Land (n.) Urine. See Lant. |
Land (n.) The solid part of the surface of the earth |
Land (n.) Any portion, large or small, of the surface of the earth, considered by itself, or as belonging to an individual or a people, as a country, estate, farm, or tract. |
Land (n.) Ground, in respect to its nature or quality |
Land (n.) The inhabitants of a nation or people. |
Land (n.) The mainland, in distinction from islands. |
Land (n.) The ground or floor. |
Land (n.) The ground left unplowed between furrows |
Land (n.) Any ground, soil, or earth whatsoever, as meadows, pastures, woods, etc., and everything annexed to it, whether by nature, as trees, water, etc., or by the hand of man, as buildings, fences, etc. |
Land (n.) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat |
Land (n.) In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, as the level part of a millstone between the furrows, or the surface of the bore of a rifled gun between the grooves. |
Land (v. t.) To set or put on shore from a ship or other water craft |
Land (v. t.) To catch and bring to shore |
Land (v. t.) To set down after conveying |
Land (v. i.) To go on shore from a ship or boat |
Land-poor (a.) Pecuniarily embarrassed through owning much unprofitable land. |
Mass (n.) The sacrifice in the sacrament of the Eucharist, or the consecration and oblation of the host. |
Mass (n.) The portions of the Mass usually set to music, considered as a musical composition |
Mass (v. i.) To celebrate Mass. |
Mass (n.) A quantity of matter cohering together so as to make one body, or an aggregation of particles or things which collectively make one body or quantity, usually of considerable size |
Mass (n.) A medicinal substance made into a cohesive, homogeneous lump, of consistency suitable for making pills |
Mass (n.) A large quantity |
Mass (n.) Bulk |
Mass (n.) The principal part |
Mass (n.) The quantity of matter which a body contains, irrespective of its bulk or volume. |
Mass (v. t.) To form or collect into a mass |
No-man's land () A space amidships used to keep blocks, ropes, etc. |
No-man's land () Fig.: An unclaimed space or time. |
Table-land (n.) A broad, level, elevated area of land |
slaughter massacre mass murder carnage butchery | the savage and excessive killing of many people |
land reform | a redistribution of agricultural land (especially by government action) |
farming land | agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life, farming is a strenuous life, there's no work on the land any more |
mass spectroscopy | the use of spectroscopy to determine the masses of small electrically charged particles |
mass production | the production of large quantities of a standardized article (often using assembly line techniques) |
land development | making an area of land more useful |
Mass | (Roman Catholic Church and Protestant Churches) the celebration of the Eucharist |
High Mass | a solemn and elaborate Mass with music |
Low Mass | a Mass recited without music |
land-office business | very large and profitable volume of commercial activity |
corncrake land rail Crex crex | common Eurasian rail that frequents grain fields |
land line landline | a telephone line that travels over terrestrial circuits, a land line can be wire or fiber optics or microwave |
land mine ground-emplaced mine booby trap | an explosive mine hidden underground, explodes when stepped on or driven over |
land office | a government office where business relating to public lands is transacted |
mass spectrograph | a mass spectrometer that produces a graphical representation of the mass spectrum |
mass spectrometer spectrometer | spectroscope for obtaining a mass spectrum by deflecting ions into a thin slit and measuring the ion current with an electrometer |
Polaroid camera Polaroid Land camera | a camera that develops and produces a positive print within seconds |
rapid transit mass rapid transit | an urban public transit system using underground or elevated trains |
weapon of mass destruction WMD W.M.D. | a weapon that kills or injures civilian as well as military personnel (nuclear and chemical and biological weapons) |
twilight zone no man's land | the ambiguous region between two categories or states or conditions (usually containing some features of both), but there is still a twilight zone, the tantalizing occurrences that are probably noise but might possibly be a signal, in the twilight zone between humor and vulgarity, in that no man's land between negotiation and aggression |
mass | the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field |
critical mass | the minimum mass of fissionable material that can sustain a chain reaction |
rest mass | (physics) the mass of a body as measured when the body is at rest relative to an observer, an inherent property of the body |
relativistic mass | (physics) the mass of a body in motion relative to the observer: it is equal to the rest mass multiplied by a factor that is greater than and that increases as the magnitude of the velocity increases |
gravitational mass | (physics) the mass of a body as measured by its gravitational attraction for other bodies |
inertial mass | (physics) the mass of a body as determined by the second law of motion from the acceleration of the body when it is subjected to a force that is not due to gravity |
atomic mass atomic weight relative atomic mass | (chemistry) the mass of an atom of a chemical element expressed in atomic mass units |
mass energy | (physics) the mass of a body regarded relativistically as energy |
molecular weight relative molecular mass | (chemistry) the sum of the relative atomic masses of the constituent atoms of a molecule |
bulk mass volume | the property of something that is great in magnitude, it is cheaper to buy it in bulk, he received a mass of correspondence, the volume of exports |
critical mass | the minimum amount (of something) required to start or maintain a venture, the battle for the computer market has now reached critical mass, there is now a critical mass of successful women to take the lead, they sold the business because it lacked critical mass |
acreage land area | an area of ground used for some particular purpose (such as building or farming), he wanted some acreage to build on |
clouduckoo-land | an imaginary place where you say people are when they seem optimistically out of touch with reality |
Promised Land | the goal towards which Christians strive |
never-never land dreamland dreamworld | a pleasing country existing only in dreams or imagination |
mass culture | the culture that is widely disseminated via the mass media |
law of mass action | (chemistry) the law that states the following principle: the rate of a chemical reaction is directly proportional to the molecular concentrations of the reacting substances |
mass-energy equivalence | (physics) the principle that a measured quantity of mass is equivalent (according to relativity theory) to a measured quantity of energy |
mass-action principle mass action | (neurology) the principle that the cortex of the brain operates as a coordinated system with large masses of neural tissue involved in all complex functioning |
conservation of mass conservation of matter law of conservation of mass law of conservation of matter | a fundamental principle of classical physics that matter cannot be created or destroyed in an isolated system |
medium mass medium | (usually plural) transmissions that are disseminated widely to the public |
mass noun | a noun that does not form plurals |
Mass card | (Roman Catholic Church) a card sent to a bereaved family that says the sender has arranged for a Mass to be said in memory of the deceased |
body mass index BMI | a measure of someone's weight in relation to height, to calculate one's BMI, multiply one's weight in pounds and divide that by the square of one's height in inches, overweight is a BMI greater than , obese is a BMI greater than |
Mass | a sequence of prayers constituting the Christian Eucharistic rite, the priest said Mass |
Mass | a musical setting for a Mass, they played a Mass composed by Beethoven |
mass | an ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people) |
nation land country | the people who live in a nation or country, a statement that sums up the nation's mood, the news was announced to the nation, the whole country worshipped him |
state nation country land commonwealth res publica body politic | a politically organized body of people under a single government, 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 |
multitude masses mass hoi polloi people the great unwashed | the common people generally, separate the warriors from the mass, power to the people |