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# touchdown

«touchdown» in Mova's school dictionary: **the moment when a plane or spacecraft lands on the ground** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a touchdown, touchdowns)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A touchdown is the moment when a plane or spacecraft lands on the ground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/touchdown/#m1)

2) In American and Canadian football, a touchdown is a score made by carrying or catching the ball over the other team's goal line (6 points). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/touchdown/#m2)

3) In rugby, putting the ball down over the line (usually called a try). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/touchdown/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Used in travel and science: touchdown of a plane or of a Moon lander. In sport, especially in the USA and Canada: scoring a touchdown. For maths problems in football, a touchdown is worth 6 points.

### examples

- The plane made a smooth touchdown. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/touchdown/#x1)
- He ran 50 yards and scored a touchdown. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/touchdown/#x2)
- A touchdown is worth six points. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/touchdown/#x3)
- Touchdown! The rover has landed on Mars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/touchdown/#x4)
- The crowd cheered after the touchdown. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/touchdown/#x5)
- Our team scored three touchdowns, so we had 18 points from them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/touchdown/#x6)

### note

Countable. In rugby people usually say "try" instead. Verb phrase: "touch down" (two words) = to land.

### In the corpora

- [A touchdown is worth six points, followed by a try for an extra point.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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