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island | American Dictionary

island
noun[ C ]
us/ˈɑɪ·lənd/
a piece of land completely surrounded by water:
Manhattan is an island.

Examples of island

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Today, with cheap and frequent shipping routes, timber has replaced flagstone as the most viable resource on the island.
All schools visited were situated in typical rural areas, in various parts of the island.
If a scenario resulted in a substantial fraction of land in an island being inundated, land prices would rise.
Perhaps this is due to the presence there of a resident population, making them unique among southerly island groups.
Most of the island consists of pervasively overprinted, greenschist-facies sequences.
It is situated atop a low but steep mountain ridge that rises above the relatively remote and sparsely populated nor theastern coast of the island.
Simulations were run to determine the power of these and previously proposed test statistics to reject an island model of geographic subdivision.
Figure 5 depicts the maximum wave amplitude around the coast of an elliptical island whose major axis is twice the minor axis.
Solutions for elliptical islands were obtained by transforming the equation to elliptical co-ordinates and employing an elliptical mesh.
It, however, opposed the dissolution of the islands' dual subordination as unnecessary action for the following reasons.
Accordingly, the endemic area was believed to be expanding to other islands.
If choice functions are useful for something, they are useful to explain the lack of island sensitivity exhibited by (some) indefinites.
For this project the world space was 1,000 square metres, and the fabricated island resided within this space.
The island continually flipflops from water rationing for over a million of its inhabitants to flooding that causes millions of dollars' worth of property loss.
In fact, it is these very matters that are creating current political conflicts on the island.
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artificial island
It has the drawback of featuring a bridge out to an artificialisland, and my comments about shipping hazards must apply to an artificialisland.
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