different between domain vs land

English

Etymology

From Middle English demayne, demain (“rule”), from Old French demeine, demaine, demeigne, domaine (“power”), (French domaine), from Latin dominium (“property, right of ownership”), from dominus (“master, proprietor, owner”). See dame, and compare demain, danger, dungeon. Doublet of demesne.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??me?n/, /d???me?n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /do??me?n/, /d??me?n/
• Rhymes: -e?n

Noun

domain (plural domains)

1. A geographic area owned or controlled by a single person or organization.

   The king ruled his domain harshly.
2. A field or sphere of activity, influence or expertise.

   Dealing with complaints isn't really my domain: get in touch with customer services.

   His domain is English history.

3. A group of related items, topics, or subjects.
4. (mathematics) The set of all possible mathematical entities (points) where a given function is defined.
5. (mathematics, set theory) The set of input (argument) values for which a function is defined.
6. (mathematics) A ring with no zero divisors; that is, in which no product of nonzero elements is zero.

   Hyponym: integral domain

7. (mathematics, topology, mathematical analysis) An open and connected set in some topology. For example, the interval (0,1) as a subset of the real numbers.
8. (computing, Internet) Any DNS domain name, particularly one which has been delegated and has become representative of the delegated domain name and its subdomains.
   • 2000, BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual (9.3.2), Internet Software Consortium [3]

     Every name in the DNS tree is a domain, even if it is terminal, that is, has no subdomains.

9. (computing, Internet) A collection of DNS or DNS-like domain names consisting of a delegated domain name and all its subdomains.
10. (computing) A collection of information having to do with a domain, the computers named in the domain, and the network on which the computers named in the domain reside.
11. (computing) The collection of computers identified by a domain's domain names.
12. (physics) A small region of a magnetic material with a consistent magnetization direction.
13. (computing) Such a region used as a data storage element in a bubble memory.
14. (data processing) A form of technical metadata that represent the type of a data item, its characteristics, name, and usage.

    • A characteristic of a field. A data domain specifies a data type and applies the minimum and maximum values allowed and other constraints.

15. (taxonomy) The highest rank in the classification of organisms, above kingdom; in the three-domain system, one of the taxa Bacteria, Archaea, or Eukaryota.
16. (biochemistry) A folded section of a protein molecule that has a discrete function; the equivalent section of a chromosome

Usage notes

• (collection of information): Used in a context in which domain name services, or kindred services, are managed in a fashion that is integrated with the management of other computer and network related information.
• (collection of computers): Used in the same context as the collection of information domain sense.

Synonyms

• (geographic area): demesne
• (where a function is defined): domain of definition
• (collection of DNS names): domain name, hostname

Antonyms

• (domain of definition of a function): range
• (domain of definition of a function): codomain

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• Domain (biology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• domain in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• domain in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Amidon, Imonda, daimon, domina

Indonesian

Etymology

From English domain, from Middle English demayne, demain (“rule”), from Old French demeine, demaine, demeigne, domaine (“power”), (French domaine), from Latin dominium (“property, right of ownership”), from dominus (“master, proprietor, owner”). Doublet of dame.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [d?o?ma?n]
• Hyphenation: do?ma?in

Noun

domain (plural domain-domain, first-person possessive domainku, second-person possessive domainmu, third-person possessive domainnya)

1. domain

   Synonyms: daerah, ranah, wilayah

Further reading

• “domain” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Spanish

Noun

domain m (plural domains)

1. (Internet) domain

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: l?nd, IPA^(key): /lænd/, [?e??nd]
• Rhymes: -ænd

Etymology 1

From Middle English lond, land, from Old English land, lond (“earth, land, soil, ground; defined piece of land, territory, realm, province, district; landed property; country (not town); ridge in a ploughed field”), from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *land? (“land”), from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”).

Cognate with Scots laund (“land”), West Frisian lân (“land”), Dutch land (“land, country”), German Land (“land, country, state”), Norwegian and Swedish land (“land, country, shore, territory”), Icelandic land (“land”). Non-Germanic cognates include Old Irish lann (“heath”), Welsh llan (“enclosure”), Breton lann (“heath”), Old Church Slavonic ???? (l?do), from Proto-Slavic *l?da (“heath, wasteland”) and Albanian lëndinë (“heath, grassland”).

Noun

land (countable and uncountable, plural lands)

1. The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.

   Most insects live on land.

2. Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and on which buildings can be erected.

   There are 50 acres of land in this estate.

3. A country or region.

   They come from a faraway land.

4. A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
5. The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.

   wet land; good or bad land for growing potatoes

6. (often in combination) realm, domain.

   I'm going to Disneyland.

   Maybe that's how it works in TV-land, but not in the real world.

7. (agriculture) The ground left unploughed between furrows; any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.
8. (Irish English, colloquial) A shock or fright.

   He got an awful land when the police arrived.

9. (electronics) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
10. On a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
    • 1935, H. Courtney Bryson, The Gramophone Record (page 72)

      Now, assume that the recording is being done with 100 grooves per inch, and that the record groove is .006 inch wide. This means that the land on either side on any given groove in the absence of sound waves is .004 inch.

11. (travel) The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.

    Our city offices sell a lot more land than our suburban offices.

12. (obsolete) The ground or floor.
13. (nautical) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)

14. In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, such as the level part of a millstone between the furrows.
    1. (ballistics) The space between the rifling grooves in a gun.
15. (Scotland, historical) A group of dwellings or tenements under one roof and having a common entry.

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Translations

Verb

land (third-person singular simple present lands, present participle landing, simple past and past participle landed)

1. (intransitive) To descend to a surface, especially from the air.

   The plane is about to land.

2. (dated) To alight, to descend from a vehicle.
   • 1859, “Rules adopted by the Sixth Avenue Railway, N. Y.”, quoted in Alexander Easton, A Practical Treatise on Street or Horse-Power Railways, page 108:

     10. You will be civil and attentive to passengers, giving proper assistance to ladies and children getting in or out, and never start the car before passengers are fairly received or landed.

3. (intransitive) To come into rest.
4. (intransitive) To arrive on land, especially a shore or dock, from a body of water.
5. (transitive) To bring to land.

   It can be tricky to land a helicopter.

   Use the net to land the fish.
6. (transitive) To acquire; to secure.
7. (transitive) To deliver. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
8. (intransitive) To go down well with an audience.

   Some of the comedian's jokes failed to land.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Old English hland.

Noun

land (uncountable)

1. lant; urine

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch land, from Old Dutch lant, from Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lant/, [länt], [lant]

Noun

land (plural lande)

1. country; nation

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lan?/, [lan?]
• Rhymes: -and

Etymology 1

From Old Danish land, from Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *land?, cognate with English land, German Land.

Noun

land n (singular definite landet, plural indefinite lande)

1. country (a geographical area that is politically independent)

   Synonyms: stat, nation

2. (uncountable, chiefly definite singular) country, countryside (rural areas outside the cities with agricultural production)
3. land (part of Earth that is not covered in water)
4. (as the last part of compounds) a large area or facility dedicated to a certain type of activity or merchandise

Usage notes

In compounds: land-, lande-, lands-.

Inflection

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

land

1. imperative of lande

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?nt/
• Hyphenation: land
• Rhymes: -?nt

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch lant, from Old Dutch lant, from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”).

Noun

land n (plural landen, diminutive landje n)

1. land; country
2. land (part of Earth not covered by water)

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: land
• ? Sranan Tongo: lanti

Etymology 2

Verb

land

1. first-person singular present indicative of landen
2. imperative of landen

Elfdalian

Etymology

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”). Cognate with Swedish land.

Noun

land n

1. country; nation

Declension

Faroese

Etymology 1

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”).

Noun

land n (genitive singular lands, plural lond)

1. land
2. coast
3. country, nation
4. ground, soil
5. the state

Declension

Related terms

• landa

Etymology 2

From Old Norse hland, from Proto-Germanic *hland?, from Proto-Indo-European *kl?n- (“liquid, wet ground”). Cognate with Lithuanian klanas (“pool, puddle, slop”).

Noun

land n (genitive singular lands, uncountable)

1. (uncountable) urine

Declension

Gothic

Romanization

land

1. Romanization of ????????????????

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lant/
• Rhymes: -ant

Noun

land n (genitive singular lands, nominative plural lönd)

1. (uncountable) land, earth, ground (part of the Earth not under water)
2. (countable) country

3. (uncountable) countryside, country

4. (uncountable) land, as a mass noun, measurable in quantity
5. (countable) tracts of land, an estate

Declension

Derived terms

Middle English

Noun

land

1. Alternative form of lond

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?n?/
• Rhymes: -?n?

Etymology 1

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”).

Noun

land n (definite singular landet, indefinite plural land, definite plural landa or landene)

1. country
2. land

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

land

1. imperative of lande

References

• “land” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?n?/, /l?nd/ (example of pronunciation)

Etymology 1

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”). Akin to English land.

Noun

land n (definite singular landet, indefinite plural land, definite plural landa)

1. country

   Noreg er eit land i nord.

   Norway is a country in the north.

2. land

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse hland, from Proto-Germanic *hland?.

Noun

land n (definite singular landet, indefinite plural land, definite plural landa)

1. urine from livestock

References

• “land” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *land?.

Noun

land n (genitive lanz, plural land)

1. land
   • 1241, Codex Holmiensis, prologue.

     Mæth logh skal land byggæs.

     With law shall land be built.

Declension

Descendants

• Danish: land

Old English

Alternative forms

• lond, lænd

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”). Cognate with Old Saxon land, Old Frisian land, lond, Old Dutch lant (Dutch land), Old High German lant (German Land), Old Norse land (Swedish land), Gothic ???????????????? (land). The Proto-Indo-European root is also the source of Proto-Celtic *land? (Welsh llan (“enclosure”), Breton lann (“heath”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?nd/

Noun

land n

1. land (dry portion of the Earth's surface)
2. a country
3. region within a country: district, province
4. the country, countryside
5. owned or tilled land, an estate

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

• belandian (“to bereave of land, dispossess”)
• belendan (“to bereave of land, dispossess”)
• ?elandian (“to land, to become land”)
• ?elendan (“to near, land, or come into lands as wealth”)
• lendan (“to come to land”)

Descendants

• Middle English: lond
  • English: land
  • Scots: laund, land
  • Yola: lhoan, lone

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) , “land”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Old Irish

Noun

land ?

1. Alternative spelling of lann

Mutation

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”). Cognate with Old Saxon land, Old Frisian land, lond, Old English land, lond, Old Dutch lant, Old High German lant, Gothic ???????????????? (land).

Noun

land n (genitive lands, plural l?nd)

1. land

Declension

Descendants

• Icelandic: land
• Faroese: land
• Norn: land
• Norwegian: land
• Old Swedish: land
  • Elfdalian: land
  • Swedish: land
• Old Danish: land
  • Danish: land
• Scanian: lann
• Gutnish: land, lande, landi

References

• land inGeir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *land.

Cognate with Old English land, lond, Old Frisian land, lond, Dutch land, Old High German lant (German Land), Old Norse land (Swedish land), Gothic ???????????????? (land). The Proto-Indo-European root is also the source of Proto-Celtic *land? (Welsh llan (“enclosure”), Breton lann (“heath”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?nd/

Noun

land n

1. land

Declension

Descendants

• Middle Low German: lant
  • Dutch Low Saxon: laand
  • German Low German: Land
    • Plautdietsch: Launt

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *land?.

Noun

land n

1. land

Declension

Descendants

• Elfdalian: land
• Swedish: land

Polish

Etymology

From German Land, from Middle High German lant, from Old High German lant, from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lant/

Noun

land m inan

1. Land (federal state in Austria and Germany)
2. (Pozna?) countryside (rural area)

   Synonyms: prowincja, wie?

Declension

Further reading

• land in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• land in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From German Land

Noun

land n (plural landuri)

1. land (German and Austrian province)

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From German Land.

Noun

land m (plural lands)

1. one of the federal states of Germany

Further reading

• “land” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish land, from Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /land/, [l?an??d?], (colloquial) /lan/
• Rhymes: -and

Noun

land n

1. a land, a country, a nation, a state
2. (uncountable) land, ground, earth, territory; as opposed to sea or air

3. (uncountable) land, countryside, earth, ground suitable for farming; as opposed to towns and cities

4. a garden plot, short for trädgårdsland; small piece of ground for growing vegetables, flowers, etc.

Declension

Synonyms

• (country): nation
• (neither sea nor air): backe, landbacke, mark
• (ground suitable for farming): mark (owned land in general, for farming or not)

Derived terms

References

• land in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Zealandic

Etymology

From Middle Dutch lant

Noun

land n (plural [please provide])

1. land