"landing strip" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: En-au-landing strip.ogg [Australia] Forms: landing strips [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} landing strip (plural landing strips)
  1. (aviation) A runway for aircraft, especially one which is auxiliary or temporary. Categories (topical): Aviation Synonyms (runway for aircraft): airstrip Translations (auxiliary or temporary runway for aircraft): مَهْبِط (mahbiṭ) [masculine] (Arabic), eniş zolağı (Azerbaijani), писта (pista) (Bulgarian), přistávací plocha [feminine] (Czech), landingsbaan [feminine, masculine] (Dutch), lentopaikka (Finnish), korpikenttä [informal] (Finnish), piste d’atterrissage [feminine] (French), Landepiste [feminine] (German), Landebahn [feminine] (German), λωρίδα (lorída) [feminine] (Greek), leszállópálya (Hungarian), flugbraut [feminine] (Icelandic), braut [feminine] (Icelandic), pista d'atterraggio [feminine] (Italian), 滑走路 (kassōro) (alt: かっそうろ) (Japanese), landingsstripe [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), landingsstripe [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), pista [feminine] (Portuguese), поса́дочная полоса́ (posádočnaja polosá) [feminine] (Russian), sletna staza (Serbo-Croatian), pista (Serbo-Croatian), pristajalna steza (Slovene), pista de aterrizaje [feminine] (Spanish), landningsbana [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-landing_strip-en-noun-8--TD6Ze Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 46 54 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 60 40 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 46 54 Topics: aeronautics, aerospace, aviation, business, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences Disambiguation of 'runway for aircraft': 94 6 Disambiguation of 'auxiliary or temporary runway for aircraft': 93 7
  2. (idiomatic) A cultivated pubic hair pattern in which much of the pubic hair is removed, leaving only a central vertical line or rectangle. Tags: idiomatic Categories (topical): Hair Translations (pubic hair pattern): kiitorata (Finnish), ticket de métro [masculine] (French)
    Sense id: en-landing_strip-en-noun-CXai9t0z Disambiguation of Hair: 20 80 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 46 54 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 46 54 Disambiguation of 'pubic hair pattern': 2 98

Inflected forms

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