Land vs Court - What's the difference?
land | court |
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
, year=2012
, date=May 5
, author=Phil McNulty
, title=Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool
, work=BBC Sport
To deliver.
Of or relating to land.
Residing or growing on land.
An enclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different building; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley.
* (1809-1892)
* (1800-1859)
# A street with no outlet, a cul-de-sac.
(label) Royal society.
# The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or ether dignitary; a palace.
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
# The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in authority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state.
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#* Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
# Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign.
#* (1800-1859)
Attention directed to a person in power; conduct or address designed to gain favor; courtliness of manners; civility; compliment; flattery.
* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
* (John Evelyn) (1620-1706)
(label) The administration of law.
# The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered.
# The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of causes.
#* {{quote-news, date=21 August 2012, first=Ed, last=Pilkington, newspaper=The Guardian
, title= # A tribunal established for the administration of justice.
# The judge or judges; as distinguished from the counsel or jury, or both.
# The session of a judicial assembly.
# Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical.
(label) A place arranged for playing the games of tennis, basketball, squash, badminton, volleyball and some other games; also, one of the divisions of a tennis court.
*{{quote-book, year=1935, author=
, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=5
, passage=By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts' and the subsidiary ' courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.}}
To seek to achieve or win.
* Prescott
* De Quincey
To risk (a consequence, usually negative).
To try to win a commitment to marry from.
* Shakespeare
To engage in behavior leading to mating.
To attempt to attract.
* Macaulay
To attempt to gain alliance with.
To engage in activities intended to win someone's affections.
To engage in courtship behavior.
To invite by attractions; to allure; to attract.
* Tennyson
As a noun land
is loin (the flesh above the hip bone).As a proper noun court is
(us) an abbreviated term of respect for any court ("the court").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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Derived terms
(Terms derived from the verb "land") * crash-land * land on one's bridge * rellandAdjective
(-)Etymology 2
court
English
Noun
(en noun)- And round the cool green courts there ran a row / Of cloisters.
- Goldsmith took a garret in a miserable court .
- This our court , infected with their manners, / Shows like a riotous inn.
- My lord, there is a nobleman of the court at door would speak with you.
- Love rules the court , the camp, the grove.
- The princesses held their court within the fortress.
- No solace could her paramour entreat / Her once to show, ne court , nor dalliance.
- I went to make my court to the Duke and Duchess of Newcastle.
Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?, passage=Next month, Clemons will be brought before a court presided over by a "special master", who will review the case one last time. The hearing will be unprecedented in its remit, but at its core will be a simple issue: should Reggie Clemons live or die?}}
George Goodchild
Derived terms
* contempt of court * court case * court fight * court jester * courtroom * hold court * in court * out-of-courtVerb
(en verb)- He was courting big new accounts that previous salesman had not attempted.
- They might almost seem to have courted the crown of martyrdom.
- Guilt and misery court privacy and solitude.
- He courted controversy with his frank speeches.
- If either of you both love Katharina / Leave shall you have to court her at your pleasure.
- The bird was courting by making an elaborate dance.
- By one person, hovever, Portland was still assiduously courted .
- She's had a few beaus come courting .
- In this season, you can see many animals courting .
- A well-worn pathway courted us / To one green wicket in a privet hedge.