ISLAND
\ˈa͡ɪlənd], \ˈaɪlənd], \ˈaɪ_l_ə_n_d]\
Definitions of ISLAND
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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A tract of land surrounded by water, and smaller than a continent. Cf. Continent.
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Anything regarded as resembling an island; as, an island of ice.
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See Isle, n., 2.
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To furnish with an island or with islands; as, to island the deep.
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A tract of land surrounded by water, and smaller than a continent. Cf. Continent.
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Anything regarded as resembling an island; as, an island of ice.
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See Isle, n., 2.
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To furnish with an island or with islands; as, to island the deep.
By Noah Webster.
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The science dealing with the earth and its life, especially the description of land, sea, and air and the distribution of plant and animal life, including humanity and human industries with reference to the mutual relations of these elements. (From Webster, 3d ed)
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By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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In anatomy, any isolated part, separated from the surrounding tissues by a groove, or marked by difference in structure; insula.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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A tract of land surrounded by water; a large floating mass. The Islands of the Blessed, certain islands fabled to lie in the region of the setting sun, and regarded as the home, after death, of the souls of heroes.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A spot of land surrounded by water, in the same manner as the eye in the face; a tract or portion of land wholly surrounded by water.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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In anatomy, a structure more or less detached from a main mass and surrounded by structures of a different sort.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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