Landing Strip

Definition: Landing Strip

Landing Strip

Noun

1. An airfield without normal airport facilities.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Transportation

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Synonyms: Landing Strip

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).

Smoothing a landing strip on sea ice at Pitt Point. Long shadows and frozen sea indicate early in the spring.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

The engineers who built the Marble Point landing strip - the first ground strip in Antartica. Back row - Bill McTigue, Navy Hydro Office; Commander Stephens, USN; __; Dr. Bob Nichols, Tufts University; front row - ___; Father Linehan, Wesson Observatory; ___.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

The ice landing strip at McMurdo Station.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Increasing expanses of melted snow and ice during the spring melt Weasel checking sea ice landing strip at Oliktok Point - If weasel didn't break ice, ski planes could land. If weasels broke ice, they would float as they were amphibious.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

pistë ulje-ngritjeje avionesh. (various references)

Bulgarian 

писта (course, gangway, make way, path, runway, track). (various references)

Dutch

landingsstrook (airstrip, landing lane, strip). (various references)

French

bande d'atterrissage (landing lane). (various references)

German

Landestreifen (airstrip, landing lane, strip), landebahn (runway), Start- und Landestreifen (landing lane, strip), piste (air strip, circuit, piste, runway, ski run, tarmac, track). (various references)

Greek 

ζώνη προσγείωσης (landing lane, strip). (various references)

Hebrew 

מסלול � חית�". (various references)

Italian

sentiero di atterraggio (landing lane, strip), pista di atterraggio (landing lane, strip), corsia d'atterraggio. (various references)

Manx

pairk etlan. (various references)

Pig Latin

andinglay ipstray

Portuguese

pista de aterragem, faixa de aterragem (airstrip, landing lane, strip), aeródromo (aerodrome, airdrome, airfield). (various references)

Spanish

anudamiento alunizante. (various references)

Swedish

start- och landningsbana (airstrip, strip). (various references)

Vietnamese 

bãi hạ cánh ph, bãi hạ cánh. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: displanting.

-2 letters: disparting, springtail.

-3 letters: disrating, islanding, paintings, plaitings, plantings, printings, ringtails, spindling, spiraling, splinting, spraining, springald, sprinting, straining, stranding, stripling, trainings, traipsing, trindling.

-4 letters: alpinist, antislip, aspiring, darlings, darnings, dartling, dialings, digitals, dilating, displant, distrain, draining, gliadins, graplins, ingrains, landings, lapidist, painting, pairings, partings, patining, pigtails, pindling, pintails, pirating, plaining, plaiting, planting, platings, praising, printing, railings, ringtail, sainting, sandling, slanting, snailing, snarling, spandril, sparling, spirting, splining, springal, staining, standing, stapling, starling, striding, striping, tailings, tailspin, trailing, training, tripling.

-5 letters: airings, airting, aldrins, alining, anilins, antings, arising, aspirin, darings, darling, darning, darting, dialing, dialist, diapirs, diarist, digital, dinting, dirling, dispart, distain, draping, gastrin, gliadin, gradins, graplin, gratins, ingrain, inlands, innards, intagli, ladings, lairing, landing, lapsing, larding, lasting, ligands, lignins, linings, linsang, lisping, listing, nailing, nilgais, nitrids, nitrils, paining, pairing, palings, pandits, panting, parings, parling, parsing, parting, pasting, pianist, pidgins, pigtail, pilings, pinangs, pintail, plaints, planing, plastid, plating, prating, priding, prising, raiding, railing, raining, raising, ranting, rapinis, rasping, ratings, ratlins, ridgils, ridings, rinsing, sailing, saining, salting, sanding, sandpit, sapling, sidling, siganid, silting, slating, sliding, sliping, snaring, sniping, spading, sparing, spiling, spirant, spiring, spiting, staling, staning, staring, strigil, tailing, tidings, tilings, tirling, trading, trining.

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