landing | the act of coming to land after a voyage |
landing | the act of coming down to the earth (or other surface), the plane made a smooth landing, his landing on his feet was catlike |
forced landing emergency landing | an unscheduled airplane landing that is made under circumstances (engine failure or adverse weather) not under the pilot's control |
amphibious landing | a military action of coordinated land, sea, and air forces organized for an invasion, MacArthur staged a massive amphibious landing behind enemy lines |
jump jumping | the act of jumping, propelling yourself off the ground, he advanced in a series of jumps, the jumping was unexpected |
jumping up and down | jumping in one spot (as in excitement), the wailing and jumping up and down exhausted him |
springboard jumping-off point point of departure | a beginning from which an enterprise is launched, he uses other people's ideas as a springboard for his own, reality provides the jumping-off point for his illusions, the point of departure of international comparison cannot be an institution but must be the function it carries out |
landing approach | the approach to a landing field by an airplane |
blind flying blind landing | using only instruments for flying an aircraft because you cannot see through clouds or mists etc. |
aircraft landing airplane landing | landing an aircraft |
crash landing | an emergency landing under circumstances where a normal landing is impossible (usually damaging the aircraft) |
three-point landing | a landing in which all three wheels of the aircraft touch the ground at the same time |
instrument landing | an aircraft landing made entirely by means of instruments |
jumping | the act of participating in an athletic competition in which you must jump |
ski jumping | the act of performing a jump on skis from a high ramp overhanging a snow covered slope |
showjumping stadium jumping | riding horses in competitions over set courses to demonstrate skill in jumping over obstacles |
crossountry riding crossountry jumping | riding horses across country over obstructions to demonstrate horsemanship |
diversionary landing | an amphibious diversionary attack |
Bunker Hill battle of Bunker Hill | the first important battle of the American War of Independence () which was fought at Breed's Hill, the British defeated the colonial forces |
Shiloh battle of Shiloh battle of Pittsburgh Landing | the second great battle of the American Civil War (), the battle ended with the withdrawal of Confederate troops but it was not a Union victory |
hill myna Indian grackle grackle Gracula religiosa | glossy black Asiatic starling often taught to mimic speech |
jumping plant louse psylla psyllid | small active cicada-like insect with hind legs adapted for leaping, feeds on plant juices |
jumping bristletail machilid | wingless insect living in dark moist places as under dead tree trunks, they make erratic leaps when disturbed |
jumping mouse | any of several primitive mouselike rodents with long hind legs and no cheek pouches, of woodlands of Eurasia and North America |
meadow jumping mouse Zapus hudsonius | widely distributed in northeastern and central United States and Canada |
airfield landing field flying field field | a place where planes take off and land |
airstrip flight strip landing strip strip | an airfield without normal airport facilities |
flight deck landing deck | the upper deck of an aircraft carrier, used as a runway |
jumping jack | plaything consisting of a toy figure with movable joints that can be made to dance by pulling strings |
landing landing place | structure providing a place where boats can land people or goods |
landing | an intermediate platform in a staircase |
landing craft | naval craft designed for putting ashore troops and equipment |
landing flap | a flap on the underside of the wing that is lowered to slow the plane for landing |
landing gear | an undercarriage that supports the weight of the plane when it is on the ground |
landing net | a bag-shaped fishnet on a long handle to take a captured fish from the water |
landing skid | one of two parts of the landing gear of a helicopter |
landing stage | platform from which passengers and cargo can be (un)loaded |
mound hill | structure consisting of an artificial heap or bank usually of earth or stones, they built small mounds to hide behind |
mound hill pitcher's mound | (baseball) the slight elevation on which the pitcher stands |
gradient slope | the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal, a five-degree gradient |
upgrade rise rising slope | the property possessed by a slope or surface that rises |
distance | the property created by the space between two objects or points |
mean distance | the arithmetic mean of the maximum and minimum distances of a celestial body (satellite or secondary star) from its primary |
focal distance focal length | the distance from a lens to its focus |
hyperfocal distance | the distance in front of a lens that is focused at infinity beyond which all objects are well defined and clear |
distance length | size of the gap between two places, the distance from New York to Chicago, he determined the length of the shortest line segment joining the two points |
skip distance | the shortest distance that permits radio signals (of a given frequency) to travel from the transmitter to the receiver by reflection from the ionosphere |
distance vision | vision for objects that afeet or more from the viewer |
middle distance | the part of a scene between the foreground and the background |
long distance long-distance call trunk call | a telephone call made outside the local calling area, I talked to her by long distance |