Engelsk substantiv: land | |||
1. | land (om forhold) the land on which real estate is located | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | He built the house on land leased from the city. | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | immovable, real estate, real property, realty | ||
Mere spesifikke uttrykk | farmstead, homestead, no man's land | ||
2. | land (om ting) material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use) | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | The land had never been plowed. Good agricultural soil. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | ground, soil | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | object, physical object | ||
Mere spesifikke uttrykk | badlands, bottom, bottomland, coastland, cultivated land, farmland, greensward, overburden, permafrost, ploughland, plowland, polder, rangeland, scablands, sod, sward, tillage, tilled land, tilth, turf, wetland | ||
3. | land (om sted) territory over which rule or control is exercised | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | His domain extended into Europe. He made it the law of the land. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | demesne, domain | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | region | ||
Mere spesifikke uttrykk | archduchy, barony, duchy, dukedom, earldom, emirate, empire, fiefdom, grand duchy, imperium, khanate, kingdom, princedom, principality, realm, sheikdom, sheikhdom, suzerainty, viscounty | ||
Omfatter disse overordnede uttrykkene | country, land, state | ||
4. | land (om ting) the solid part of the earth's surface | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | The plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land. The earth shook for several minutes. He dropped the logs on the ground. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | dry land, earth, ground, solid ground, terra firma | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | object, physical object | ||
Mere spesifikke uttrykk | archipelago, beachfront, cape, champaign, coastal plain, field, floor, foreland, forest, island, isthmus, land mass, landmass, mainland, neck, ness, oxbow, peninsula, plain, slash, timber, timberland, wonderland, woodland | ||
Eksempler på mere spesifikke uttrykk | America | ||
Omfatter disse overordnede uttrykkene | Earth, globe, world | ||
5. | land (om sted) the territory occupied by a nation | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | He returned to the land of his birth. He visited several European countries. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | country, state | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | administrative district, administrative division, territorial division | ||
Mere spesifikke uttrykk | African country, African nation, Asian country, Asian nation, banana republic, buffer country, buffer state, country of origin, European country, European nation, fatherland, homeland, kingdom, mother country, motherland, native land, North American country, North American nation, South American country, South American nation, sultanate, tax haven | ||
Eksempler på mere spesifikke uttrykk | Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Bahama Islands, Bahamas, Barbados, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Ceylon, Commonwealth of Australia, Commonwealth of Dominica, Commonwealth of the Bahamas, Comoros, Cuba, Cyprus, Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe, Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Dutch East Indies, East Timor, Etruria, Federal Islamic Republic of the Comoros, Federated States of Micronesia, Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis, Fiji, Friendly Islands, Grenada, Haiti, Independent State of Papua New Guinea, Independent State of Samoa, Indonesia, Israel, Jamaica, Kingdom of Tonga, Kiribati, Maldives, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nauru, New Hebrides, New Zealand, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Republic of Cape Verde, Republic of Cuba, Republic of Cyprus, Republic of Fiji, Republic of Haiti, Republic of Indonesia, Republic of Kiribati, Republic of Maldives, Republic of Malta, Republic of Mauritius, Republic of Nauru, Republic of Palau, Republic of Seychelles, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Republic of the Philippines, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, Republic of Turkey, Republic of Vanuatu, Rus, Russia, Russia, Russian Federation, Saint Christopher-Nevis, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Samoa i Sisifo, Sao Thome e Principe, Sao Tome and Principe, Sao Tome e Principe, Seychelles, Sion, Solomon Islands, Soviet Union, Sri Lanka, St. Christopher-Nevis, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Thomas and Principe, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, State of Israel, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, TT, TT, Turkey, Turkmen, Turkmenia, Turkmenistan, Turkomen, Tuvalu, Ukraine, Ukrayina, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Upper Volta, USSR, Vanuatu, Western Samoa, Yisrael, Zion | ||
Omfatter disse spesifikke uttrykk | demesne, domain, land, midland | ||
Tilhører disse spesifikke uttrykkene | department, province, state | ||
6. | land (om tilstand) a domain in which something is dominant | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | The untroubled kingdom of reason. A land of make-believe. The rise of the realm of cotton in the south. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | kingdom, realm | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | area, arena, domain, field, orbit, sphere | ||
Mere spesifikke uttrykk | lotus land, lotusland | ||
7. | land (om forhold) extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | The family owned a large estate on Long Island. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | acres, demesne, estate, landed estate | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | immovable, real estate, real property, realty | ||
Mere spesifikke uttrykk | barony, countryseat, Crown land, entail, feoff, fief, freehold, glebe, hacienda, homestead, leasehold, manor, plantation, seigneury, seigniory, signory, smallholding | ||
8. | land (om gruppe) the people who live in a nation or country | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | A statement that sums up the nation's mood. The news was announced to the nation. The whole country worshipped him. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | country, nation | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | people | ||
Mere spesifikke uttrykk | British, British people, Brits, Dutch, Dutch people, English, English people, French, French people, Irish, Irish people, Spanish, Spanish people, Swiss, Swiss people | ||
Tilhører disse spesifikke uttrykkene | national, subject | ||
9. | land (om gruppe) a politically organized body of people under a single government | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | The state has elected a new president. African nations. Students who had come to the nation's capitol. The country's largest manufacturer. An industrialized land. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | body politic, commonwealth, country, nation, res publica, state | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | political entity, political unit | ||
Mere spesifikke uttrykk | ally, city state, city-state, commonwealth country, developing country, Dominion, foreign country, great power, major power, power, Reich, renegade state, rogue nation, rogue state, sea power, superpower, suzerain, world power | ||
Eksempler på mere spesifikke uttrykk | Eelam, Tamil Eelam | ||
Omfatter disse spesifikke uttrykk | estate, estate of the realm, the three estates | ||
10. | Land (om person) United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one step photographic process (1909-1991) | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | Din Land, Edwin Herbert Land | ||
Eksempler på mindre spesifikke uttrykk | artificer, discoverer, industrialist, inventor | ||
11. | land (om handling) agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | Farming is a strenuous life. There's no work on the land any more. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | farming | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | business, job, line, line of work, occupation | ||
Engelsk verb: land | |||
1. | land (om bevegelse) reach or come to rest | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | The bird landed on the highest branch. The plane landed in Istanbul. | ||
Eksempler på anvendelse | The airplane is sure to land | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | set down | ||
Anvendelsesmønster | Something ----s. Somebody ----s. Somebody ----s PP | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | arrive, come, get | ||
Mere spesifikke uttrykk | alight, beach, belly-land, crash land, debark, disembark, force-land, light, perch, port, set down, touch down, undershoot | ||
2. | land (om bevegelse) cause to come to the ground | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | The pilot managed to land the airplane safely. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | bring down, put down | ||
Anvendelsesmønster | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s something PP | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | arrive, come, get | ||
Medfører | land, set down | ||
Overordnet kategori | air, air travel, aviation | ||
3. | land (om endring) bring into a different state | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | This may land you in jail. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | bring | ||
Anvendelsesmønster | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody. Something ----s somebody. Something ----s something | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | alter, change, modify | ||
4. | land (om bevegelse) bring ashore | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | The drug smugglers landed the heroin on the beach of the island. | ||
Anvendelsesmønster | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | bring, convey, take | ||
Mere spesifikke uttrykk | ground, run aground, strand, strand | ||
5. | land (om forhold) deliver (a blow) | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | He landed several blows on his opponent's head. | ||
Anvendelsesmønster | Somebody ----s something PP | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | deliver, drive home | ||
6. | land (om bevegelse) arrive on shore | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | The ship landed in Pearl Harbor. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | set ashore, shore | ||
Anvendelsesmønster | Something ----s | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | arrive, come, get | ||
7. | land (om bevegelse) shoot at and force to come down | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | The enemy landed several of our aircraft. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | down, shoot down | ||
Anvendelsesmønster | Somebody ----s something | ||