Definition of "land"

The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.  examples

Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and acquired and on which buildings and structures can be built and erected.  examples

A country or region.  examples

A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.  examples

The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.  examples

(often in combination) realm, domain.  examples

(agriculture) The ground left unploughed between furrows; any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.  examples

(Ireland, colloquial) A shock or fright.  examples

(electronics) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.  examples

On a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.  quotations  examples

(travel) The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.  examples

(obsolete) The ground or floor.  quotations

(nautical) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.  examples

In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, such as the level part of a millstone between the furrows.

1. (ballistics) The space between the rifling grooves in a gun.  quotations  examples

   Quotations

   • The FBI maintains a database, the General Rifling Characteristics (GRC) file, which is organized by caliber, number of lands and grooves, direction of twist, and width of lands and grooves, to help an examiner figure out the origin of a recovered bullet.

     2008 August 1, Lisa Steele, “Ballistics”, in Eric York Drogin, editor, Science for Lawyers, American Bar Association, page 16

   • The human eye is a precision instrument. It can detect grooves and lands on a slug more efficiently than any computer.

     2012 November 15, “One Way to Get Off”, in Elementary, season 1, episode 7, spoken by Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller)

(Scotland, historical) A group of dwellings or tenements under one roof and having a common entry.

(intransitive) To descend to a surface, especially from the air.  examples

(dated) To alight, to descend from a vehicle.  quotations  examples

(intransitive) To come into rest.  examples

(intransitive) To arrive on land, especially a shore or dock, from a body of water.  examples

(transitive) To bring to land.  quotations  examples

(transitive, informal) To capture or arrest.  quotations  examples

(transitive) To acquire; to secure.  quotations  examples

(slang, transitive) To succeed in having sexual relations with; to score

(transitive) (of a blow) To deliver.  examples

(intransitive) (of a punch) To connect  examples

(intransitive) To go down well with an audience.  examples

lant; urine  examples