Held () imp. & p. p. of Hold. |
Held (imp. & p. p.) of Hold |
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. |
No-man's land () A space amidships used to keep blocks, ropes, etc. |
No-man's land () Fig.: An unclaimed space or time. |
Simple (a.) Single |
Simple (a.) Plain |
Simple (a.) Mere |
Simple (a.) Not given to artifice, stratagem, or duplicity |
Simple (a.) Artless in manner |
Simple (a.) Direct |
Simple (a.) Weak in intellect |
Simple (a.) Not luxurious |
Simple (a.) Humble |
Simple (a.) Without subdivisions |
Simple (a.) Not capable of being decomposed into anything more simple or ultimate by any means at present known |
Simple (a.) Homogenous. |
Simple (a.) Consisting of a single individual or zooid |
Simple (a.) Something not mixed or compounded. |
Simple (a.) A medicinal plant |
Simple (a.) A drawloom. |
Simple (a.) A part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom. |
Simple (a.) A feast which is not a double or a semidouble. |
Simple (v. i.) To gather simples, or medicinal plants. |
Simple-hearted (a.) Sincere |
Simple-minded (a.) Artless |
Table-land (n.) A broad, level, elevated area of land |
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 |
simple mastectomy | removal of a breast leaving the underlying muscles and the lymph nodes intact |
land development | making an area of land more useful |
land-office business | very large and profitable volume of commercial activity |
corncrake land rail Crex crex | common Eurasian rail that frequents grain fields |
hand glass simple microscope magnifying glass | light microscope consisting of a single convex lens that is used to produce an enlarged image, the magnifying glass was invented by Roger Bacon in |
hand-held computer hand-held microcomputer | a portable battery-powered computer small enough to be carried in your pocket |
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 |
machine simple machine | a device for overcoming resistance at one point by applying force at some other point |
Polaroid camera Polaroid Land camera | a camera that develops and produces a positive print within seconds |
simple pendulum | a hypothetical pendulum suspended by a weightless frictionless thread of constant length |
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 |
simplicity simpleness simple mindedness | a lack of penetration or subtlety, they took advantage of her simplicity |
acreage land area | an area of ground used for some particular purpose (such as building or farming), he wanted some acreage to build on |
simple eye stemma ocellus | an eye having a single lens |
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 |
regression simple regression regression toward the mean statistical regression | the relation between selected values of x and observed values of y (from which the most probable value of y can be predicted for any value of x) |
simple sentence | a sentence having no coordinate clauses or subordinate clauses |
simple harmonic motion | periodic motion in which the restoring force is proportional to the displacement |
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 |
closed corporation close corporation private corporation privately held corporation | a corporation owned by a few people, shares have no public market |
closely held corporation | stock is publicly traded but most is held by a few shareholders who have no plans to sell |
law of the land | a phrase used in the Magna Carta to refer to the then established law of the kingdom (as distinct from Roman or civil law), today it refers to fundamental principles of justice commensurate with due process, the United States Constitution declares itself to be `the supreme law of the land' |
Adelie Land Terre Adelie Adelie Coast | a costal region of Antarctica to the south of Australia, noted for its large colonies of penguins |
fatherland homeland motherland mother country country of origin native land | the country where you were born |
Coats Land | a region of western Antarctica along the southeastern shore of the Weddell Sea |
commons common land | a pasture subject to common use |
country state land | the territory occupied by a nation, he returned to the land of his birth, he visited several European countries |
domain demesne land | territory over which rule or control is exercised, his domain extended into Europe, he made it the law of the land |
Eden paradise nirvana heaven promised land Shangri-la | any place of complete bliss and delight and peace |
Enderby Land | a region of Antarctica between Queen Maud Land and Wilkes Land, claimed by Australia |
no man's land | an unoccupied area between the front lines of opposing armies |
pasture pastureland grazing land lea ley | a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock |
Queen Maud Land | a region of Antarctica between Enderby Land and the Weddell Sea, claimed by Norway |
site land site | the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located), a good site for the school |
tract piece of land piece of ground parcel of land parcel | an extended area of land |
plot plot of land plot of ground patch | a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation, a bean plot, a cabbage patch, a briar patch |
Victoria Land | a mountainous area of Antarctica bounded by the Ross Sea and Wilkes Land |
Wilkes Land | a coastal region of Antarctica on the Indian Ocean to the south of Australia, most of the territory is claimed by Australia |
Palestine Canaan Holy Land Promised Land | an ancient country in southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea, a place of pilgrimage for Christianity and Islam and Judaism |
Arkansas Land of Opportunity AR | a state in south central United States, one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War |
Illinois Prairie State Land of Lincoln IL | a midwestern state in northentral United States |
New Mexico Land of Enchantment NM | a state in southwestern United States on the Mexican border |
cultivated land farmland plowland ploughland tilled land tillage tilth | arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops |