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n. country; state; nation; kingdom; estate; countryside; shore, dry land; ground; real estate
 
v. arrive on the ground, alight; set on the ground; bring to shore; drop anchor; climb onto dry ground; exit from a ship; arrive at, end up in (a place, situation, etc.); obtain, get a hold of
 
adj. of or pertaining to land; that operates on land; that takes place on land

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LAND
A LAND (Local Area Network Denial) attack is a DoS (Denial of Service) attack that consists of sending a special poison spoofed packet to a computer, causing it to lock up. The security flaw was first discovered in 1997 by someone using the alias "m3lt", and has resurfaced many years later in operating systems such as Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP SP2.

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Land
Land, sometimes referred to as dry land, is the solid surface of the Earth that is not permanently covered by water. The vast majority of human activity occurs in land areas that support agriculturehabitat, and various natural resources.

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land
The suffix -land which can be found in several countries' name and country subdivisions indicates a toponymy—a land. The word came via Germanic "."

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Länder
Länder (singular Land) or Bundesländer (singular Bundesland) is the name for (federal) states in German-speaking countries.

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Land

Noun
1. United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one-step photographic process (1909-1991)
(synonym) Din Land, Edwin Herbert Land
(hypernym) inventor, discoverer, artificer

 
land

Noun
1. the land on which real estate is located; "he built the house on land leased from the city"
(hypernym) real property, real estate, realty
(hyponym) farmstead
2. 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"
(synonym) ground, soil
(hypernym) object, physical object
(hyponym) badlands
3. 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"
(synonym) dry land, earth, ground, solid ground, terra firma
(hypernym) object, physical object
(hyponym) America, the Americas
(part-holonym) Earth, world, globe
(derivation) down, shoot down
4. territory over which rule or control is exercised; "his domain extended into Europe"; "he made it the law of the land"
(synonym) domain, demesne
(hypernym) region
(hyponym) archduchy
(part-holonym) country, state
5. the territory occupied by a nation; "he returned to the land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries"
(synonym) country, state
(hypernym) administrative district, administrative division, territorial division
(hyponym) banana republic
(member-meronym) department
(part-meronym) domain, demesne
6. 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"
(synonym) kingdom, realm
(hypernym) sphere, domain, area, orbit, field, arena
(hyponym) lotusland, lotus land
7. extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use; "the family owned a large estate on Long Island"
(synonym) estate, landed estate, acres, demesne
(hypernym) real property, real estate, realty
(hyponym) freehold
8. 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"
(synonym) nation, country, a people
(hypernym) people
(hyponym) Dutch, Dutch people
(member-meronym) national, subject
9. 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"
(synonym) state, nation, country, commonwealth, res publica, body politic
(hypernym) political unit
(hyponym) Dominion
(part-meronym) estate, estate of the realm
10. working the land as an occupation or way of life; "farming is a strenuous life"; "there's no work on the land any more"
(synonym) farming
(hypernym) occupation, business, job, line of work, line

Verb
1. reach or come to rest; "The bird landed on the highest branch"; "The plane landed in Istanbul"
(synonym) set down
(hypernym) arrive, get, come
(hyponym) alight, light, perch
(derivation) lander
2. cause to come to the ground; "the pilot managed to land the airplane safely"
(synonym) put down, bring down
(hypernym) arrive, get, come
(cause) set down
(derivation) dry land, earth, ground, solid ground, terra firma
(classification) air travel, aviation, air
3. bring into a different state; "this may land you in jail"
(synonym) bring
(hypernym) change, alter, modify
4. bring ashore; "The drug smugglers landed the heroin on the beach of the island"
(hypernym) bring, convey, take
(hyponym) ground, run aground
(derivation) dry land, earth, ground, solid ground, terra firma
5. deliver (a blow); "He landed several blows on his opponent's head"
(hypernym) deliver, drive home
6. arrive on shore; "The ship landed in Pearl Harbor"
(synonym) set ashore, shore
(hypernym) arrive, get, come
(derivation) dry land, earth, ground, solid ground, terra firma
7. shoot at and force to come down; "the enemy landed several of our aircraft"
(synonym) down, shoot down
(derivation) dry land, earth, ground, solid ground, terra firma

Adjective
1. relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land; "land vehicles"
(synonym) land(a)
(antonym) sea(a)
(similar) onshore
2. operating or living or growing on land
(synonym) terrestrial, land(a)


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Land (das)
n. country, state, nation; region; rural area; dry land, shore; earth
 
landen
v. alight, land; leave a plane; disembark, go ashore (from a boat); arrive on the ground, touch ground; happen upon

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Land
nm. Land, family name