Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An aircraft runway without airport facilities. Also called airstrip.
Wiktionary
- n. aviation A runway for aircraft, especially one which is auxiliary or temporary.
- n. idiomatic A cultivated pubic hair pattern in which much of the pubic hair is removed, leaving only a central vertical line or rectangle.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Aeronautics) A runway at an airport, at which airplanes land{3}; the long smooth surface used for takeoff or landing{4}.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an airfield without normal airport facilities
Examples
“Landing came on a specially marked area on Rogers Dry Lake, a parcel that simulated the 10,000-foot landing strip at Cape Canaveral.”
“Merle Henderson deposited her in his house trailer by the landing strip and kept her there.”
““We’ll be beaming down to a landing strip just outside K’trin,” said Riker.”
“On the night of October 19, weeks before the Tora Bora battle, 199 Army Rangers had parachuted in total blackout conditions onto a Taliban-held desert landing strip near Kandahar, which they then secured.”
“The best VTL shuttlecraft would have a fifty‑fifty chance at best of setting down off the landing strip in one piece.”
“VIRGINIA TRIOLI: Well, that actually might clarify one thing, because that report said that the landing strip at Kokoda had been closed and wasn't being used; is that not the case?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘landing strip’.
-
land phrases/words
how land is used
land abutment, land-admiral, land-agency, land-agent, land-animal, land-arch, land army, land-base, land-based, land-bat, land-battery, land-battle and 371 more...
-
Land
A list of terms for land, landholdings, or words that contain the string -land-.
scabland, wheatland, cornland, slander, land-locked, dryland, riceland, clandestine, acreage, island, Iceland, Greenland and 269 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for landing strip.
Comments
No comments yet...
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.