landing
part of speech
noun (a landing, landings); verb form (landing — present participle of land)
meaning for a pupil
1) A landing is when an aircraft, spacecraft or bird comes down to the ground or water. tree →
2) A landing is the flat area at the top of stairs or between two flights of stairs. tree →
3) A landing is a place where boats stop to load and unload. tree →
4) (verb form) Landing means coming down to the ground, or arriving, as in «landing on the Moon». tree →
sense in the lessons
In science and history: the first Moon landing, plane landings; in everyday homes, the landing upstairs; in stories, crash landings and safe landings; phrases: crash landing, Moon landing, landing gear, on the landing.
examples
- The plane made a smooth landing. tree →
- Astronauts first walked on the Moon after a Moon landing. tree →
- I left my shoes on the landing. tree →
- The crash landing scared the passengers. tree →
- The duck made a splashy landing on the pond. tree →
- Boats unload at the landing by the river. tree →
- On a landing, he noticed an open door, beyond which was a faintly lighted hall. tree →
note
Countable. In homes, the landing is upstairs, not the hall at the bottom.
In the corpora
- Let's leave the landing light on tonight, and next time you can just say it's not for you."
- Every zebra has its own stripe pattern, and the best evidence says the stripes help keep biting flies from landing.
- Butterflies and flies taste with their feet, so a red admiral landing on a rotting plum is tasting it as it lands.
- Male frigatebirds puff up a big red throat pouch to attract females, and frigatebirds can stay in the air for weeks without landing.
- No landing allowed»; there are stables and a very old banqueting-hall (a big dining hall for feasts).
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «landing» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.