park

sustantivo

1. 1

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

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

2. 2

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

   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. 3

   An area of land set aside for environment preservation or recreation. An enclosed parcel of land stocked with animals for hunting, which one may have by prescription or royal grant.

4. 4

   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.

5. 5

   An area used for specific purposes. An open space occupied by or reserved for vehicles, matériel or stores.

   a wagon park; an artillery park

6. 6

   An area used for specific purposes. A partially enclosed basin in which oysters are grown.

7. 7

   An area used for specific purposes. An area zoned for a particular (industrial or commercial) purpose.

   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."

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   An area used for specific purposes. 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. 9

   An inventory of matériel.

   A country's tank park or artillery park.

10. 10

    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.

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    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.

verbo

1. 1

   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. 2

   figuradoTo 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. 3

   To bring together in a park, or compact body.

   to park artillery, wagons, automobiles, etc.

4. 4

   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. 5

   To hit a home run; to hit the ball out of the park.

   He really parked that one.

6. 6

   jergaTo 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.

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   informalTo 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. 8

   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. 9

   To register a domain name, but make no use of it (See domain parking)

10. 10

    To enclose in a park, or partially enclosed basin.

11. 11

    anticuadoTo promenade or drive in a park.

12. 12

    anticuadoTo display style or gait on a park drive.

Formas

plural

parks

pasado

parked

participio

parked

gerundio

parking

3.ª persona del singular

parks