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Park   /pɑrk/   Listen
noun
Park  n.  
1.
(Eng. Law) A piece of ground inclosed, and stored with beasts of the chase, which a man may have by prescription, or the king's grant.
2.
A tract of ground kept in its natural state, about or adjacent to a residence, as for the preservation of game, for walking, riding, or the like. "While in the park I sing, the listening deer Attend my passion, and forget to fear."
3.
A piece of ground, in or near a city or town, inclosed and kept for ornament and recreation; as, Hyde Park in London; Central Park in New York.
4.
(Mil.) A space occupied by the animals, wagons, pontoons, and materials of all kinds, as ammunition, ordnance stores, hospital stores, provisions, etc., when brought together; also, the objects themselves; as, a park of wagons; a park of artillery.
5.
A partially inclosed basin in which oysters are grown. (Written also parc)
6.
Any place where vehicles are assembled according to a definite arrangement; also, the vehicles.
7.
A position of the gear lever in a vehicle with automatic transmission, used when the vehicle is stopped, in which the transmission is in neutral and a brake is engaged.
Park of artillery. See under Artillery.
Park phaeton, a small, low carriage, for use in parks.
industrial park a region located typically in a suburban or rural area, zoned by law for specific types of business use (as, retail business, light industry, and sometimes heavy industry), often having some parklike characteristics, and having businesses, parking lots, and sometimes recreation areas and restaurants. The sponsoring agency may also provide supporting facilities, such as water towers, office buildings, or for large industrial parks, an airport.


verb
Park  v. t.  (past & past part. parked; pres. part. parking)  
1.
To inclose in a park, or as in a park. "How are we parked, and bounded in a pale."
2.
(Mil.) To bring together in a park, or compact body; as, to park artillery, wagons, automobiles, etc.
3.
In oyster culture, to inclose in a park.
4.
To bring (a vehicle) to a stop and leave it standing; typically a parked vehicle is off of the public road, the motor is not running, and the driver has left the vehicle. Note: a vehicle stopped but still running with the driver in it is said to be standing. parallel-park
5.
To place (an object) in a temporary location; as, to park oneself on the couch; to park one's money in a mutual fund. (informal)


Park  v. i.  
1.
To promenade or drive in a park; also, of horses, to display style or gait on a park drive.
2.
To come to a stop (in a vehicle) off of the public road and leave the vehicle standing; typically the motor of a parked vehicle is not left running; as, he parked in a no-parking zone.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Park" Quotes from Famous Books



... terrace at Saint-Germain-en-Laye is immense and famous. Paris lies spread before you in dusky vastness, domed and fortified, glittering here and there through her light vapours and girdled with her silver Seine. Behind you is a park of stately symmetry, and behind that a forest where you may lounge through turfy avenues and light-chequered glades and quite forget that you are within half an hour of the boulevards. One afternoon, however, in mid-spring, some five years ago, a young man seated on the terrace had preferred ...
— Madame de Mauves • Henry James
... justification. It is easy to see the objections to such a course on the part of a civil judge. He must consider the rights of others. It was this which brought Grotius and the rest, with the New England theologians down to Park, to feel that forgiveness could not be quite free. If we acknowledge that this symbolism of God as judge or sovereign is all symbolism, mere figure of speech, not fact at all, then that objection—and much else—falls away. If we assert that another figure of speech, that ...
— Edward Caldwell Moore - Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant • Edward Moore
... had painted. Ravine succeeded ravine, each with its own tiny streamlet meandering through it, and each more picturesque and enchanting than the last, until at length, emerging from this broken ground, she reached a stretch of park-like country with practically no undergrowth, the greensward being studded with magnificent umbrageous trees, some of which were a mass of lovely blossom of the most exquisite tints, while others were lavishly draped with orchids of every conceivable shape and hue. She was by this time feeling ...
— Dick Leslie's Luck - A Story of Shipwreck and Adventure • Harry Collingwood
... St. James' Park, where fops congregated, their heads and shoulders covered with black or flaxen wigs, not less ample than those which are now worn by the Chancellor and by the Speaker of the House of Commons. The atmosphere was like that of a perfumer's shop. Tobacco in any form than that of richly ...
— All About Coffee • William H. Ukers
... the midst of that exquisite park. Eve sauntering out one day alone looks up at the tree and sees the beautiful fruit, and wonders if it is sweet, and wonders if it is sour, and standing there, says: "I think I will just put my hand upon the fruit; it will do no damage to the tree; I will not take the fruit ...
— The Wedding Ring - A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those - Contemplating Matrimony • T. De Witt Talmage


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