Landing vs. Hall — What's the Difference?

Landing is the last part of a flight, where a flying animal, aircraft, or spacecraft returns to the ground. When the flying object returns to water, the process is called alighting, although it is commonly called "landing", "touchdown"a or "splashdown" as well.

In architecture, a hall is a relatively large space enclosed by a roof and walls. In the Iron Age and early Middle Ages in northern Europe, a mead hall was where a lord and his retainers ate and also slept.

The act or process of coming to land or rest, especially after a voyage or flight.

A corridor or passageway in a building.

A termination, especially of a voyage or flight.

A large entrance room or vestibule in a building; a lobby.

A site for loading and unloading passengers and cargo.

A building for public gatherings or entertainments.

Landings An amount of fish or shellfish harvested in a particular place during a particular period.

The large room in which such events are held.

An intermediate platform on a flight of stairs.

A building used for the gatherings and social activities of a church, fraternal order, or other organization.

The area at the top or bottom of a staircase.

A building belonging to a school, college, or university that provides classroom, dormitory, or dining facilities.

An arrival at a surface, as of an airplane or any descending object.

A large room in such a building.

A place on a shoreline where a boat lands.

The group of students using such a building

A level area at the top of a flight of stairs, or connecting one flight with another.

Chiefly British A meal served in such a building.

Present participle of land

The main house on a landed estate.

Of, pertaining to, or used for, setting, bringing, or going, on shore.

The castle or house of a medieval monarch or noble.

A going or bringing on shore.

The principal room in such a castle or house, used for dining, entertaining, and sleeping.

A place for landing, as from a ship, a carriage. etc.

A corridor; a hallway.

The level part of a staircase, at the top of a flight of stairs, or connecting one flight with another.

A meeting room.

The act or process of bringing an aircraft to land after having been in the air; as, the pilot made a perfect three-point landing. Contrasted with take-off.

A manor house (originally because a magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion).

An intermediate platform in a staircase

A building providing student accommodation at a university.

Structure providing a place where boats can land people or goods

The principal room of a secular medieval building.

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

(obsolete) Cleared passageway through a crowd, as for dancing.

The act of coming to land after a voyage

A place for special professional education, or for conferring professional degrees or licences.

(India) A living room.

(Oxbridge) A college's canteen, which is often but not always coterminous with a traditional hall.

(Oxbridge slang) A meal served and eaten at a college's hall.

A building or room of considerable size and stateliness, used for public purposes; as, Westminster Hall, in London.

The chief room in a castle or manor house, and in early times the only public room, serving as the place of gathering for the lord's family with the retainers and servants, also for cooking and eating. It was often contrasted with the bower, which was the private or sleeping apartment.

A vestibule, entrance room, etc., in the more elaborated buildings of later times.

A name given to many manor houses because the magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion; a chief mansion house.

A college in an English university (at Oxford, an unendowed college).

The apartment in which English university students dine in common; hence, the dinner itself; as, hall is at six o'clock.

Cleared passageway in a crowd; - formerly an exclamation.

An interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open;

A large entrance or reception room or area

A large room for gatherings or entertainment;

A college or university building containing living quarters for students

The large room of a manor or castle

English writer whose novel about a lesbian relationship was banned in Britain for many years (1883-1943)

United States child psychologist whose theories of child psychology strongly influenced educational psychology (1844-1924)

United States chemist who developed an economical method of producing aluminum from bauxite (1863-1914)

United States explorer who led three expeditions to the Arctic (1821-1871)

United States astronomer who discovered Phobos and Deimos (the two satellites of Mars) (1829-1907)

A large and imposing house

A large building used by a college or university for teaching or research;

A large building for meetings or entertainment