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English[edit]
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Noun[edit]
touchdown (countable and uncountable, plural touchdowns)
- (American football, Canadian football) A six-point score occurring when the ball enters possession of a team's player in the opponent's end zone.
- Today I scored my first touchdown.
- (rugby) A defensive action of grounding the ball in the team's own in-goal to stop the play.
- (rugby) A try (scoring play of grounding the ball in the opposing team's in-goal).
- 2011 February 13, Lyle Jackson, “Ireland 22-25 France”, in BBC[1]:
- A first Test try by Fergus McFadden and a Tomas O'Leary touchdown helped Ireland to a 15-12 half-time lead.
- (aviation) The moment when an aircraft or spacecraft makes first or final contact with the ground during a landing.
- Synonym: setdown
- The passengers audibly relaxed at touchdown.
- 1972 April 17, Elton John, Bernie Taupin, “Rocket Man”, in Honky Château[2], performed by Elton John:
- And I think it's gonna be a long, long time / 'Til touchdown brings me 'round again to find / I'm not the man they think I am at home / Oh, no, no, no […]
- The moment of contact of a tornado with the ground.
- 2003, Jessica McNew, Eyes in a Storm:
- The American Red Cross sent me to Alabama within twenty-four hours of the tornado's touchdown, and I visited the communities of Oak Grove and Rock Creek four subsequent times.
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football score
landing
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See also[edit]
- touchdown on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- touch down
Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unadapted borrowing from English touchdown.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
touchdown
Declension[edit]
Inflection of touchdown (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | touchdown | touchdownit | ||
genitive | touchdownin | touchdownien | ||
partitive | touchdownia | touchdowneja | ||
illative | touchdowniin | touchdowneihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | touchdown | touchdownit | ||
accusative | nom. | touchdown | touchdownit | |
gen. | touchdownin | |||
genitive | touchdownin | touchdownien | ||
partitive | touchdownia | touchdowneja | ||
inessive | touchdownissa | touchdowneissa | ||
elative | touchdownista | touchdowneista | ||
illative | touchdowniin | touchdowneihin | ||
adessive | touchdownilla | touchdowneilla | ||
ablative | touchdownilta | touchdowneilta | ||
allative | touchdownille | touchdowneille | ||
essive | touchdownina | touchdowneina | ||
translative | touchdowniksi | touchdowneiksi | ||
abessive | touchdownitta | touchdowneitta | ||
instructive | — | touchdownein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unadapted borrowing from English touchdown.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
touchdown m (plural touchdowns)
Usage notes[edit]
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
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