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Noun
/ˈlandiNG/,
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landings, plural;
  1. An instance of coming or bringing something to land, either from the air or from water
    • - we made a perfect landing at the airstrip
  2. The action or process of doing this
    • - the landing of men on the moon
  3. A place where people and goods can be landed from a boat or ship
    • - the ferry landing
  4. A level area at the top of a staircase or between one flight of stairs and another


  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); "the plane made a smooth landing"; "his landing on his feet was catlike"
  4. the act of coming to land after a voyage
  5. (landed) owning or consisting of land or real estate; "the landed gentry"; "landed property"
  6. 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" and "touchdown" as well. ...
  7. Landing is an indie rock outfit from Connecticut, USA. Terms used to describe the music created by Aaron Snow and Adrienne Snow include ambient, shoegaze, slo-core, and space rock. ...
  8. A landing operation is a military action aimed at a bringing the landing force usually via landing craft to a shore or to land with the purpose of power projection ashore by forces coming usually from ships and also aircraft and able to fight.
  9. A landing is a water terminal which may receive ferry passenger or cargo traffic from marine vessels. They may characterized by long wharves if they handle a large volume of cargo.
  10. McLean Group of Companies is collective of companies owned by the McLean family in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The company's head offices are located in Vancouver and primarily invests in the development of real estate projects in North America. ...
  11. (Landed (album)) Landed is the band Can's seventh album, released in 1975. It is said to be the beginning of their poppier, less experimental era.
  12. corridor; coming to earth, as of an airplane or any descending object; an in-between platform or large bottom-most or top-most step of a staircase; a place on a shoreline where a boat lands
  13. (Landings) Quantities of fish, shellfish, and other aquatic plants and animals brought ashore and sold. Landings of fish may be in terms of round (live) weight or dressed weight. ...
  14. (Landings) Quantity of a species caught and landed.
  15. (Landed) gentry is a term traditionally applied in Britain to members of the upper class with country estates often (but not always) farmed on their behalf by others, and who might be without a peerage or other hereditary title.
  16. Usually "landed functionality": adding finished changes to the tree.
  17. A platform between flights of stairs or at the termination of a flight of stairs.
  18. A term used to describe each floor on which the elevator will open.
  19. the action of bringing your model safely back down to earth, hopefully keeping it in one piece. A good landing negates the use of the plastic bag.
  20. an improved waterfront property which facilitates loading, unloading, and servicing of vessels. back
  21. a moment when wheels of the landing aircraft touch the ground.
  22. a place where logs are assembled for temporary storage, loading, and subsequent transportation
  23. A level area of sidewalk at the top of a curb ramp facing the ramp path.
  24. Your pizza oven has two landing areas. The smaller space directly in front of the oven door and below the Vent, called the Vent Landing, and a larger area at the front of the oven, called the Oven Landing. ...
  25. any convenient and safe place to come ashore from a river.