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Landfall vs Docking - What's the difference?

landfall | docking |

As nouns the difference between landfall and docking

is that landfall is arrival at the shore by ship while docking is the process of cutting off or trimming the tail or ears of an animal.

As a verb docking is

present participle of lang=en.

landfall

English

(wikipedia landfall)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Arrival at the shore by ship.
    • We made landfall at the most god-forsaken, barren, desolate, and hellish location possible to image; and we were grateful, anything to get off that ship!
    Lighthouses are usually the first aids seen when making landfall .
  • The point at which a hurricane or similar storm reaches land.

    • Derived terms

    * make landfall

    docking

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (wikipedia docking) (en noun)
  • The process of cutting off or trimming the tail or ears of an animal.
  • The securing of a vessel to the quayside with cables
  • (spacecraft) The process of connecting one spacecraft to another.
  • (colloquial, LGBT) The sex act involving two men co-joined by their penises, with overlapping foreskins, coupling them together by their penises.