Word Finder - island

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

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

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an island of colors on a butterfly's wing

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A superstructure on an aircraft carrier's deck.

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A traffic island.

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the island in the middle of a roundabout

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An unincorporated area wholly surrounded by one or more incorporated areas.

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(grammar) A phrase from which a wh-word cannot be extracted without yielding invalid grammar.

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To surround with water; make into an island.

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To set, dot (as if) with islands.

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To isolate.

He swam to an island that was not far away.

It was a small island, and there was no one living on it.

Their small island was untouched.  The trees and jungle beyond were decimated by chasms and fallen trees.

You could ask Arthur yourself if he were here, but he's out on Fire Island with his latest bimboy and all their little friends.

It says it's an island off the coast of Ireland.

In 1697 Andre Briie reached the island of Morfil, while in 1608 he penetrated past the Felu Falls.

Much. Would've wiped out the island by now and half of Cuba without realizing he'd done so.

The Allies defeated Napoleon, entered Paris, forced Napoleon to abdicate, and sent him to the island of Elba, not depriving him of the title of Emperor and showing him every respect, though five years before and one year later they all regarded him as an outlaw and a brigand.

The people were for the most part prosperous and contented, but under Verres the island experienced more misery and desolation than during the time of the first Punic or the recent servile wars.

In order to see how nearly I could guess, with this experience, at the deepest point in a pond, by observing the outlines of a surface and the character of its shores alone, I made a plan of White Pond, which contains about forty-one acres, and, like this, has no island in it, nor any visible inlet or outlet; and as the line of greatest breadth fell very near the line of least breadth, where two opposite capes approached each other and two opposite bays receded, I ventured to mark a point a short distance from the latter line, but still on the line of greatest length, as the deepest.

When he wasn't there, she was alone on the dream island, until Gabriel awoke her.

They sat around the center island and had obviously eaten breakfast together.

Grateful to him, she was likewise anxious to leave the island before the beast returned and flew off the handle.

They crossed unimpeded through the portal and onto the island Sanctuary, one of four such sites bridging the mortal and immortal worlds.

Rhyn trailed and emerged again into the balmy, bright island day.

Santarosa was killed, apparently because he was too miserable and desperate to care to save his life, when the Egyptian troops attacked the island of Sphacteria, near Navarino, on the 8th of May 1825.

The city lies on the west side of the low island of Manzanillo, is bordered on the landward sides by swamp, and consists mainly of unimposing frame houses and small shops.

Last Saturday our kind teachers planned a delightful trip to Bedloe's Island to see Bartholdi's great statue of Liberty enlightening the world....

The man who ten years before and a year later was considered an outlawed brigand is sent to an island two days' sail from France, which for some reason is presented to him as his dominion, and guards are given to him and millions of money are paid him.

It began with the Rhode Island boy who disappeared last September.

A naked, unconscious woman lay atop the island in the center with five men with red eyes chewing on various parts of her body, one on each leg, one on each arm, and one at her neck.

Rhyn was alone on the island sanctuary in his dreams and awoke to the feeling that his magic had slipped even more from its binding.  His body was hot from the inside out despite the cold rain falling in the forest.  The fire had died overnight.  He pushed the waterproof cloak off him.

Did heaven look like an island in the Caribbean?

The rainfall in the south-west portion of the island is considerably greater than in other districts.

The next lines are still more idiomatic, "When Suetonius left the country, they fell upon his troops and retook the island of Anglesea."

Her thoughts drifted to the island.

The Aeginetans at first contented themselves with sending the images of the Aeacidae, the tutelary heroes of their island.

There is also a dockyard and torpedo arsenal at La Plata, an artillery depot at Zarate, above Buenos Aires, and naval depots on the island of Martin Garcia and at Tigre, on the Lujan river.

Local laws, subject to approval by the legislative council of Fiji, are promulgated by a regulation board, composed of the commissioner, native chiefs of the seven districts into which the island is divided, and two native magistrates.

On an island in its bed stood Artaxata, the capital of Armenia from 180 B.C. to A.D.

A steam railway ferry connects it with the island railway on Riigen, and so with Sassnitz, whence a regular steamboat mail service affords communication with Trelleborg in Sweden.

The defences of the place are now solely confined to the island of Danholm, known down to the 13th century as Strehla or Strehlo, lying in the Sound.

Fresh water, rising and falling with the tide, is found in certain large caverns in Lifu, and by sinking to the sea-level a supply may be obtained in any part of the island.

The nearest island to the South American coast lies 580 m.

Charles Island, the most valuable of the group, is cultivated by a small colony.

The chief town is Aegina, situated at the north-west end of the island, the summer residence of many Athenian merchants.

The archaeological interest of Aegina is centred in the well-known temple on the ridge near the northern corner of the island.

It follows, therefore, that the maritime importance of the island dates back to pre-Dorian times.

The fact that the Aeginetan scale of coins, weights and measures was one of the two scales in general use in the Greek world is sufficient evidence of the early commercial importance of the island.

Athens at once appealed to Sparta to punish this act of medism, and Cleomenes I., one of the Spartan kings, crossed over to the island, to arrest those who were responsible for it.

The plot failed owing to the late arrival of the Athenian force, when Nicodromus had already fled the island.

In the first winter of the Peloponnesian War (431 B.C.) Athens expelled the Aeginetans, and established a cleruchy in their island.

It seems that about 340 the island was conquered for the Persian king by his Rhodian admiral Mentor; in 332 it submitted to Alexander the Great.

The sites of Lindus, lalysus, and Camirus, which in the most ancient times were the principal towns of the island, are clearly marked, and the first of the three is still occupied by a small town with a medieval castle, both of them dating from the time of the knights, though the castle occupies the site of the ancient acropolis, of the walls of which considerable remains are still visible.

Kangaroo Island, at the entrance of St Vincent Gulf, is one of the largest islands on the Australian coast, measuring 80 m.

Nickel, so abundant in the island of New Caledonia, has up to the present been found in none of the Australian states except Queensland and Tasmania.

They left Callao on the 21st of December 1605, and in the following year discovered the island now known as Espiritu Santo, one of the New Hebrides group, which De Quiros, under the impression that it was indeed the land of which he was in search, named La Austrialia del Espiritu Santo.

In 1616 Dirk Hartog discovered the island bearing his name.

The honour was later transferred to the discoverer himself, and the island is now known as Tasmania.

The ceremony of hoisting a flag and taking possession of the country in the name of the government of the Netherlands was actually performed, but the description of the wildness of the country, and of the fabulous giants by which Tasman's sailors believed it to be inhabited, deterred the Dutch from occupying the island, and by the international principle of " non-user " it passed from their hands.