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  • 111land — /lænd/ noun an area of earth ■ verb 1. to put goods or passengers onto land after a voyage by sea or by air ● The ship landed some goods at Mombasa. ● The plane stopped for thirty minutes at the local airport to land passengers and mail. 2. to… …

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  • 112land — The smooth, open area of a grooved surface, such as the bands of metal between the grooves in a piston which carry the piston rings. The metal separating a series of grooves. Also see head land piston lands top land …

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  • 113land — A general term including not only the soil, but everything attached to it, whether attached by the course of nature, as trees, herbage, and water, or by the hand of man, as buildings, fixtures, and fences. 42 Am J1st Prop § 14. A corporeal thing …

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  • 114-land — a combining form of land: hinterland; lowland. * * * [land; lənd] comb. form forming nouns denoting a particular sphere of activity or group of people the blunt, charmless climate of technoland …

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  • 115land·ed — /ˈlændəd/ adj, always used before a noun 1 : owning a large amount of land the landed gentry/aristocracy/class 2 : including a large amount of land a landed estate landed wealth …

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  • 116-land — a combining form of land: hinterland; lowland. * * * …

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  • 117Land — Landn 1.LanddesLächelns=Schreibstube.VomTitelderOperettevonFranzLehár(1929)übernommen.KannTarnausdruckfür»Amtschinesisch«seinodermitdemLied»DeinistmeinganzesHerz«dieenggeistigeVerwaltungsarbeitglossieren.DieSchreibstubeistdasZielmitleidig… …

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  • 118land — [OE] Land goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *landam. This seems originally to have meant ‘particular (enclosed) area’ (ancestor of the modern sense ‘nation’), but in due course it branched out to ‘solid surface of the earth in general’. The… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 119Land of Oz — imaginary land invented by writer L(yman) Frank Baum …

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  • 120land — sb. RG. 377, 494 v. a. == bring to land. K. Horn, 779 …

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