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Batten vs. Land

Batten and Land Definitions

Batten

To become fat.

Land

The solid ground of the earth.

Batten

To thrive and prosper, especially at another's expense
"[She] battens like a leech on the lives of famous people, ... a professional retailer of falsehoods" (George F. Will).

Land

Ground or soil
Tilled the land.

Batten

To fatten; overfeed.

Land

A topographically or functionally distinct tract
Desert land.
Prime building land.
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Batten

(Nautical) To furnish, fasten, or secure with battens
Battened down the hatch during the storm.

Land

A nation; a country.

Batten

One of several flexible strips of wood or plastic placed in pockets at the outer edge of a sail to keep it flat.

Land

The people of a nation, district, or region.

Batten

A narrow strip of wood used to fasten down the edges of the material that covers hatches in foul weather.

Land

Lands Territorial possessions or property.
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Batten

A narrow strip of wood used in construction, especially to cover a seam between boards, as flooring material, or as a lath.

Land

Public or private landed property; real estate.

Batten

The heavy swinging bar on a loom that holds the reed and is pulled forward to pack down the weft.

Land

(Law) The solid material of the earth as well as the natural and manmade things attached to it and the rights and interests associated with it.

Batten

A flat stick used in weaving by hand to separate the upper and lower threads of the warp and to tighten the weft.

Land

An agricultural or farming area
Wanted to buy a house on the land.
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Batten

(intransitive) To become better; improve in condition, especially by feeding.

Land

Farming considered as a way of life.

Batten

To feed (on); to revel (in).

Land

An area or realm
The land of make-believe.
The land of television.

Batten

(intransitive) To thrive by feeding; grow fat; feed oneself gluttonously.

Land

The raised portion of a grooved surface, as on a phonograph record.

Batten

(intransitive) To thrive, prosper, or live in luxury, especially at the expense of others; fare sumptuously.
Robber barons who battened on the poor

Land

To bring to and unload on land
Land cargo.

Batten

(intransitive) To gratify a morbid appetite or craving; gloat.

Land

To set (a vehicle) down on land or another surface
Land an airplane smoothly.
Land a seaplane on a lake.

Batten

(transitive) To improve by feeding; fatten; make fat or cause to thrive due to plenteous feeding.

Land

(Informal) To cause to arrive in a place or condition
Civil disobedience will land you in jail.

Batten

(transitive) To fertilize or enrich, as land.

Land

To catch and pull in (a fish)
Landed a big catfish.

Batten

To furnish with battens.

Land

(Informal) To win; secure
Land a big contract.

Batten

(nautical) To fasten or secure a hatch etc using battens.

Land

(Informal) To deliver
Landed a blow on his opponent's head.

Batten

A thin strip of wood used in construction to hold members of a structure together or to provide a fixing point.

Land

To come to shore
Landed against the current with great difficulty.

Batten

(nautical) A long strip of wood, metal, fibreglass etc., used for various purposes aboard ship, especially one inserted in a pocket sewn on the sail in order to keep the sail flat.

Land

To disembark
Landed at a crowded dock.

Batten

(theater) In stagecraft, a long pipe, usually metal, affixed to the ceiling or fly system in a theater.

Land

To descend toward and settle onto the ground or another surface
The helicopter has landed.

Batten

The movable bar of a loom, which strikes home or closes the threads of a woof.

Land

(Informal) To arrive in a place or condition
Landed at the theater too late for the opening curtain.
Landed in trouble for being late.

Batten

To make fat by plenteous feeding; to fatten.

Land

To come to rest in a certain way or place
Slipped and landed on his shoulder.

Batten

To fertilize or enrich, as land.

Land

The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
Most insects live on land.

Batten

To grow fat; to grow fat in ease and luxury; to glut one's self.
The pampered monarch lay battening in ease.
Skeptics, with a taste for carrion, who batten on the hideous facts in history, - persecutions, inquisitions.

Land

Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and acquired and on which buildings and structures can be built and erected.
There are 50 acres of land in this estate.

Batten

To furnish or fasten with battens.

Land

A country or region.
They come from a faraway land.

Batten

A strip of sawed stuff, or a scantling;

Land

A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.

Batten

The movable bar of a loom, which strikes home or closes the threads of a woof.

Land

The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.
Wet land; good or bad land for growing potatoes

Batten

Stuffing made of rolls or sheets of cotton wool or synthetic fiber

Land

Realm, domain.
I'm going to Disneyland.
Maybe that's how it works in TV-land, but not in the real world.

Batten

A strip fixed to something to hold it firm

Land

(agriculture) The ground left unploughed between furrows; any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.

Batten

Furnish with battens;
Batten ships

Land

A shock or fright.
He got an awful land when the police arrived.

Batten

Secure with battens;
Batten down a ship's hatches

Land

(electronics) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.

Land

On a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.

Land

(travel) The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.
Our city offices sell a lot more land than our suburban offices.

Land

(obsolete) The ground or floor.

Land

(nautical) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.

Land

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.

Land

(ballistics) The space between the rifling grooves in a gun.

Land

A group of dwellings or tenements under one roof and having a common entry.

Land

Lant; urine

Land

(intransitive) To descend to a surface, especially from the air.
The plane is about to land.

Land

(dated) To alight, to descend from a vehicle.

Land

(intransitive) To come into rest.

Land

(intransitive) To arrive on land, especially a shore or dock, from a body of water.

Land

(transitive) To bring to land.
It can be tricky to land a helicopter.
Use the net to land the fish.

Land

To capture or arrest.

Land

(transitive) To acquire; to secure.

Land

To succeed in having sexual relations with; to score
Too ugly to ever land a chick

Land

(transitive) (of a blow) To deliver.
If you land a knockout blow, you’ll win the match

Land

(intransitive) (of a punch) To connect
If the punches land, you might lose a few teeth!

Land

(intransitive) To go down well with an audience.
Some of the comedian's jokes failed to land.

Land

Urine. See Lant.

Land

The solid part of the surface of the earth; - opposed to water as constituting a part of such surface, especially to oceans and seas; as, to sight land after a long voyage.
They turn their heads to sea, their sterns to land.

Land

Any portion, large or small, of the surface of the earth, considered by itself, or as belonging to an individual or a people, as a country, estate, farm, or tract.
Go view the land, even Jericho.
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,Where wealth accumulates and men decay.
A poor parson dwelling upon land [i.e., in the country].

Land

Ground, in respect to its nature or quality; soil; as, wet land; good or bad land.

Land

The inhabitants of a nation or people.
These answers, in the silent night received,The king himself divulged, the land believed.

Land

The mainland, in distinction from islands.

Land

The ground or floor.
Herself upon the land she did prostrate.

Land

The ground left unplowed between furrows; any one of several portions into which a field is divided for convenience in plowing.

Land

Any ground, soil, or earth whatsoever, as meadows, pastures, woods, etc., and everything annexed to it, whether by nature, as trees, water, etc., or by the hand of man, as buildings, fences, etc.; real estate.

Land

The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; - called also landing.

Land

In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, as the level part of a millstone between the furrows, or the surface of the bore of a rifled gun between the grooves.

Land

To set or put on shore from a ship or other water craft; to disembark; to debark.
I 'll undertake to land them on our coast.

Land

To catch and bring to shore; to capture; as, to land a fish.

Land

To set down after conveying; to cause to fall, alight, or reach; to bring to the end of a course; as, he landed the quoit near the stake; to be thrown from a horse and landed in the mud; to land one in difficulties or mistakes.

Land

To pilot (an airplane) from the air onto the land; as, to land the plane on a highway.

Land

To come to the end of a course; to arrive at a destination, literally or figuratively; as, he landed in trouble; after hithchiking for a week, he landed in Los Angeles.

Land

To go on shore from a ship or boat; to disembark.

Land

To reach and come to rest on land after having been in the air; as, the arrow landed in a flower bed; the golf ball landed in a sand trap; our airplane landed in Washington.

Land

The land on which real estate is located;
He built the house on land leased from the city

Land

Material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use);
The land had never been plowed
Good agricultural soil

Land

The solid part of the earth's surface;
The plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land
The earth shook for several minutes
He dropped the logs on the ground

Land

Territory over which rule or control is exercised;
His domain extended into Europe
He made it the law of the land

Land

The territory occupied by a nation;
He returned to the land of his birth
He visited several European countries

Land

A domain in which something is dominant;
The untroubled kingdom of reason
A land of make-believe
The rise of the realm of cotton in the south

Land

Extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use;
The family owned a large estate on Long Island

Land

The people who live in a nation or country;
A statement that sums up the nation's mood
The news was announced to the nation
The whole country worshipped him

Land

A politically organized body of people under a single government;
The state has elected a new president
African nations
Students who had come to the nation's capitol
The country's largest manufacturer
An industrialized land

Land

United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one-step photographic process (1909-1991)

Land

Working the land as an occupation or way of life;
Farming is a strenuous life
There's no work on the land any more

Land

Reach or come to rest;
The bird landed on the highest branch
The plane landed in Istanbul

Land

Cause to come to the ground;
The pilot managed to land the airplane safely

Land

Bring into a different state;
This may land you in jail

Land

Bring ashore;
The drug smugglers landed the heroin on the beach of the island

Land

Deliver (a blow);
He landed several blows on his opponent's head

Land

Arrive on shore;
The ship landed in Pearl Harbor

Land

Shoot at and force to come down;
The enemy landed several of our aircraft

Land

Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land;
Land vehicles
Sea stories
Sea smells
Sea traffic

Land

Operating or living or growing in water;
Boats are aquatic vehicles
Water lilies are aquatic plants
Fish are aquatic animals

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