Garden vs Land - What's the difference?
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An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes.
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#(lb) Such an ornamental place to which the public have access.
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#(lb) Taking place in, or used in, such a garden.
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#*:The garden parties of pre-1914 were something to be remembered. Everyone was dressed up to the nines, high-heeled shoes, muslin frocks with blue sashes, large leghorn hats with drooping roses. There were lovely iceswith every kind of cream cake, of sandwich, of éclair, and peaches, muscat grapes, and nectarines.
The at the front or back of a house.
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(lb) A cluster, a bunch.
(lb) Pubic hair or the genitalia it masks.
*1995 , Lee Tyler, Biblical Sexual Morality and What About Pornography? viewed at
*:Blow on my garden' [speaking of her genitalia], so the spices of it may flow out. Let my Beloved come into His '''garden [her pubic area] and eat His pleasant fruits. ''(A commentary on Song of Solomon 4:16, which was written in Hebrew c950 BC; book footnotes shown here bracketed within the text; many scholars disagree with the Biblical interpretation, which is included as evidence of usage in 1995 rather than intended meaning in 950 BC.)
*c2004 , Hair Care Down There, Inc, The History of Hair Removal viewed at
*:Primping and pruning the secret garden might seem like a totally 21st century concept, but the fact is women have gotten into below-the-belt grooming since before the Bronze Age.
*2006 , Guest on Female First Forum at
(intransitive, chiefly, North America) to grow plants in a garden; to create or maintain a garden.
(cricket) of a batsman, to inspect and tap the pitch lightly with the bat so as to smooth out small rough patches and irregularities.
Common, ordinary, domesticated.
The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and on which buildings can be erected.
A country or region.
A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.
realm, domain.
(agriculture) The ground left unploughed between furrows; any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.
(Irish English, colloquial) A fright.
(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.
(obsolete) The ground or floor.
* Spenser
(nautical) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.
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.
}}
To descend to a surface, especially from the air.
(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:
To come into rest.
To arrive at land, especially a shore, or a dock, from a body of water.
To bring to land.
* Shakespeare
To acquire; to secure.
* {{quote-news
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To deliver.
Of or relating to land.
Residing or growing on land.
As nouns the difference between garden and land
is that garden is while land is loin (the flesh above the hip bone).garden
English
(wikipedia garden)Noun
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- A woman's [unshaven] dark pubic triangle, glistening with pussy nectar and promising access to a hidden garden of delights.
Synonyms
* (decorative place outside) * (gardens with public access) park, public gardens * (grounds at the front or back of a house) yard (US) * (the pubic hair) See pubic hairDerived terms
* back garden * castle garden * flower garden * front garden * gardening * (w) * garden path * garden-variety * herb garden * market garden * public gardens * rose garden * vegetable garden * zoological garden, zoological gardens * xerogardenVerb
(en verb)- I love to garden — this year I'm going to plant some daffodils.
Synonyms
* (in cricket) farmDerived terms
* gardener * gardeningAdjective
(-)land
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), .Noun
- Most insects live on land .
- There are 50 acres of land in this estate.
- They come from a faraway land .
- wet land'''; good or bad '''land for growing potatoes
- I'm going to Disneyland .
- Maybe that's how it works in TV-land , but not in the real world.
- He got an awful land when the police arrived.
- Our city offices sell a lot more land than our suburban offices.
- Herself upon the land she did prostrate.
- (Knight)
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 * woodlandVerb
(en verb)- The plane is about to land .
- 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 .
- It can be tricky to land a helicopter .
- Use the net to land the fish.
- I'll undertake to land them on our coast.
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