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# landing

«landing» in Mova's school dictionary: **when an aircraft, spacecraft or bird comes down to the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landing/#m1)

2) A landing is the flat area at the top of stairs or between two flights of stairs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landing/#m2)

3) A landing is a place where boats stop to load and unload. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landing/#m3)

4) (verb form) Landing means coming down to the ground, or arriving, as in «landing on the Moon». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landing/#m4)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landing/#x1)
- Astronauts first walked on the Moon after a Moon landing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landing/#x2)
- I left my shoes on the landing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landing/#x3)
- The crash landing scared the passengers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landing/#x4)
- The duck made a splashy landing on the pond. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landing/#x5)
- Boats unload at the landing by the river. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landing/#x6)
- On a landing, he noticed an open door, beyond which was a faintly lighted hall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landing/#x7)

### 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."](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/56-scary-films-nightmares-and-sad-endings/8/)
- [Every zebra has its own stripe pattern, and the best evidence says the stripes help keep biting flies from landing.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/25-horses-zebras-and-donkeys/11/)
- [Butterflies and flies taste with their feet, so a red admiral landing on a rotting plum is tasting it as it lands.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/37-butterflies-beetles-flies-mosquitoes-grasshoppers/1/)
- [Male frigatebirds puff up a big red throat pouch to attract females, and frigatebirds can stay in the air for weeks without landing.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/180-the-galapagos-giant-tortoises-sea-iguanas-darwins-finches-and-tame-sea-lions/14/)
- [No landing allowed»; there are stables and a very old banqueting-hall (a big dining hall for feasts).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/29-willows-ch2-part1-ducks-ditty-and-toad-hall/29/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «landing» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landing/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.