Island vs Roundabout - What's the difference?
island | roundabout |
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
Indirect, circuitous, or circumlocutionary.
* 1896 , , From Whose Bourne , ch. 9:
* 1921 , , Indiscretions of Archie , ch. 17:
* 2001 Dec. 3, , "
* 2011 , Golgotha Press (ed.), 50 Classic Philosophy Books , ISBN 9781610425957,
Encircling; enveloping; comprehensive.
* 1706 , , Of the Conduct of the Understanding , item 3.3:
(chiefly, UK, New Zealand, and, Australia) A road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
(chiefly, British) A children's play apparatus, often found in parks, which rotates around a central axis when pushed.
A fairground carousel.
A detour
A short, close-fitting coat or jacket worn by men or boys, especially in the 19th century.
As nouns the difference between island and roundabout
is that island is a contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, totally surrounded by water while roundabout is (chiefly|uk|new zealand|and|australia) a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island.As a verb island
is to surround with water; make into an island.As a adjective roundabout is
indirect, circuitous, or circumlocutionary.island
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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''.
Synonyms
* (l)See also
* archipelago * atoll * cay, key * continent * peninsulaStatistics
* 1000 English basic words ----roundabout
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Adjective
(en adjective)- [S]he fled, running like a deer, doubling and turning through alleys and back streets until by a very roundabout road she reached her own room.
- "Really, Bill, I think your best plan would be to go straight to father and tell him the whole thing.—You don't want him to hear about it in a roundabout way."
Rather Reports Another War," New York Times (retrieved 3 April 2014):
- Mr. Rather flew to the area in a roundabout fashion, first landing in Bahrain, from there flying to Islamabad and then heading to Kabul by land.
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- Descartes is compelled to fall back upon a curious roundabout argument to prove that there is a world. He must first prove that God exists, and then argue that God would not deceive us into thinking that it exists when it does not.
- The third sort is of those who readily and sincerely follow reason, but for want of having that which one may call a large, sound, roundabout sense, have not a full view of all that relates to the question.