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As nouns the difference between monkey and land

is that monkey is any member of the clade simiiformes not also of the clade hominoidea containing humans and apes, from which they are usually, but not universally, distinguished by smaller size, a tail, and cheek pouches while land is loin (the flesh above the hip bone).

As a verb monkey

is (label) to meddle; to mess with; to interfere; to fiddle.

monkey

English

(wikipedia monkey)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any member of the clade Simiiformes not also of the clade Hominoidea containing humans and apes, from which they are usually, but not universally, distinguished by smaller size, a tail, and cheek pouches.
  • (label) A mischievous child.
  • Five hundred pounds sterling.
  • (label) A person or the role of the person on the sidecar platform of a motorcycle involved in sidecar racing.
  • (label) A person with minimal intelligence and/or (bad) looks.
  • (label) A face card.
  • (label) A menial employee who does a repetitive job.
  • The weight or hammer of a pile driver; a heavy mass of iron, which, being raised high, falls on the head of the pile, and drives it into the earth; the falling weight of a drop hammer used in forging.
  • A small trading vessel of the sixteenth century.

    • Derived terms

    * (menial employee) phone monkey, code monkey * brass monkey * capuchin monkey * grease monkey * green monkey * green monkey disease * monkey barge * monkey bars * monkey bike * monkey boot * monkey bread * monkey business * monkey dance * monkey drill * monkey-faced owl * monkey flip * monkey humping a football * monkey in the middle * monkey jacket * monkey motion * monkey nut * monkey orchid * monkey pole * monkey rum * monkey show * monkey spoon * monkey squirrel * monkey stove * Monkey Ward's * monkey orange * monkey pistol * monkey thorn * monkey wrench * not give a monkey's

    Verb

  • (label) To meddle; to mess with; to interfere; to fiddle.
    • ''Please don't monkey with the controls if you don't know what you're doing.
  • * 1920 , , The Understanding Heart , Chapter XII
    • “As an inventor,” Bob Mason suggested, “you're a howling success at shooting craps! Why monkey with weak imitations when you can come close to the original?”

    Derived terms

    {{der3, code monkey , grease monkey , I'll be a monkey's uncle , make a monkey out of , monkey's uncle , monkey around , monkey bars , monkey boy , monkey business , monkey humping a football , monkey man , monkey meat , monkeynut , monkey trial , monkey up , monkey script , , monkeyshines , monkey wrench , New World monkey , Old World monkey , porch monkey , powder monkey , snow monkey , spank the monkey}}

    See also

    * ape * primate 1000 English basic words

    land

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), .

    Noun

  • The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
    • Most insects live on land .
  • Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and on which buildings can be erected.
    • There are 50 acres of land in this estate.
  • A country or region.
    • They come from a faraway land .
  • A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
  • The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.
    • wet land'''; good or bad '''land for growing potatoes
  • realm, domain.
    • I'm going to Disneyland .
    Maybe that's how it works in TV-land , but not in the real world.
  • (agriculture) The ground left unploughed between furrows; any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.
  • (Irish English, colloquial) A fright.
    • He got an awful land when the police arrived.
  • (electronics) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
  • In a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
  • (travel) The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.
    • Our city offices sell a lot more land than our suburban offices.
  • (obsolete) The ground or floor.
  • * Spenser
    • Herself upon the land she did prostrate.
  • (nautical) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.
    • (Knight)
  • In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, such as the level part of a millstone between the furrows.
  • # (ballistics) The space between the rifling grooves in a gun.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , date = 2008-08-01 , chapter = Ballistics , first = Lisa , last = Steele , title = Science for Lawyers , editor = Eric York Drogin , publisher = American Bar Association , page = 16 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=H4zTATcB70wC&pg=PA16&dq=lands , passage = The FBI maintains a database, the General Rifling Characteristics (GRC) file, which is organized by caliber, number of lands' and grooves, direction of twist, and width of ' lands and grooves, to help an examiner figure out the origin of a recovered bullet. }}
  • * {{quote-video
    • , date = 2012-11-15 , episode = One Way to Get Off , title = , season = 1 , number = 7 , people = Jonny Lee Miller , role = Sherlock Holmes , passage = The human eye is a precision instrument. It can detect grooves and lands on a slug more efficiently than any computer. }}
    Derived terms
    * bookland * brushland * bushland * cloud cuckoo-land * Crown land * Disneyland * downland * dry land * fantasy land * farmland * fat of the land * flatland * flogging the land * glebe-land * grassland * highland * homeland * Lalaland * land ahoy * land bridge * land degradation * land down under * land bridge * land line, landline * land mark * land mass, landmass * land mine, landmine * land of opportunity * land of the free * land yacht * landfall * landfill * landform * landholder * landlady * landless * landlocked * landlord * landlubber * landman * landmark * land poor * landscape * landslide * land use (see also ) * landward/landwards * law of the land * lay of the land * mainland * moorland * no man's land * on land * outland * overland * pastureland * pineland * playland * plowland * revenue land * spit of land * TV land * upland * wildland * woodland

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To descend to a surface, especially from the air.
    • The plane is about to land .
  • (dated) To alight, to descend from a vehicle.
  • * 1859 , “Rules adopted by the Sixth Avenue Railway, N. Y.”, quoted in Alexander Easton, A Practical Treatise on Street or Horse-Power Railways , page 108:
    • 10. You will be civil and attentive to passengers, giving proper assistance to ladies and children getting in or out, and never start the car before passengers are fairly received or landed .
  • To come into rest.
  • To arrive at land, especially a shore, or a dock, from a body of water.
  • To bring to land.
    • It can be tricky to land a helicopter .
    Use the net to land the fish.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I'll undertake to land them on our coast.
  • To acquire; to secure.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=May 5 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=As Di Matteo celebrated and captain John Terry raised the trophy for the fourth time, the Italian increased his claims to become the permanent successor to Andre Villas-Boas by landing a trophy.}}
  • To deliver.
    • Derived terms
    (Terms derived from the verb "land") * crash-land * land on one's bridge * relland

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or relating to land.
  • Residing or growing on land.

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (-)
  • lant; urine
    • (Webster 1913)

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