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touch down

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. touch downverb

    come or bring (a plane) to a landing

    "the plane touched down at noon"

Wiktionary

  1. touch downverb

    To land an aircraft.

  2. touch downverb

    To score a touchdown

  3. touch downverb

    To score a try.

Wikipedia

  1. Touch Down

    Touch Down (Remix) is a song by British recording rapper Stylo G and Jamaican singer Vybz Kartel and American rapper Nicki Minaj. It is a remix of the song "Touch Down" by Stylo G. The song's lyrics are credited to The FaNaTiX, Stylo G & Minaj, and production was handled by The FaNaTiX .

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  1. touch down

    Touch down, in general, refers to the moment or act of landing or making contact with the ground, especially in the context of an aircraft landing on a runway or a player in sports like football or rugby grounding the ball in the scoring area. It can also mean coming into contact with a surface or entity. It usually marks the end of a journey or action.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of touch down in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of touch down in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of touch down in a Sentence

  1. Jake Sullivan:

    The key issue is not how many times does the plane touch down at the airport. It’s how intensive and effective is the engagement that leads to progress.

  2. Astronaut Scott Kelly:

    I'm looking down at the Earth right now and it's 250 miles below me, and only a small portion of that is the atmosphere, and when that Soyuz hits that atmosphere going 17,500 miles an hour, a lot of things have to happen just right to make sure we touch down and parachute safely. So when you look at that big space between us and the speed involved, it's pretty serious. And it's something that you definitely think about and consider. But it's my second time flying the Soyuz, my fourth time flying in space. It's something I signed up to do, and we'll be ready for it next Tuesday.

  3. You Can:

    Prince Harry tells Oprah that every time Prince Harry'd be on a flight returning to London, Prince Harry was triggered because of what had happened to Prince Harry growing up there, i found Harry's revelation about being triggered every time Prince Harry was about to touch down in London again so striking. Of course, Prince Harry was born into a family where … as the proverbial ‘ spare ’ one would think that he would have more freedom to be the architect of his destiny than William, whose destiny was set from the day he was born.

  4. Amy Klobuchar:

    I'm asking you take this over the goal line for me, i want you to score a touch down. ...OK, that's enough.


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