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As nouns the difference between domain and land

is that domain is a geographic area owned or controlled by a single person or organization while land is the part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.

As a verb land is

to descend to a surface, especially from the air.

As an adjective land is

of or relating to land.

As a proper noun Land is

{{surname|from=Middle English}.

domain

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A geographic area owned or controlled by a single person or organization.
  • The king ruled his domain harshly.
  • A field or sphere of activity, influence or expertise.
  • Dealing with complaints isn't really my domain : get in touch with customer services.
    His domain is English history.
  • A group of related items, topics, or subjects.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
  • , author=Michael Riordan , title=Tackling Infinity , volume=100, issue=1, page=86 , magazine= citation , passage=Some of the most beautiful and thus appealing physical theories, including quantum electrodynamics and quantum gravity, have been dogged for decades by infinities that erupt when theorists try to prod their calculations into new domains . Getting rid of these nagging infinities has probably occupied far more effort than was spent in originating the theories.}}
  • (mathematics) The set of all possible mathematical entities (points) where a given function is defined.
  • (mathematics) A of nonzero elements is zero.
  • (mathematics, topology, analysis) An open and connected set in some topology. For example, the interval (0,1) as a subset of the real numbers.
  • (computing, Internet) Any DNS]] domain name, particularly one which has been delegated and has become representative of the delegated domain name and its [[subdomain, subdomains
  • * 2000 , BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual (9.3.2) , Internet Software Consortium [http://www.bind9.net/manual/bind/9.3.2/Bv9ARM.ch01.html]
  • Every name in the DNS tree is a domain , even if it is terminal, that is, has no subdomains.
  • (computing, Internet) A collection of DNS]] or DNS-like domain names consisting of a delegated domain name and all its [[subdomain, subdomains
  • (computing) A collection of information having to do with a domain', the computers named in the '''domain''', and the network on which the computers named in the ' domain reside
  • (computing) The collection of computers identified by a domain' s domain names
  • (physics) A small region of a magnetic material with a consistent magnetization direction; such a region used as a data storage element in a bubble memory
  • (data processing) a form of technical metadata that represent the type of a data item, its characteristics, name, and usage
  • * {{quote-web
  • , year = unknown , author = IBM , title = IBM Terminology - terms D , site = 'IBM Software , Globalization , Terminology' , url = http://www-01.ibm.com/software/globalization/terminology/d.html , accessdate = 2013-12-29 }}
    A characteristic of a field. A data domain specifies a data type and applies the minimum and maximum values allowed and other constraints.
  • (biology, taxonomy) The highest rank in the classification of organisms, above kingdom; in the three-domain system, one of the taxa Bacteria'', ''Archaea'', or ''Eukaryota .
  • (biochemistry) A folded section of a protein molecule that has a discrete function
  • Usage notes

    * (collection of information) Used in a context in which domain name services, or domain name like services, are managed in a fashion that is integrated with the management of other computer and network related information. * (collection of computers) Used in the same context as the collection of information domain sense.

    Synonyms

    * (where a function is defined) domain of definition * (collection of DNS names) domain name, hostname

    Antonyms

    * (domain of definition of a function) range * (domain of definition of a function) codomain

    Derived terms

    * domain hack * domaining * domainless * domain name * domain of discourse * source domain * subdomain * target domain * top-level domain

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    Anagrams

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    land

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), .

    Noun

  • The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
  • Most insects live on land .
  • Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and on which buildings can be erected.
  • There are 50 acres of land in this estate.
  • A country or region.
  • They come from a faraway land .
  • A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
  • The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.
  • wet land'''; good or bad '''land for growing potatoes
  • realm, domain.
  • I'm going to Disneyland .
    Maybe that's how it works in TV-land , but not in the real world.
  • (agriculture) The ground left unploughed between furrows; any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.
  • (Irish English, colloquial) A fright.
  • He got an awful land when the police arrived.
  • (electronics) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
  • In a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
  • (travel) The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.
  • Our city offices sell a lot more land than our suburban offices.
  • (obsolete) The ground or floor.
  • * Spenser
  • Herself upon the land she did prostrate.
  • (nautical) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.
  • (Knight)
  • In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, such as the level part of a millstone between the furrows.
  • # (ballistics) The space between the rifling grooves in a gun.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , date = 2008-08-01 , chapter = Ballistics , first = Lisa , last = Steele , title = Science for Lawyers , editor = Eric York Drogin , publisher = American Bar Association , page = 16 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=H4zTATcB70wC&pg=PA16&dq=lands , passage = The FBI maintains a database, the General Rifling Characteristics (GRC) file, which is organized by caliber, number of lands' and grooves, direction of twist, and width of ' lands and grooves, to help an examiner figure out the origin of a recovered bullet. }}
  • * {{quote-video
  • , date = 2012-11-15 , episode = One Way to Get Off , title = , season = 1 , number = 7 , people = Jonny Lee Miller , role = Sherlock Holmes , passage = The human eye is a precision instrument. It can detect grooves and lands on a slug more efficiently than any computer. }}
    Derived terms
    * bookland * brushland * bushland * cloud cuckoo-land * Crown land * Disneyland * downland * dry land * fantasy land * farmland * fat of the land * flatland * flogging the land * glebe-land * grassland * highland * homeland * Lalaland * land ahoy * land bridge * land degradation * land down under * land bridge * land line, landline * land mark * land mass, landmass * land mine, landmine * land of opportunity * land of the free * land yacht * landfall * landfill * landform * landholder * landlady * landless * landlocked * landlord * landlubber * landman * landmark * land poor * landscape * landslide * land use (see also ) * landward/landwards * law of the land * lay of the land * mainland * moorland * no man's land * on land * outland * overland * pastureland * pineland * playland * plowland * revenue land * spit of land * TV land * upland * wildland * woodland

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To descend to a surface, especially from the air.
  • The plane is about to land .
  • (dated) To alight, to descend from a vehicle.
  • * 1859 , “Rules adopted by the Sixth Avenue Railway, N. Y.”, quoted in Alexander Easton, A Practical Treatise on Street or Horse-Power Railways , page 108:
  • 10. You will be civil and attentive to passengers, giving proper assistance to ladies and children getting in or out, and never start the car before passengers are fairly received or landed .
  • To come into rest.
  • To arrive at land, especially a shore, or a dock, from a body of water.
  • To bring to land.
  • It can be tricky to land a helicopter .
    Use the net to land the fish.
  • * Shakespeare
  • I'll undertake to land them on our coast.
  • To acquire; to secure.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=May 5 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=As Di Matteo celebrated and captain John Terry raised the trophy for the fourth time, the Italian increased his claims to become the permanent successor to Andre Villas-Boas by landing a trophy.}}
  • To deliver.
  • Derived terms
    (Terms derived from the verb "land") * crash-land * land on one's bridge * relland

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or relating to land.
  • Residing or growing on land.
  • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (-)
  • lant; urine
  • (Webster 1913)