Aisle vs ISLAND - What's the difference?
aisle | ISLAND |
A wing of a building, notably in a church separated from the nave proper by piers.
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A clear path through rows of seating.
A clear corridor in a supermarket with shelves on both sides containing goods for sale.
Any path through an otherwise obstructed space.
A contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, totally surrounded by water.
* 2002 , Gordon L. Rottman, World War 2 Pacific island guide
An entity surrounded by other entities that are very different from itself.
* 1939 , Deseret News, October 27 1939, Roosevelt Reaffirms American Neutrality
A superstructure on an aircraft carrier's deck.
(chiefly, UK) A traffic island.
To surround with water; make into an island
* 1933 , Harriet Monroe, Poetry: Volume 42
To set, dot (as if) with islands
To isolate
* , (A Shropshire Lad), XXVII, lines 1-2
As a verb aisle
is .As a proper noun ISLAND is
iceland.aisle
English
Noun
(wikipedia aisle) (en noun)citation, passage=Hester Earle and Violet Wayne were moving about the aisle with bundles of wheat-ears and streamers of ivy, for the harvest thanksgiving was shortly to be celebrated, while the vicar stood waiting for their directions on the chancel steps with a great handful of crimson gladioli.}}
Synonyms
* (path senses) isleDerived terms
* aisled * cross the aisle * roll in the aislesAnagrams
* * ----ISLAND
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (nonstandard) * (l), (l), (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Sumatra is the second largest island in the East Indies and the fourth largest in the world covering 182,859 square miles.
- an island of tranquility (a calm place surrounded by a noisy environment)
- an island of colour on a butterfly's wing
- King Leopold, speaking in fluent English during his six minute broadcast, said Belgium stood side by side with Holland "an Island of peace in the interests of all"
- the island in the middle of a roundabout
Synonyms
* (land surrounded by water) (l), (l) * (an entity surrounded by other very different entities) oasisDerived terms
* coney island * desert island * floating island * heat island * high island * interisland * islander * island dispenser * island display * island-hop * island position * island state * island universe * islandwide * islandy * low island * no man is an island * safety island * security island * the Island * sea-island * tidal islandVerb
(en verb)- 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.
- ''High the vanes of (Shrewsbury) gleam
- Islanded in Severn stream''.