park1 nounpark2 verb
parkpark1 /pɑːk $ pɑːrk/ ●●● S1 W2 noun [countable] 
WORD ORIGINpark1
Origin:
1200-1300 Old French parc, from Medieval Latin parricusEXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- Faults were discovered in the mountings on the crash barriers around the top deck of the car park in July.
- From 1924 until his death, he lived and worked in a studio adjacent to the park.
- He proposed opening a second restaurant in the park to emulate the success of the Beach Chalet.
- In fact, they say, he hid in the labyrinth of coal pits beside the river in the park.
- The park is alive with bright color in the warmer months.
- They had a sheet showing a car park and also cars to cut out.
- To help tackle the problem, the park authority is carrying out a research study.
- Under any plan, said Griffin and Kennedy, the park faces $ 30 million to $ 50 million worth of rehabilitation.
THESAURUSplaces where people do sport
(also pitch British English) a large area of ground, usually covered with grass, where team sports are played: · A few kids were playing on the football field.· a hockey field
a large sports field with seats all around it for people to watch team sports or track and field competitions: · The atmosphere in the Olympic Stadium was amazing.· a football stadium
British English a sports field and the seats and buildings around it, belonging to a particular football, rugby, or cricket team: · I met my friends inside the ground.
American English a stadium where baseball is played: · Busch Stadium is one of the newest ballparks in Major League.
an area with lines painted on the ground, for tennis, badminton, basketball, or volleyball: · The hotel has four tennis courts and a volleyball court.
the area in a baseball field that is within the shape formed by the four bases. The diamond can also be the whole field: · The pitcher stands in the middle of the diamond.· There’s a playground, a picnic area, and a baseball diamond.
a circular path with lines on it, for running on: · In the relay, each runner runs once around the track.
a room with machines which you can use to do exercises: · He spends an hour in the gym every day.
a place where you can swim: · He jumped into the deep end of the pool.· I’ll meet you outside the swimming pool.
British English, sports center American English a building where you can play many types of indoor sports: · Why not do exercise classes at your local sports centre?
a small sports centre, where you pay to be a member: · How much does it cost to join a health club?
WORD SETSbalk, verbball game, nounball park, nounballplayer, nounbase, nounbaseline, nounbat, verbbatter, nounblooper, nounbreak, nounbull pen, nounbunt, verbcatch, verbcatcher, nouncentre, noundesignated hitter, noundiamond, noundouble, noundouble, verbdouble-header, noundouble play, nounfastball, nounfirst base, nounfly, verbfly, nounfly ball, nounfoul, verbgrand slam, noungrounder, nounheavy hitter, nounhome base, nounhome plate, nounhomer, nounhome run, nouninfield, nouninning, nounmidfielder, nounmitt, nounmound, nounpark, nounpinch-hit, verbpitch, nounpitch, verbpitcher, nounpitchout, nounplate, nounpop fly, nounrebound, verbrebound, nounrun, nounshortstop, nounshut-out, nounsingle, nounslam dunk, nounslugger, nounspring training, nounsteal, verbstrikeout, nountriple, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
the Lake District National ParkCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the Lake District National Park· She parked the car by the side of the road.
· She couldn’t find a space in the car park.
(=area of land where people can park their caravans)
(=for physically disabled people)
· The building has parking facilities for twenty cars.
· The fines for illegal parking are likely to increase.
· Speeding is the most common traffic offence.
· You’ll need to apply for a residential parking permit.
· Are there parking restrictions in the city centre?
· You can’t leave your car here – it’s a no-parking zone.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· STOKESLEY-based property developer and builder, Avon, is to build a £4m industrial park at South Bank, Middlesbrough.· We wanted to be in an industrial park.· The industrial parks were the worst.· The same zero-pollution closed-loop principles in a plating factory can be designed into an industrial park or entire region.· Susan was twenty-two, a computer operator in a large mirror company in an industrial park near their apartment.· The city also reached agreement with a major development firm to market the industrial park area.
· Alton Towers, 10 miles away, is the largest leisure park in the country and combines a mini-Disneyland with beautiful gardens.· Over ten thousand square miles in area, it is several times the size of Yellowstone, our own largest national park.· The carbon deposit was thought to come from car exhaust fumes from a large car park close to the church.· There was a large park spreading in front of me.· At Slotermeer, a suburb of Amsterdam, a large park remained unfinished due to lack of funds.· No problem about parking there is a large free car park outside the main doors.· The hotel has its own large private car park.· It has the advantage of being tucked away behind the Munster - and there used to be a large car park there.
· Outside was very pleasant with views over open fields and a local park.· I actually like the local park system.· How often do you get out for a walk in the countryside or even in the local park?· If the weather is good, go outside to a local park or to the countryside.· In addition, they would allocate local grants and manage local parks and libraries.· Their lives take a startling turn when a friend is murdered in the local park.· Neighbours and passers-by poured compliments on his handiwork, and even the local council's parks department were impressed.· We head for the local needle park.
· The structure plans have also had an input into national park planning.· Substantial fee increases for about 100 national parks will be announced by Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt over the next two months.· At the same time, he ruled that the national parks in Kerry and Connemara would be no-go areas for mining.· Like many national parks, Acadia in the summer has become crowded and intolerable.· To see these we go to a national park within an hour's run of Sydney.· We have already announced our intention to establish independent authorities for the eight national parks currently run as county council committees.· In a $ 7.5 million effort to restore native plants and animals in the national park, the U.S.
· So Oxford's Lord Mayor was the first to wield the demolition hammer to help make way for a new business park.· On the other hand, there will be a new park with jobs.· Its new report increases the estimate because the new park expects to draw more fans.· The area named in the court order has been used by gypsies but is earmarked for a new £125m business park.· The resort that says it puts family first every day is opening a new park, the Wishing Well.· The traders who trade around it can do nothing but benefit from the new multi-storey car park with 1,600 spaces.
· This public park is now known as Hubbards Hills.· This trespass meant that no one must go inside the property because it was not public like a park, but private.· The public park on Kampa Island consisted, until 1940, of private gardens belonging to these palaces.· They no longer poach pigeons in public parks.· Not long after these disclosures, Kasper was murdered by an unknown man with a dagger in a public park.· She was standing face to face with a boy in the public park at the end of Decimus Street.· Now some coward with a grudge has bombed a crowd of Olympics fans enjoying music in a public park.
· Near the Guardian bureau there is a small park, overlooked on three sides by tall buildings.· At the tip of Ile Saint-Louis is a small triangular park where the island ends at a point.· I am on a swing in a small park with my brother.· He stopped for a few minutes in a small park to enjoy the scenery and collect his thoughts.· After three miles you arrive at Magho where there is a small car park on the right.· The sitting-room was on the first floor, above the garage, with a picture window overlooking a small park.· Rise Hall, a large and handsome stone edifice, forms the centre of the village with a small but beautiful park.· There is a small triangular park behind it and the crowd may have spilled out from the Great Hall.
NOUN· And of course there is the famous Blackpool Pleasure Beach, a 4O acre amusement park, to visit.· From his ever-changing complexion to his personal menagerie and private amusement park, Jackson has long cultivated an aura of eccentricity.· The famous amusement park built in the heart of Copenhagen.· The age-oriented community was conceived as a combination housing development and amusement park for active seniors.· Last year Demi, who co-starred in Ghost, hired an amusement park for 37-year-old Bruce's big day.· At the same time, you can do so without having to turn your branch into an amusement park.· Peter Pan's Never Never Land, a plastic amusement park, lies under heavy rain on the front.
· And the cost of a day at the ball park?· He can walk to the ball park from the house.· Change-up curves are what Mantle hits out of ball parks.
· So he walked to the park and sat on the park bench and let his thoughts pass through his head.· And so, Janir, pronounced Ja-NEER: two syllables put together on a park bench on the day of his birth.· In the space next to William on the park bench there is a Sunday newspaper, as yet unfolded.· Old friends Sat on their park bench Like book ends.· I just sat on the park bench and watched him dragging that potbelly around.· Apart from that it's park benches and dark archways.· Like what the crazy old lady on the park bench in front of the Regency said that day.
· A business park will provide offices and light industrial premises.· But like much of Texas during that period, the business park was a bust.· So Oxford's Lord Mayor was the first to wield the demolition hammer to help make way for a new business park.· The mosque, a converted office in a Tempe business park, is wall-to-wall with faithful.· The deal means property developer Legacy will turn the Dome into a hi-tech business park.· Pleasanton built a business park that ignited a commercial exodus from several Bay Area cities and sent its real estate skyrocketing.· The area named in the court order has been used by gypsies but is earmarked for a new £125m business park.· The Crossing Business Center, a 115-acre business park and employment center within Summerlin.
· The Missile was fuelled and waiting in the basement car park.· Reaching the reserve car park once more, turn left on to the track again.· They pour into the backstage car park like expensive treacle and come to a halt at the crack of a whip.· Short stay charges and places in premium car parks have risen and drivers caught flouting the rules face a hefty £30 fine.· The group, and anyone who wants to join, meet in Nun's Close car park, Richmond, at 9.30am.· I shake my head and set a course for the car park.· It would look as though a mountain of flowers was moving through the car park all on its own.· Nurse Amanda Cadder saw the Essex post worker shot down in a Florida car park.
· Continuing on, the path re-enters the woodland to a caravan park.· Follow the cinder path through the caravan park until you reach a surfaced road.· There is a caravan park, mercifully hidden from the village street.· Our caravan park offers over 50 acres to roam in and enjoy.· Visitors are catered for by hotels, guest houses and a large caravan park and many of them have a regular clientele.· Today there is a large but discreet caravan park around the farm.· The latest victim was a 44-year-old woman on holiday with her boyfriend at a caravan park south of Durban.· She was last night being comforted by her boyfriend at a caravan park near the beach.
· On the one hand they are vilified as criminals, nipping at small children in city parks where they have been fed.· The families living in parking lots and city parks.· In May, police launched Operation Park, increasing patrols of city parks and playgrounds that have become makeshift campgrounds.· That could be done by selling the association a bigger piece of the 170 acres of city park land.· One managed the city park in its neighborhood.· This spectacle usually took place in a city park.
· We got away and were finally rescued by a park ranger.· Newman, who worked part-time as a Cheltenham school crossing guard and park ranger, has no prior record.· I turn to look for my two companions, park rangers Dominic Cardea and Nancy Favour.· Only one structure, the Rotchev House, is original, park ranger Bill Walton says.· A man found her wandering around and took her to the park ranger, who called the police.· Behind the desk was Jim Bell, the voluble park ranger in charge of the one-room visitors center.· Besides hiring more recreation leaders, Brown said the city should assign a park ranger to Chollas Lake at least on weekends.· After a one-day training program, volunteers help park rangers teach visitors how to tide-pool safely and carefully.
· We revealed that monkeys from Longleat and Woburn safari parks have been sold for laboratory experiments.· Longleat House and safari park is only 9 miles away.· Six hundred villas will be built in the Center Parcs development at the Wilts safari park estate following an inquiry.· We went up to the safari park, to Evesham for fruit picking, to Redditch for shopping.· The colony are the survivors of 60 baboons which escaped from a safari park that closed 20 years ago.
· If an animal moves a millimetre out of the state park zones, it's dead.· Similar cabins at several state parks in Northern California are seldom vacant, Picard said.· In fact, reservations for state park campgrounds are already 85 percent booked for the entire summer.· Efforts to convert the railroad into a state park succeeded in 1972.· Most listings are for state parks and recreational areas, where hiking, wildlife viewing and stargazing are family favorites.· In Episode Two, they pack a tent and sleeping bags a weekend at a nearby state park.· The state parks department has chosen a new contractor, Park.
· Sixteen companies and around 300 sub-contractors had claimed £85m of extra payments on the £2.3 billion theme park.· No theme park developer is about to invest tens of millions on that short a lease.· One such offer was from a theme park in Dogpatch, Arkansas, which is devoted to cast-off metal monuments.· Popular with senior citizens and the motor-coach touring set, the Heritage Plantation is billed as an Americana theme park and arboretum.· Only that this would be on a farm: a sort of gastronomic theme park.· Several months ago, the Florida theme park put an 800 number on a mailing to repeat visitors.· Future applications include video game software and theme park rides.· Or maybe a theme park at sea?
· When she was born Eminem lived in a trailer park with little money from his kitchen job to feed or clothe her.· Time was you would find Democrats in trailer parks.· Knightsbridge must look like a trailer park.· Time was the people in trailer parks had no doubt that they had a friend in the Oval Office.· Indeed, there seems to be an unnatural attraction be tween wetlands and development similar to that between trailer parks and tornados.
VERB· It calls for creating a skateboard park, a picnic area, a sculpture to climb on and an amphitheater.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► in the (right) ball park► a ball-park figure/estimate/amount
1a large open area with grass and trees, especially in a town, where people can walk, play games etc: - We went down the shops on Saturdays.
- Parking is a problem but the parish council are working to get a proper car park to give off-street parking.
- Without the creation of new off-street parking areas, this problem is likely to intensify.
Let’s go for a walk in the park. a park bench a flat overlooking Hyde Park2a large area of land in the country which has been kept in its natural state to protect the plants and animals therenational/state/county park the Lake District National Park3 British English a large enclosed area of land, with grass and trees, around a big house in the countryside4the park British English informal the field where a game of football or rugby is played SYN the pitch: He was easily the best player on the park.5American English informal the field where a game of baseball is played → amusement park, ball park(1), car park, national park, safari park, science park, theme park, trailer parkpark1 nounpark2 verb
parkpark2 ●●● S2 verb 1[intransitive, transitive] to put a car or other vehicle in a particular place for a period of time: You can’t park here – it’s private property. I couldn’t find anywhere to park. She parked the car on the drive. a line of parked cars2[transitive] spoken to put something in a particular place for a period of time, especially in a way that annoys someonepark something on/in etc something He parked a load of papers on my desk.3park yourself informal to sit down in a particular place, especially with the intention of staying a long timepark on/in etc Connie parked herself on the sofa.park up phrasal verb to put a car or other vehicle in a particular place for a period of time SYN park