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The mammoth was basically done in by climate change. The last ones survived on Wrangel Island, north of Chukotka, until 3,700 years ago. According to Eveny mythology, mammoths scooped up dirt with their tusks to form the first dry land.
Alex Shoumatoff

Meaning of "dry land" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DRY LAND

dry land  [draɪ lænd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DRY LAND

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adjective
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conjunction
determiner
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Dry land is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DRY LAND MEAN IN ENGLISH?

dry land

Land

Land, sometimes referred to as dry land, is the solid surface of the Earth that is not permanently covered by water. The vast majority of human activity occurs in land areas that support agriculture, habitat, and various natural resources. Some life forms have developed from predecessor species that lived in bodies of water to exist on land. Areas where land meets large bodies of water are called coastal zones. The division between land and water is a fundamental concept to humans, which can have strong cultural importance. The demarcation between land and water varies by local jurisdiction. A Maritime boundary is one such political demarcation. A variety of natural boundaries exist to help define where water meets land. Solid rock landforms are more easy to demarcate than marshy or swampy boundaries, where there is no clear point at which the land ends and a body of water has begun. Demarcation can further vary due to tides and weather.

Definition of dry land in the English dictionary

The definition of dry land in the dictionary is land as opposed to sea; terra firma.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DRY LAND


aland
əˈlænd
bland
blænd
Disneyland
ˈdɪznɪˌlænd
farmland
ˈfɑːmˌlænd
Gelderland
ˈɡɛldəˌlænd
gland
ɡlænd
heartland
ˈhɑːtˌlænd
homeland
ˈhəʊmˌlænd
Lakeland
ˈleɪkˌlænd
land
lænd
Maryland
ˈmɛərɪˌlænd
overland
ˈəʊvəˌlænd
planned
ˈplænd
Queensland
ˈkwiːnzˌlænd
southland
ˈsaʊθˌlænd
Swaziland
ˈswɑːzɪˌlænd
Thailand
ˈtaɪˌlænd
timberland
ˈtɪmbəˌlænd
wasteland
ˈweɪstˌlænd
wonderland
ˈwʌndəˌlænd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DRY LAND

dry drunk
dry farmer
dry farming
dry fly
dry ginger
dry goods
dry goods store
dry hole
dry ice
dry kiln
dry law
dry lightning
dry martini
dry measure
dry nurse
dry out
dry point
dry riser
dry rot
dry run

WORDS THAT END LIKE DRY LAND

access land
building land
common land
crown land
Deutschland
England
Finland
height of land
holland
Ireland
island
La-La land
lie of the land
Nederland
never-never land
New Zealand
pasture land
Poland
Switzerland
the fat of the land

Synonyms and antonyms of dry land in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «dry land» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DRY LAND

Find out the translation of dry land to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of dry land from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «dry land» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

旱地
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tierra seca
570 millions of speakers

English

dry land
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

शुष्क भूमि
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

اليابسة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

суша
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

terra seca
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

শুষ্ক ভূমি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

la terre ferme
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

tanah kering
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Festland
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

乾燥地
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

마른 땅
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Lemah garing
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đất khô
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வறண்ட நிலம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कोरडी जमीन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kurak arazi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

terraferma
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

suchy ląd
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

суша
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

uscat
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ξηρά
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

droë grond
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

torra land
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tørt land
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of dry land

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DRY LAND»

The term «dry land» is regularly used and occupies the 57.870 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DRY LAND» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «dry land» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «dry land» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about dry land

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6 QUOTES WITH «DRY LAND»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word dry land.
1
George Crabbe
A great lie is like a great fish on dry land; it may fret and fling and make a frightful bother, but it cannot hurt you. You have only to keep still, and it will die of itself.
2
Georges Cuvier
The appearance of the bones of quadrupeds, especially those of complete bodies in the strata, tells us either that the layer itself which carries them was in earlier times dry land or that dry land was at least formed in the immediate area.
3
Pratibha Patil
A paradigm shift, where, in addition to physical inputs for farming, a focused emphasis placed on knowledge inputs can be a promising way forward. This knowledge-based approach will bring immense returns, particularly in rain fed and dry land farming areas.
4
Pratibha Patil
My government will make efforts to realize the farming potential of rain-fed and dry land areas by ensuring healthy participation by all stakeholders and convergence of various government sponsored programs.
5
Alex Shoumatoff
The mammoth was basically done in by climate change. The last ones survived on Wrangel Island, north of Chukotka, until 3,700 years ago. According to Eveny mythology, mammoths scooped up dirt with their tusks to form the first dry land.
6
Joseph B. Wirthlin
Those who stand at the threshold of life always waiting for the right time to change are like the man who stands at the bank of a river waiting for the water to pass so he can cross on dry land.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DRY LAND»

Discover the use of dry land in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to dry land and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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River in a Dry Land
Trevor Herriot’s memoir and history of the Qu’Appelle River Valley has won the CBA Libris Award for First-Time Author, the Writers’ Trust Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize, the Saskatchewan Book of the Year Award, and the Regina Book ...
Trevor Herriot, 2011
2
Water in a Dry Land: Place-learning Through Art and Story
Geographies of the Imagination was designed and created with nine Chilean political exiles living in the San Francisco Bay Area of California.
Margaret Somerville, 2013
3
Sea Battles on Dry Land: Essays
Sea Battles on Dry Land gathers the best of Brodkey's essays into a single volume-among them lighthearted "Talk of the Town" pieces, the prophetic "Notes on American Fascism," and a profile of Frank O'Hara, one of the most eloquent ...
Harold Brodkey, 1999
4
Dry-land Gardening: A Xeriscaping Guide for Dry-summer, ...
Details the techniques of xeriscaping, including water conservation strategies and groundcover nuturing, and lists the types of flowers, herbs, and vegetables that are used in dry-land gardening
Jennifer Bennett, 1998
5
Ogallala: Water for a Dry Land
In this new, enlarged edition, John Opie updates his groundbreaking work on the environmental history of the Ogallala aquifer and plains farming.
John Opie, 2000
6
A Drink of Dry Land
Production. Notes. The road trip my wife Jules and I undertook in the spring of 2004 wasn't meant to end up as a travel book. It was planned – with the Namibian Tourism Board's Johannesburg office – as a series of magazine articles covering ...
Chris Marais, Julienne Du Toit, 2006
7
Appalachian Home Cooking: History, Culture, and Recipes
Dry Land Fish, Greens, and Wild Game Dry Land Fish: Mountain Morels Morels are one of the great luxuries of Appalachia. Mountaineers gather them in abundance and collect them with pride. Morels are earthy in flavor and robust in texture, ...
Mark Sohn, 2005
8
Coaching Swimming Successfully
Supplement your swimmers' strength and power training with dry land training. Schedule a designated time for your dry land training when the equipment and facilities are available. Your time training out of the pool will also change during the ...
Dick Hannula, 2003
9
Walking on Dry Land
Denis Kehoe. Walking on Dry Land DENIS KEHOE First published in Great Britain in 2010 by Serpent's Tail,. Walking on Dry Land.
Denis Kehoe, 2011
10
The chemical and physical properties of dry-land soils and ...
Unpublished data indicate that iron oxide has a much higher ratio than have the dry-land colloids. The ratio for the high magnesium colloids (40) has not been determined. From the total available data it appears that the inference is warranted ...
Irvin Cecil Brown, Horace Greeley Byers, 1935

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DRY LAND»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term dry land is used in the context of the following news items.
1
LARGE FIRMS TO COUGH UP BIG IN LAND RENTALS
... hectares in the Lowveld with 29 000 of these under sugarcane while the remainder is undeveloped dry land used mainly for cattle ranching. «NewsdzeZimbabwe, Jul 15»
2
Fishy women: the mermaid in folklore, art and literature
... his mermaid-like heroine in The Lady from the Sea to find a way to stop floundering on the dry land of her marriage. And, of course, the 1980s ... «Spectator.co.uk, Jul 15»
3
Vintage Ford Capri From 1982 Found At Bottom Of Nottinghamshire …
The once blue Capri was covered in algae and police only discovered its true colour after winching it out onto dry land. Vintage Capri Found At ... «Yahoo News UK, Jul 15»
4
James Brindley inquest: Shock killed 28-year-old 'in seconds' during …
"He was as at home in the water as he was on dry land. He would swim on a very much ad-hoc basis. "He would very often come home, have a ... «Stoke Sentinel, Jul 15»
5
Nemo's Garden project is growing strawberries, beans, lettuce and …
A control centre on dry land allows the scientists to monitor the status of crops without having to dive down every day. 'We are trying to find an ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
6
Growers asked to donate grain to help fund scholarship in honour of …
Mr Hardy said Mr Ryder had a strong background in resource management and dry land salinity. "He was a unique character, he had such a ... «ABC Online, Jul 15»
7
Three South Craven women swim Channel in relay team
The shortest distance possible is about 21 miles, but the team found they had actually swum 42 miles when they made dry land, thanks to the ... «Keighley News, Jul 15»
8
Missing Korean found dead
CEBU, Philippines – Two of the Korean divers who floated in water for almost three days are back in dry land – albeit dehydrated and weak ... «Philippine Star, Jul 15»
9
Two charity poker runs planned on the St. Clair River this summer
Organizers also hope residents show up to watch and cheer from dry land. The first event runs July 31 to Aug. 1 to raise money for St. Joseph's ... «Sarnia Observer, Jul 15»
10
Jordan Spieth Almost Fell In Water While Reeling In Tuna — And …
Heck, it even extends off of dry land. Spieth is gearing up for the season's third major, the Open Championship, by playing in the John Deere ... «NESN.com, Jul 15»

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