islands

Definition of islands in English English dictionary: plural form of island; The Caribbean islands; plural of island
islands of automation: (Ticaret) Automatic systems or technology that are functional on an independent basis but don't provide the benefits associated with being integrated into a larger system
islands of langerhans: cell clusters in the pancreas that form the endocrine part of that organ; secrete insulin and other hormones
United States minor outlying islands: Regions of the United States of America including: American Samoa, Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, Marshall Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands
floating islands: plural form of floating island
ghost islands: plural form of ghost island
hog islands: plural form of hog island
island: To set, dot (as if) with islands
island: To isolate
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island: To surround with water; make into an island
We paused at little river cities along the way and walked upon their bushy dikes, and heard tales of overflows in flood seasons, when four feet or more of water islanded the houses.
island: A contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, totally surrounded by water
Sumatra is the second largest island in the East Indies and the fourth largest in the world covering 182,859 square miles.
island: A superstructure on an aircraft carrier's deck
tidal islands: plural form of tidal island
traffic islands: plural form of traffic island
cayman islands: a British colony in the Caribbean northwest of Jamaica; an international banking center
Turks and caicos islands: Two island groups of the British West Indies in the Atlantic Ocean in the southeast part of the Bahama Islands. The islands were a dependency of Jamaica after 1848 and became a crown colony in 1962
falkland islands: British self-governing colony (pop., 1996: 2,564), in the southern Atlantic Ocean. Located about 300 mi (480 km) northeast of the southern tip of South America, the Falklands are made up of two main islands, East Falkland and West Falkland, and about 200 smaller islands. The islands are spread out over some 4,700 sq mi (12,200 sq km). The capital is Stanley, on East Falkland. The population is English-speaking and of British descent. The economy is based on sheep raising. The French founded the islands' first settlement, on East Falkland in 1764, and the British settled West Falkland in 1765. In 1770 the Spanish purchased the French settlement and expelled the British, but the latter's settlement was restored in 1771. In 1820 Argentina proclaimed its sovereignty over the Falklands, but the British took them back in 1833. Argentina invaded in 1982, and the British reclaimed the islands after a brief conflict (see Falkland Islands War)
pribilof islands: (Coğrafya) Group of islands, southeastern Bering Sea, Alaska, U.S. It includes St. Paul, St. George, and three islets, and it lies about 300 mi (500 km) west of the mainland. Control of the islands was transferred from Russia to the U.S. with the Alaska Purchase (1867). The islands are hilly and treeless with no harbours. They are breeding grounds from April to November for most of the world's fur seals. Commercial harvesting of seals was discontinued in 1986. The islands are also home to enormous numbers of birds and both blue and white phases of Arctic foxes. The indigenous population is made up of Aleuts
Bermuda islands: group of islands in the Atlantic Ocean off the Carolina coast
Orkney islands: {i} group of islands in the North Sea off the northern coast of Scotland
admiralty islands: a group of islands in the Bismarck Archipelago
aland islands: an archipelago of some 6,000 islands in the Gulf of Bothnia under Finnish control
aleutian islands: an archipelago in the North Pacific extending southwestern from Alaska
aran islands: three small islands belonging to Ireland at the entrance to Galway Bay
balearic islands: an archipelago in the western Mediterranean off the eastern coast of Spain
british virgin islands: more than 40 northeastern Virgin Islands (15 inhabited); a dependent territory of the United Kingdom
canary islands: a group of mountainous islands in the Atlantic off the northwest coast of Africa forming Spanish provinces
cape verde islands: a group of islands in the Atlantic off of the coast of Senegal
caroline islands: a long archipelago of more than 500 islands in Micronesia east of the Philippines
cayman islands dollar: the basic unit of money in the Cayman Islands
channel islands: a group of British islands in the English Channel off the northern coast of France
channel islands national park: a national park in California featuring sea birds and marine life
comoro islands: three main islands and numerous islets in the Indian Ocean between Mozambique and Madagascar
egadi islands: a group of islands off the west coast of Sicily in the Mediterranean
faeroe islands: a group of 21 volcanic islands in the North Atlantic between Iceland and the Shetland Islands
faeroe islands: a self-governing colony that is a possession of Denmark in the Faroe Islands
falkland islands: a group of over 100 islands in the southern Atlantic off the coast of Argentina; a British crown colony
faroe islands: a group of 21 volcanic islands in the North Atlantic between Iceland and the Shetland Islands
faroe islands: a group of 21 volcanic islands in the North Atlantic between Iceland and the Shetland Islands a self-governing colony that is a possession of Denmark in the Faroe Islands
faroe islands: a self-governing colony that is a possession of Denmark in the Faroe Islands
fiji islands: a group of more than 800 islands (100 inhabited) in the southwestern Pacific; larger islands (Viti Levu and Vanua Levu) are of volcanic origin surrounded by coral reefs; smaller islands are coral
frisian islands: a chain of islands in the North Sea off the coast of northwestern Europe extending from the IJsselmeer to Jutland
galapagos islands: a group of islands in the Pacific off South America; owned by Ecuador; known for unusual animal life
gambier islands: a group of islands in the south central Pacific; part of French Polynesia
gilbert and ellice islands: a former British possession in Micronesia
gilbert islands: a group of islands in Micronesia southwest of Hawaii; formerly part of the British colony of Gilbert and Ellice Islands until it became part of the Republic of Kiribati in 1979
greater sunda islands: a chain of islands including Borneo and Celebes and Java and Sumatra
hawaiian islands: a group of volcanic and coral islands in the central Pacific
island: a zone or area resembling an island a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water
island: Land that has water on all sides
island: Continent
island: {f} make into an island; furnish with islands; seclude, isolate
island: A portion of a power system or several power systems that is electrically separated from the interconnection due to the disconnection of transmission system elements
island: A tract of land surrounded by water, and smaller than a continent
island: An island is a piece of land that is surrounded by water
island: Inner domain of a pocket that is to be avoided during machining It has a closed hard boundary
island: An island is a piece of land that is completely surrounded by water. the Canary Islands. a piece of land completely surrounded by water. Any area of land smaller than a continent and entirely surrounded by water. Islands may occur in oceans, seas, lakes, or rivers. A group of islands is called an archipelago. Continental islands are simply unsubmerged parts of a continental mass that are entirely surrounded by water; Greenland, the world's largest island, is of the continental type. Oceanic islands are produced by volcanic activity, when lava accumulates to enormous thickness until it finally protrudes above the ocean surface. The piles of lava that form Hawaii rise as high as 32,000 ft (9,700 m) above the ocean floor. Holy Island Sandalwood Island Alcatraz Island Alexander Island Anticosti Island Baffin Island Banks Island Bathurst Island Block Island Cape Breton Island Coney Island Devils Island Easter Island Ellesmere Island Ellis Island Fire Island Gorée Island Isabela Island island arc Kangaroo Island Kavaratti Island Kodiak Island Long Island Long Island Sound Mackinac Island Melville Island Muna Island Norfolk Island Norfolk Island pine North Island Padre Island Pitcairn Island Prince Edward Island Rhode Island Rhode Island and Providence Plantations Rhode Island School of Design Roanoke Island Roosevelt Island Welfare Island Blackwell's Island Sakhalin Island San Cristóbal Island San Juan Island National Historical Park South Island Southampton Island Staten Island Three Mile Island Vancouver Island Victoria Island Wake Island Wrangel Island Sandwich Islands Brooks Islands Admiralty Islands Aegean Islands Åland Islands Aleutian Islands Andaman and Nicobar Islands Andreanof Islands Aran Islands Aru Islands Austral Islands Babuyan Islands Balearic Islands Bonin Islands Canary Islands Caroline Islands Cayman Islands Channel Islands Santa Barbara Islands Cocos Islands Keeling Islands Cook Islands Corn Islands D'Entrecasteaux Islands Diomede Islands Elizabeth Islands Eolie Islands Lipari Islands Falkland Islands Falkland Islands War Faroe Islands Faeroe Islands Frisian Islands Futuna Islands Hoorn Islands Galápagos Islands Gambier Islands Gilbert and Ellice Islands Gilbert Islands Goto Islands Ionian Islands Islands Bay of Juan Fernández Islands Kerguelen Islands Kermadec Islands Khuriyya Muriyya Islands Kuria Muria Islands Kuril Islands islands of Langerhans Leeward Islands Line Islands Madeira Islands Magdalen Islands Mariana Islands Ladrone Islands Marquesas Islands Marshall Islands Republic of the Marshall Islands New Siberian Islands Northern Mariana Islands Orkney Islands Pacific Islands Trust Territory of the Phoenix Islands Pribilof Islands Queen Charlotte Islands Queen Elizabeth Islands Ryukyu Islands Schouten Islands Shetland Islands Zetland Islands Society Islands Solomon Islands South Orkney Islands Spratly Islands Sunda Islands Tanimbar Islands Thousand Islands Torres Strait Islands Trobriand Islands Kiriwina Islands Turks and Caicos Islands Virgin Islands British Virgin Islands National Park Virgin Islands of the U.S. Visayan Islands Volcano Islands Wallis and Futuna Islands Wallis Islands Windward Islands Paracel Islands
island: Unincorporated territory substantially surrounded by a city, or territory surrounded by a city on one or more sides and the Pacific Ocean on the remaining side
island: (Available in Advanced Search) A free- standing cabinet in the center of the kitchen that often includes an eating bar and room for bar stools It can also include a smaller salad sink, or the cook-top
island: An entity surrounded by other entities that are very different from itself
island: Polygon which is "completely" enclosed on all sides by another larger polygon The larger polygon is sometimes referred to as a lake
island: An isolated group of agents that does not know about the existence of the larger whole Possible behind firewalls, or accidentally
island: 1 A traffic island by any other name: a raised area not for use of traffic, rather to deflect or divide it, found in the centre of an area of carriageway The central part of a roundabout is an excellent example of an island 2 In slang used in parts of the West Midlands and up to Manchester, a roundabout
island: Island is a Electronic Communication Network (ECN)
island: n a landmass surrounded by water on all sides
island: {i} piece of land completely surrounded by water; something which resembles such a piece of land; raised area or a platform set aside for some specific purpose; (Medicine) cluster of cells, piece of tissue separated from others
island: (Available in Advanced Search) House plans with a free-standing cabinet in the center of the kitchen that often includes an eating bar and room for bar stools It can also include a smaller salad sink, or the cook-top
island: To furnish with an island or with islands; as, to island the deep
island: An area of land, smaller than a continent, completely surrounded by water
island: A landform smaller than a continent and completely surrounded by water
island: An area of land, smaller than a continent, completely surrounded by water Cuba, Japan, and Great Britain are islands
island: An island is a piece of land that is surrounded by water isthmus An isthmus is a narrow strip of land connecting two larger landmasses An isthmus has water on two sides lake A lake is a large body of water surrounded by land on all sides Really huge lakes are often called seas mesa A mesa is a land formation with a flat area on top and steep walls - usually occurring in dry areas
island: A piece of land completely surrounded by water
island: Cf
island: An area of land, smaller than a continent, completley surrounded by water
island: See Isle, n
island: Land completely surrounded by water
island: n pulau
island: a landmass, smaller than a continent, that is entirely surrounded by water
island: An area of land totally surrounded by water
island: a zone or area resembling an island
island: a body of land completely surrounded by water
island: To cause to become or to resemble an island; to make an island or islands of; to isle
island: la isla
island: A free- standing cabinet in the center of the kitchen that often includes an eating bar and room for bar stools It can also include a smaller salad sink, or the cook-top
island: Anything regarded as resembling an island; as, an island of ice
island: a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water
island: Isl
leeward islands: a group of islands in the eastern West Indies
lesser sunda islands: a chain of islands forming a province of Indonesia east of Java; includes Bali and Timor
madeira islands: a group of volcanic island in the Atlantic Ocean west of Morocco
mariana islands: a chain of coral and volcanic islands in Micronesia (including Guam and the Northern Marianas) halfway between New Guinea and Japan; discovered by Magellan in 1521
marquesas islands: a group of volcanic islands in the south central Pacific; part of French Polynesia
marshall islands: a group of coral islands in eastern Micronesia
marshall islands: a republic (under United States protection) on the Marshall Islands
marshall islands: a group of coral islands in eastern Micronesia a republic (under United States protection) on the Marshall Islands
midway islands: an atoll in the Hawaiian Islands some 1300 mile northwest of Honolulu; site of an important United States naval base
new siberian islands: a group of islands in the Arctic Ocean north of Siberia and east of the Laptev Sea
orkney islands: an archipelago of about 70 islands in the North Atlantic and North Sea off the northeastern coast of Scotland
philippine islands: {i} archipelago in the southwest Pacific that includes about 7000 islands
ryukyu islands: a chain of 55 islands in the western Pacific southwest of Japan (returned by United States to Japan in 1972)
scilly islands: an archipelago of small islands off the southwestern coast of England near the entrance to the English Channel; formerly a haven for smugglers and pirates
society islands: an island group of French Polynesia in the South Pacific east of Samoa
solomon islands: the southern Solomon Islands that since 1978 form an independent state in the British Commonwealth
solomon islands: the northernmost islands are part of Papua New Guinea; the remainder form an independent state within the British Commonwealth
south sea islands: any islands in the southern or southwestern of central parts of the Pacific Ocean
spice islands: a group of island in eastern Indonesia between Celebes and New Guinea; settled by the Portuguese but taken by the Dutch who made them the center for a spice monopoly, at which time they were known as Spice Islands
sunda islands: a chain of islands in the western Malay Archipelago
tubuai islands: a chain of small islands in French Polynesia
united states virgin islands: more than 130 southeastern Virgin Islands; a dependent territory of the United States
virgin islands: a group of islands in northeastern West Indies (east of Puerto Rico) discovered by Christopher Colombus in 1493; owned by United States and Britain
virgin islands national park: a national park in the Virgin Islands having tropical plants and animals; sandy beaches and coral reefs
visayan islands: group of islands in the central Philippines
volcano islands: a group of Japanese Islands in the northwesternern Pacific Ocean north of the Marianas
windward islands: a group of islands in the southeastern West Indies; the southern part of the Lesser Antilles