1935, H. Courtney Bryson,The Gramophone Record, page72:
Now, assume that the recording is being done with 100 grooves per inch, and that the record groove is .006 inch wide. This means that theland on either side on any given groove in the absence of sound waves is .004 inch.
(travel) The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.
Our city offices sell a lot moreland than our suburban offices.
In any surface prepared withindentations,perforations, orgrooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, such as the level part of amillstone between the furrows.
(ballistics) The space between the rifling grooves in a gun.
2008 August 1, Lisa Steele, “Ballistics”, in Eric York Drogin, editor,Science for Lawyers, American Bar Association,page16:
The FBI maintains a database, the General Rifling Characteristics (GRC) file, which is organized by caliber, number oflands and grooves, direction of twist, and width oflands and grooves, to help an examiner figure out the origin of a recovered bullet.
2012 November 15, “One Way to Get Off”, inElementary, season 1, episode 7, spoken by Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller):
The human eye is a precision instrument. It can detect grooves andlands on a slug more efficiently than any computer.
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 orlanded.
1981,A Pictorial History of the Republic of China: Its Founding and Development[1], volume II, Taipei: Modern China Press,→OCLC,page303, column 1:
Tatan and Erhtan are two small islands in the sea southwest of Kinmen.[…]A contingent of some 30 Communist troops tried toland at Erhtan, but were disarmed by Government defenders.
2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, inBBC Sport[2]:
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 bylanding a trophy.
2024 May 1, “Network News: Danes plan fully automated trains”, inRAIL, number1008, page18:
Siemens haslanded a contract to upgrade signalling on the entire 170km (105-mile) S-Bane suburban network in Copenhagen to pave the way for fully automated trains.
2025 August 22, Tom Nichols, “MAGA World Is So Close to Getting It”, inThe Atlantic[3]:
Vice President J. D. Vance has lashed out at [Gavin] Newsom, telling Fox that the Californian’s attacks aren’tlanding, because his trolling “ignores the fundamental genius of President Trump’s political success, which is that he’s authentic”;[…].
2023 January 13, Anonymous ("Jackal Comment"), 11:08 from the start, inCORRECTIONS Episode 68: Week of Monday, January 9 (Late Night with Seth Meyers)[4],YouTube:
We told an Amelia Earhart joke yesterday—did not go great with the audience. Someone wrote: "You can't be surprised when an Amelia Earhart joke doesn'tland."
1967, E. Rijpma & F. G. Schuringa, edited by Jan van Bakel,Nederlandse spraakkunst, 21st ed., p. 24, § 8 (alsoonline at dbnl.org):
In onsland werd door de Westgermaanse volksstammen het Nederduits (Nederfrankisch en Saksisch) en het Fries gesproken. Het Nederfrankisch wordt wel verdeeld in: (1) het Hollands-Frankisch (Hollands, Utrechts, Westveluws, Zeeuws, Westvlaams); (2) het Brabants-Frankisch (Westbetuws, Westbrabants, Antwerps, Kempens, Leuvens, Aalsters, Oostvlaams); (3) het Limburgs-Frankisch (Gelders-Limburgs, Limburgs, Oostbrabants). Het Saksisch (Gelders-Overijssels, Oostveluws, Drents, Gronings) wordt gesproken in het noordoosten van onsland, van Groningen tot de Oude Ijssel.
2022 December 6, Oscar van Dam, John Samson, “Gerechtshof: lhbt’s mogen trouwen op Aruba en Curaçao [Appellate court: LGBT people allowed to marry in Aruba and Curaçao]”, inCaribisch Netwerk[5], retrieved14 December 2022:
Het zijn twee verschillende uitspraken die vandaag door het gerechtshof achter elkaar zijn gedaan. Voor Aruba gaat het om het een zaak van Fundacion Orguyo Aruba en twee vrouwen tegen hetLand Aruba. Voor Curaçao gaat het om een zaak van Human Rights Caribbean Foundation en twee vrouwen tegen hetLand Curaçao.
Today's rulings are two separate ones handed down by the appellate court back-to-back. For Aruba, it involves a case brought by Fundacion Orguyo Aruba and two women against thegovernment of Aruba. For Curaçao, it involves a case brought by Human Rights Caribbean Foundation and two women against thegovernment of Curaçao.
(history, chiefly in compounds) the territorial government or state authority in a Dutch colony or overseas territory in the West Indies
Tiit-Rein Viitso; Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), “land”, inLīvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz [Livonian-Estonian-Latvian Dictionary][6] (in Estonian and Latvian), Tartu, Rīga: Tartu Ülikool, Latviešu valodas aģentūra
The declension is unstable and should be treated as a guide. The case system was gradually being simplified from four to two cases. Even some nominative markers were sporadically kept in the Scanian dialect, although they mostly were replaced with the accusative endings from Old Norse.
An. DCCCCXLV Hēr Ēadmund cing oferhergode eall Cumbraland, ⁊ hit lēt eall tō Malculme Sċotta cinge on þæt ġerād þæt hē wǣre his midwyrhta æġþer ġe on sǣ ġe onlande.
Year 945 In this year King Edmund overran all of Cumberland, and let it all to King Malcom of Scotland, on the condition that he would be his cooperator on both sea andland.
Using the wordland is the most common way to form country names. This can be done in one of two ways:
Prefixing the name of a people to the wordland. Ex:Franca(“French person”) →Francland(“France”),Swēo(“Swede”) →Swēoland(“Sweden”), and*Unger(“a Hungarian”) →Ungerland(“Hungary”).
Prefacingland with the genitive plural form of a people, producing the literal meaning “land of ____ people.” Ex:Egypta land(“Egypt”, literally“land of the Egyptians”),Siġelhearwena land(“Ethiopia”, literally“land of the Ethiopians”).
However, country names can also be formed other ways. For instance, words other thanland are used:Dene(“a Dane”) →Denemearc(“Denmark”, literally“Dane borderland”). It is also very common to use the name of a people for the country they inhabit:On þām dagum wæs Alexander ġeboren onCrēcum swā swā miċel ȳst cōme ofer ealne middanġeard (“In those days, Alexander was born inGreece [lit.in the Greeks] like a great storm coming over the whole world”),Ymb twā ġēar þæs þe hē cōm ofFrancum, hē ġefōr (”Two years after he came fromFrance [lit.from the Franks], he died”). In addition, country names are sometimes loaned directly from Latin:Arabia,Isrāhēl,Italia,Syria. Finally, some country names are simply idiomatic:Norþweġ(“Norway”, literally“north way”).
2020 January 29, “El coronavirus ya se transmite fuera de China y se teme por su afectación al Mobile”, inLa Vanguardia[9]:
Alemania confirmó ayer los cuatro primeros casos de coronavirus de Wuhan en su territorio, todos pertenecientes a la misma empresa de componentes de automóvil delland alemán de Baviera.
Germany yesterday confirmed the first four cases of Wuhan coronavirus on its territory, all belonging to the same automotive component company from the Germanland of Bavaria.
Det var en gång en liten fågel. Ja, en fågel. Han boddepå landet, och Roger hette han. Han ville gärna leka med sina vänner, med sina vänner, men det fick inte han. Men denna historia slutar sorgligt, för Roger blev skjuten, skjuten i magen av gamle jägar'n [jägaren] Pär. Han ville hem och äta, äta en fågel med lite potäter, men Roger hann iväg.
Once upon a time, there was a little bird. Yes, a bird. He livedin the countryside, and Roger was his name. He wanted to play with his friends ["He wanted gladly to play with his friends," in the sense of, "He wanted, with keenness, to play with his friends" – the translation skips thegärna as it doesn't make much difference to the meaning], with his friends, but [that – to play with his friends] he didn't get to. But this story ends sadly, because Roger was shot, shot in the stomach by old hunter Pär ["den gamle jägaren Pär" matches "the old hunter Pär" – skipping "den" makes "jägaren Pär" soundlexicalized]. He wanted to go home and eat, eat a bird with some potatoes, but Roger got away [in time].
