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landing (iou)



landing noun. LME.
[from LAND verb + -ING1.]
The action of LAND verb; an instance of this. LME.
automatic landing: see AUTOMATIC adjective 2. happy landings: see HAPPY adjective.
A place for disembarking, loading, or unloading; a landing-place. LME.
A platform or resting-place at the top of a staircase or between two flights of stairs; a passage or antechamber at the top of a flight of stairs. L18.
b. Stone used in or suitable for making staircase landings. M19.
Comb.: landing-beam Aeronautics a Radio beam to guide aircraft when landing; landing card a card issued to a passenger on an international flight or voyage, to be surrendered on arrival; landing-craft (a) Military a naval vessel designed for putting troops, tanks, etc., ashore; (b) Astronautics the section of a spacecraft used for the final descent to the surface of a planet or the moon; landing-flap Aeronautics a wing-flap that can be lowered to increase the lift and the drag to make possible lower speeds for take-off and landing; landing-gear (a) see GEAR noun 5c; (b) the retractable support at the front of a semi-trailer that supports it when not attached to the tractor; landing-light (a) a light on a runway to guide an aircraft in a night landing (usu. in pl.); (b) a light attached to an aircraft to illuminate the ground for a night landing; landing-net: for landing a fish that has been hooked; landing pad (a) a small area of an airfield or heliport, where helicopters land and take off; (b) a cushioned or strengthened foot which supports a hovercraft, spacecraft, etc., on the ground; landing run (a) the distance an aircraft travels in contact with the ground during landing; (b) that part of a flight during which a pilot prepares to land; landing-stage a (floating) platform, for the landing of passengers and goods; landing-strip an airstrip; landing ticket = landing card above; landing-wire Aeronautics a wire on a biplane or light monoplane designed to take the weight of a wing when the aircraft is on the ground.

Doctor (medicine)


doctor


1. A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge learned man. "One of the doctors of Italy, Nicholas Macciavel." (Bacon)

2. An academical title, originally meaning a men so well versed in his department as to be qualified to teach it. Hence: One who has taken the highest degree conferred by a university or college, or has received a diploma of the highest degree; as, a doctor of divinity, of law, of medicine, of Music, or of philosophy. Such diplomas may confer an honorary title only.

3. One duly licensed to practice medicine; a member of the medical profession; a physician. "By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death Will seize the doctor too." (Shak)

4. Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency; as, the doctor of a calico-printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous colouring matter; the doctor, or auxiliary engine, called also donkey engine.

5. <zoology> The friar skate. Doctors' Commons. See Commons. Doctor's stuff, physic, medicine.

<zoology> Doctor fish, any fish of the genus Acanthurus; the surgeon fish; so called from a sharp lancetlike spine on each side of the tail. Also called barber fish. See Surgeon fish.

Origin: OF. Doctur, L. Doctor, teacher, fr. Docere to teach. See Docile.

6. To treat as a physician does; to apply Remedies to; to repair; as, to doctor a sick man or a broken cart.

7. To confer a doctorate upon; to make a doctor.

8. To tamper with and arrange for one's own purposes; to falsify; to adulterate; as, to doctor election returns; to doctor whisky.

Origin: Doctored; Doctoring.

Source: Websters Dictionary