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Vinony

touchdown

noun

  1. scoring act in American and Canadian football
  2. the act or moment of touching down (as with an airplane or spacecraft)
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Pronunciation: /ˈtʌt͡ʃ.daʊn/

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree English touch English down English touchdown From touch + down.

  1. 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.”

    ““I must have caught 45 or 50 touchdowns in that right corner,” he told The Baltimore Sun in 2009. “It was sloped some, a little downhill, which helped me speedwise. I wasn’t all that fast.””

  2. A defensive action of grounding the ball in the team's own in-goal to stop the play.
  3. A try (scoring play of grounding the ball in the opposing team's in-goal).

    “A first Test try by Fergus McFadden and a Tomas O'Leary touchdown helped Ireland to a 15-12 half-time lead.”

  4. The moment when an aircraft or spacecraft makes first or final contact with the ground during a landing.

    “The passengers audibly relaxed at touchdown.”

    “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[…]”

  5. The moment of contact of a tornado with the ground.

    “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.”