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Definition: Touchdown |
TouchdownNoun1. A score in American football; being in possession of the ball across the opponents' goal line. 2. A landing (as the wheels touch the landing field); especially of airplanes. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Military | The contact, or moment of contact, of an aircraft or spacecraft with the landing surface. (references) |
Post & Telecom | The moment at which the wheels touch the ground in a landing. Source: European Union. (references) |
Transportation | The point where the predetermined glide path intercepts the runway. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The primary method of scoring in American Football in which the ball carrier causes the football to break the plane of the end zone and thus earn 6 points for his team.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Touchdown."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Success | Trump card; hit, stroke, score; lucky hit, fortunate hit, good hit, good stroke; direct hit, bull's eye; goal, point, touchdown; home run, homer, hole-in-one, grand slam; killing, windfall bold stroke, master stroke; ten strike; coup de maitre, checkmate; half the battle, prize; profit; (acquisition). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Touchdown |
| English words defined with "touchdown": conversion ♦ extra point ♦ offside, offsides ♦ point, point after ♦ Safety touchdown. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "touchdown": flared landing ♦ height above touchdown ♦ roundout. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You know you did the wild walk, made a touchdown, signed the deed (Daria; writing credit: Glenn Eichler; Peggy Nicoll) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Sport Show: Touchdown Trophies (1954) Paramount Pacemaker: Touchdown Highlights (1954) Touchdown Demons (1940) $1000 a Touchdown (1939) Army Touchdown (1938) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | X-38 Lakebed Touchdown. Credit: NASA. |  | Tornado at beginning of life - condensation funnel has not yet reached ground. However, dust cloud at surface indicates tornado touchdown. During "Sound Chase", a joint project of NSSL and Mississippi State University. Credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL). |
 | Right through him for a touchdown. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Touchdown Jesus" by Stevan Sheets Commentary: "The "touchdown Jesus" mural at Notre Dame in South Bend, IN." | "Touchdown" by Bobbie Osborne Commentary: "I have no idea what kind of fly this is. It was so tiny. ." |
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| "Touchdown" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.70% of the time. "Touchdown" is used about 93 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 (singular) | 95.7% | 89 | 34,931 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.3% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 93 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "touchdown": height above touchdown ♦ runway touchdown zone light ♦ runway touchdown zone marking ♦ safety touchdown ♦ touchdown speed ♦ touchdown zone. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
touchdown | 47 | football touchdown | 2 |
touchdown jesus | 11 | 182 blink boy lyrics touchdown | 2 |
tennessee touchdown | 6 | holiday touchdown | 2 |
club ou touchdown | 5 | atlanta club touchdown | 2 |
kid touchdown | 5 | bob by james touchdown | 2 |
pcr touchdown | 5 | control touchdown weed | 2 |
touchdown travel | 5 | referee touchdown | 2 |
herbicide touchdown | 5 | auburn touchdown | 2 |
football game touchdown | 4 | dance touchdown | 2 |
production touchdown | 3 | dip taco touchdown | 2 |
club touchdown | 3 | realty touchdown | 2 |
estate real touchdown | 3 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "touchdown"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | gol (goal). (various references) | |
Chinese | 触地得分, 著陸 (landing, to land, to touch down). (various references) | |
Danish | højde over forhindring (height above touchdown). (various references) | |
Finnish | korkeus kosketuskohdasta (height above touchdown). (various references) | |
French | prise de contact avec le sol, point d'atterrissage, impact (touch-down). (various references) | |
German | erzielen (accomplish, achieve, achievement, arrive at, attain, effect, fetch, get, make, obtain, reach, realize, score, secure, set, to obtain). (various references) | |
Hungarian | gól (amerikai futballban) (touch-down), földetérés (land, landing), földet érés (touch-down), bizonytalan ügy. (various references) | |
Italian | ottenere (achieve, arrive at, attain, fetch, gain, get, have, obtain, pick, pick up, procure, reach, score, win). (various references) | |
Manx | thallooaghey. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ouchdowntay.(various references) | |
Russian | посадка (alighting, boarding, embarkation, landfall, landing, touch down). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sletanje (landing), gol. (various references) | |
Spanish | tanto (as much, as well, how, point, score, so, such, that much), llegada (advent, arrival, coming, coming-in, covenant, dissidence, extent, finish, immigration, incursion, invasion, treat), ensayo (assay, attempt, essay, exercise, experiment, practice, rehearsal, runthrough, test, testing, trial, try), aterrizaje (alighting, landing), amerizaje (landing, splashdown), amaraje (landing, splashdown). (various references) | |
Turkish | iniş (declivity, descent, dip, downgrade, drop, landing), gol (goal). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | посадка (alighting). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "touchdown": touchdowns. (additional references) | |
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"Touchdown" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: tochdown. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "touchdown" (pronounced tu"khdou'n) |
| 3 | -d ou' n | breakdown, clampdown, closedown, comedown, countdown, crackdown, drawdown, godown, hoedown, knockdown, letdown, lockdown, lowdown, markdown, meltdown, putdown, rundown, shakedown, showdown, shutdown, slowdown, sundown, turndown. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-h-n-o-o-t-u-w" | |
-2 letters: cutdown, nutwood, woodcut. | |
-3 letters: unhood. | |
-4 letters: codon, condo, conto, count, couth, donut, dunch, dutch, hound, nohow, notch, outdo, tondo, touch, wound. | |
-5 letters: chon, chow, coho, coon, coot, dhow, doth, down, duct, dunt, hood, hoot, hunt, nowt, onto, ouch, thou, thud, toon, town, unco, undo, unto, wont, wood. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-h-n-o-o-t-u-w" | |
+1 letter: touchdowns. | |
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