Island vs Seagirt - What's the difference?
island | seagirt |
As a proper noun island is iceland. As an adjective seagirt is (rare|poetic) engirdled by the sea, as an island.
island English
Alternative forms
* (l) (nonstandard)
* (l), (l), (l) (obsolete)
Noun
( en noun)
A contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, totally surrounded by water.
* 2002 , Gordon L. Rottman, World War 2 Pacific island guide
- Sumatra is the second largest island in the East Indies and the fourth largest in the world covering 182,859 square miles.
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
* 1939 , Deseret News, October 27 1939, Roosevelt Reaffirms American Neutrality
- 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"
A superstructure on an aircraft carrier's deck.
(chiefly, UK) A traffic island.
- the island in the middle of a roundabout
Synonyms
* (land surrounded by water) (l), (l)
* (an entity surrounded by other very different entities) oasis
Derived 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 island
Related terms
* insular
* isle
* islet
Verb
( en verb)
To surround with water; make into an island
* 1933 , Harriet Monroe, Poetry: Volume 42
- 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.
To set, dot (as if) with islands
To isolate
* , (A Shropshire Lad), XXVII, lines 1-2
- ''High the vanes of (Shrewsbury) gleam
- Islanded in Severn stream''.
Synonyms
* (l)
See also
* archipelago
* atoll
* cay, key
* continent
* peninsula
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seagirt English
Adjective
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(rare, poetic) Engirdled by the sea, as an island.
Anagrams
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