Meaning of park | Babel Free
pɑɹkDefinitions
- An English surname.
- A surname from Korean. Alternative form of Bak.
- An area of land set aside for environment preservation or recreation.
- A tract of ground kept in its natural state, about or adjacent to a residence, such as for the preservation of game, for walking, riding, or the like.
- A river in central Connecticut.
- parking lot
- Mungo, 1771–1806?, Scottish explorer in Africa.
- A piece of ground in or near a city or town, enclosed and kept for ornament and recreation.
- A village in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland (Irish grid ref C 5802).
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to stop and leave (a motor car etc) for a time. He parked in front of our house. parkeer يوقِف السيّارَه паркирам estacionar parkovat parken parkere σταθμεύωaparcar, estacionar parkima پارک کردن pysäköidä stationner לְהַחֲנוֹת गाडी़ खडी़ करना parkirati, ostaviti parkol memarkir leggja bíl parcheggiare 駐車する 주차하다 pastatyti automobilį novietot automašīnu memberhentikan parkerenparkereparkować دموټرو درول estacionar a parca парковать parkovať parkirati parkirati se parkera จอดรถ park etmek 停放 ста... etc
- An enclosed parcel of land stocked with animals for hunting, which one may have by prescription or royal grant.
- A large area of Lewis, Western Isles council area, Scotland.
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(American) a car park. parkade ساحَة وُقوف السَيّارات паркинг estacionamento parkoviště der Parkplatz parkeringsplads πάρκιγκaparcamiento, parking parkla پارکینگ pysäköintipaikka parc de stationnement מִגרָש חֲנָיָה कार पार्क auto-park parkoló tempat parkir bílastæði parcheggio 駐車場 주차장 automobilių stovėjimo vieta automašīnu stāvvieta tempat letak kereta parkeerterreinparkeringsplassparking پارکینګ parque de estacionamento стоянка parkovisko parkirišče parking parkeringsplats ที่จอดรถ park yer... American
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A wide, flat-bottomed valley in a mountainous region. US
- A community and ward in Merthyr Tydfil borough, Wales.
- a coin-operated meter beside which a car may be parked for the number of minutes or hours shown on the meter. parkeermeter عَدّاد يُسَجّل مُدَّة وُقوف السَيّارَه монетен автомат parquímetro parkovací hodiny die Parkuhr parkometer παρκόμετροparquímetro parkmeeter پارکومتر pysäköintimittari parcomètreמדחן गाड़ी रोकने के टाइम का मीटर ura za parkiranje parkolóóra meteran parkir stöðumælir parchimetro 駐車メーター 주차시간 자동 표시기 automobilio stovėjimo skaitiklis automašīnas stāvvietas skaitītājs meter tempa...
- An area used for specific purposes.
- An open space occupied by or reserved for vehicles, matériel or stores.
- A partially enclosed basin in which oysters are grown.
- An area of land set aside for public use, as:a. A piece of land with few or no buildings within or adjoining a town, maintained for recreational and ornamental purposes.
- An area zoned for a particular (industrial or commercial) purpose.
- A broad, fairly level valley between mountain ranges: the high parks of the Rocky Mountains.
- An area on which a sporting match is played; (soccer) a pitch.
- A tract of land attached to a country house, especially when including extensive gardens, woods, pastures, or a game preserve.
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An inventory of matériel. UK
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Sports A stadium or an enclosed playing field: a baseball park. Sports
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A space in which to leave a car; a parking space. Australia, New-Zealand, colloquial
- An area where military vehicles or artillery are stored and serviced.
- The gear into which one shifts an automatic transmission when one is parking a car or truck. (Denoted with symbol P on a shifter's labeling.)
- An area in or near a town designed and usually zoned for a certain purpose: a commercial park.
Equivalents
Examples
“She went to the park for a jog with him.”
“17th century, Edmund Waller, At Penshurst While in the park I sing, the listening deer / Attend my passion, and forget to fear.”
“Hyde Park in London; Central Park in New York”
“If the afternoon was fine they strolled together in the park, very slowly, and with pauses to draw breath wherever the ground sloped upward. The slightest effort made the patient cough.”
“I roamed the streets and parks, as far removed from the idea of art and pretense as I could take myself, discovering there the kind of truth I was supposed to be setting down on paper…”
“The mountain region thus limited consists of extensive and often level-floored valleys, sometimes many miles broad, and elevated 4,000 to 5,000 feet above the sea, called "parks" in local topography, which are interposed between innumerable rocky mountain ridges ....”
“High Park is a depression of 10 or 12 square miles in extent […] at a general elevation of 7,500 feet. Its smooth floor is partly due to volcanic tuff of the western volcanic area, but chielfly to a find lake-bed deposit of yellowish sandstone....”
“The so-called park is a very broad, open valley,between the Sangre de Cristo range on the east, and the volcanic San Juan and Conejos ranges on the west”
“...the ridges flatten and, higher up, before reaching the upper snow-fields of the mountain, broaden out into high plateaus, the beautiful so-called parks or meadows.”
“Several structural basins, so-called "parks" within the crystalline rocks, are underlain by alluvial and terrace deposits, and in some cases, by Tertiary sediments.”
“a wagon park; an artillery park”
“business park; industrial park; science park”
“Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."”
“But because of their dominance in the middle of the park and the sheer volume of chances, Sunderland boss Steve Bruce must have been staggered and sickened in equal measure when the visitors took the lead five minutes after the break.”
“A country's tank park or artillery park.”
“2003, “Johnny”, "Melbourne Blackout", in Sleazegrinder (editor), Gigs from Hell: True Stories from Rock and Roll′s Frontline, page 174, We got to the 9ᵗʰ Ward and as luck would have it I found a park for my bro′s car right out the front.”
“Once they′d entered the floors of parking spaces, James found a park relatively easily, but Mark had difficulty, and only a swift sprint allowed him to catch up as James walked through the throngs of people in the casino with the determination of a man who didn′t want to be delayed.”
“2011, Antonia Magee, The Property Diaries: A Story of Buying a House, Finding a Man and Making a Home … All on a Single Income!, John Wiley & Sons Australia, unnumbered page, We finally found a park and walked a few blocks to the building.”
“If a car seems to be refusing to let you shift out of park, recall that many cars have a safety interlock which requires that your foot must be pressing on the brake pedal before you can shift out of park.”
“Centring on the tension between the Kims, a basement-dwelling family of “dirt spoons” in Seoul, and the Parks, a family at the opposite end of the social spectrum, Parasite’s plot is predicated on the widening gap between the haves and the have nots in Asia’s fourth-biggest economy.”
“" I can't believe that this is happening in America," Park told NPR in an interview prior to his departure.”
CEFR level
A2
Elementary
This word is part of the CEFR A2 vocabulary — elementary level.
This word is part of the CEFR A2 vocabulary — elementary level.
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