Island

Island Meanings:

• A tract of land surrounded by water, and smaller than a continent. Cf. Continent
• Anything regarded as resembling an island; as, an island of ice
• ___isle
• To cause to become or to resemble an island; to make an island or islands of; to isle
• To furnish with an island or with islands; as, to island the deep
• ylond, ylelond, yland (obsolete)
• (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˈaɪ̯lənd/
• (by extension, in place names) A contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, partially surrounded by water; A peninsula; A half-island.
• An entity surrounded by other entities that are very different from itself. (a calm place surrounded by a noisy environment)
• A bench, counter, etc., that is not connected to a wall or other furniture and which can be used from any side.
• (government) An unincorporated area wholly surrounded by one or more incorporated areas.
• (grammar) A phrase from which a wh-word cannot be extracted without yielding invalid grammar. Adverbial subordinate clauses are islands for extraction: "They have a billion dollars of inventory that they don't know where *(it) is".
• (land surrounded by water): ait, holm
• (an entity surrounded by other very different entities): oasis
• (transitive) To surround with water; make into an island.
• (transitive) To set, dot (as if) with islands.
• (transitive) To isolate. 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XXVII, lines 1-2 High the vanes of Shrewsbury gleam Islanded in Severn stream.
• [slang] A bowel movement so large that it breaks the surface of the toilet water, creating an island in the bowl.
• [slang] a area of land 100% surrounded by water
• [slang] A place where people are usually nice to each other, nobody's in a hurry, people stop and talk to each other on the street even in nasty weather, there are no secrets, and life just pretty much works the way it should most of the time. It's not too complicated.
• [slang] In New York City and surrounding suburbs 'The Island' means Long Island. Specifically the geographical part of Long Island that does not include the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens which are technically ON Long Island. That is, it refers to Nassau and Suffolk counties (of New York State).
• [slang] The thin strip of skin precariously located between a mans brown star and berries.
• [slang] new york city. alot of new york rappers (especially the ones from queens) use the word "island" to refer to new york city
• [slang] The term used to call an island within an island ex. if an island had a body of water and if that body of water had an island
• [slang] People that came from island tribes. ex: philippines,indonesia,malaysia. <- malayo-polynesian palauans,guamanians,etc <- micronesians papuans,soloman islanders,etc <- melanesians samoans,native hawaiians,tongans,etc <- polynesians and many other places in asia pacific and north america that were inhabited by island tribes.
• [slang] when your stuck in the middle of a busy room when there is no ash tray to be found ! .... and you just simply cant be arsed getting up to get one ! Background: A hobbit like man named Grant was sat balanced precuriously on two desk chairs when he glanced at the people in the room and uttered the words "shit man I'm islanding!"