Word Finder - parks

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An area of land set aside for environment preservation or recreation.

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A wide, flat-bottomed valley in a mountainous region.

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An area used for specific purposes.

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An inventory of matériel.

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A country's tank park or artillery park.

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A space in which to leave a car; a parking space.

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To bring (something such as a vehicle) to a halt or store in a specified place.

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I parked the drive heads of my hard disk before travelling with my laptop.

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To defer (a matter) until a later date.

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Let's park that until next week's meeting.

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To bring together in a park, or compact body.

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to park artillery, wagons, automobiles, etc.

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To enclose in a park, or as in a park.

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To hit a home run, to hit the ball out of the park.

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He really parked that one.

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To engage in romantic or sexual activities inside a nonmoving vehicle.

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They stopped at a romantic overlook, shut off the engine, and parked.

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(sometimes reflexive) To sit, recline, or put, especially in a manner suggesting an intent to remain for some time.

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He came in and parked himself in our living room.

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To invest money temporarily in an investment instrument considered to relatively free of risk, especially while awaiting other opportunities.

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We decided to park our money in a safe, stable, low-yield bond fund until market conditions improve.

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To register a domain name, but make no use of it (See domain parking)

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(oyster culture) To enclose in a park, or partially enclosed basin.

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To promenade or drive in a park.

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(of horses) To display style or gait on a park drive.

Richmond has broad well-shaded streets, several parks, including Glen Miller (139 acres), and handsome public buildings.

Within the bounds of Westminster are the royal palaces, the government offices and many other of the finest public buildings, and the wider area specified includes the majority of the residences of the wealthier classes, the most beautiful parks and the most fashionable places of recreation.

To compensate for the narrowness of its streets and its lack of fine promenades Sydney possesses a number of grand parks, surpassed in few other capitals.

Adjoining are two smaller parks, Cook Park and Philip Park, while north of these stretches the Domain and the botanical gardens.

There are numerous other and smaller parks, of which the chief are Wentworth Park laid out on the site of Blackwattle Swamp, Prince Alfred Park, Belmore Park and Victoria Park adjoining the university grounds.

There are large and well-kept public parks, a common (17 acres) with a soldiers' monument, a free public library, with more than 50,000 volumes in 5907, a city hall, county and municipal court-houses, a county gaol and house of correction, a county industrial school and a state armoury.

Several beautiful parks have been laid out on this hill.

The administration and acreage of parks and open spaces, and their provisions for the public recreation, fall for consideration later, but some of them are notable features in the topography of London.

The administration of parks and open spaces in and round London, topographical details of the principal of which are given in Section I., is divided between the Office of Works, the London County Council, the City Corporation and the borough councils.

The Office of Works controls the Royal parks, the County Council controls the larger parks and open spaces not under Government or City control, and the borough councils the smaller; while the City Corporation controls certain public grounds outside the County of London.

The London County Council's parks and open spaces increased in number from 40 in 1890 to 114 in 1907, and in acreage from 2656 to 5006 in the same years.

Provision is made for cricket, football and other games in a number of the parks.

Several parks have been laid out on the site of the broad glacis which formerly separated Temesvar from its suburbs, which are now united with it by broad avenues.

The city has 95 acres of boulevards and avenues under park supervision and several fine parks (17, with 307 acres in 1907), notably Washington (containing Calverley's bronze statue of Robert Burns, and Rhind's "Moses at' the Rock of Horeb"), Beaver and Dudley, in which is the old Dudley Observatory - the present Observatory building is in Lake Avenue, south-west of Washington Park, where is also the Albany Hospital.

On every side the town is surrounded by royal parks and woods of sycamores, plane-trees and elms, often of extraordinary size.

Maras have been introduced into several British parks.

These form nearly 60% of its total area, private gardens, parks and open spaces occupying a further 13%.

Parks, &c. - The Prater, a vast expanse (2000 acres) of wood and park on the east side of the city, between the Danube and the Danube Canal, is greatly frequented by all classes.

Other parks are the Hofgarten, the Volksgarten and the Town Park, all adjoining the Ring-Strasse; the Augarten in the Leopoldstadt, the Belvedere Park in the Landstrasse, the Esterhazy Park in Mariahilf, and the Türkenschanz Park in Dobling.

Among the most popular resorts are the parks and gardens belonging to the imperial châteaux of Schönbrunn and Laxenburg.

There are several small parks and squares, including Central Square, Beacon Square, about which the business portion of the township is centred, and Saltonstall Park, in which is a monument to the memory of Watertown's soldiers who died in the Civil War, and near which are the Town House and the Free Public Library, containing a valuable collection of 60,000 books and pamphlets and historical memorials.

It can be grown in parks and gardens, and thrives well; but the young plants are unable to bear great variations of temperature.

The botanical garden, with its large palm-house, the Hofgarten, surrounded with arcades containing frescoes of Greek landscapes by Rottmann, and the Maximilian park to the east of the Isar, complete the list of public parks.

The city has a number of fine parks.

To this combination of modellers in European style and metal-workers of such force as Suzuki and Okazaki, Japan owes various memorial bronzes and effigies which are gradually finding a place in her parks, her museums, her shrines or her private houses.

The parks have always afforded to the people their chief means of recreation.

There are several public parks, of which the principal are the Ormeau Park (1870), the Victoria, Alexandra, and Falls Road parks.

Binghamton is picturesquely situated and has a number of parks, the most attractive of which are Ross Park of ioo acres and Ely Park of 134 acres.

The mayor is superintendent of the department of public affairs, and each of the other administrative departments (accounts and finances, public safety, streets and public improvements, and parks and public property) is under the charge of one of the councilmen.

At a radius of nearly a mile is another wall within which lies the closely-packed city proper, and beyond which the town stretches away to the royal parks on the north and to the business quarter, the warehouses, rice-mills, harbour and docks on the south.

The site of Oneida was purchased in1829-1830by Sands Higinbotham, in honour of whom one of the municipal parks (the other is Allen Park) is named.

The species is semi-domesticated in British parks, and occurs wild in western Asia, North Africa, the south of Europe and Sardinia.

There are two small city parks, and a privately owned resort, Millbrook Park.

To the north of the old town are the East and West Parks and the Hampshire county cricket ground, and to the south the small Queen's Park.

There is a statue in the parks of Dr Isaac Watts, the theologian (1674-1748), a native of the town, in whose memory the Watts Memorial Hall was erected in 1875.

Besides St James and City Hall parks in the city, San Jose has Alum Rock Canyon Park, a tract of woo acres, with sixteen mineral springs, in Penitencia Canyon, 7 m.

There are two pretty public parks, one in the Hufen, with a zoological garden attached, another the Luisenwahl which commemorates the sojourn of Queen Louisa of Prussia in the town in the disastrous year 1806.

There are numerous municipal and other parks.

Angus Smith determined London air to vary in oxygen content from 20.857 to 20.95, the air in parks and open spaces showing the higher percentage; Glasgow air showed similar results, varying from 20.887 in the streets to 20 92 9 in open spaces.

At one time this position was supposed to be occupied by the white half-wild cattle of Chillingham and other British parks.

Gardens and promenades have taken the place of the old ramparts, and on the south the city is bounded by the Frederiks and the Flora parks, between which runs the fine avenue called the Dreef, leading to the Haarlemmer Hout or wood.

Hayes, is of interest, and the city has a public library (1873) and parks, in large measure the gifts of his uncle, Sardis Birchard.

There are two private parks, open to the public, and a waterworks system is maintained by the village.

The forest reserves are included in ten national parks, named the Chelan, Columbia, Colville, Kaniksu, Olympic, Ranier, Snoqualmie, Washington, Wanaha and Wenatchee, the Chelan being the largest, with an area of 2,492,500 acres.

The aggregate area of these parks (all of which were opened in 1907 and 1908) is 18,850.7 sq.

It has a number of admirable public buildings, while, among several parks and recreation grounds, mention must be made of the fine botanical garden, 750 acres in extent, where, in Lake Wendouree, pisciculture is carried on with great success.

The city has many beautiful parks and squares, the most picturesque of which is Juneau Park, along the lake bluff.

Other parks are Lake Park, also on the lake shore, at North Point, where stands the waterworks pumping station with its tall tower; Riverside and Kilbourn Parks, east and west respectively of the upper Milwaukee river, in the northern part of the city, Washington Park on the west side, containing a menagerie and a herd of deer; Sherman Park on the west side, and Kosciusko, Humboldt and Mitchell Parks on the south side.

During the summer there are open-air theatres in several private parks or "gardens."

In 1910 Newark had 658 acres in public parks, of which 637 acres were under the administration of the Essex County Park Commission.