landing

English

A plane performing a landing (sense 1)

An amphibious invasion (sense 2)

A landing available for a boat (sense 3)

A landing within a building (sense 4)

A landing of fish (sense 5)

Etymology

By surface analysis, land +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlændɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ændɪŋ
• Hyphenation: land‧ing

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Noun

landing (plural landings)

1. An arrival at a surface, as of an airplane or any descending object.

   Antonym: takeoff

2. (military) An amphibious or airborne invasion.
   • 1944 June 7, Winston Churchill, speech to House of Commons:

     The House should, I think, take formal cognisance of the liberation of Rome […] . This is a memorable and glorious event, which rewards the intense fighting of the last five months in Italy. The original landing, made on January 22nd at Anzio, has, in the end, borne good fruit.

3. A place on a shoreline where a boat lands.

   Hyponym: fleet landing

4. A level area at the top of a flight of stairs, or connecting one flight with another.

   Hyponym: half-landing

   • 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 84:

     She crept up the stairs [...] On she went, across the landing, from which sprang the tall window, and up the next flight until she reached the top.

5. (in the plural) The amount of fish caught, as in a specific area or on a particular expedition.
   • 1997, Mark Kurlansky, Cod, page 132:

     The huge quantity of landings was periodically causing fish prices to crash, creating unprecedented havoc in the marketplace.

Usage notes

When referring to an arrival at a surface by an aircraft or other normally-controllable object, landing is generally reserved for cases in which the object is actually under (at least partial) control; an uncontrolled arrival at the surface by such an object is usually referred to as a crash or impact. In contrast, for uncontrollable objects (such as a meteoroid or artillery shell), landing is generally used (although impact is also usable).

Derived terms

• airlanding
• autolanding
• balked landing
• belly landing
• bicycle landing gear
• black landing
• Bradbury Landing
• Chinese landing
• crash landing, crash-landing
• Crows Landing
• deadstick landing
• Dease Lake Landing
• Dease Landing
• emergency landing
• entry-descent-landing
• Fields Landing
• forced landing
• full-stop landing
• gear-up landing
• greased landing
• half-landing
• happy landing
• happy landings
• hard landing
• Hollands Landing
• instrument landing system
• Knights Landing
• landing corridor
• landing craft
• landing craft tank
• landing field
• landing gear
• landing net
• landing pad
• landing page
• landing party
• landing place
• landing roll
• landing ship
• landing stage
• landing strip
• landing vehicle tracked
• landing waiter
• landing zone
• Mays Landing
• moon landing
• Moss Landing
• optical landing system
• pancake landing
• postlanding
• prelanding
• rejected landing
• soft landing
• stick the landing
• superhero landing
• tandem landing gear
• three-point landing
• touch-and-go landing
• water landing
• Williams Landing

Translations

a coming to a surface, as of an airplane

• Afrikaans: landing sg
• Arabic: هُبُوط m (hubūṭ)
• Armenian: վայրէջք (hy) (vayrēǰkʻ)
• Azerbaijani: enmə, eniş
• Belarusian: прызямле́нне n (pryzjamljénnje), паса́дка f (pasádka)
• Bulgarian: приземя́ване (bg) n (prizemjávane)
• Catalan: aterratge (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 着陸 (zoek⁶ luk⁶)

  Mandarin: 著陸 / 著陆 (zh) (zhuólù), 着陆 (zh) (zhuólù), 降落 (zh) (jiàngluò), 登陸 / 登陆 (zh) (dēnglù)

• Czech: přistání (cs) n
• Danish: landing c
• Dutch: landing (nl) f
• Esperanto: lando (eo) sg
• Estonian: maandumine
• Finnish: laskeutuminen (fi)
• French: atterrissage (fr) m
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: lâning c

• German: Landung (de) f
• Greek: προσγείωση (el) f (prosgeíosi)
• Hungarian: landolás (hu), leszállás (hu), földet érés
• Irish: tuirlingt f
• Italian: atterraggio (it) m
• Japanese: 上陸 (ja) (じょうりく, jōriku), 着陸 (ja) (ちゃくりく, chakuriku)
• Kazakh: қону (qonu), отыру (kk) (otyru), түсу (tüsu)
• Korean: 상륙(上陸) (ko) (sangnyuk), 착륙(着陸) (ko) (changnyuk)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: نیشتن (nîştin)

• Kyrgyz: конуу (ky) (konuu), посадка (posadka)
• Latvian: nolaišanās f
• Lithuanian: nusileidimas m
• Macedonian: слетување n (sletuvanje), приземјување n (prizemjuvanje), спуштање n (spuštanje)
• Malay: pendaratan (ms)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: landing m or f

  Nynorsk: landing f

• Persian: فرود (fa) (forud)
• Polish: lądowanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: aterragem (pt), aterrissagem (pt) f (Brazil), pouso (pt) m
• Romanian: aterizare (ro) f
• Russian: приземле́ние (ru) n (prizemlénije), поса́дка (ru) f (posádka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: слетање n, слијетање n, приземље́ње n, спуштање n

  Latin: sletanje n, slijetanje n, prizemljénje (sh) n, spuštanje n

• Slovak: pristátie n
• Slovene: pristanek (sl) m
• Spanish: aterrizaje (es) m
• Swedish: landning (sv) c
• Tajik: фуруд (tg) (furud)
• Turkish: iniş (tr)
• Ukrainian: призе́млення n (pryzémlennja), поса́дка f (posádka)
• Uzbek: qoʻnish (uz), posadka
• Vietnamese: sự hạ cánh (vi)

a platform at the top of a flight of stairs

• Arabic: بَسْطَة f (basṭa)
• Bulgarian: стъ́лбищна площа́дка f (stắlbištna ploštádka)
• Catalan: replà m
• Czech: podesta f
• Danish: repos (da) c, trappeafsats c
• Dutch: overloop (nl) m
• Finnish: tasanne (fi), porrastasanne
• French: palier (fr) m
• Galician: relanzo m
• German: Treppenabsatz (de) m
• Hungarian: pihenő (hu)
• Irish: léibheann cheann staighre m, ceann an staighre m
• Italian: pianerottolo (it) m, caposcala m, ballatoio (it) m, ripiano (it) m
• Japanese: 踊り場 (ja) (おどりば, odoriba)
• Korean: 층계참(層階站) (cheunggyecham)
• Macedonian: одмориште n (odmorište)
• Norman: tripselle dé la montée f (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: trappeavsats m, repos n, trapperepos n

  Nynorsk: trappeavsats m, repos n, trapperepos n

• Polish: podest (pl) m
• Portuguese: patamar (pt) m
• Russian: площа́дка (ru) f (ploščádka)
• Slovak: podesta f, odpočívadlo n
• Spanish: rellano (es) m, descansillo (es) m
• Swedish: vilplan n, trappavsats (sv) c
• Tagalog: talurang
• Turkish: sahanlık (tr)
• Welsh: pen grisiau m

a place on a shoreline where a boat lands

• Bulgarian: мя́сто за дебарки́ране n (mjásto za debarkírane)
• Catalan: moll (ca) m, embarcador m
• Czech: přístaviště (cs) n
• Dutch: steiger (nl) m, aanlegplaats (nl) f
• Esperanto: albordiĝejo
• German: Anlegeplatz (de) m, Landungsplatz (de) m, Anlandungsplatz m, Anlandungsstelle f
• Irish: caladh m
• Italian: imbarcadero (it) m
• Japanese: 船着き場 (ja) (ふなつきば, funatsukiba)
• Korean: 부잔교(浮棧橋) (bujan'gyo)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: landgang m

  Nynorsk: landgang m

• Russian: при́стань (ru) f (prístanʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: laimrig f
• Spanish: muelle (es) m, desembarco (es), rellano (es), descansillo (es)
• Swedish: landgång (sv) c

Verb

landing

1. present participle and gerund of land

Anagrams

• Ingland, danglin'

Banggai

landing (Basilornis galeatus)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /landiŋ/

Noun

landing

1. helmeted myna (Basilornis galeatus)

Further reading

Kamus Banggai-Indonesia (Banggai-Indonesian Dictionary)

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from English landing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlandiŋ/ [ˈl̪an̪.d̪ɪŋ]
• Hyphenation: lan‧ding

Verb

lánding (Badlit spelling ᜎᜈ᜔ᜇᜒᜅ᜔)

1. (aviation) to land; to descend to a surface, especially from the air to touch down
   • 2014 — Pareja, Gerard, Children of Icarus (26 July), Salins Hulbot, Opinion, Cebu Daily News

     Inubanan sa iyang amahan nga si Babar, mo lupad silag 26,500 miles, mo landing^[sic] og 25 ka higayon sa mga 15 ka nasud.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. to come to be in a condition or situation
   • 2015 — KCS, Kaluha 'nahilo' sa binggala (10 August), SuperBalita Cagayan de Oro

     Nilanding sa balay tambalanan ning siyudad sa Cagayan de Oro ang kaluha human kini nahilo sa gikaong binggala niadtong Dominggo sa buntag sa Lumbo, Valencia, Bukidnon.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

• landinganan

Chavacano

Etymology

Borrowed from English landing.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: lan‧ding

Noun

landing

1. airfield; airport

Dutch

Etymology

Derived from landen +‎ -ing. Compare English landing and German Landung.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑn.dɪŋ/

• Audio (Belgium):

  (file)

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: lan‧ding

Noun

landing f (plural landingen, diminutive landinkje n)

1. landing, touchdown of an airplane or any other airborne object
2. the act of disembarking a ship, particularly in military contexts

Derived terms

• landingsbaan
• landingsgestel
• landingsverbod
• maanlanding
• noodlanding
• tussenlanding

Maltese

Etymology

Borrowed from English landing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlan.dɪnɡ/
• Rhymes: -andɪnɡ

Noun

landing m (plural landings)

1. landing

Related terms

• llandja

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English landing.

Noun

landing m (plural landings)

1. (Guernsey) landing

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From lande +‎ -ing.

Noun

landing f or m (definite singular landinga or landingen, indefinite plural landinger, definite plural landingene)

1. a landing (e.g. by an aircraft)

Derived terms

• landingssted
• landingsstripe
• nødlanding

References

• “landing” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From lande +‎ -ing.

Noun

landing f (definite singular landinga, indefinite plural landingar, definite plural landingane)

1. a landing (e.g. by an aircraft)

Derived terms

• landingsstripe
• naudlanding, nødlanding

References

• “landing” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.