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Land and Plot Definitions

Land

The solid ground of the earth.

Plot

A small piece of ground, generally used for a specific purpose
A garden plot.

Land

Ground or soil
Tilled the land.

Plot

A measured area of land; a lot.

Land

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

Plot

A ground plan, as for a building; a diagram.
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Land

A nation; a country.

Plot

See graph1.

Land

The people of a nation, district, or region.

Plot

The pattern or sequence of interrelated events in a work of fiction, as a novel or film.

Land

Lands Territorial possessions or property.

Plot

A secret plan to accomplish a hostile or illegal purpose; a scheme.
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Land

Public or private landed property; real estate.

Plot

To represent graphically, as on a chart
Plot a ship's course.

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.

Plot

To locate (points or other figures) on a graph by means of coordinates.

Land

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

Plot

To draw (a curve) connecting points on a graph.
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Land

Farming considered as a way of life.

Plot

To write or develop the plot of
"I began plotting novels at about the time I learned to read" (James Baldwin).

Land

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

Plot

To form a plot for; prearrange secretly or deviously
Plot an assassination.

Land

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

Plot

To form or take part in a plot; scheme
Were plotting for months before the attack.

Land

To bring to and unload on land
Land cargo.

Plot

To write or develop the plot for a work of fiction
A good mystery writer must plot well.

Land

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

Plot

(narratology) The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.

Land

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

Plot

An area or land used for building on or planting on.

Land

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

Plot

A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device.

Land

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

Plot

A secret plan to achieve an end, the end or means usually being illegal or otherwise questionable.
The plot would have enabled them to get a majority on the board.
The assassination of Lincoln was part of a larger plot.

Land

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

Plot

Contrivance; deep reach thought; ability to plot or intrigue.

Land

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

Plot

Participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.

Land

To disembark
Landed at a crowded dock.

Plot

A plan; a purpose.

Land

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

Plot

Attractive physical attributes of characters involved in a story, originating from ironic juxtaposition with the original meaning (course of the story).
I'm not sure what's happening in that show, I mainly watch it for the plot.

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.

Plot

To conceive (a crime, misdeed etc).
They had plotted a robbery.
They were plotting against the king.

Land

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

Plot

(transitive) To trace out (a graph or diagram).
They plotted the number of edits per day.

Land

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

Plot

(transitive) To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).
Every five minutes they plotted their position.

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.

Plot

A small extent of ground; a plat; as, a garden plot.

Land

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

Plot

A plantation laid out.

Land

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

Plot

A plan or draught of a field, farm, estate, etc., drawn to a scale.

Land

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

Plot

Any scheme, stratagem, secret design, or plan, of a complicated nature, adapted to the accomplishment of some purpose, usually a treacherous and mischievous one; a conspiracy; an intrigue; as, the Rye-house Plot.
I have overheard a plot of death.
O, think what anxious moments pass betweenThe birth of plots and their last fatal periods!

Land

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

Plot

A share in such a plot or scheme; a participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.
And when Christ saith, Who marries the divorced commits adultery, it is to be understood, if he had any plot in the divorce.

Land

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

Plot

Contrivance; deep reach of thought; ability to plot or intrigue.

Land

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

Plot

A plan; a purpose.

Land

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

Plot

In fiction, the story of a play, novel, romance, or poem, comprising a complication of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.
If the plot or intrigue must be natural, and such as springs from the subject, then the winding up of the plot must be a probable consequence of all that went before.

Land

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

Plot

To make a plot, map, pr plan, of; to mark the position of on a plan; to delineate.
This treatise plotteth down Cornwall as it now standeth.

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.

Plot

To form a scheme of mischief against another, especially against a government or those who administer it; to conspire.
The wicked plotteth against the just.

Land

(obsolete) The ground or floor.

Plot

To contrive a plan or stratagem; to scheme.
The prince did plot to be secretly gone.

Land

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

Plot

To plan; to scheme; to devise; to contrive secretly.

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.

Plot

A secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal);
They concocted a plot to discredit the governor
I saw through his little game from the start

Land

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

Plot

A small area of ground covered by specific vegetation;
A bean plot
A cabbage patch
A briar patch

Land

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

Plot

The story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc.;
The characters were well drawn but the plot was banal

Land

Lant; urine

Plot

A chart or map showing the movements or progress of an object

Land

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

Plot

Plan secretly, usually something illegal;
They plotted the overthrow fo the government

Land

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

Plot

Make a schematic or technical drawing of that shows how things work or how they are constructed

Land

(intransitive) To come into rest.

Plot

Make a plat of;
Plat the town

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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