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. |
Table-land
(n.) A broad, level, elevated area of land |
Waste
(a.) Desolate |
Waste
(a.) Lying unused |
Waste
(a.) Lost for want of occupiers or use |
Waste
(a.) To bring to ruin |
Waste
(a.) To wear away by degrees |
Waste
(a.) To spend unnecessarily or carelessly |
Waste
(a.) To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc., to go to decay. |
Waste
(v. i.) To be diminished |
Waste
(v. i.) To procure or sustain a reduction of flesh |
Waste
(v.) The act of wasting, or the state of being wasted |
Waste
(v.) That which is wasted or desolate |
Waste
(v.) That which is of no value |
Waste
(v.) Spoil, destruction, or injury, done to houses, woods, fences, lands, etc., by a tenant for life or for years, to the prejudice of the heir, or of him in reversion or remainder. |
Waste
(v.) Old or abandoned workings, whether left as vacant space or filled with refuse. |
Wilderness
(v. t.) A tract of land, or a region, uncultivated and uninhabited by human beings, whether a forest or a wide, barren plain |
Wilderness
(v. t.) A disorderly or neglected place. |
Wilderness
(v. t.) Quality or state of being wild |
laying waste
ruin
ruining
ruination
wrecking | destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined |
| 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 |
waste
wastefulness dissipation | useless or profitless activity, using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly, if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste, mindless dissipation of natural resources |
waste of effort
waste of energy | a useless effort |
| waste of material | a useless consumption of material |
| waste of money | money spent for inadequate return, the senator said that the project was a waste of money |
| waste of time | the devotion of time to a useless activity, the waste of time could prove fatal |
| land development | making an area of land more useful |
| land-office business | very large and profitable volume of commercial activity |
| waste permissive waste | (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect |
| Wilderness Campaign | American Civil War, a series of indecisive battles in Grant's campaign () against Lee in which both armies suffered terrible losses |
corncrake
land rail
Crex crex | common Eurasian rail that frequents grain fields |
drain
drainpipe
waste pipe | a pipe through which liquid is carried away |
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 |
Polaroid camera
Polaroid Land camera | a camera that develops and produces a positive print within seconds |
wastepaper basket
waste-paper basket
wastebasket
waste basket
circular file | a container with an open top, for discarded paper and other rubbish |
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 |
thriftlessness
waste
wastefulness | the trait of wasting resources, a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste, the wastefulness of missed opportunities |
| wilderness | a bewildering profusion, the duties of citizenship are lost sight of in the wilderness of interests of individuals and groups, a wilderness of masts in the harbor |
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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
barren
waste
wasteland | an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation, the barrens of central Africa, the trackless wastes of the desert |
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 |
dump
garbage dump
trash dump
rubbish dump
wasteyard
waste-yard
dumpsite | a piece of land where waste materials are dumped |
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 |
toxic waste dump
toxic waste site
toxic dumpsite | a location where toxic wastes can be or have been disposed of (often illegally) |
| 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 |
toxic site
toxic waste area
Superfund site | a site where toxic wastes have been dumped and the Environmental Protection Agency has designated them to be cleaned up |
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 |
wilderness
wild | a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition, it was a wilderness preserved for the hawks and mountaineers |