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Landing vs Wharf - What's the difference?

landing | wharf |

As nouns the difference between landing and wharf

is that landing is corridor while wharf is a man-made landing place for ships on a shore or river bank.

As a verb landing

is present participle of lang=en.

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

    * ----

    wharf

    English

    (wikipedia wharf)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A man-made landing place for ships on a shore or river bank.
  • * Bancroft
    • Commerce pushes its wharves into the sea.
  • * Tennyson
    • Out upon the wharfs they came, / Knight and burgher, lord and dame.
  • The bank of a river, or the shore of the sea.
  • * Shakespeare
    • the fat weed that roots itself in ease on Lethe wharf

    Synonyms

    * (landing place) dock; quay

    Hyponyms

    * (landing place) jetty; pier; staithe, staith (Northern England)

    Derived terms

    * wharfage * wharfie * wharf rat * wharfinger

    See also

    * dock English nouns with irregular plurals