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单词 lander
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landern.

/ˈlandə/
Etymology: < land v. + -er suffix1.
1.
a. One who lands or goes ashore.
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > sailors involved in specific duties or activities > [noun] > one who goes ashore
lander1859
1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 18 The sweet voice of a bird, Heard by the lander in a lonely isle.
1890 C. Martyn Wendell Phillips 16 The famous landers on Plymouth Rock.
b. A spacecraft, or a part of one, which is designed to land on the surface of a planet or of the moon.
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > spacecraft > [noun] > which can land on a planet
soft lander1960
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1961 Astronautica Acta VII. 130 The rotary drill..is designed to penetrate 1·5 ft or more into the lunar surface and bring samples into the lander for chemical analysis.
1962 F. I. Ordway et al. Basic Astronautics v. 176 Hard landers contain retrorockets to reduce the terminal velocity to between 100 and 300 m.p.h... Soft landers..are built to descend gently onto the surface.
1967 Technol. Week 23 Jan. 61/1 (advt.) This calls for a varied series of probes, orbiters and hard and soft landers.
1971 Listener 7 Oct. 476/3 Each vehicle consists of two main parts: an orbiter and a lander.
2. Mining. The man who ‘lands’ the kibble at the mouth of the shaft.
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1847 in J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words
1865 J. T. F. Turner Familiar Descr. Old Delabole Slate Quarries 8 Wagons..are filled by a party of men..called ‘fillers’, while a similar number of ‘landers’ and ‘emptiers’, at the surface, receive and dispose of their freight.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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