially a diamond.

(intransitive) (of a punch) To connect

A wavy, lustrous pattern or decoration such as is imparted to linen, silk, metals, etc.

(intransitive) To go down well with an audience.

(transitive) To pour water into the soil surrounding (plants).

Urine. See Lant.

(transitive) To wet or supply with water; to moisten; to overflow with water; to irrigate.

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.

(transitive) To provide (animals) with water for drinking.

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.

(intransitive) To get or take in water.

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

To urinate onto.

The inhabitants of a nation or people.

(transitive) To dilute.

The mainland, in distinction from islands.

To overvalue (securities), especially through deceptive accounting.

The ground or floor.

(intransitive) To fill with or secrete water.

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

(transitive) To wet and calender, as cloth, so as to impart to it a lustrous appearance in wavy lines; to diversify with wavelike lines.

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.

The fluid which descends from the clouds in rain, and which forms rivers, lakes, seas, etc.

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

A body of water, standing or flowing; a lake, river, or other collection of water.

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.

Any liquid secretion, humor, or the like, resembling water; esp., the urine.

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

A solution in water of a gaseous or readily volatile substance; as, ammonia water.

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

The limpidity and luster of a precious stone, especially a diamond; as, a diamond of the first water, that is, perfectly pure and transparent. Hence, of the first water, that is, of the first excellence.

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.

An addition to the shares representing the capital of a stock company so that the aggregate par value of the shares is increased while their value for investment is diminished, or "diluted."

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

To wet or supply with water; to moisten; to overflow with water; to irrigate; as, to water land; to water flowers.

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.

To supply with water for drink; to cause or allow to drink; as, to water cattle and horses.

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

To add water to (anything), thereby extending the quantity or bulk while reducing the strength or quality; to extend; to dilute; to weaken.

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.

To shed, secrete, or fill with, water or liquid matter; as, his eyes began to water.

The land on which real estate is located;

To get or take in water; as, the ship put into port to water.

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

Binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent

The solid part of the earth's surface;

The part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean);

Territory over which rule or control is exercised;

Facility that provides a source of water;

The territory occupied by a nation;

Once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles)

A domain in which something is dominant;

Liquid excretory product;

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

A fluid necessary for the life of most animals and plants;

The people who live in a nation or country;

Supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams;

A politically organized body of people under a single government;

Provide with water;

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

Secrete or form water, as tears or saliva;

Working the land as an occupation or way of life;

Fill with tears;

Reach or come to rest;

Cause to come to the ground;

Bring into a different state;

Bring ashore;

Deliver (a blow);

Arrive on shore;

Shoot at and force to come down;

Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land;

Operating or living or growing in water;