park

noun

1. An area of land set aside for environment preservation or recreation.

   “She went to the park for a jog with him.”

   “17th century, Edmund Waller, At Penshurst While in the park I sing, the listening deer / Attend my passion, and forget to fear.”

2. An area of land set aside for environment preservation or recreation.

   “Hyde Park in London; Central Park in New York”

   “If the afternoon was fine they strolled together in the park, very slowly, and with pauses to draw breath wherever the ground sloped upward. The slightest effort made the patient cough.”

   “I roamed the streets and parks, as far removed from the idea of art and pretense as I could take myself, discovering there the kind of truth I was supposed to be setting down on paper…”

3. An area of land set aside for environment preservation or recreation.
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 ....”

   “High Park is a depression of 10 or 12 square miles in extent […] at a general elevation of 7,500 feet. Its smooth floor is partly due to volcanic tuff of the western volcanic area, but chielfly to a find lake-bed deposit of yellowish sandstone....”

   “The so-called park is a very broad, open valley,between the Sangre de Cristo range on the east, and the volcanic San Juan and Conejos ranges on the west”

   “...the ridges flatten and, higher up, before reaching the upper snow-fields of the mountain, broaden out into high plateaus, the beautiful so-called parks or meadows.”

   “Several structural basins, so-called "parks" within the crystalline rocks, are underlain by alluvial and terrace deposits, and in some cases, by Tertiary sediments.”

5. An area used for specific purposes.

   “a wagon park; an artillery park”

6. An area used for specific purposes.
7. An area used for specific purposes.

   “business park; industrial park; science park”

   “Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."”

8. An area used for specific purposes.

   “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.”

    “Once they′d entered the floors of parking spaces, James found a park relatively easily, but Mark had difficulty, and only a swift sprint allowed him to catch up as James walked through the throngs of people in the casino with the determination of a man who didn′t want to be delayed.”

    “We finally found a park and walked a few blocks to the building.”

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

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.”

   “I parked the drive heads of my hard disk before travelling with my laptop.”

   “Parking is by app, which (when it works) is good. But £7.70 to park is extortionate, so GTR needs to look at reducing that.”

2. (figuratively, informal, transitive)To defer (a matter) until a later date.

   “Let's park that until next week's meeting.”

   “The Harry Potter spin-off prequel series Fantastic Beasts has been “parked” by Warner Bros, according to its director David Yates.”

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.”

   “"What did you do after that?" he asked. - "Went parking over at Silver Lake," replied Betty without hesitation. "Why?" - "I just wondered. Have fun?" "As a matter of fact, I did. Marty's a swell dancer." "That's not what I meant." "What did you mean?" - "I mean after. Parking." - "Yes I did […]"”

   “A. Well, I had heard that it was used for parking place, but I never went parking there. Q. Excuse me? A. I had heard that it had been used for a parking place, but I had never gone parking there. Q. When you say “Parking place,” what do you mean? A. With a guy and a girl.”

   “The Phyllis and me go "parking." This is a very American thing to me, this "parking,” but Phyllis says that this is what couples in this country do when they are dating. We can't go to her house because her parents are there which is okay with me. / We are parking on a quiet street and we get in the backseat of my car. We begin to kiss and I start to feel her body.”

   “Tim and I never went parking when we were dating, but now that we've been married, it's been a fun date once in a while. (OK, we never actually leave the driveway, but the car was still 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.”

   “Park your bags in the hall.”

   “"Entertain M. Paul while I go and get my shoes. I parked 'em under a rosebush."”

   “[S]o I rode home on my brand new tricycle to find the rest of the family parked in front of the box.”

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.

name

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.
6. 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.”

   “" I can't believe that this is happening in America," Park told NPR in an interview prior to his departure.”