Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A landmass, especially one smaller than a continent, entirely surrounded by water.
- noun Something resembling an island, especially in being isolated or surrounded, as.
- noun An unattached kitchen counter providing easy access from all sides.
- noun A raised curbed area, often used to delineate rows of parking spaces or lanes of traffic.
- noun The superstructure of a ship, especially an aircraft carrier.
- noun Anatomy A cluster of cells differing in structure or function from the cells constituting the surrounding tissue.
- transitive verb To make into or as if into an island; insulate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- See Iceland, Iceland dog.
- To cause to become or appear like an island; insulate.
- To dot as with islands.
- noun A tract of land surrounded by water, whether of the sea, a river, or a lake: in contradistinction to mainland or continent.
- noun Something resembling an island: as, an island of floating ice.
- noun A hill rising out of low ground or swampy land, a small clump of woodland in a prairie, or the like.
- noun A meringue of white of egg and sugar floating in divisions upon soft custard.
- noun In anatomy, any circumscribed portion of tissue or aggregation of cells differing in structure from the surrounding parts.
- Isolated; separate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To cause to become or to resemble an island; to make an island or islands of; to isle.
- transitive verb To furnish with an island or with islands.
- noun A tract of land surrounded by water, and smaller than a continent. Cf.
Continent . - noun Anything regarded as resembling an island.
- noun (Zoöl.) See
Isle , n., 2. - noun (Myth.) islands supposed to lie in the Western Ocean, where the favorites of the gods are conveyed at death, and dwell in everlasting joy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A contiguous
area ofland , smaller than acontinent , totallysurrounded bywater . - noun An
entity surrounded by other entities that are verydifferent from itself. - noun A
superstructure on an aircraft carrier'sdeck - noun UK A
traffic island . - verb transitive To surround with water; make into an island
- verb transitive To set, dot (as if) with islands
- verb transitive To
isolate
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a zone or area resembling an island
- noun a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Abyssinian coast, and anchored at night three leagues short of it, under an island which we named _Crab island_, owing to the great abundance of crabs we found there.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 Robert Kerr 1784
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Ethiopia, [Southern Africa,] close adjoining to which is a small island, called _Conie island_, [Dassen island] all low land, and bordered by many dangerous rocks to seawards.
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He has come to the title island, the home to a hospital for the criminally insane that sits in the midst of Boston Harbor, because a violent patient who murdered her own children has disappeared from her cell.
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On an island like this, I use the term island because it is only accessible by boat and cut off from the main world, time is not a valuable commodity.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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Moving ones gear onto and off of the island is a royal pain in the butt, however one is paid off in beautiful scenery and good hunting.
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The story of how the Losties ended up working for Dharma was interesting, as was the revelation that whatever caused the problems with pregnant women on the island is a fairly recent phenomenon, at least post 1977.
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Sadly, the island is apparently full of chocolate tea haters, from the national chain grocery stores all the way to the speciality tea store.
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Joining the Irishmen on the island is another group of clichés.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2010
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But at least, Penangites know for sure that their island is an international industrial town.
'Tis Tasmania (from a Malaysian eye) Jerine 2009
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Moving ones gear onto and off of the island is a royal pain in the butt, however one is paid off in beautiful scenery and good hunting.
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Blue Lake Rancheria, a tribal nation in Humboldt, California, has developed enough of its own solar energy grid that it can “island”—a term that the renewable energy sector uses to describe communities that can use power separate from the grid.
How Indigenous Communities are Building Energy Sovereignty Natalie Peart 2021
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