Landfill vs Landfall - What's the difference?
landfill | landfall |
A site at which refuse is under layers of earth.
The material so disposed of.
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Arrival at the shore by ship.
The point at which a hurricane or similar storm reaches land.
As nouns the difference between landfill and landfall
is that landfill is a site at which refuse is buried under layers of earth while landfall is arrival at the shore by ship.As a verb landfill
is to dispose of garbage by burying it at a landfill site.landfill
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Derived terms
* landfillableNoun
(en noun)citation, passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%. That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming up business, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters.}}
landfall
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(wikipedia landfall)Noun
(en noun)- 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 .