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park¹

  • /pɑɹk/
  • [pʰɑɹk] US
  • [pɑɹk] Philippines
  • /pɑːk/ UK
  • [pʰɑː(ʔ)k] UK
  • [pʰɐːk] Australia, New Zealand
  • [pʰaːk] Boston
  • [pʰɒək] New York City
  • /pɐk/

Rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)k

Where it comes from

From Middle English park, from Old French parc (“livestock pen”), from Medieval Latin parcus, parricus, from Frankish *parrik (“enclosure, pen, fence”). Cognate with Dutch perk (“enclosure; flowerbed”), Old High German pfarrih, pferrih (“enclosure, pen”), Old English pearroc (“enclosure”) (whence modern English paddock), Old Norse parrak, parak (“enclosure, pen; distress, anxiety”), Icelandic parraka (“to keep pent in under restraint and coercion”). More at parrock, paddock.

noun parks

  1. A tract of ground kept in its natural state, about or adjacent to a residence, such as for the preservation of game, for walking, riding, or the like. She went to the park for a jog with him.
  2. A piece of ground in or near a city or town, enclosed and kept for ornament and recreation. Hyde Park in London; Central Park in New York
  3. An enclosed parcel of land stocked with animals for hunting, which one may have by prescription or royal grant.
  4. US A wide, flat-bottomed valley in a mountainous region. The mountain region thus limited consists of extensive and often level-floored valleys, sometimes many miles broad, and elevated 4,000 to 5,000 feet above the sea, called "parks" in local topography, which are interposed between innumerable rocky mountain ridges ....
  5. An open space occupied by or reserved for vehicles, matériel or stores. a wagon park; an artillery park
  6. A partially enclosed basin in which oysters are grown.
  7. An area zoned for a particular (industrial or commercial) purpose. business park; industrial park; science park
  8. An area on which a sporting match is played; (soccer) a pitch. But because of their dominance in the middle of the park and the sheer volume of chances, Sunderland boss Steve Bruce must have been staggered and sickened in equal measure when the visitors took the lead five minutes after the break.
  9. UK An inventory of matériel. A country's tank park or artillery park.
  10. Australia, New Zealand, colloquial A space in which to leave a car; a parking space. 2003, “Johnny”, "Melbourne Blackout", in Sleazegrinder (editor), Gigs from Hell: True Stories from Rock and Roll′s Frontline, page 174, We got to the 9ᵗʰ Ward and as luck would have it I found a park for my bro′s car right out the front.
  11. The gear into which one shifts an automatic transmission when one is parking a car or truck. (Denoted with symbol P on a shifter's labeling.) If a car seems to be refusing to let you shift out of park, recall that many cars have a safety interlock which requires that your foot must be pressing on the brake pedal before you can shift out of park.

verb parks · parking · parked

  1. transitive To bring (something such as a vehicle) to a halt or store in a specified place. You can park the car in front of the house.
  2. figuratively, informal, transitive To defer (a matter) until a later date. Let's park that until next week's meeting.
  3. transitive To bring together in a park, or compact body. to park artillery, wagons, automobiles, etc.
  4. transitive To enclose in a park, or as in a park. O, negligent and heedless discipline! How are we park'd and bounded in a pale, A little herd of England's timorous deer, Mazed with a yelping kennel of French curs!
  5. transitive To hit a home run; to hit the ball out of the park. He really parked that one.
  6. US, intransitive, slang To engage in romantic or sexual activities inside a nonmoving vehicle that was driven to a suitable spot for that purpose. They stopped at a romantic overlook, shut off the engine, and parked.
  7. informal, reflexive, sometimes, transitive To sit, recline, or put, especially in a manner suggesting an intent to remain for some time. He came in and parked himself in our living room.
  8. transitive To invest money temporarily in an investment instrument considered to relatively free of risk, especially while awaiting other opportunities. We decided to park our money in a safe, stable, low-yield bond fund until market conditions improve.
  9. Internet To register a domain name, but make no use of it (See domain parking)
  10. transitive To enclose in a park, or partially enclosed basin.
  11. dated, intransitive To promenade or drive in a park.
  12. dated, intransitive To display style or gait on a park drive.

Park²

Where it comes from

From park.

proper noun

  1. An English surname.
  2. A river in central Connecticut.
  3. A village in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland (Irish grid ref C 5802).
  4. A large area of Lewis, Western Isles council area, Scotland.
  5. A community and ward in Merthyr Tydfil borough, Wales.

Similar: Hog

Park³

  • [pʰɑːk] UK
  • [pʰaːk] Australia, Boston
  • [pʰɒək] New York City
  • [pʰɐːk] New Zealand
  • [pʰɑɹk] US

Sounds like park · Rhymes with -ɑɹk, -ɑːk

Where it comes from

From Korean 박(朴) (Bak), under influence from Park and originally spelled and read from the perspective of the pronunciation of non-rhotic (e.g. British) English speakers.

proper noun Parks

  1. A surname from Korean. Alternative form of Bak. Centring on the tension between the Kims, a basement-dwelling family of “dirt spoons” in Seoul, and the Parks, a family at the opposite end of the social spectrum, Parasite’s plot is predicated on the widening gap between the haves and the have nots in Asia’s fourth-biggest economy.

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