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.