word-vault/dist/data/cards/la/landing.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "landing",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "image": "data/images/st/staircase.png",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "an act of bringing an aircraft or a spacecraft down to the ground after a journey",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a perfect/smooth/safe landing"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the first Apollo **moon landing**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The pilot was forced to make **an emergency landing**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a landing site"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the first successful lunar landing"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Space", "Transport by air"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["bumpy", "hard", "rough"],
                "verb + landing": ["make"],
                "landing + noun": ["area", "site", "strip"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the area at the top of a set of stairs where you arrive before you go into an upstairs room or move onto another set of stairs",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Go up to the first-floor landing and it’s the door on the right."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The room opens off the landing."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There's a phone on the landing outside your room."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Houses and homes", "Buildings"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["first-floor", "second-floor", "etc."],
                "preposition": ["off the landing", "on the landing"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "an act of bringing soldiers to land in an area that is controlled by the enemy",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "a flat wooden platform on the water where boats let people get on and off, and load and unload goods",
            "labels": "British English also",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈlændɪŋ/",
                "audio": "la/landing/landing__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈlændɪŋ/",
                "audio": "la/landing/landing__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": null
}