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. |
Railway
(n.) A road or way consisting of one or more parallel series of iron or steel rails, patterned and adjusted to be tracks for the wheels of vehicles, and suitably supported on a bed or substructure. |
Railway
(n.) The road, track, etc., with all the lands, buildings, rolling stock, franchises, etc., pertaining to them and constituting one property |
Register
(n.) A written account or entry |
Register
(n.) A record containing a list and description of the merchant vessels belonging to a port or customs district. |
Register
(n.) A certificate issued by the collector of customs of a port or district to the owner of a vessel, containing the description of a vessel, its name, ownership, and other material facts. It is kept on board the vessel, to be used as an evidence of nationality or as a muniment of title. |
Register
(n.) One who registers or records |
Register
(n.) That which registers or records. |
Register
(n.) A contrivance for automatically noting the performance of a machine or the rapidity of a process. |
Register
(n.) The part of a telegraphic apparatus which records automatically the message received. |
Register
(n.) A machine for registering automatically the number of persons passing through a gateway, fares taken, etc. |
Register
(n.) A lid, stopper, or sliding plate, in a furnace, stove, etc., for regulating the admission of air to the fuel |
Register
(n.) The inner part of the mold in which types are cast. |
Register
(n.) The correspondence of pages, columns, or lines on the opposite or reverse sides of the sheet. |
Register
(n.) The correspondence or adjustment of the several impressions in a design which is printed in parts, as in chromolithographic printing, or in the manufacture of paper hangings. See Register, v. i. 2. |
Register
(v. i.) The compass of a voice or instrument |
Register
(v. i.) A stop or set of pipes in an organ. |
Register
(n.) To enter in a register |
Register
(n.) To enroll |
Register
(v. i.) To enroll one's name in a register. |
Register
(v. i.) To correspond in relative position |
Table-land
(n.) A broad, level, elevated area of land |
Title
(n.) An inscription put over or upon anything as a name by which it is known. |
Title
(n.) The inscription in the beginning of a book, usually containing the subject of the work, the author's and publisher's names, the date, etc. |
Title
(n.) The panel for the name, between the bands of the back of a book. |
Title
(n.) A section or division of a subject, as of a law, a book, specif. (Roman & Canon Laws), a chapter or division of a law book. |
Title
(n.) An appellation of dignity, distinction, or preeminence (hereditary or acquired), given to persons, as duke marquis, honorable, esquire, etc. |
Title
(n.) A name |
Title
(n.) That which constitutes a just cause of exclusive possession |
Title
(n.) The instrument which is evidence of a right. |
Title
(n.) That by which a beneficiary holds a benefice. |
Title
(n.) A church to which a priest was ordained, and where he was to reside. |
Title
(n.) To call by a title |
Underground Railroad
Underground Railway | secret aid to escaping slaves that was provided by abolitionists in the years before the American Civil War |
| 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 |
| land development | making an area of land more useful |
| land-office business | very large and profitable volume of commercial activity |
conveyance
conveyance of title
conveyancing
conveying | act of transferring property title from one person to another |
corncrake
land rail
Crex crex | common Eurasian rail that frequents grain fields |
| accumulator accumulator register | (computer science) a register that has a built-in adder that adds an input number to the contents of the register |
cable railway
funicular
funicular railway | a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars |
car railcar
railway car
railroad car | a wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad, three cars had jumped the rails |
cash register
register | a cashbox with an adding machine to register transactions, used in shops to add up the bill |
cog railway
rack railway | railway for steep mountains, a cogwheel on the locomotive engages cogs on a center rail to provide traction |
elevated railway
elevated railroad
elevated
el
overhead railway | a railway that is powered by electricity and that runs on a track that is raised above the street level |
| index register | (computer science) a register used to determine the address of an operand |
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 |
line railway line
rail line | the road consisting of railroad track and roadbed |
locomotive
engine locomotive engine
railway locomotive | a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks |
Polaroid camera
Polaroid Land camera | a camera that develops and produces a positive print within seconds |
railroad track
railroad railway | a line of track providing a runway for wheels, he walked along the railroad track |
railway
railroad
railroad line
railway line railway system | line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation for trains that pull passengers or freight |
| railway junction | a junction where two or more railway lines meet or cross |
railway station
railroad station
railroad terminal
train station
train depot | terminal where trains load or unload passengers or goods |
| register | a regulator (as a sliding plate) for regulating the flow of air into a furnace or other heating device |
| register | an air passage (usually in the floor or a wall of a room) for admitting or excluding heated air from the room |
| register | (computer science) memory device that is the part of computer memory that has a specific address and that is used to hold information of a specific kind |
| scenic railway | small railway in an amusement park |
| shift register | (computer science) register in which all bits can be shifted one or more positions to the left or to the right |
yard railway yard
railyard | an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines |
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 |
| register | (music) the timbre that is characteristic of a certain range and manner of production of the human voice or of different pipe organ stops or of different musical instruments |
head register
head voice
head tone | the higher ranges of the voice in speaking or singing, the vibrations of sung notes are felt in the head |
chest register
chest voice
chest tone | the lower ranges of the voice in speaking or singing |
acreage
land area | an area of ground used for some particular purpose (such as building or farming), he wanted some acreage to build on |
| claim title | an informal right to something, his claim on her attentions, his title to fame |
title
claim | an established or recognized right, a strong legal claim to the property, he had no documents confirming his title to his father's estate, he staked his claim |
| 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 |
title role
name part | the role of the character after whom the play is named |
| title page | a page of a book displaying the title and author and publisher |
half title
bastard title | a first page of some books displaying only the title of the book |
title title of respect
form of address | an identifying appellation signifying status or function: e.g. `Mr.' or `General', the professor didn't like his friends to use his formal title |
| title | an appellation signifying nobility, `your majesty' is the appropriate title to use in addressing a king |
| title | the name of a work of art or literary composition etc., he looked for books with the word `jazz' in the title, he refused to give titles to his paintings, I can never remember movie titles |
| running title | the title (or a shortened title) of a book used as a running head |
title statute title
rubric | a heading that names a statute or legislative bill, may give a brief summary of the matters it deals with, Title provided federal help for schools |
| title | (usually plural) written material introduced into a movie or TV show to give credits or represent dialogue or explain an action, the titles go by faster than I can read |
| title | a general or descriptive heading for a section of a written work, the novel had chapter titles |