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LANDSCAPE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A genre of art dealing with the depiction of natural scenery

Synonyms:

landscape; landscape painting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("landscape" is a kind of...):

genre (a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique)

Derivation:

landscapist (someone who paints landscapes)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Painting depicting an expanse of natural scenery

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("landscape" is a kind of...):

painting; picture (graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface)

Derivation:

landscapist (someone who paints landscapes)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An extensive mental viewpoint

Example:

we changed the landscape for solving the problem of payroll inequity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("landscape" is a kind of...):

point of view; stand; standpoint; viewpoint (a mental position from which things are viewed)

Sense 4

Meaning:

An expanse of scenery that can be seen in a single view

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("landscape" is a kind of...):

scenery (the appearance of a place)

Derivation:

landscapist (someone who arranges features of the landscape or garden attractively)

landscapist (someone who paints landscapes)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Do landscape gardening

Example:

My sons landscapes for corporations and earns a good living

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "landscape" is one way to...):

garden (work in the garden)

Verb group:

landscape (embellish with plants)

Domain category:

gardening; horticulture (the cultivation of plants)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

landscaping (working as a landscape gardener)

landscapist (someone who arranges features of the landscape or garden attractively)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Embellish with plants

Example:

Let's landscape the yard

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "landscape" is one way to...):

adorn; beautify; decorate; embellish; grace; ornament (make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.)

Verb group:

landscape (do landscape gardening)

Domain category:

gardening; horticulture (the cultivation of plants)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

landscaping (a garden laid out for esthetic effect)

landscapist (someone who arranges features of the landscape or garden attractively)

Credits

 Context examples: 

How beautifully her last landscape is done!

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

However, if some species aren’t visiting an orchard because of unfavorable landscapes beyond it, then the flower suffers, producing fewer seed and poorer fruit quality.

(Diverse Bee Communities Best for Apple Orchards, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

This part of the Rhine, indeed, presents a singularly variegated landscape.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I should no more lay it down as a general rule that women write better letters than men, than that they sing better duets, or draw better landscapes.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

But the glories of the landscape were all wasted upon my companion, who was sunk in the deepest thought.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The tool is called the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), which is a measure of the "greenness" of the landscape.

(Tracking Deer by NASA Satellite, NASA)

In mountain landscapes, saprolite may be the only thing keeping forests alive during times of drought.

(Study explores how rock expands near soil surface in Sierra Nevada, National Science Foundation)

Before the yellow balls popped up, volunteers had already noticed green bubbles with red centers, populating a landscape of swirling gas and dust.

(Citizen Scientists Discover Yellow "Space Balls", NASA)

Soil liquefaction usually occurs in flat landscapes with wet, sandy or silty ground, such as coastal plains.

(NASA Map Reveals a New Landslide Risk Factor, NASA)

These findings imply that the first peoples were highly skilled at moving rapidly across an utterly unfamiliar and empty landscape.

(Ancient DNA analysis unlocks secrets of Ice Age tribes in the Americas, University of Cambridge)