landing

• IPA^(key): /ˈlændɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ændɪŋ
• Hyphenation: land‧ing

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landing (plural landings)

1. An arrival at a surface, as of an airplane or any descending object.

   Antonym: takeoff

2. A place on a shoreline where a boat lands.

   Hyponym: fleet landing

3. A level area at the top of a flight of stairs, or connecting one flight with another.

   Hyponym: half-landing

   • 1967, Sleigh, Barbara, Jessamy, 1993 edition, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 84:

     She crept up the stairs [...] On she went, across the landing, from which sprang the tall window, and up the next flight until she reached the top.

When referring to an arrival at a surface by an aircraft or other normally-controllable object, landing is generally reserved for cases in which the object is actually under (at least partial) control; an uncontrolled arrival at the surface by such an object is usually referred to as a crash or impact. In contrast, for uncontrollable objects (such as a meteoroid or artillery shell), landing is generally used (although impact is also usable).

landing

1. present participle of land

• Ingland, danglin'

From English landing, present participle of land (“to land, to touch down”), from Middle English land, lond, from Old English land, lond (“earth, land, soil, ground; defined piece of land, territory, realm, province, district; landed property; country (not town); ridge in a ploughed field”), from Proto-Germanic *landą (“land”), from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

• Hyphenation: lan‧ding

landing

1. (aviation) to land; to descend to a surface, especially from the air to touch down
2. to come to be in a condition or situation

For quotations using this term, see Citations:landing.

• landinganan

Derived from landen +‎ -ing. Compare English landing and German Landung.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑn.dɪŋ/
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• Hyphenation: lan‧ding

landing f (plural landingen, diminutive landinkje n)

1. landing, touchdown of an airplane or any other airborne object
2. the act of disembarking a ship, particularly in military contexts

• landingsbaan
• landingsgestel
• maanlanding
• noodlanding
• tussenlanding

Borrowed from English landing.

landing m (plural landings)

1. (Guernsey) landing

From lande +‎ -ing.

landing f or m (definite singular landinga or landingen, indefinite plural landinger, definite plural landingene)

1. a landing (e.g. by an aircraft)

• landingssted
• landingsstripe
• nødlanding

• “landing” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From lande +‎ -ing.

landing f (definite singular landinga, indefinite plural landingar, definite plural landingane)

1. a landing (e.g. by an aircraft)

• landingsstripe
• naudlanding, nødlanding

• “landing” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.