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Landfall vs Landing - What's the difference?

landfall | landing |

As nouns the difference between landfall and landing

is that landfall is arrival at the shore by ship while landing is corridor.

As a verb landing is

present participle of lang=en.

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

    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

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