landing
the act of a person or thing that lands: The pilot brought his plane in for a landing.
a place where persons or goods are landed, as from a ship: The boat moored at the landing.
Architecture.
a platform between flights of stairs.
the floor at the head or foot of a flight of stairs.
Shipbuilding.
the overlap of two plates or planks, as in a clinker-built shell.
the distance between the center of a rivet hole and the edge of the plate or shape into which it is cut.
Origin of landing
1Other words from landing
- post·land·ing, adjective
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How to use landing in a sentence
Meanwhile social media titan Facebook, which would have been a natural landing spot for TikTok, has to sit on the sidelines.
‘Deal of a decade’: How buying TikTok could transform Microsoft | Lance Lambert | August 25, 2020 | FortuneOn the basis of that premise, thought was given to increasing SERP visibility by growing the volume of landing pages.
This includes the landing site for the NASA Perseverance rover arriving next February at the Jezero Crater, and that mission could possibly make some room to look for this sort of evidence.
Mars may not have been the warm, wet planet we thought it was | Neel Patel | August 7, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewThis work may entail translating keywords, ad copy, and landing page copy into another language.
What we discovered was that the most important factors that were correlated with top rankings were high Domain Authority and long-form landing page content.
1000 Ranking factors: How Google finds signals through the noise | Manick Bhan | July 22, 2020 | Search Engine Watch
The Lion Air captain had left his rookie copilot to make the landing until he realized he was in trouble.
Annoying Airport Delays Might Prevent You From Becoming the Next AirAsia 8501 | Clive Irving | January 6, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTPages from the Quran fluttered in the air before landing gently on the rubble.
The Dangerous Drug-Funded Secret War Between Iran and Pakistan | Umar Farooq | December 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTPan Am was granted landing rights at Camp Colombia, an army base near Havana.
We got to the landing and ran through the open door bin Laden entered.
A pair of shots chiseled into the wall behind the second story landing.
In 1634 he also prohibited the landing of tobacco any where except at the quay near the custom house in London.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.I've been sailing one way for ever so long, because I don't know how to turn around; but there's a landing-place just ahead.
Davy and The Goblin | Charles E. CarrylThere were machine guns here which wiped out the landing parties whenever they tried to get ashore North of the present line.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian HamiltonA full General landing to inspect overseas is entitled to a salute of 17 guns—well, I got my dues.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian HamiltonNevertheless, both our arrival that evening and our landing the next morning were very quiet and peaceful.
British Dictionary definitions for landing
/ (ˈlændɪŋ) /
the act of coming to land, esp after a flight or sea voyage
(as modifier): landing place
a place of disembarkation
the floor area at the top of a flight of stairs or between two flights of stairs
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