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Definitions: Lander |
LanderNoun1. A town in central Wyoming. 2. A space vehicle that is designed to land on the moon or another planet. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Lander" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1885. (references) |
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Metallurgy | A refractory-lined open channel along which molten steel flows from the furnace. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. A worker stationed at one of the levels of a mine shaft to unload rock from the bucket or cage and load drilling and blasting supplies to be lowered to the crew b. In the quarry industry, one who supervises and assists in guiding, steadying, and loading, on trucks or railroad cars, blocks of stone hoisted from the quarry floor. Syn:top hooker c. In metal mining, a laborer who (1) cleans skips by directing a blast of compressed air into them through a hose; (2) records number of loaded skips hoisted to surface; and (3) loads railroad cars with ore from bins by raising and lowering chute doors d. In anthracite coal mining, bituminous coal mining, or metal mining, one who works with shaft sinking crew at top of shaft or at a level immediately above shaft bottom, dumping rock into mine cars from a bucket in which it is raised. Also called bucket dumper; landing tender; top lander e. Eng. The person who receives the loaded bucket or tub at the mouth ofthe shaft. Also called banksman. (references) |
Occupations | Pushes mine cars onto and off mine shaft cage and informs workers when cage is used to carry mine personnel: Pushes or pulls loaded cars off cage at surface and replaces with cars that are empty or loaded with supplies. Pulls empty cars from cage at bottom or intermediate levels of mine and moves onto sidings for distribution and loading. Gives directions to workers in loading of cage to ensure conformance to safety regulations. Signals HOIST OPERATOR (mine & quarry) with bell or buzzer when cage is to be moved. May load cage with materials and equipment to be lowered into mine. May record number of containers and estimate production weights. May tend automatic elevator. May be designated according to level in mine shaft at which work is performed as Bottomer (mine & quarry) II; Foot Cager (mine & quarry); Head Cager (mine & quarry); Top Cager (mine & quarry). (references) |
Transportation | A spacecraft or mission which lands on another celestial body. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Rosetta probe, which has not yet been launched at the time of writing, will put a lander on a still-to-be-determined comet; due to the extremely low gravity of such bodies, its landing system includes a harpoon launcher intended to anchor a cable in the surface and pull it down. A landing on a similarly small body, the asteroid 433 Eros, was performed by the satellite NEAR Shoemaker despite the fact that NEAR was not originally designed to be capable of landing.
The Galileo probe dropped a small reentry vehicle into the atmosphere of Jupiter, but as Jupiter is a gas giant with no well-defined surface it is debatable whether this was a "lander" per se.
A number of Moon probes, such as some members of the Soviet Luna program and the American Ranger program, were hard-impact landers which were not intended to continue providing useful data after their high-speed landings. The Huygens probe, being carried to Saturn's moon Titan by the Cassini probe, is likewise not specifically designed to survive landing. However, due to the low speed with which it is expected to impact, it is expected to continue providing data for a short while after landing, and even to float should it touch down on one of Titan's hypothesized ethane lakes.
The Soviet Venera program included a number of Venus landers, some of which were crushed during descent much as Galileo's Jupiter "lander" and others of which successfully touched down. The Soviet Vega program also placed two balloons in the Venusian atmosphere.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Lander."
Crosswords: Lander |
| Specialty definitions using "Lander": top lander. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Lander" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (land), Norwegian (land). |
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Movie/TV Titles | This Is David Lander (1988) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Mars Pathfinder Lander Preparations.Credit: NASA. |  | Lunar Lander Multiple Exposure.Credit: NASA. |
 | Technician Checks Soil Sampler on Viking Lander.Credit: NASA. |  | Image of the Viking Lander.Credit: NASA. |
 | Surface photographs from the Soviet Venera 13 spacecraft.The first of the Venera missions to include a color TV camera and the first to succeedin obtaining pictures since Venera 10, the Venera 13 lander touched down on 3 March 1982.Credit: NASA. |  | DSV Alvin sets a lander basket with tube cores on the bottom.Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
 | NASA's Mars Polar Lander launches aboard an Air Force Delta II. |  | Road through desert. Lander County, Nevada.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Desert. Lander County, Nevada.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Zum ersten Mai. Proletarier aller Lander vereinigt euch! Le triomphe du travail ...Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Economic History | Slovak Rep | Active direct marketing firms include Amway, Avon, Quelle, Herbalife, Oriflame, Lander, Mary Kay, Yves Rocher, and Anthesis. (references) |
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| "Lander" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 51.52% of the time. "Lander" is used about 66 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 51.52% | 34 | 59,261 |
| Noun (singular) | 48.48% | 32 | 61,292 |
| Total | 100.00% | 66 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Lander" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Lander | Last name | 2,000 | 6,482 |
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1. Lander, WY (city, FIPS 44760) |
Expression using "Lander": Lander County. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "Lander": mary-lander. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
lander wy | 206 |
lunar lander | 193 |
lander university | 119 |
cross lander | 101 |
lander | 89 |
lander wyoming | 77 |
mars lander | 47 |
lander monkey | 41 |
lander morgan | 33 |
moon lander | 25 |
lander college | 14 |
lander luner | 14 |
mars polar lander | 13 |
cynthia lander | 13 |
david lander | 11 |
4x4 cross lander | 11 |
hotel lander | 11 |
lander mercedes | 10 |
lander morgan picture | 8 |
eric lander | 7 |
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| Language | Translations for "Lander"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | lander (land), vogntømmer (banksman, cager, top cager), modtager (actual recipient, addressee, banksman, cager, consignee, grantee, radio transmitter, receiver, receiving entity, receiving set, recipient, top cager). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | landingsmodule. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | laskeutumismoduuli. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | moulineur, module d'atterrissage, décageur, décageteur, chenal de coulée (launder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Landestufe. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μονάδα προσγείωσης. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | leszálló egység, telitalálat (direct hit, hit), kitolókezelő, aknacsatlós (banksman). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | modulo d'atterraggio. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | anderlay módulo de aterragem. (various references) рейнландец (rhine lander, rhinelander). (various references) módulo de aterrizaje. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "Lander": landers. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "Lander": auslander, bilander, blander, colander, flatlander, highlander, inlander, islander, lowlander, mainlander, outlander, philander, slander, solander, uplander, woodlander. (additional references) | |
Words containing "Lander": auslanders, bilanders, colanders, flatlanders, glandered, glanders, highlanders, inlanders, islanders, lowlanders, mainlanders, outlanders, philandered, philanderer, philanderers, philandering, philanders, slandered, slanderer, slanderers, slandering, slanderous, slanderously, slanderousness, slanderousnesses, slanders, solanders, uplanders, woodlanders. (additional references) | |
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"Lander" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Elander, Elandre, Landen, Landeur, Lanser, Lanter, lawnder, Llandre. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Lander" (pronounced la"nder) |
| 5 | l a" n d er | blander, slander. |
| 4 | -a" n d er | Alexander, Bander, brander, candor, commander, coriander, gander, grander, meander, pander, salamander, sander, Stander, Zander. |
| 3 | -n d er | asunder, attainder, auslander, bartender, bender, binder, blender, blinder, blonder, blunder, bookbinder, bounder, bystander, calamander, calendar, cinder, cofounder, Condor, contender, cylinder, defender, Ender, engender, extender, Fender, finder, flounder, fonder, founder, gender, gerrymander, grinder, highlander, hinder, islander, kinder, launder, lavender, lender, mainlander, minder, offender, oleander, pathfinder, Pinder, plunder, ponder, pounder, pretender, rejoinder, remainder, reminder, render, responder, rounder, sender, Sidewinder, slender, sounder, Spender, splendor, squander, sunder, surrender, suspender, tender, thunder, tinder, transponder, under, vendor, viewfinder, wander, weekender, winder, wonder, yonder. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: darnel. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-l-n-r" | |
-1 letter: alder, denar, eland, laden, lader, learn, naled, redan, renal. | |
-2 letters: dale, dare, darn, deal, dean, dear, earl, earn, elan, lade, land, lane, lard, lead, lean, lear, lend, nard, near, nerd, rale, rand, read, real, rend. | |
-3 letters: ale, and, ane, are, dal, del, den, ear, eld, end, era, ern, lad, lar, lea, led, nae, rad, ran, red. | |
-4 letters: ad, ae, al, an, ar, de, ed, el, en, er, la, na, ne, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-l-n-r" | |
+1 letter: adrenal, blander, candler, dandler, dangler, darnels, gnarled, handler, ladrone, landers, landler, launder, learned, lurdane, mandrel, rankled, slander, snarled. | |
+2 letters: adrenals, alderman, aldermen, antlered, ardently, banderol, bilander, calendar, calender, candlers, chandler, colander, conelrad, crankled, dandlers, danglers, dentural, dragline, enlarged, foreland, glanders, handlers, hardline, inlander, islander, ladrones, landlers, launders, lavender, lurdanes, mandrels, oleander, overland, pendular, rehandle, reloaned, renailed, repandly, slanders, solander, spandrel, underlap, underlay, unloader, uplander, wrangled. | |
+3 letters: alexander, auslander, banderole, banderols, bandoleer, bandolier, barnacled, bilanders, blarneyed, breadline, calendars, calenders, calendric, chandlers, chandlery, chlordane, clangored, clarioned, colanders, conelrads, declarant, declaring, derailing, draglines, dreamland, drinkable, ealdorman, ealdormen, endurable, endurably, engarland, engrailed, ensnarled, farandole, forelands, gardenful, garlanded, girandole, glandered, handlebar, headliner, heartland, heralding, inlanders, interlaid, interlard, islanders, laddering, landowner, laundered, launderer, laundress, laundries, lavenders, learnedly, legendary, lowlander, madrilene, oleanders, outlander, overladen, overlands, philander, prebendal, rangeland, realigned, recleaned, redialing, rehandled, rehandles, relearned, reloading, repaneled, replanned, replanted, roundelay, slandered, slanderer, solanders, spandrels, strangled, tailender, treadling, unaltered, underlaid, underlain, underlaps, underlays, underplay, unlearned, unloaders, unraveled, unrelated, unrelaxed, unridable, unrivaled, unsnarled, uplanders, uredinial, verdantly. | |
+4 letters: adenoviral, adherently, adrenaline, adulterant, adulterine, aldermanic, alderwoman, alderwomen, alexanders, alternated, auslanders, banderilla, banderoles, bandleader, bandoleers, bandoliers, bankrolled, bladdernut, blandisher, borderland, breadlines, calamander, calendared, calendered, calenderer, candelabra, carbuncled, chandelier, chlordanes, cladoceran, clangoured, confederal, coromandel, cradlesong, credential, crenelated, crenulated, debonairly, declarants, delineator, derailment, disenthral, dreamlands, drinkables, embrangled, endodermal, endorsable, engarlands, enthralled, entodermal, farandoles, fatherland, flatlander, forestland, fraudulent, freelanced, gardenfuls, girandoles, goaltender, grainfield, granduncle, granulated, handlebars, headliners, heartlands, highlander, hinterland, hydroplane, interlaced, interlards, intermodal, internodal, interplead, intertidal, inthralled, ladyfinger, landholder, landlubber, landowners, landscaper, launderers, laundering, laundrette, laundrymen, lavendered, linearised, linearized, linerboard, lipreading, longhaired, lowlanders, madrilenes, mainlander, malingered, meridional, mislearned, motherland, nephridial, newsdealer, nondurable, nonfederal, normalised, normalized, outlanders, outlearned, overhandle, overlading, palindrome, panbroiled, panhandler, pardonable, peduncular, philanders, ponderable, precleaned, preplanned, prudential, quadrangle, rangelands, reanalyzed, rebalanced, redialling, refundable, rehandling, reinflated, relaunched, renderable, repanelled, repleading, resaddling, ringleader, roundelays, roundtable, rudimental, salamander, sanderling, sandlotter, screenland, slanderers, slandering, slanderous, strandline, tailenders, timberland, translated, ultradense, undeclared, underclass, underglaze, underplays, undervalue, unenlarged, unheralded, unravelled, unreadable, unrealized, unrevealed, unrivalled, unsalaried, untraveled, vernalized, wanderlust, wonderland, woodlander. | |
+5 letters: accelerando, adrenalines, adrenalized, adulterants, advertently, aldosterone, alexandrine, alexandrite, antheridial, banderillas, bandleaders, bedraggling, blackhander, bladdernuts, blandishers, borderlands, calamanders, calendaring, calenderers, calendering, calendrical, candelabras, candelabrum, candleberry, candlepower, cardinalate, carillonned, centralised, centralized, chandeliers, chandleries, chlorinated, cladocerans, cordialness, cordilleran, coromandels, cradlesongs, credentials, crenellated, dangerously, darlingness, declaration, decremental, deferential, defloration, degradingly, delineators, deliverance, deliveryman, delusionary, denumerable, denumerably, derailments, desalinator, detrimental, directional, discernable, disenthrall, disenthrals, disrelation, dragonflies, durableness, endearingly, endocardial, endometrial, engarlanded, eternalized, fatherlands, faultfinder, flatlanders, fluorinated, forestlands, frankpledge, fraudulence, freeloading, generalised, generalized, goaltenders, gradualness, grainfields, grandiosely, granduncles, greenmailed, highlanders, hinterlands, hydralazine, hydroplaned, hydroplanes, infiltrated, ingrainedly, interallied, interdealer, interdental, interisland, interlapped, interlarded, interleaved, interplayed, interpleads, intradermal, journalized, ladyfingers, laggardness, lamebrained, landholders, landlubbers, landscapers, launderette, laundresses, laundrettes, lavendering, learnedness, legendarily, legerdemain, linerboards, lionhearted, lipreadings, mainlanders, meridionals, mineralised, mineralized, motherlands, naturalised, naturalized, neanderthal, neutralised, neutralized, newsdealers, nondurables, overcleaned, overhandled, overhandles, overlearned, overloading, overplanned, overplanted, palindromes, panhandlers, pastureland, pentahedral, periodontal, philandered, philanderer, philodendra, plantigrade, polyandries, precanceled, preprandial, quadrangles, quadrennial, radicalness, radiolucent, rallentando, rataplanned, recanalized, rechanneled, redactional, reductional, redundantly, reimplanted, reinstalled, relandscape, relatedness, relaxedness, residential, rewardingly, ringleaders, roundtables, salamanders, sandblaster, sanderlings, sandlotters, scolopendra, screenlands, secondarily, semidiurnal, sloganeered, strandlines, streamlined, tabernacled, thunderclap, timberlands, transdermal, transvalued, ultramodern, unclarified, underglazes, underlapped, underlaying, underplayed, undervalued, undervalues, undesirable, undesirably, undrinkable, unendurable, unendurably, unguardedly, unlaundered, unliberated, unpolarized, unreclaimed, unregulated, unscrambled, untrammeled, unweariedly, wanderlusts, windlestraw, wonderlands, woodlanders. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 61 6E 64 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. .- -. -.. . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100001 01101110 01100100 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L a n d e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0061 006E 0064 0065 0072 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)466780707184 |
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