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noun ˈʌɪləndˈaɪlənd 1A piece of land surrounded by water. as modifier this island nation Example sentencesExamples - Some small uninhabited Pacific islands that have existed for centuries have disappeared.
- A princess visits an island inhabited by two tribes.
- The first Europeans to visit these uninhabited islands thought they were bewitched.
- A tiny speck in the Sulu Sea offers a little known island paradise.
- No one can ever be really available on our imaginary Pacific desert island mentioned earlier.
- The world's smallest lizard has been discovered on a tiny Caribbean island off the coast of the Dominican Republic.
- Their latest stop was on the beautiful holiday island of Phi Phi in Thailand.
- The Keys are a group of coral islands stretching 100 miles from the tip of mainland Florida.
- Today's birds descend from a generalist ancestral finch that invaded the islands from mainland Ecuador.
- Delegates from around 190 nations began the session Monday on the Indonesian resort island of Bali.
- In Bangladesh, coastal areas and some offshore islands have been severely affected by floods as well as violent storms.
- The water which surrounds the island is a rich fishing ground for tuna and mackerel.
- Soviet troops seized the islands at the end of the war.
- The game still starts off with you escorting an inquisitive journalist to a remote tropical island.
- Cuba is an island nation located on the northern rim of the Caribbean Sea.
- The tiny uninhabited island is in the Sea of Japan halfway between the Korean Peninsula and Japan.
- Forced transmigration programs involved moving people from the densely populated island of Java to the eastern provinces.
- Together with the slightly more mountainous Antigua, they make up the island nation.
- She longed to visit the island in the middle.
- A passenger jet crashes on a deserted Pacific island.
Synonyms isle, islet atoll in the Caribbean key in Spanish America cay British ait, holm Scottish skerry (islands) archipelago, chain, group 2A thing regarded as resembling an island, especially in being isolated, detached, or surrounded in some way. the university is the last island of democracy in this country Example sentencesExamples - The castle was an isolated island which did not need the outside world.
- Marketing, sales and service continue to work as separate entities, each with their own isolated islands of customer information.
- Like many other units, this particular park offers an island of serenity and beauty in a region struggling to define its future.
- For example, a head line with several islands indicates someone who is uncertain and has difficulty in communicating their ideas.
- In 1393, Great Turnovo - the capital of Bulgaria remained as an isolated island in the ocean of Turkish possessions.
- Most of the tables are outside in the garden, on separate isolated islands surrounded by flourishing plants that are apparently well taken care of.
- Cambridge is very much an isolated island of student life outside UW.
- They make the Web a web rather than a series of isolated islands.
- He said the true meaning of civilisation and globalisation meant the adoption of the local culture and to blend with the local culture and not to make an isolated island of cultures.
- But if the Tories are really serious about power they must win back seats like Cambridge, an island of Liberal Democrat yellow in a surrounding sea of East Anglian blue.
- Amid the chaos in the island of Manhattan, it seems like most urbanites tend to isolate themselves into islands of their own.
- The Western system functions by allowing small islands of dissent in an overwhelming sea of conformist propaganda.
- One would think that France was an isolated island on a completely different planet.
- The designers built the seating areas in tiers to create isolated islands suited to parties of different sizes.
- 2.1 A traffic island.
Example sentencesExamples - There is ample land available at the eastern end to cater for a proper island and traffic calming zone.
- There are about 37 traffic islands and numerous medians in that part of the city.
- They have put traffic calming islands in the road, but lorries just swerve round them like juggernauts.
- He lurches the car across the traffic island and accelerates toward the oncoming traffic.
- I'm not talking about speed cameras, but traffic lights, pedestrian islands etc.
- 2.2 A free-standing kitchen unit with a worktop, allowing access from all sides.
Example sentencesExamples - There was a sparkling clean kitchen, with a black island in the middle.
- Ovens are built into the kitchen side of the island so they can't be seen from the rest of the room.
- Beyond this, the kitchen is fitted with a range of wall and floor units, a centre island, recessed lighting and tiled worktops.
- Typical appliances rested on a long line of marble counters surrounding an island in the middle of the room.
- She flipped it open once again as she seated herself on a stool next to the island in the kitchen.
3Anatomy
A detached portion of tissue or group of cells. Compare with islet Example sentencesExamples - Two cases had occasional islands of pancreatic acini and islets of Langerhans.
- It is not known how the cholesterol and fatty acids enter the cells of lipid islands.
- The cell islands were further demarcated from the surrounding stroma by reticulin condensation around groups of cells.
- They are composed of islands, large nests, or sheets of tumor cells forming ductules, which are lined by cuboidal to columnar epithelium.
- Stromal retraction between tumor islands and dermal connective tissue was observed in 12 cases.
Origin Old English īegland, from īeg 'island' (from a base meaning 'watery, watered') + land. The change in the spelling of the first syllable in the 16th century was due to association with the unrelated word isle. In spite of their similarity of form and meaning, island and isle (Middle English) are completely unrelated. The first is a native English word, with parallels in early forms of other north European languages, whereas the second came through French from Latin in medieval times. The first part of Old English īegland is īeg ‘island’, from a root meaning ‘watery’. People wrongly associated it with isle, and in the 16th century changed the spelling accordingly. In fact there was no ‘s’ in isle in the Middle Ages either: it was spelled ile, as it was in French at the time of its adoption. In the 15th century both French and English people connected the word—this time correctly—with Latin insula, and added the ‘s’. See also insular, peninsula. The English poet and preacher John Donne (1572–1631) memorably expressed the view that the lives and fates of humans are interconnected in Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (1624): ‘No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main;…any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.’ Isolated (mid 18th century) is related to isle, coming from Latin insulatus ‘made into an island’.
proper nounˈiːslandˈēsland Icelandic name for Iceland
nounˈīləndˈaɪlənd 1A piece of land surrounded by water. Example sentencesExamples - A tiny speck in the Sulu Sea offers a little known island paradise.
- Cuba is an island nation located on the northern rim of the Caribbean Sea.
- In Bangladesh, coastal areas and some offshore islands have been severely affected by floods as well as violent storms.
- The tiny uninhabited island is in the Sea of Japan halfway between the Korean Peninsula and Japan.
- A princess visits an island inhabited by two tribes.
- Soviet troops seized the islands at the end of the war.
- The world's smallest lizard has been discovered on a tiny Caribbean island off the coast of the Dominican Republic.
- The first Europeans to visit these uninhabited islands thought they were bewitched.
- She longed to visit the island in the middle.
- Their latest stop was on the beautiful holiday island of Phi Phi in Thailand.
- Some small uninhabited Pacific islands that have existed for centuries have disappeared.
- Delegates from around 190 nations began the session Monday on the Indonesian resort island of Bali.
- Together with the slightly more mountainous Antigua, they make up the island nation.
- Forced transmigration programs involved moving people from the densely populated island of Java to the eastern provinces.
- A passenger jet crashes on a deserted Pacific island.
- The Keys are a group of coral islands stretching 100 miles from the tip of mainland Florida.
- Today's birds descend from a generalist ancestral finch that invaded the islands from mainland Ecuador.
- No one can ever be really available on our imaginary Pacific desert island mentioned earlier.
- The game still starts off with you escorting an inquisitive journalist to a remote tropical island.
- The water which surrounds the island is a rich fishing ground for tuna and mackerel.
2A thing resembling an island, especially in being isolated, detached, or surrounded in some way. the university is the last island of democracy in this country Example sentencesExamples - For example, a head line with several islands indicates someone who is uncertain and has difficulty in communicating their ideas.
- Marketing, sales and service continue to work as separate entities, each with their own isolated islands of customer information.
- The Western system functions by allowing small islands of dissent in an overwhelming sea of conformist propaganda.
- In 1393, Great Turnovo - the capital of Bulgaria remained as an isolated island in the ocean of Turkish possessions.
- Like many other units, this particular park offers an island of serenity and beauty in a region struggling to define its future.
- The castle was an isolated island which did not need the outside world.
- Cambridge is very much an isolated island of student life outside UW.
- Most of the tables are outside in the garden, on separate isolated islands surrounded by flourishing plants that are apparently well taken care of.
- One would think that France was an isolated island on a completely different planet.
- Amid the chaos in the island of Manhattan, it seems like most urbanites tend to isolate themselves into islands of their own.
- They make the Web a web rather than a series of isolated islands.
- The designers built the seating areas in tiers to create isolated islands suited to parties of different sizes.
- But if the Tories are really serious about power they must win back seats like Cambridge, an island of Liberal Democrat yellow in a surrounding sea of East Anglian blue.
- He said the true meaning of civilisation and globalisation meant the adoption of the local culture and to blend with the local culture and not to make an isolated island of cultures.
- 2.1 A freestanding kitchen cupboard unit with a countertop, allowing access from all sides.
Example sentencesExamples - There was a sparkling clean kitchen, with a black island in the middle.
- Typical appliances rested on a long line of marble counters surrounding an island in the middle of the room.
- Ovens are built into the kitchen side of the island so they can't be seen from the rest of the room.
- Beyond this, the kitchen is fitted with a range of wall and floor units, a centre island, recessed lighting and tiled worktops.
- She flipped it open once again as she seated herself on a stool next to the island in the kitchen.
3Anatomy
A detached portion of tissue or group of cells. Compare with islet Example sentencesExamples - They are composed of islands, large nests, or sheets of tumor cells forming ductules, which are lined by cuboidal to columnar epithelium.
- Stromal retraction between tumor islands and dermal connective tissue was observed in 12 cases.
- The cell islands were further demarcated from the surrounding stroma by reticulin condensation around groups of cells.
- It is not known how the cholesterol and fatty acids enter the cells of lipid islands.
- Two cases had occasional islands of pancreatic acini and islets of Langerhans.
verbˈīləndˈaɪlənd [with object]literary Make into or like an island; place or enclose on or as on an island; isolate. islanded among the new stores, these houses were valuable property the house where she has been islanded Example sentencesExamples - Tata Power has a unique islanding system that snaps its grid off from the state's supply the moment disturbances threaten to disrupt it.
- At one end of the table was a fowl which had been boiled for four hours; at the other, a hot pork pie, islanded in liquor.
- It was the bigger residents of the islanded lakes that made the grade in a generally tough event.
- Everyone is islanded off in their own little world.
- Uncompromisingly long takes and silent sequences introduce us to a bizarre, islanded world.
Origin Old English īegland, from īeg ‘island’ (from a base meaning ‘watery, watered’) + land. The change in the spelling of the first syllable in the 16th century was due to association with the unrelated word isle. proper nounˈēsland Icelandic name for Iceland
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