Park

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  • noun. An area of land set aside for public use, as.
  • noun. A piece of land with few or no buildings within or adjoining a town, maintained for recreational and ornamental purposes.
  • noun. A landscaped city square.
  • noun. A large tract of rural land kept in its natural state and usually reserved for the enjoyment and recreation of visitors.
  • noun. A broad, fairly level valley between mountain ranges.
  • noun. A tract of land attached to a country house, especially when including extensive gardens, woods, pastures, or a game preserve.
  • noun. A stadium or an enclosed playing field.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. An area where military vehicles or artillery are stored and serviced.
  • noun. The materiel kept in such an area.
  • noun. An area in or near a town designed and usually zoned for a certain purpose.
  • noun. A position in an automatic transmission that disengages the gears and sets the brake so the vehicle cannot move.
  • intransitive verb. To put or leave (a vehicle) for a time in a certain location.
  • intransitive verb. To place (a spacecraft or satellite) in a usually temporary orbit.
  • intransitive verb. To place or leave temporarily.
  • intransitive verb. To assemble (artillery or other equipment) in a military park.
  • intransitive verb. To park a motor vehicle.
  • intransitive verb. To engage in kissing and caressing in a vehicle stopped in a secluded spot.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To inclose or shut up in as in a park.
  • To bring together in a park or compact body: as, to park artillery.
  • To frequent a public park.
  • noun. In English law, a tract of land inclosed and privileged for wild beasts of chase, by the monarch's grant or by prescription.
  • noun. A considerable extent of pasture and woodland, surrounding or adjoining a country-house and devoted primarily to purposes of recreation or enjoyment, and often serving to support a herd of cattle or a flock of sheep, or, in Europe, stocked with deer.
  • noun. A piece of ground, usually of considerable extent, set apart and maintained for public use, and laid out in such a way as to afford pleasure to the eye as well as opportunity for open-air recreation: as, Central Park in New York, or Hyde Park in London.
  • noun. An inclosed piece of ground suitable for tillage or pasture; an inclosed field.
  • noun. A high plateau-like valley, resembling the “holes” and “prairies” of the more northern parts of the Rocky Mountain ranges.
  • noun. Milit.: The space or inclosure occupied by the guns, wagons, animals, pontoons, powder, provisions, stores, etc., when brought together, or the objects themselves: as, a park of artillery, of provisions, of wagons, etc.
  • noun. A complete set or equipment, as of guns, tools, etc.: as, a park of siege-guns.
  • noun. A large net placed at the margin of the sea, with only one entrance, which is next the shore, and is left dry by the ebb of the tide.
  • noun. In oyster-culture, a sunken bed on which oysters are placed for reproduction and growth, and which is filled with water by each high tide.
  • noun. A prison.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To promenade or drive in a park; also, of horses, to display style or gait on a park drive.
  • intransitive verb. To come to a stop [in a vehicle] off of the public road and leave the vehicle standing; -- typically the motor of a parked vehicle is not left running.
  • noun. A piece of ground inclosed, and stored with beasts of the chase, which a man may have by prescription, or the king's grant.
  • noun. A tract of ground kept in its natural state, about or adjacent to a residence, as for the preservation of game, for walking, riding, or the like.
  • noun. A piece of ground, in or near a city or town, inclosed and kept for ornament and recreation
  • noun. A space occupied by the animals, wagons, pontoons, and materials of all kinds, as ammunition, ordnance stores, hospital stores, provisions, etc., when brought together; also, the objects themselves
  • noun. A partially inclosed basin in which oysters are grown.
  • noun. Any place where vehicles are assembled according to a definite arrangement; also, the vehicles.
  • noun. A position of the gear lever in a vehicle with automatic transmission, used when the vehicle is stopped, in which the transmission is in neutral and a brake is engaged.
  • noun. See under Artillery.
  • noun. a small, low carriage, for use in parks.
  • noun. undefined
  • transitive verb. To inclose in a park, or as in a park.
  • transitive verb. To bring together in a park, or compact body
  • transitive verb. In oyster culture, to inclose in a park.
  • transitive verb. To bring (a vehicle) to a stop and leave it standing; -- typically a parked vehicle is off of the public road, the motor is not running, and the driver has left the vehicle.
  • transitive verb. To place (an object) in a temporary location.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A tract of ground kept in its natural state, about or adjacent to a residence, as for the preservation of game, for walking, riding, or the like.
  • noun. A piece of ground, in or near a city or town, enclosed and kept for ornament and recreation
  • Word Usage
    "If 'twa'n't perfectly ridiculous I'd say 'twas to be a park -- just imagine a _park_! ""
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    parked  parking  
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