[syn: parking lot, car park, park, parking area]
6. a gear position that acts as a parking brake;
- Example: "the put the car in park and got out"
VERB (2)
1. place temporarily;
- Example: "park the car in the yard"
- Example: "park the children with the in-laws"
- Example: "park your bag in this locker"
2. maneuver a vehicle into a parking space;
- Example: "Park the car in front of the library"
- Example: "Can you park right here?"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Park \Park\ (p[aum]rk), n. [AS. pearroc, or perh. rather fr. F.
parc; both being of the same origin; cf. LL. parcus,
parricus, Ir. & Gael. pairc, W. park, parwg. Cf. Paddock an
inclosure, Parrock.]
1. (Eng. Law) A piece of ground inclosed, and stored with
beasts of the chase, which a man may have by prescription,
or the king's grant. --Mozley & W.
[1913 Webster]
2. 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. --Chaucer.
[1913 Webster]
While in the park I sing, the listening deer
Attend my passion, and forget to fear. --Waller.
[1913 Webster]
3. A piece of ground, in or near a city or town, inclosed and
kept for ornament and recreation; as, Hyde Park in London;
Central Park in New York.
[1913 Webster]
4. (Mil.) 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; as, a park of
wagons; a park of artillery.
[1913 Webster]
5. A partially inclosed basin in which oysters are grown.
[Written also parc.]
[1913 Webster]
6. Any place where vehicles are assembled according to a
definite arrangement; also, the vehicles.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
7. 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.
[PJC]
Park of artillery. See under Artillery.
Park phaeton, a small, low carriage, for use in parks.
industrial parka region located typically in a suburban or
rural area, zoned by law for specific types of business
use (as, retail business, light industry, and sometimes
heavy industry), often having some parklike
characteristics, and having businesses, parking lots, and
sometimes recreation areas and restaurants. The sponsoring
agency may also provide supporting facilities, such as
water towers, office buildings, or for large industrial
parks, an airport.
[PJC]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Park \Park\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Parked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Parking.]
1. To inclose in a park, or as in a park.
[1913 Webster]
How are we parked, and bounded in a pale. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Mil.) To bring together in a park, or compact body; as,
to park artillery, wagons, automobiles, etc.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
3. In oyster culture, to inclose in a park.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
4. 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.
Note: a vehicle stopped but still running with the driver in
it is said to be standing. parallel-park [PJC]
5. To place (an object) in a temporary location; as, to park
oneself on the couch; to park one's money in a mutual
fund. [informal]
[PJC]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Park \Park\, v. i.
1. To promenade or drive in a park; also, of horses, to
display style or gait on a park drive.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. 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; as, he parked in a
no-parking zone.
[PJC] Parka
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
park
n 1: a large area of land preserved in its natural state as
public property; "there are laws that protect the wildlife
in this park" [syn: park, parkland]
2: a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area;
"they went for a walk in the park" [syn: park, commons,
common, green]
3: a facility in which ball games are played (especially
baseball games); "take me out to the ballpark" [syn:
ballpark, park]
4: Scottish explorer in Africa (1771-1806) [syn: Park, Mungo
Park]
5: a lot where cars are parked [syn: parking lot, car park,
park, parking area]
6: a gear position that acts as a parking brake; "the put the
car in park and got out"
v 1: place temporarily; "park the car in the yard"; "park the
children with the in-laws"; "park your bag in this locker"
2: maneuver a vehicle into a parking space; "Park the car in
front of the library"; "Can you park right here?"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
191 Moby Thesaurus words for "park":
Astroturf, Indian reservation, afforestation, ammo dump, anchor,
arboretum, archives, arena, armory, arsenal, artificial turf,
artillery park, atomic arsenal, bank, billet at, bird sanctuary,
bivouac, boondocks, bowling green, burrow, bush, bushveld, camp,
campo, chase, cincture, climax forest, close, cloud forest,
colonize, come to anchor, common, commons, confine, container,
coop, court, courtyard, curtilage, delimited field, dendrology,
deposit, domesticate, drop anchor, dump, enclave, enclosure,
ensconce, establish residence, estate, fairway, field, fold,
forest, forest land, forest preserve, forestry, fringing forest,
gallery forest, game reserve, garden, golf course, golf links,
grass, grass veld, grassland, grassplot, grazing, green, greens,
greensward, greenwood, greenyard, ground, grounds, gun park,
hanger, haugh, haughland, hive, index forest, inhabit, jungle,
jungles, keep house, lawn, lay, lea, leave, library, list, live at,
llano, locate, magazine, mead, meadow, meadow land, moor, move,
museum, national forest, national park, nest, pale, paling,
palmetto barrens, pampa, pampas, paradise, park forest, pasturage,
pasture, pasture land, pen, people, perch, pine barrens, place,
pleasance, pleasure garden, pleasure ground, populate, pose, posit,
post, prairie, preserve, primeval forest, protection forest,
public park, put, putting green, quad, quadrangle, rain forest,
range, reforestation, relocate, reservation, reserve, reside,
roost, sanctuary, savanna, scrub, scrubland, seat,
selection forest, set, set up housekeeping, set up shop, settle,
settle down, shrubland, silviculture, sit down, sprout forest,
square, squat, stand, stand of timber, state forest, station,
stay at, steppe, steppeland, stick, store, strike root, submit,
swale, take residence at, take root, take up residence, theater,
timber, timberland, toft, tree veld, vega, veld, village green,
virgin forest, wilderness preserve, wildlife preserve, wildwood,
wood, woodland, woods, yard
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):
PARK, Eng. law. An enclosed chase (q.v.) extending only over a man's own
grounds. The term park signifies an enclosure. 2 Bl. Com. 38.
U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000):
Park -- U.S. County in Montana
Population (2000): 15694
Housing Units (2000): 8247
Land area (2000): 2802.410871 sq. miles (7258.210526 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 11.176254 sq. miles (28.946363 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2813.587125 sq. miles (7287.156889 sq. km)
Located within: Montana (MT), FIPS 30
Location: 45.653282 N, 110.546931 W
Headwords:
Park
Park, MT
Park County
Park County, MT
U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000):
Park -- U.S. County in Wyoming
Population (2000): 25786
Housing Units (2000): 11869
Land area (2000): 6942.393708 sq. miles (17980.716396 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 26.112640 sq. miles (67.631424 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 6968.506348 sq. miles (18048.347820 sq. km)
Located within: Wyoming (WY), FIPS 56
Location: 44.568961 N, 108.999016 W
Headwords:
Park
Park, WY
Park County
Park County, WY
U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000):
Park -- U.S. County in Colorado
Population (2000): 14523
Housing Units (2000): 10697
Land area (2000): 2200.691135 sq. miles (5699.763631 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 9.999132 sq. miles (25.897633 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2210.690267 sq. miles (5725.661264 sq. km)
Located within: Colorado (CO), FIPS 08
Location: 39.171091 N, 105.717199 W
Headwords:
Park
Park, CO
Park County
Park County, CO
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):
Park, KS -- U.S. city in Kansas
Population (2000): 151
Housing Units (2000): 89
Land area (2000): 0.316593 sq. miles (0.819971 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.316593 sq. miles (0.819971 sq. km)
FIPS code: 54400
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 39.112299 N, 100.360501 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 67751
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Park, KS
Park