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LANDMARK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An anatomical structure used as a point of origin in locating other anatomical structures (as in surgery) or as point from which measurements can be taken
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("landmark" is a kind of...):
anatomical structure; bodily structure; body structure; complex body part; structure (a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing and its construction and arrangement)
Domain category:
surgery (the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "landmark"):
craniometric point (a landmark on the skull from which craniometric measurements can be taken)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A mark showing the boundary of a piece of land
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("landmark" is a kind of...):
point of reference; reference; reference point (an indicator that orients you generally)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "landmark"):
mearstone; meerestone; merestone (an old term for a landmark that consisted of a pile of stones surmounted by an upright slab)
Sense 3
Meaning:
An event marking a unique or important historical change of course or one on which important developments depend
Example:
the agreement was a watershed in the history of both nations
Synonyms:
landmark; turning point; watershed
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("landmark" is a kind of...):
juncture; occasion (an event that occurs at a critical time)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "landmark"):
Fall of Man ((Judeo-Christian mythology) when Adam and Eve ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden, God punished them by driving them out of the Garden of Eden and into the world where they would be subject to sickness and pain and eventual death)
road to Damascus (a sudden turning point in a person's life (similar to the sudden conversion of the Apostle Paul on the road from Jerusalem to Damascus of arrest Christians))
Sense 4
Meaning:
The position of a prominent or well-known object in a particular landscape
Example:
the church steeple provided a convenient landmark
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("landmark" is a kind of...):
place; position (the particular portion of space occupied by something)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb landmark
Context examples:
A general term that usually refers to named landmark events during development of an organism.
(Developmental stage, NCI Thesaurus)
A landmark international study shows that the Great Barrier Reef has suffered 5 death events in the last 30,000 years.
(Major study reveals Great Barrier Reef’s 30,000-year fight for survival, University of Granada)
A map of the locations of identifiable landmarks on DNA (for example, restriction enzyme cutting site, genes), regardless of inheritance.
(Physical Map of the Human Genome, NCI Thesaurus)
A new landmark clinical trial show that the drug Canagliflozin, approved to lower blood sugar levels in people with diabetes, led to an approximately one-third reduction in ESKD and death from renal causes.
(Managing diabetes key to lowering kidney disease, SciDev.Net)
That landmark multicenter trial funded by the NEI assessed a range of nutrients and their effects on onset and progression of AMD and cataract.
(No evidence that calcium increases risk of age-related macular degeneration, National Institutes of Health)
Another unit coping with challenges is among Brazil's top landmarks—the Chapada Diamantina National Park.
(Brazilian savanna unprotected, study finds, Agência Brasil)
As I entered I saw, it is true, an unwonted tidiness, but the old landmarks were all in their place.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The figure has eluded planetary scientists for decades, because the gas giant has no solid surface with landmarks to track as it rotates, and it has an unusual magnetic field that hides the planet's rotation rate.
(Scientists Finally Know What Time It Is on Saturn, NASA)
One example of this is the pattern of expression of Hox genes, an ensemble of genes that are expressed in a precise sequential order in the embryo and act as landmarks for different aspects of the body, including the position of different vertebrae or of limbs.
(Scientists develop mouse ‘embryo-like structures’ with organisation along body’s major axes, University of Cambridge)
The coming year 2021 will be very exciting for you, a landmark year on your timeline.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
