Digital Technology.relating to or producing horizontal, sideways orientation of computer or other digital output, with lines of data parallel to the two longer sides of a page or screen.Compare portrait(def 3).
Origin of landscape
1590–1600;1925–30for def 6; < Dutchlandschap; cognate with Old Englishlandsceap, landscipe; akin to GermanLandschaft. See land, -ship
Related formsre·land·scape, verb,re·land·scaped,re·land·scap·ing.
an extensive area of land regarded as being visually distinctugly slagheaps dominated the landscape
a painting, drawing, photograph, etc, depicting natural scenery
the genre including such pictures
(as modifier)landscape painter
the distinctive features of a given area of intellectual activity, regarded as an integrated wholethe landscape of the European imagination
adjective
printing
(of a publication or an illustration in a publication) of greater width than heightCompare portrait (def. 3)
(of a page) carrying an illustration or table printed at right angles to the normal text
verb
(tr)to improve the natural features of (a garden, park, etc), as by creating contoured features and planting trees
(intr)to work as a landscape gardener
Word Origin for landscape
C16 landskip (originally a term in painting), from Middle Dutch lantscap region; related to Old English landscipe tract of land, Old High German lantscaf region
c.1600, "painting representing natural scenery," from Dutch landschap, from Middle Dutch landscap "region," from land "land" (see land) + -scap "-ship, condition" (see -ship). Originally introduced as a painters' term. Old English had cognate landscipe, and cf. Old High German lantscaf, German Landschaft, Old Norse landskapr. Meaning "tract of land with its distinguishing characteristics" is from 1886.
v.
"to lay out lawns, gardens, etc., plant trees for the sake of beautification," by 1916, from landscape (n). Related: Landscaped; landscaping.
