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bottom of the
stairs. $AU»±$TTA,
®„ o A large
stone landed right beside him.
►
DIFFICULTIES U] j(ft 6 [V +adv./prep.] to
arrive somewhere and cause difficulties that have to be dealt with
( ffiil ) ; Why do complaints
always land on
my desk (= why do I always have to deal with them)?
►
JOB V. if 7 (informal) to succeed in
getting a job, etc., especially one that a lot of other people want jJ# #
m, **#, m\ () -. mHe’s
just landed a starring
role in Spielberg’s next movie.
/I 0 o [VNN] She’s just landed herself a
company directorship.
►
FISH fii 8 [VN] to catch a fish and bring it out of
the water on to the land jffij, ( M. ) -
ii.]/i land a 'blow, 'punch, etc. to
succeed in hitting sb/sth fj 41; S : She landed a punch on his chin. ftfeX't
IHlk(ftTE^T—to —more at foot n. G3XHS3 'land in sth j land sb/yourself
in sth (informal) to get sb/
yourself into a difficult situation PS A ( )
: She
was arrested and
landed in court.
Mo 0 His hot temper has landed him in trouble before. fife 1$ H SI, UJ
HU *£ i§ 3U M ft M o O Now
you’ve really landed me in it (= got
me into trouble)/ ficllTft®! .land up in, at ... (informal) to
reach a final position or situation, sometimes after other things have happened ) ; ft&fei0 (
) EMM end UP: We travelled around for a while and
landed up in
yourself with sth/sb (informal) to give
sb/yourself sth unpleasant to do, especially because nobody else wants to do it
IE ( )£&(£A) ;
^ ) : As
usual, I got landed with all the boring jobs. Br
'land agent noun {especially BrE) a person
whose job is to manage land, farms, etc. for sb else landau
/'laendo:; -au/ noun a carriage with four wheels and a roof
that folds down in two sections, that is pulled by horses
'land-based adj. [usually before noun] located
on or living on the land 7 PSiM ± I#; jfi S 7 life (ft: land-based
missiles 0 land-based
animals
land ed /'laendid/
adj. [only before noun] 1 owning a lot of land ig^Aitiitiifft: the
landed gentry MWAili
landed 'immigrant noun (CanE) a
person from another country who has permission to live permanently in Canada A A®@
)
land-fall /'laendforl/
noun 1 [u, C] (literary) the
land that you see or arrive at first after a journey by sea or by air ( §8±R6«1: After three weeks
they made landfall on
the coast of
S. 2[C] = LANDSLIDE(l)
land-fill /’laendfil/
noun 1 [C, U] an area of land where large
amounts of waste material are buried under the earth lift ( s$M ) : The map shows the
position
of the new
landfills.
to 0 a
landfill site 2 [U] the
process of
burying large amounts of waste material JMWWi: the
choice of landfill or incineration 3 [U] waste
material that will be buried i^JIKft land-form /'laendfoim;
NAmE -fo:rm/ noun {geology Jfe) a
natural feature of the earth’s surface MW, land-hold
ing /'laendhauldirj; NAmE -hould-/ noun [C, U]
{technical A i§) a piece of land that sb owns or
rents; the fact of owning or renting land )
(ft —
it ( s&mm ) ±*fe ► land-hold-er noun-,
farmers and landholders
land-ing /‘laendir)/
noun 1 [C] the area at the top of a set of
stairs where you arrive before you go into an
upstairs room
or move onto another set of stairs 7-o ; ( Wg«»IBl W ) —picture o stair
case 2 [C,
U] an act of bringing an aircraft or a spacecraft down to the ground after a journey |2£j(g; UPft: a perfect/smooth/safe landing 7f£ / Ilf ^ 0
the first Apollo moon
landing
H PS 0 The pilot was forced
to make an emergency landing. ff M tt it 5Sf Ijf Itt„ 0 a landing site
PU3 take-off —see also crash landing at crash- land 3 [C] an act of
bringing soldiers to land in an area that is controlled by the enemy p® 4 = landing stage
'landing craft noun {pi. landing craft) a boat
with a flat bottom, carried on a ship. Landing craft open at one end so
soldiers and equipment can be brought to land.
mmm
'landing gear noun [u] = undercarriage
'landing lights noun [pi.] 1 bright lamps on a plane that are switched
on before it lands ( !<#l±(ft ) #P®j:T 2 lights that
are arranged along the sides of a runway
to guide a pilot when he or she is landing a plane ( As
'landing stage (6r£)
(also landing NAmE, BrE) noun a
flat wooden platform on the water where boats let people get on and off, and
load and unload goods W SHU jetty 'landing strip noun = airstrip land-lady /'laendleidi/
noun {pi -ies) 1 a woman
from whom you rent a room, a house, etc. fc %; ic ± TiMI proprietor 2 (BrE) a
woman who owns or manages a pub or a guest
house ( W )
^Cj£±, ic%M. —
compare landlord land-less /'laendlas/ adj. [usually before noun] not owning land for farming;
not allowed to own land ;
land-line /'laendlain/ noun a
telephone connection that uses wires carried on poles or under the ground, in
contrast to a mobile phone/cellphone ( ftLiSfiij ) Ki |I|$] : I’ll
call you later on the landline.
land-locked /'laendlnkt; NAmE -la:kt/
adj. almost or completely surrounded by land Jl¥
(
landlocked.
land-lord /’laendloid; NAmE
-lo:rd/ noun 1 a person or
company from whom you rent a room, a house, an office, etc. ik±; iE±; l$2 {BrE) a man who owns or manages a pub or a guest house ( if HE I# Bf (ft ) 0 ±^ Wl —
compare landlady PCTH proprietor
land-lub-ber /'laendlAb0(r)/ noun {informal) a
person with not much knowledge or experience of the sea or sailing
land-mark /'lasndmaik;
NAmE -ma:rk/ noun 1 something, such as a large building, that you can see
clearly from a distance and that will help you to know where you are PW, « ( ift
# ) : The
+ 2 ~ (in sth) an event, a
discovery, an
invention, etc.
that marks an important stage in sth ( H33 milestone: The
ceasefire was seen as
a major landmark in the fight against terrorism. M
o a landmark
decision/ruling in the courts 3 {especially NAmE) a
building or a place that is very important because of its history, and that
should be preserved
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{ )
'land mass noun {technical Aiff) a large area of land, for
example a continent PftJA;
land-mine /'laendmain/
noun a bomb placed on or under the ground, which
explodes when vehicles or people move over it j&U 'land office noun {NAmE) = land
registry land-owner /'Iaend0un0(r); NAmE -oun-/ noun a
person who owns land, especially a large area of land ± ife ± ►
land-owner-ship (also landowning)