park
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (US) A wide, flat-bottomed valley in a mountainous region.Examples: "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"US
2. (UK) An inventory of matériel.Examples: "A country's tank park or artillery park."UK
3. (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A space in which to leave a car; a parking space.Examples: "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."AustraliaNew-Zealandcolloquial
4. (automotive) 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.)Examples: "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."
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To bring (something such as a vehicle) to a halt or store in a specified place.Examples: "You can park the car in front of the house."; "I parked the drive heads of my hard disk before travelling with my laptop."; "Parking is by app, which (when it works) is good. But £7.70 to park is extortionate, so GTR needs to look at reducing that."Antonyms: unparktransitive
2. (transitive, informal, figurative) To defer (a matter) until a later date.Examples: "Let's park that until next week's meeting."; "The Harry Potter spin-off prequel series Fantastic Beasts has been “parked” by Warner Bros, according to its director David Yates."figurativelyinformaltransitive
3. (transitive) To bring together in a park, or compact body.Examples: "to park artillery, wagons, automobiles, etc."transitive
4. (transitive) To enclose in a park, or as in a park.Examples: "O, negligent and heedless discipline! How are we park'd and bounded in a pale, A little herd of England's timorous deer, Mazed with a yelping kennel of French curs!"transitive
5. (transitive, baseball) To hit a home run; to hit the ball out of the park.Examples: "He really parked that one."transitive
6. (intransitive, slang, US) To engage in romantic or sexual activities inside a nonmoving vehicle that was driven to a suitable spot for that purpose.Examples: "They stopped at a romantic overlook, shut off the engine, and parked."; ""What did you do after that?" he asked. - "Went parking over at Silver Lake," replied Betty without hesitation. "Why?" - "I just wondered. Have fun?" "As a matter of fact, I did. Marty's a swell dancer." "That's not what I meant." "What did you mean?" - "I mean after. Parking." - "Yes I did […]""; "A. Well, I had heard that it was used for parking place, but I never went parking there. Q. Excuse me? A. I had heard that it had been used for a parking place, but I had never gone parking there. Q. When you say “Parking place,” what do you mean? A. With a guy and a girl."USintransitiveslang
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