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Landing vs Anchorage - What's the difference?

landing | anchorage |

As a noun landing

is corridor.

As a verb landing

is .

As a proper noun anchorage is

a large coastal city in alaska.

landing

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • corridor
  • coming to earth, as of an airplane or any descending object
  • a place on a shoreline where a boat lands
  • The level part of a staircase, at the top of a flight of stairs, or connecting one flight with another.
  • Derived terms

    * fleet landing * landing corridor

    Verb

    (head)
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    anchorage

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nautical) A harbor, river, or offshore area that can accommodate a ship at anchor, either for quarantine, queuing, or discharge.US FM 55-15 TRANSPORTATION REFERENCE DATA; 9 June 1886 .
  • (nautical) A fee charged for anchoring.
  • (Johnson)
  • That into which something is anchored or fastened.
  • the anchorages of the Brooklyn Bridge
  • (medicine) The surgical fixation of prolapsed organs.
  • The act of anchoring, or the condition of lying at anchor.
  • The set of anchors belonging to a ship.
  • (figurative) Something on which one may depend for security; ground of trust.
  • Coordinate terms

    * (fee for anchoring) cranage, demurrage, shippage, shorage, tonnage, wharfage

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