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An island or isle is a piece of subcontinental land completely surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, skerries, cays or keys. An island in a river or a lake island may be called an eyot or ait, and a small island off the coast may be called a holm. Sedimentary islands in the Ganges Delta are called chars. A grouping of geographically or geologically related islands, such as the Philippines, is referred to as an archipelago.
There are two main types of islands in the sea: continental islands and oceanic islands. There are also artificial islands (man-made islands).
There are about 900,000 official islands in the world. This number consists of all the officially-reported islands of each country. The total number of islands in the world is unknown. There may be hundreds of thousands of tiny islands that are unknown and uncounted.[1] The number of sea islands in the world is estimated to be more than 200,000. The total area of the world’s sea islands is approx. 9,963,000 sq km, which is similar to the area of Canada and accounts for roughly 1/15 (or 6.7%) of the total land area of Earth.[2]
Etymology
The word island derives from Middle English iland, from Old English igland (from ig or ieg, similarly meaning ‘island’ when used independently, and -land carrying its contemporary meaning; cf. Dutch eiland («island»), German Eiland («small island»)). However, the spelling of the word was modified in the 15th century because of a false etymology caused by an incorrect association with the etymologically unrelated Old French loanword isle, which itself comes from the Latin word insula.[3][4] Old English ieg is actually a cognate of Swedish ö and German Aue, and related to Latin aqua (water).[5]
Relationships with continents
Differentiation from continents
Dymaxion world map with the continental landmasses (Roman numerals) and 30 largest islands (Arabic numerals) roughly to scale
There is no standard of size that distinguishes islands from continents,[6] or from islets.[7]
There is a widely accepted difference between islands and continents in terms of geology.[8] Continents are often considered to be the largest landmass of a particular continental plate; this holds true for Australia, which sits on its own continental lithosphere and tectonic plate (the Australian Plate).[9]
By contrast, islands are usually seen as being extensions of the oceanic crust (e.g. volcanic islands), or as belonging to a continental plate containing a larger landmass (continental islands); the latter is the case of Greenland, which sits on the North American Plate.[10]
Continental islands
Continental islands are bodies of land that lie on the continental shelf of a continent.[11] Examples are Borneo, Java, Sumatra, Sakhalin, Taiwan and Hainan off Asia; New Guinea, Tasmania, and Kangaroo Island off Australia; Great Britain, Ireland, and Sicily off Europe; Greenland, Newfoundland, Long Island, and Sable Island off North America; and Barbados, the Falkland Islands, and Trinidad off South America.
Microcontinental islands
A special type of continental island is the microcontinental island, which is created when a continent is horizontally displaced or rifted[12][13] Examples are Madagascar and Socotra off Africa, New Caledonia, New Zealand, and some of the Seychelles.[13]
Subcontinental islands
A lake such as Wollaston Lake drains in two different directions, thus creating an island. If this island has a seashore as well as being encircled by two river systems, it becomes what might be called a subcontinental island. The one formed by Wollaston Lake is very large, about 2,000,000 km2 (770,000 sq mi).[14]
Bars
Another subtype is an island or bar formed by deposition of tiny rocks where water current loses some of its carrying capacity. This includes:
- barrier islands, which are accumulations of sand deposited by sea currents on the continental shelves[15][16]
- fluvial or alluvial islands formed in river deltas or midstream within large rivers. While some are transitory and may disappear if the volume or speed of the current changes, others are stable and long-lived.[17]
Oceanic islands
Tectonic versus volcanic
Oceanic islands are typically considered to be islands that do not sit on continental shelves. Other definitions limit the term to only refer to islands with no past geological connections to a continental landmass.[18] The vast majority are volcanic in origin, such as Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.[19] The few oceanic islands that are not volcanic are tectonic in origin and arise where plate movements have lifted up the ocean floor above the surface. Examples are the Saint Peter and Saint Paul Archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean and Macquarie Island in the South Pacific Ocean.
Volcanic islands
Arcs
One type of volcanic oceanic island is found in a volcanic island arc. These islands arise from volcanoes where the subduction of one plate under another is occurring. Examples are the Aleutian Islands, the Mariana Islands, and most of Tonga in the Pacific Ocean.[20][21] The only examples in the Atlantic Ocean are some of the Lesser Antilles and the South Sandwich Islands.
Oceanic rifts
Another type of volcanic oceanic island occurs where an oceanic rift reaches the surface. There are two examples: Iceland, which is the world’s second-largest volcanic island, and Jan Mayen. Both islands are in the Atlantic Ocean.
Hotspots
A third type of volcanic oceanic island is formed over volcanic hotspots. A hotspot is more or less stationary relative to the moving tectonic plate above it, so a chain of islands results as the plate drifts. Over long periods of time, this type of island is eventually «drowned» by isostatic adjustment and eroded, becoming a seamount.[22] Plate movement across a hot-spot produces a line of islands oriented in the direction of the plate movement. An example is the Hawaiian Islands, from Hawaii to Kure, which continue beneath the sea surface in a more northerly direction as the Emperor Seamounts. Another chain with similar orientation is the Tuamotu Archipelago; its older, northerly trend is the Line Islands. The southernmost chain is the Austral Islands, with its northerly trending part the atolls in the nation of Tuvalu. Tristan da Cunha is an example of a hotspot volcano in the Atlantic Ocean.[23] Another hotspot in the Atlantic is the island of Surtsey, which was formed in 1963.[24]
Atolls
An atoll is an island formed from a coral reef that has grown on an eroded and submerged volcanic island. The reef rises to the surface of the water and forms a new island. Atolls are typically ring-shaped with a central lagoon. Examples are the Line Islands in the Pacific Ocean and Maldives in the Indian Ocean.[25]
Tropical islands
Approximately 45,000 tropical islands with an area of at least 5 hectares (12 acres) exist.[26] Examples formed from coral reefs include Maldives, Tonga, Samoa, Nauru, and Polynesia.[26] Granite islands include Seychelles[27] and Tioman.
The socio-economic diversity of tropical islands ranges from the Stone Age societies in the interior of North Sentinel, Madagascar, Borneo, and Papua New Guinea to the high-tech lifestyles of the city-islands of Singapore and Hong Kong.[28] International tourism is a significant factor in the economy of many tropical islands including Seychelles, Sri Lanka, Mauritius, Réunion, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Maldives.
De-islanding
The process of de-islandisation is often concerning bridging, but there are other forms of linkages such as causeways: fixed transport links across narrow necks of water, some of which are only operative at low tides (e.g. that connecting Cornwall’s St Michael’s Mount to the peninsular mainland) while others (such as the Canso Causeway connecting Cape Breton to the Nova Scotia mainland), are usable all-year-round (aside from interruptions during storm surge periods).[29][30]
Some places may retain «island» in their names for historical reasons after being connected to a larger landmass by a land bridge or landfill, such as Coney Island and Coronado Island, though these are, strictly speaking, tied islands.[30] Conversely, when a piece of land is separated from the mainland by a man-made canal, for example the Peloponnese by the Corinth Canal, more or less the entirety of Fennoscandia by the White Sea Canal, or Marble Hill in northern Manhattan during the time between the building of the United States Ship Canal and the filling-in of the Harlem River which surrounded the area, it is generally not considered an island.
Another type of connection is fostered by harbor walls/breakwaters that incorporate offshore islets into their structures, such as those in Sai harbor in northern Honshu, Japan, and the connection to the mainland which transformed Ilhéu do Diego from an islet. De-islanded through its fixed link to the mainland, the former islet’s name, Ilhéu do Diego, became functionally redundant (and thereby archaic) and the location took the fort as its namesake. Some former island sites have retained designations as islands after the draining/subsidence of surrounding waters and their fixed linkage to land (England’s Isle of Ely and Vancouver’s Granville Island being respective cases in point). Their names are thereby archaic in that they reflect the islands’ pasts rather than their present structures or transport logistics. Other examples include Singapore and its causeway, and the various Dutch delta islands, such as IJsselmonde.
Artificial islands
Almost all of Earth’s islands are natural and have been formed by tectonic forces or volcanic eruptions. However, artificial (man-made) islands also exist, such as the island in Osaka Bay off the Japanese island of Honshu, on which Kansai International Airport is located. Artificial islands can be built using natural materials (e.g., earth, rock, or sand) or artificial ones (e.g., concrete slabs or recycled waste).[31][32]
Sometimes natural islands are artificially enlarged, such as Vasilyevsky Island in the Russian city of St. Petersburg, which had its western shore extended westward by some 0.5 km in the construction of the Passenger Port of St. Petersburg.[33]
Artificial islands are sometimes built on pre-existing «low-tide elevation,» a naturally formed area of land which is surrounded by and above water at low tide but submerged at high tide. Legally these are not islands and have no territorial sea of their own.[34]
Island superlatives
- Largest island: Greenland[35]
- Largest island in a lake: Manitoulin Island, Ontario, Canada[35]
- Largest lake island within a lake island: Treasure Island, in Lake Mindemoya on Manitoulin Island[36]
- Largest island in a river: Bananal Island, Tocantins, Brazil[37]
- Largest island in freshwater: Marajó, Pará, Brazil
- Largest sand island: Fraser Island, Queensland, Australia[38]
- Largest artificial island: Flevopolder, the Netherlands (created 1969)[39]
- Largest uninhabited island: Devon Island, Nunavut, Canada[40]
- Most populous island: Java, Indonesia[41]
- Lowest island: Franchetti Island, Lake Afrera, Ethiopia
- Island shared by largest number of countries: Borneo (Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia)
- Island with the highest point: New Guinea (Puncak Jaya, 4,884 m, 16,024 ft), Indonesia
- Northernmost island: Kaffeklubben Island, Greenland
- Southernmost island (not fully surrounded by permanent ice): Ross Island, Antarctica
- Island with the most populated city: Honshu (Tokyo), Japan
- Most remote island (from nearest land): Bouvet Island[42]
- Island with earliest known settlement: Sumatra (Lida Ajer cave), Indonesia
See also
- Desert island
- Great wall of sand
- Island biogeography
- Island ecology
- Island country
- Island hopping
- Lake island
- List of ancient islands
- List of archipelagos
- List of artificial islands
- List of divided islands
- List of fictional islands
- List of island countries
- List of islands by area
- List of islands by body of water
- List of islands by continent
- List of islands by country
- List of islands by highest point
- List of islands by name
- List of islands by population
- List of islands by population density
- List of islands named after people
- Phantom island
- Private island
- River island
- Rock fever
- Small Island Developing States
- Tidal island
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What does the word island mean?
Definition of island
(Entry 1 of 2) 1 : a tract of land surrounded by water and smaller than a continent. 2 : something resembling an island especially in its isolated or surrounded position: such as. a : a usually raised area within a thoroughfare parking lot or driveway used especially to separate or direct traffic.
What is mean by island with example?
An island is defined as a body of land surrounded by water. An example of an island is Ellis Island in New York City. … The definition of an island is an area that is isolated or stands alone. An example of an island is a central counter in a kitchen. An example of an island is a raised area in the center of a road.
What word type is island?
As detailed above ‘island’ can be a noun or a verb. Noun usage: an island of tranquility (a calm place surrounded by a noisy environment)
What is island in sentence?
a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water 2. a zone or area resembling an island. 1) No man is an island. … 6) The island was originally circular in shape. 7) They circumnavigated Cape Horn Island in canoes.
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Why is island called island?
An island is a body of land surrounded by water. Continents are also surrounded by water but because they are so big they are not considered islands. … These tiny islands are often called islets. Islands in rivers are sometimes called aits or eyots.
How many islands are in India?
This is a partial list of islands of India. There are a total of 1 382 islands (including uninhabited ones) in India.
Is Philippines an island?
The Philippines is an archipelago or string of over 7 100 islands in southeastern Asia between the South China Sea and the Pacific Ocean. The two largest islands Luzon and Mindanao make up for two-thirds of the total land area. Only about one third of the islands are inhabited.
What Is an island Class 9?
These are the small group of the coral islands. Kavaratti Island is the administrative capital of the Lakshadweep. The Pitt Island is uninhabited and has a bird sanctuary. The Andaman and Nicobar islands are located in the Bay of Bengal and are an elevated portion of the submarine mountains.
Where is island located?
Europe
Who made the word island?
The word island derives from Middle English iland from Old English igland (from ig or ieg similarly meaning ‘island’ when used independently and -land carrying its contemporary meaning cf. Dutch eiland (“island”) German Eiland (“small island”)).
How do islands form?
An island is formed when magma builds up and breaks the ocean’s surface. In some cases like the island of Hawaii land masses merge together. … For many volcanoes formation can take thousands of years though some volcanic islands can sometimes appear quite suddenly.
countable noun. An island is a piece of land that is completely surrounded by water. …
What is an island Wikipedia?
An island is a piece of ground that is surrounded by a body of water such as a lake river or sea. Islands are smaller than continents. … The most ancient part of continental rock is far older and chemically more complex than the rock of the sea floor.
Is island a Latin word?
From Latin insula (“island”).
Which is the largest island in the world?
The Largest Islands in the World
- Greenland (836 330 sq miles/2 166 086 sq km) …
- New Guinea (317 150 sq miles/821 400 sq km) …
- Borneo (288 869 sq miles/748 168 sq km) …
- Madagascar (226 756 sq miles/587 295 sq km) …
- Baffin (195 928 sq miles/507 451 sq km) …
- Sumatra (171 069 sq miles/443 066 sq km)
How many nations are islands?
Island Countries Of The World
- There are 47 island countries in the world.
- Many island countries are small and sparsely populated but some are large and rank among the world’s most populous countries.
- There are island countries in every part of the world in each of the world’s oceans.
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How many island are in the world?
Islands Around the World
There are around two thousand islands in oceans in the world. It has not been possible to come up with the total number of islands around other water bodies such as lakes due to the wide and varying definitions of what makes an island.
Is America an island?
Strictly speaking the Americas consists of two continents North America and South America. Central America the Caribbean and Greenland are considered part of North America. … The smallest independent country in the Americas is the island nation of Saint Kitts and Nevis with 261 km².
Does Pakistan have islands?
Balochistan coast: Malan Island – offshore volcanic mud island that appears disappears and reappears. … Zalzala Koh – a small island that emerged offshore Gwadar in 2013 during the 2013 Balochistan earthquakes.
Which is India’s largest island?
The Andrott Island is the largest island with an area of 4.90 sq km length of 4.66 km and a maximum width of 1.43 km.
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Climate.
| Island at a glance | |
|---|---|
| Population(2011) | 11191 |
| Density(per Sq.km) | 2312 |
| Access by | Air and Sea from India South-west coast |
Which is the smallest island of India?
The Bitra Island is the smallest inhabited island in the territory having a land area of 0.105 sq km. It has a length of 0.57 km and a width of 0.28 km at the broadest point.
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Climate.
| Island at a glance | |
|---|---|
| Distance to Malabar coast | 483 km from Kochi |
| Total geographical Area | 0.10 sq.Kms |
| Maximum Length | 0.57 km |
| Width | 0.28 km |
How many islands are in the Philippines?
The Philippines is an archipelago of more than 7 100 islands covering nearly 300 000 square kilometers. It is located between the South China Sea in the west and the Philippine Sea in the east. The two largest islands in the chain Luzon and Mindanao comprise about 65 percent of the country’s total landmass.
Who owns Philippines?
By the Treaty Cuba gained its independence and Spain ceded the Philippines Guam and Puerto Rico to the United States for the sum of US$20 million.
What was Philippines called before?
Eventually the name “Las Islas Filipinas” would be used to cover the archipelago’s Spanish possessions. Before Spanish rule was established other names such as Islas del Poniente (Islands of the West) and Magellan’s name for the islands San Lázaro were also used by the Spanish to refer to islands in the region.
What Is an Island Class 7?
Answer: Island is the landform in which four sides are covered with water . example-Andaman and nicobar islands.
What are the two islands in India?
Andaman and Nicobar Islands union territory India consisting of two groups of islands at the southeastern edge of the Bay of Bengal.
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What is an island name the two islands of India?
Indian Islands
India has a vast mainland. Besides this the country has also two groups of islands. The two groups of islands are – the Lakshadweep Islands and the Andaman and Nicobar islands.
What is the continent island?
Australia is known as an island continent because it is the only continent that is also a country and is surrounded by water on all four sides.
How many islands are in Japan?
6852 islands
According to this definition the Japanese archipelago consists of 6852 islands including the northern territories (the islands of Etorofu Kunashiri Shikotan and Habomai) of which 421 are inhabited and more than 90% uninhabited (Nihon Rito-center 1996: 1–2).
Is Isle short for island?
3 Answers. In practice there is no difference they can be used interchangeably but isle is archaic. Anything called isle can also be referred to as an island.
How are islands useful?
Islands harbour numerous discrete ecosystems from mountain forests to wetlands and beyond that provide food fresh water wood fibre medicines fuel tools and other important raw materials in addition to aesthetic spiritual educational and recreational values that support island livelihoods economies and …
Is a continent an island?
An Island is a continental-land that is surrounded by water on all its sides. There are different names depending upon the size of this land and the water body surrounds it. A continent is a large land mass that has specified geographical boundaries and separated by oceans.
Which part of speech is island?
island
| part of speech: | noun |
|---|---|
| definition 1: | an area of land smaller than a continent and surrounded by water on all sides. Hawaii is a group of islands that many people like to visit. |
What are some cool island names?
Cute Island Names Generator
- Banana Haven.
- Sweetfish Retreat.
- White Tiger Rock.
- Kingfisher Shores.
- Banana Springs.
- Seahorse Reef.
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- White Tiger Island.
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An island or isle is any piece of subcontinental land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, skerries, cays or keys. An island in a river or a lake island may be called an eyot or ait, and a small island off the coast may be called a holm.
What does the word island mean?
(Entry 1 of 2) 1 : a tract of land surrounded by water and smaller than a continent. 2 : something resembling an island especially in its isolated or surrounded position: such as. a : a usually raised area within a thoroughfare, parking lot, or driveway used especially to separate or direct traffic.
What is the full meaning of island?
noun. a tract of land completely surrounded by water, and not large enough to be called a continent. something resembling an island, especially in being isolated or having little or no direct communication with others.
What do you mean by island give example?
An island is defined as a body of land surrounded by water. … The definition of an island is an area that is isolated or stands alone. An example of an island is a central counter in a kitchen. An example of an island is a raised area in the center of a road.
What does it mean to call someone an island?
What’s the meaning of the phrase ‘No man is an island’?
The phrase ‘no man is an island’ expresses the idea that human beings do badly when isolated from others and need to be part of a community in order to thrive.
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Is it true that no man is an island?
The human brain is wired to interact with other human beings and we need to do so to keep us healthy. … In conclusion, yes, it is true, no man is an island. No one person can survive on their own. People should learn in their lifetime to accept help from others and not to isolate themselves, for their own good.
Who first said no man is an island?
English poet John Donne, writing in the 17th century, famously wrote that “no man is an island,” comparing people to countries, and arguing for the interconnectedness of all people with God.
What is a island easy definition?
Island, any area of land smaller than a continent and entirely surrounded by water. Islands may occur in oceans, seas, lakes, or rivers.
How many types of islands are there?
There are six major kinds of islands: continental (1), tidal (2), barrier (3), oceanic (4), coral (5), and artificial (6). Continental islands (1) were once connected to a continent. They still sit on the continental shelf. Some formed as Earth’s shifting continents broke apart.
What’s the full form of BAE?
«Bae,» Urban Dictionary says, is an acronym that stands for «before anyone else,» or a shortened version of baby or babe, another word for sweetie, and, mostly unrelated, poop in Danish.
Which is the largest island on earth?
Greenland is officially the world’s largest island that is not a continent. Home to 56,000 people, Greenland has its own extensive local government, but it is also part of the Realm of Denmark.
What are the 5 largest islands in the world?
The Largest Islands in the World
- Greenland (836,330 sq miles/2,166,086 sq km) …
- New Guinea (317,150 sq miles/821,400 sq km) …
- Borneo (288,869 sq miles/748,168 sq km) …
- Madagascar (226,756 sq miles/587,295 sq km) …
- Baffin (195,928 sq miles/507,451 sq km) …
- Sumatra (171,069 sq miles/443,066 sq km)
What does the phrase No man is an island mean?
No one is self-sufficient; everyone relies on others. This saying comes from a sermon by the seventeenth-century English author John Donne.
Why isn’t Australia the largest island?
At about 3 million square miles (7.7 million square km), Australia is the smallest continent on Earth. … According to Britannica, an island is a mass of land that is both “entirely surrounded by water” and also “smaller than a continent.” By that definition, Australia can’t be an island because it’s already a continent.
What is AHWO?
Acronym. Definition. AHWO. Africa Health Workforce Observatory (Republic of Congo)
What is the difference between island and iland?
As nouns the difference between iland and island
is that iland is (label) while island is a contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, totally surrounded by water.
Who made the word island?
The word island derives from Middle English iland, from Old English igland (from ig or ieg, similarly meaning ‘island’ when used independently, and -land carrying its contemporary meaning; cf. Dutch eiland («island»), German Eiland («small island»)).
What are some cool island names?
Cute Island Names Generator
- Banana Haven.
- Sweetfish Retreat.
- White Tiger Rock.
- Kingfisher Shores.
- Banana Springs.
- Seahorse Reef.
- Little Crab Reef.
- White Tiger Island.
How would you describe a beautiful island?
Here are some adjectives for tropical island: gorgeous and fertile, ecologically fragile, large and fertile, otherwise inaccessible, idyllic, ambrosial, unspoiled, uninhabited, uncharted, fertile, lush, benighted, arid, inaccessible, tiny, remote, gorgeous, veritable, finest, nice, interesting, fragile, small, charming …
What is the difference between a Microcontinent and an island?
What’s the difference between a micro continent and an island? A micro-continent is composed of continental crust (e.g. granite). … A micro continent may or may not form an island, which is just a bit of rock (continental or otherwise) that sticks up above the water.
What is the difference between a lake and an island?
Answer: Explanation: An island is piece of land that is surrounded by water on all its sides whereas a lake is a water body that is surrounded by land on all its sides.
What comes to your mind when you hear No man is an island?
Answer :- The phrase ‘no man is an island’ expresses the idea that human beings do badly when isolated from others and need to be part of a community in order to thrive. John Donne, who wrote the work that the phrase comes from, was a Christian but this concept is shared by other religions, principally Buddhism.
Can a man be an island?
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.
Is No man is an island a metaphor?
1 METAPHOR:
A. The title ‘No man is an island’ is the main idea or statement of the poem and is an extended metaphor. Donne refers to islands, which are small pieces of land, cut off from the mainland, and surrounded by the sea. … Donne means figuratively that humans cannot live in isolation.
остров, островок, окружать водой, изолировать
существительное ↓
- остров
small island — островок 
to live on an island — жить на острове
- зона, район
safety /traffic, street/ island — «островок безопасности» (для пешеходов
island of resistance — воен. очаг сопротивления
- анат. обособленная группа клеток
island of Langerhans — панкреатический островок, островок Лангерганса
island of Reil — центральная доля, островок Рейля
- мор. надстройка (на авианосце)
глагол ↓
- образовывать остров, окружать водой
the water spread islanding the trees — вода наступала, и деревья оказались на островке
- обособлять, изолировать, окружать
mist islanded the peak — мгла окружала вершину
- усеивать
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Словосочетания
the leeward side of the island — подветренная сторона острова
the easy tempo of island life — неторопливый темп жизни на острове
the eastern end of the island — восточная оконечность острова
a desert island — необитаемый остров
on an island — на острове
uninhabited island — необитаемый остров
out island / isle — остров, удалённый от континента
offshore island — прибрежный остров
coral island — коралловый остров
desolate island — пустынный остров
access to the island — подход /подступ/ к острову
steel membrane caisson island — стальной мембранный остров
Примеры с переводом
There are only a few cars on the island.
На острове всего лишь несколько машин.
The island’s population irrupted.
Население острова резко возросло.
The island possesses great charm.
Остров обладает величайшим очарованием.
The island’s birds are quite tame.
Птицы на этом острове совсем ручные.
The island is pestered with adders.
Этот остров кишит гадюками.
They circled the island seven times.
Они семь раз обошли вокруг острова.
The ‘s’ in ‘island’ is not sounded.
Буква «s» в слове «island» (остров) — не произносится.
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Примеры, ожидающие перевода
They are pictures of convoluted tree trunks on an island of pink wave-smoothed stone … 
…18th-century cabinetwork from Newport, Rhode Island, is among the most prized of all American furniture…
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Возможные однокоренные слова
islander — островитянин, житель острова
Формы слова
noun
ед. ч.(singular): island
мн. ч.(plural): islands
(Entry 1 of 2) 1 : a tract of land surrounded by water and smaller than a continent. 2 : something resembling an island especially in its isolated or surrounded position: such as. a : a usually raised area within a thoroughfare, parking lot, or driveway used especially to separate or direct traffic.
Is island a Latin word?
From Latin insula (“island”).
What is an island give an example?
An island is defined as a body of land surrounded by water. An example of an island is Ellis Island in New York City. The definition of an island is an area that is isolated or stands alone. An example of an island is a central counter in a kitchen. An example of an island is a raised area in the center of a road.
Why is island spelled island?
Island was long written with different spellings which didn’t include ‘s’, so it has presumably always been pronounced without /s/. (The derivation is not from Latin insula but from various Germanic forms, which also had no ‘s’.) According to Wikipedia, island comes from Middle English iland. isle: /ʌɪl/
What is an island short answer?
island, 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.
What is island Short answer?
Does isle mean island?
small island
An isle is a small island. Actually, there’s no precise definition of island either, other than it’s a piece of land surrounded by water and smaller than a continent. A good way to remember that an isle is a small island is that the word isle is smaller than island: this is a little word for a little thing.
What is the definition of Island?
Definition of island. (Entry 1 of 2) 1 : a tract of land surrounded by water and smaller than a continent. 2 : something resembling an island especially in its isolated or surrounded position: such as.
What is the plural of Island?
island (plural islands) A contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, totally surrounded by water. 1624, John Donne, “17. An entity surrounded by other entities that are very different from itself. an island of tranquility (a calm place surrounded by a noisy environment) an island of colour on a butterfly’s wing.
What is an island continent?
Definition of island continent. : an island as large or nearly as large as a continent. the island continent of Greenland .
What is the definition of low island?
A low island is, in geology (and sometimes in archaeology), an island of coral origin. The term applies whether the island was formed as a result of sedimentation upon a coral reef or of the uplifting of such islands. The term is used to distinguish such islands from high islands, whose origins are volcanic.