lander

«lander» in Mova's school dictionary: a spacecraft built to land on the surface of a planet… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a lander, landers)

meaning for a pupil

1) A lander is a spacecraft built to land on the surface of a planet, moon, comet or asteroid. tree →

2) (rare) A lander is someone who lands, or a person from a particular land (as in «Highlander»). tree →

sense in the lessons

In science and space lessons landers such as the Apollo Lunar Module, Viking on Mars, Philae on a comet and Chandrayaan-3's Vikram on the Moon are compared with orbiters (which circle) and rovers (which drive around). Phrases: «Mars lander», «lunar lander», «the lander touched down».

examples

• The lander touched down safely on the Moon. tree →
• A lander stays where it lands, but a rover can drive around. tree →
• The Philae lander bounced on the comet. tree →
• The Mars lander measured quakes inside the planet. tree →
• We built a paper lander to protect an egg when dropped. tree →
• The Apollo lunar lander carried two astronauts to the surface. tree →

note

Countable. From the verb «land». Compare: orbiter (goes around), lander (lands), rover (moves on the surface), probe (any uncrewed spacecraft). In egg-drop maths/science tasks, a good lander slows the fall and spreads the impact.

In the corpora

• Soviet Venera landers in the 1970s and 1980s survived only about an hour or two before the heat and pressure destroyed them.

Trees and pragmatics

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