Island

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, totally surrounded by water.

   “No man is an Iland, intire of it ſelfe; euery man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; […]”

2. isim A contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, partially surrounded by water; a peninsula; a half-island.

   “Despite its name, Barry Island is actually a peninsula”

3. isim An entity surrounded by other entities that are very different from itself.

   “The quiet library was an island of tranquility in the noisy, bustling city.”

4. isim A superstructure on an aircraft carrier's deck.
5. isim A traffic island.

   “the island in the middle of a roundabout”

6. isim A roundabout; a traffic circle.

   “Dunton island, near Birmingham, is one of the most confusingly labelled islands in the U.K.”

7. isim A bench, counter, etc., that is not connected to a wall or other furniture and which can be used from any side.

   “A short, rather studious young woman on noticing him moved from behind an island counter.”

8. isim Ellipsis of kitchen island.
9. isim An unincorporated area wholly surrounded by one or more incorporated areas.
10. isim A phrase from which a wh-word cannot be extracted without yielding invalid grammar.

    “Adverbial subordinate clauses are islands for extraction: "They have a billion dollars of inventory that they don't know where *(it) is".”

11. fiil To surround with water; make into an island.

    “We paused at little river cities along the way and walked upon their bushy dikes, and heard tales of overflows in flood seasons, when four feet or more of water islanded the houses.”

12. fiil To set, dot (as if) with islands.

    “the many-islanded Aegean”

13. fiil To isolate.

    “The turkey's nest was islanded with a fragrant swath,—the "heft" of the crop noted and rejoiced over,—the tons of good timothy and clover calculated,— […]”

14. özel isim Long Island (in New York State).

    “Candy came from out on the Island / In the backroom, she was everybody's darling”

15. özel isim Long Beach Island.
16. özel isim Vancouver Island.

    “A grizzly was photographed at Rugged Point near Kyuquot on the northwest coast of the Island in May, close to the time bears emerge from their dens, suggesting it had successfully hibernated on the Island.”

17. özel isim Synonym of Prince Edward Island.
18. özel isim Epstein Island.
19. özel isim HM Prison Parkhurst, a prison on the Isle of Wight.
20. özel isim Obsolete form of Iceland.

    “[…] Island, Groonland, Estotiland […]”