Land vs Sod - What's the difference?
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The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and on which buildings can be erected.
A country or region.
A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.
realm, domain.
(agriculture) The ground left unploughed between furrows; any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.
(Irish English, colloquial) A fright.
(electronics) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
In a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
(travel) The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.
(obsolete) The ground or floor.
* Spenser
(nautical) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.
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.
# (ballistics) The space between the rifling grooves in a gun.
* {{quote-book
, date = 2008-08-01
, chapter = Ballistics
, first = Lisa
, last = Steele
, title = Science for Lawyers
, editor = Eric York Drogin
, publisher = American Bar Association
, page = 16
, pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=H4zTATcB70wC&pg=PA16&dq=lands
, passage = The FBI maintains a database, the General Rifling Characteristics (GRC) file, which is organized by caliber, number of lands' and grooves, direction of twist, and width of ' lands and grooves, to help an examiner figure out the origin of a recovered bullet.
}}
* {{quote-video
, date = 2012-11-15
, episode = One Way to Get Off
, title =
, season = 1
, number = 7
, people = Jonny Lee Miller
, role = Sherlock Holmes
, passage = The human eye is a precision instrument. It can detect grooves and lands on a slug more efficiently than any computer.
}}
To descend to a surface, especially from the air.
(dated) To alight, to descend from a vehicle.
* 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:
To come into rest.
To arrive at land, especially a shore, or a dock, from a body of water.
To bring to land.
* Shakespeare
To acquire; to secure.
* {{quote-news
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To deliver.
Of or relating to land.
Residing or growing on land.
(uncountable) That stratum of the surface of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass, or any portion of that surface; turf; sward.
* Collins
Turf grown and cut specifically for the establishment of lawns.
To cover with sod.
(British, vulgar) Sodomite; bugger.
(British, slang, mildly pejorative, formerly considered vulgar) A person, usually male; (often qualified with an adjective).
(UK, vulgar) expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, boredom, frustration.
(transitive, British, slang, vulgar) Bugger; sodomize.
(transitive, British, slang, vulgar) Damn, curse, confound.
(obsolete) (seethe)
(obsolete) Boiled.
*, New York, 2001, p.223:
(Australia, of bread) Sodden; incompletely risen.
(Australia, colloquial) A damper (bread) which has failed to rise, remaining a flat lump.
* 1954 , Tom Ronan, Vision Splendid'', quoted in Tom Burton, ''Words in Your Ear , Wakefield Press (1999), ISBN 1-86254-475-1, page 120:
Land is a related term of sod.
As nouns the difference between land and sod
is that land is loin (the flesh above the hip bone) while sod is sodium.land
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), .Noun
- Most insects live on land .
- There are 50 acres of land in this estate.
- They come from a faraway land .
- wet land'''; good or bad '''land for growing potatoes
- I'm going to Disneyland .
- Maybe that's how it works in TV-land , but not in the real world.
- He got an awful land when the police arrived.
- Our city offices sell a lot more land than our suburban offices.
- Herself upon the land she did prostrate.
- (Knight)
Derived terms
* bookland * brushland * bushland * cloud cuckoo-land * Crown land * Disneyland * downland * dry land * fantasy land * farmland * fat of the land * flatland * flogging the land * glebe-land * grassland * highland * homeland * Lalaland * land ahoy * land bridge * land degradation * land down under * land bridge * land line, landline * land mark * land mass, landmass * land mine, landmine * land of opportunity * land of the free * land yacht * landfall * landfill * landform * landholder * landlady * landless * landlocked * landlord * landlubber * landman * landmark * land poor * landscape * landslide * land use (see also ) * landward/landwards * law of the land * lay of the land * mainland * moorland * no man's land * on land * outland * overland * pastureland * pineland * playland * plowland * revenue land * spit of land * TV land * upland * wildland * woodlandVerb
(en verb)- The plane is about to land .
- 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 or landed .
- It can be tricky to land a helicopter .
- Use the net to land the fish.
- I'll undertake to land them on our coast.
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Derived terms
(Terms derived from the verb "land") * crash-land * land on one's bridge * rellandAdjective
(-)Etymology 2
sod
English
Etymology 1
(en)Noun
(-)- She there shall dress a sweeter sod / Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.
- The landscapers rolled sod onto the bare earth and made a presentable lawn by nightfall.
Verb
(sodd)- He sodded the worn areas twice a year.
Etymology 2
From sodomize, by shorteningNoun
(en noun)- You mean old sod !
- poor sod
- unlucky sod
Derived terms
* Sod’s lawInterjection
(en interjection)Verb
(sodd)- Sod''' him!'', '''''Sod''' it!'', '''''Sod that bastard!
Derived terms
* sod offEtymology 3
Originally a the past participle ((sodden)).Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- Beer, if it be over-new, or over-stale, over-strong, or not sod ,is most unwholesome, frets, and galls, etc.
- sod damper
Noun
(en noun)- And Mart the cook the shovel took / And swung the damper to and fro. / 'Another sod , so help me God, / That's fourteen in a flamin' row.