land

«land» in Mova's school dictionary: the ground, the part of the Earth that is not water — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (land, lands); verb (land, lands, landed, landing)

meaning for a pupil

1) Land is the ground, the part of the Earth that is not water. tree →

2) Land is an area of ground that someone owns or uses, like a farm. tree →

3) A land is a country or place: a faraway land. tree →

4) To land is to come down to the ground or water after flying or falling, like a plane or a bird. tree →

5) To land a boat is to bring it to the shore. tree →

sense in the lessons

In maths, an area (acres, square metres) to divide or plant; a flight ending; a coin landing on heads in probability. In science and geography, land and sea, landforms, animals that live on land. In stories, a magic land, the plane lands safely. Phrases: «on land», «dry land», «land on», «landing», «a land far away».

examples

• The farmer has 40 acres of land. tree →
• He plants corn on half the land. tree →
• The plane landed after 3 hours. tree →
• The coin landed on tails 6 times. tree →
• Frogs live both on land and in water. tree →
• The bird landed on the windowsill. tree →
• Once upon a time, in a land far away, there lived a king. tree →
• After a week at sea, the sailors saw land. tree →
• The cat always lands on its feet. tree →
• What a blessed land that must be! tree →

note

As ground, land is uncountable: «a lot of land»; as a country, countable: «lands». Verb past: landed. As an area it is split by fractions or multiplied by a rate per acre. Trap: «landed» in a flight story marks the end time (take-off time + flight time).

In the corpora

• Before an election, leaflets with smiling faces land on the mat: each candidate explains what they promise.
• Knowing about gossip is one thing; knowing what to do when it lands on you is the grown-up part.
• Plane crashes and terror attacks are on the news because they are very rare; millions of flights land safely every day.
• Jonathan, a giant tortoise on the island of St Helena, hatched around 1832 and is the oldest known living land animal.
• Butterflies and flies taste with their feet, so a red admiral landing on a rotting plum is tasting it as it lands.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «land» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.