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Definition: Landing Stage |
Landing StageNoun1. Platform from which passengers and cargo can be (un)loaded. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | A floating platform, usually anchored at the end of a wharf or pier, for the landing or embarking of passengers and goods. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Arrival | Home, goal, goalpost; landing place, landing stage; bunder; resting place; destination, harbor, haven, port, airport, spaceport; terminus, halting place, halting ground, landing strip, runway, terminal; journey's end; anchorage; (refuge). |
Support | Noun: support, ground, foundation, base, basis; terra firma; bearing, fulcrum, bait, caudex crib; point d'appui, gr/pou sto/gr, purchase footing, hold, locus standi; landing place, landing stage; stage, platform; block; rest, resting place; groundwork, substratum, riprap, sustentation, subvention; floor; (basement). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Landing Stage |
| English words defined with "landing stage": Floating pier. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Landing stage, Liverpool, England. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Going to the landing stage, Hampton Roads. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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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 |
landing stage | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "landing stage"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | platformë lundruese. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | رصيف الميناء (quay, stage, wharf). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | стоварище, скеля (cradling, slip), кей (cob, embankment, front, jetty, levee, moorage, pier, quay, slip, wharf), плаваща площадка. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | přístavní mùstek. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | landingsplads (berth, jetty, pier), landgangsbro (gangboard, gangway, jetty, pier, shore gangway, staging, wharf), mole (breakwater, dyke, embankment, groin, groyne, jetty, mole, pier, piled fendering, sea wall, spur, staging, timber staging, wharf), anloebsbro (jetty, staging, wharf). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | steiger (landing-stage, pier), aanlegsteiger (landing-stage, pier), aanlegponton (jetty, staging, wharf). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | satamalaituri (quay), purkulaituri (jetty, pier), maihinnousulaituri (jetty, pier). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | débarcadère (landing-stage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | landungssteg (pier), Anlegestelle (moorings, stop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αποβάθρα (dock, jetty, levee, pier, platform, quay, wharf). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | rakodópart (landing, quay, wharf). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | pontile (gangway, pier, wharf). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 揚' . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | あ'ば. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | calloo (breakwater, bulwark, column). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | andinglay agestay rampã de descãrcare (unloading ramp), ponton-debarcader, chei dec debarcare. (various references) пристань (bunder, dock, landing-stage, pier, quayside, wharf, wharves). (various references) ploveće pristanište. (various references) embarcadero (ferry, ferryboat, goods station, jetty, pier, platform). (various references) landningsbrygga (landing place). (various references) iskele (dockage, gangboard, gangway, landing, landing place, larboard, pier, port, quay, scaffold, scaffolding, seaport, stage, staging, stopping place, wharf). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-g-g-i-l-n-n-s-t" | |
-2 letters: galantines. | |
-3 letters: agentings, alginates, desalting, galantine, ganglands, gangliest, gantlines, gleanings, indagates, sandaling. | |
-4 letters: agential, agenting, alanines, alginate, andantes, angeling, anglings, annalist, annelids, antigens, dangling, dealings, delating, dentalia, dentinal, eanlings, gangland, gantline, gelating, gelatins, geldings, genitals, gentians, gentling, gladiate, gladiest, gleaning, indagate, ladening, landings, latening, leadings, leanings, legating, lindanes, naggiest, negating, nestling, sandling, sedating. | |
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