touchdown
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- noun
- /ˈtʌtʃdaʊn/
- Specialized
:
aterrizaje
- Very smooth touchdown.
- minutes before touchdown
- hours before touchdown
- gear just before touchdown
Examples
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The pilot announced that we were preparing for touchdown after a long flight.
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"Visitors receive fair warning before touchdown."
Academic text (2008) -
Ran out of fuel 30 seconds before touchdown.
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The left engine was lost in the crash due to excessive damage on touchdown.
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Apollo 11 was twelve and a half hours from touchdown.
Fiction book (2000) -
They will be returned to you upon touchdown.
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Our feet, our wheels, however we move our bodies across this precious earth, touchdown softly on unknown soil.
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In the United States, fighters from Edwards Air Force Base scrambled and followed the mushroom-shaped lander to touchdown.
Fiction book (1999) -
As the aircraft approached the runway, the passengers braced themselves for touchdown.
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The crowd erupted in cheers as the plane made a smooth touchdown at the airport.
Synonyms
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Coming down to a surface from the air or sea
Bringing a plane safely down at the end of a flight
Bringing an aircraft down to the ground safely
Antonyms
Compounds
An extra point you score by kicking the ball through the goal posts after a touchdown
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Morphology
Etymology
Touchdown comes from the simple parts touch and down, meaning 'to touch' and 'toward the ground'. So in flying it is the exact moment the plane's wheels 'touch' the ground as it lands.