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Definition: Park |
ParkNoun1. A large area of land preserved in its natural state as public property; "there are laws that protect the wildlife in this park". 2. A piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area; "they went for a walk in the park". 3. A facility in which ball games are played (especially baseball games); "take me out to the ballpark". 4. Scottish explorer in Africa (1771-1806). 5. A gear position that acts as a parking brake; "the put the car in park and got out". Verb1. Place temporarily; "park the car in the yard"; "park the children with the in-laws"; "park your bag in this locker". 2. Maneuver a vehicle into a parking space; "Park the car in front of the library"; "Can you park right here?". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "park" was first used: sometime around 1300. (references) |
Etymology: Park \Park\, noun. [Anglo-Saxon pearroc, or perhaps rather from French parc; both being of the same origin; compare to Late Latin parcus, parricus, Irish & Gaelic pairc, Welsh park, parwg. Compare to Paddockan inclosure, Parrock.]. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream of walking through a well-kept park, denotes enjoyable leisure. If you walk with your lover, you will be comfortably and happily married. Ill-kept parks, devoid of green grasses and foliage, is ominous of unexpected reverses. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Food & Agriculture | A relatively small opening of grassland in a forest. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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National parks are reserves of land, usually owned by national governments, that are protected from most human development.The idea of a national park was first formulated by painter George Catlin. In his travels though the American West, he became concerned about the future of the Native Americans he met and the natural wonders he saw. In 1832 he wroted that they might be preserved,
The first effort by any government to set aside such lands was in the United States, where an Act of Congress signed by Abraham Lincoln on June 30, 1864 ceded Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove (heart of the future Yosemite National Park) to the state of California:
- by some great protecting policy of government... in a magnificent park.... A nation's park, containing man and beast, in all the wild and freshness of their nature's beauty!
Several years later, a similar measure was proposed for an area in Wyoming and Montana, but problems with tourists and settlers in and around Yosemite, and the fact that the proposed reserve lay in more than one state, led to the idea of a federally controlled park. In 1871, Yellowstone National Park was established as the world's first truly national park. Following the better idea established in Yellowstone, Yosemite was created a national park in 1890, and followed soon after by other parks in many other nations.
- . . . the said State shall accept this grant upon the express conditions that the premises shall he held for public use, resort, and recreation; shall be inalienable for all time . . .
National parks are usually located in places which have been largely undeveloped, and often feature areas with exceptional native animals, plants and ecosystems (particularly endangered examples of such), or unusual geological features. Occasionally, national parks are declared in developed areas with the goal of returning the area to resemble its original state as closely as possible. In some countries (e.g., United Kingdom) the designation of an area as a national park does not entail national ownership of the land, but simply enforces conservation through planning regulations. UK national parks typically include significant amounts of privately owned land, are used for agriculture, and contain small towns and public roads.
Most national parks have a dual role in offering a refuge for wildlife and as popular tourist areas. Managing the potential for conflict between these two roles can be difficult, particularly as tourists often generate revenue for the parks which can be spent on conservation projects. Occasionally mineral resources are discovered in national parks - if attempts are made to exploit such resources it usually leads to considerable conflict with environmentalists who believe that no such activities should be conducted within these parks.
Some countries (e.g. the U.S.) also designate sites of special cultural, scientific or historical importance as national parks, or as special entities within their national park systems. Other countries use a different scheme for historical site preservation.
In many countries, local government bodies may also maintain park systems. For example, in the US, there are state parks, regional parks, and county parks in addition to the national park system. Generally though not always, the most important sites are national parks.
See also: List of national parks, National Forest
External links
- US National Parks Service
- Main: http://www.nps.gov/
- Data: http://www.nps.gov/pub_aff/index.htm
- Digital maps: http://www.nps.gov/carto/list_a-z.html
- Parks Victoria (Australia): http://www.parkweb.vic.gov.au/index_hm.html
- UN Protected Places database: http://www.wcmc.org.uk/data/database/un_combo.html
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "National park."
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Norfolk Park, SheffieldLocated to the south of Sheffield City Centre, this estate has grown up on part of the former deer park associated with Sheffield Manor. Part of the deer park still exists in the form of Norfolk Heritage Park, which was donated to the city of Sheffield by the Duke of Norfolk in Victorian Times and enjoyed its heyday during Victoria's reign. Later, the park fell into neglect and disrepair, but that sad state of affairs has now been rectified through a partnership between the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Friends of Norfolk Heritage Park, the Sheffield Wildlife Trust, and the local community.
Norfolk Park estate is currently undergoing a regeneration process of it's own. Flagged for European funding a few years ago, it has changed dramatically since then. Once characterised by the fifteen high rise flats, or tower blocks, that dominated it's landscape, it is now home to only two. The long-awaited demolition of Mickley block is due to take place in December of this year (2003). The final block, Grange, is still home to many of the area's elderly residents. However, a new facility to house those residents is currently under construction, and Grange will most likely be demolished by the end of 2004. It will be the end of an era - welcomed by some, regretted by others.
Construction has finished on two new housing sites in the area, and plans are underway for more. Local residents had a say in the style and location of the new housing, none of which will be more than four storeys high ( a telling comment on the real popularity of high-rise living?) New housing stock is a mixture of private ownership and housing association properties. This has meant that some of those who were displaced during the demolition of the tower blocks and maisonettes (mostly council and housing association tenants) have been able to return to the area, while it is hoped that the new home owners will be able to bring an injection of much-needed money into the area.
The fifteen tower blocks and Norfolk Heritage Park are not the only outstanding features of Norfolk Park estate. Sprawled over hills and valleys, it is one of the greenest areas of this very green city. It is littered with steep inclines and old bell-pits that even the most adventurous of developers dare not touch, which has been a blessing for the area's wildlife. A project is currently being undertaken by the Sheffield Wildlife Trust to improve some of those greenspaces in line with the regeneration of the rest of the estate. St. Aidans Recreation Ground, the Jervis Lum, Black Bank, Arbourthorne Recreation Ground, and part of the route to the new Norfolk School (currently under construction) have been targetted by SWT for improvement.
Another recent innovation has been the organisation of a large event in Norfolk Park called the Sheffield Fayre. Two years old and drawing in around 10,000 visitors a day, it features a horticulture/wildlife show, multi-period re-enactment, community stalls, craft stalls, and a thriving market. Despite being a large Sheffield-wide event, the committee continues to consist of a majority of residents and locally-based organisations determined to ensure it maintains a community focus.
The main movers and shakers on the estate are (in no particular order and with apologies for any ommissions) Norfolk Park Community Forum; the Playwork Alliance; Norfolk Park Youth Service; the Centre in the Park; Sheffield Wildlife Trust; Sheffield City Council; Norfolk Park Tenants and Residents Association; North British Housing; Manor and Castle Development Trust; Norfolk Park Limited; The Friends of Norfolk Heritage Park.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Norfolk Park."
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zh-cn:公园A park is any of a number of geographic features. Originally, the term referred to an area maintained as open space where residences, industry and farming were not allowed, often originally so that nobility might have a place to hunt.
Today, the strict usage, based on the original meaning, is an area of open space provided for recreational uses. Parks in this sense are usually owned and provided by the government. Park uses are often divided into two categories: active and passive recreation. Active recreation is that which require intensive development and often involves cooperative or team activity, including playgrounds and ball fields. Passive recreation is that which emphasizes the open-space aspect of a park and which involves a low level of development, including picnic areas and trails.
Some larger areas have been set aside by national governments where the emphasis is on protection from most human development rather than recreation; these are called national parks.
The term park is also used in reference to industrial areas, often termed industrial parks. Some technology research areas are also called research parks. The word park may also be used in community names, such as Oak Park or College Park. And sometimes the active recreational aspect may be carried to the extreme of creating an amusement park, usually privately-owned.
See also Central Park (in Manhattan, New York), Royal Parks of London.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Park."
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Park is a city located in Gove County, Kansas. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 151.Geography
Park is located at 39°6'44" North, 100°21'38" West (39.112299, -100.360501)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.8 km² (0.3 mi²). 0.8 km² (0.3 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 151 people, 77 households, and 39 families residing in the city. The population density is 182.2/km² (477.0/mi²). There are 89 housing units at an average density of 107.4/km² (281.1/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 97.35% White, 0.00% African American, 1.32% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 1.32% from two or more races. 0.00% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 77 households out of which 19.5% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 44.2% are married couples living together, 6.5% have a female householder with no husband present, and 48.1% are non-families. 44.2% of all households are made up of individuals and 24.7% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 1.96 and the average family size is 2.70. In the city the population is spread out with 17.2% under the age of 18, 6.6% from 18 to 24, 25.2% from 25 to 44, 28.5% from 45 to 64, and 22.5% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 46 years. For every 100 females there are 88.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 86.6 males. The median income for a household in the city is $28,750, and the median income for a family is $34,375. Males have a median income of $30,208 versus $22,500 for females. The per capita income for the city is $16,303. 10.1% of the population and 8.9% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 0.0% are under the age of 18 and 10.3% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Park, Kansas."
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Prospect Park is a 526-acre park in Brooklyn, New York located between Park Slope, Kensington, Windsor Terrace and Flatbush Avenue, Grand Army Plaza and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and seven blocks north east of Green-Wood Cemetery. The park was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux after they completed Manhattan's Central Park. Attractions include the Long Meadow, a ninety acre meadow thought to be the largest meadow in any U.S. park; the Picnic House which houses offices and a hall that can accommodate parties with up to 175 guests; the Litchfield Manor, a historic site of the previous owners of the southern part of Park; Prospect Park Zoo; a large nature conservancy; the only urban Audubon Center & Visitor Center at the Boathouse and Brooklyn's only lake (covering 60 acres); a The Prospect Park Bandshell that hosts free outdoor concerts in summertime; the Wollman Rink for skating; and various sports and fitness activities including seven baseball fields. There is also a private Quaker cemetery on the grounds of the Park in an area known as Quaker Hill.
The Long Meadow from the north, summer 2003 Larger Version
History of Prospect Park
Originally the terminal moraine and outwash plain of the receding glaciers of the ice age, the area around the Park was the site of the Battle of Long Island during the U.S. Revolutionary War and became known as Battle Pass where the highest point known as Prospect Hill jutted up approximately 200 feet from sea level. In the nineteenth century the Park was mostly farm land; the cost of acquiring the Park land by the City of Brooklyn was upwards of $4 million. The actual cost of construction of the Park amounted to more than $5 million. Originally the Park was to stradle Flatbush Avenue and go past the later built Eastern Parkway. Planning and construction of the Park was originally begun before the Civil War in 1860 but stopped during the war. After the war in 1865 Olmsted and Vaux were hired and Vaux convinced the city that more lands to the east and nearer to Green-Wood Cemetery should be purchased including the area of the park known as Nethermead and the farm land where Prospect Lake was built.
The Battle Pass area circa 1792
The artistic vision of Olmsted and Vaux
As a work of engineering and landscaping Prospect Park was so revolutionary in its time that some considered the Park a work of art in itself; others were critical of the ideas of Olmsted and Vaux as they were seen as breaking with European traditions. Olmsted and Vaux literally engineered the Park to recreate wild nature as they had experienced in photographically documented trips across the United States. They created the large Long Meadow out of land that was filed with lowland peat bogs, they moved and planted trees, hauled topsoil and created a vast mowned turf with specifically placed trees (that have been recently been replanted to bring back the original design). Large swathes of trees were planted around the perimeter of the Park to create a buffer zone between the surrounding urban landscape so that the Park could be a true rural oasis away from the hussle and bussle of the city of Brooklyn; other major landscaping projects under the Olmsted, Vaux * Company plan transformed the Park by the time it was finished in 1868.
In designing the watercourse Olmstead and Vaux also took advantage of the pre-existing glacier formed kettle ponds and lowland outwash plains. A winding naturalistic stream channel with several ponds feeds a sixty acre Lake. They crafted the watercourse to include a steep, forested Ravine — perhaps their greatest masterpiece of landscape architecture — all with significant river edge flora and fauna habitats. This was all done to give the urban dweller a "sub-conscious" experience of nature within the city as Olmsted believed it was possible and necessary to provide such nurishment for the general public in the overwelming urban environments of his time.
On the Bridle Path, 1912
The Prospect Park watercourse
Perhaps the most fascinating of Olmsted and Vaux's creations is the Prospect Park watercourse. All the waterways and lakes in Prospect Park were man-made. Originally engineered by Olmstead and Vaux to be a vast nature preserve recreating American wilderness areas as an oasis for urban residents, by the mid-twentieth century these landscaped waterways fell into a state of terrible disrepair. In 1994 the Prospect Park Alliance launched a 25-year, $43 million restoration project for the watercourse.
If one follows the water from its source the water in Prospect Park takes us on a course starting at the top of Fallwill Falls into Fallwill Pool past the Fallwill Bridge through the recently restored Upper Pool and Lower Pool, where migratory birds rest and marsh and other water plants can be found. Past the Esdale Bridge through Ambergill Pond one enters into a tree covered area then on to the smaller Ambergill Falls through Rock Arch Bridge past the gorge area called The Ravine. The design called for the trikle of water to be heard throughout the forest and this effects lasts on to the Nethermead Arches through the Binnen Water where a variety of water lilies can be found. The watercourse then moves on to the Music Pagoda Bridge where performances of music were often given.
Near the Boathouse, circa 1890sThe waters then move past the Binnen Bridge to the once again operative Boathouse (now Audubon Center & Visitor Center) on to the Lullwater pond and then under the Lullwater Bridge around the Penninsula — an area that is a sanctuary for birds where wild meadows can be found. Moving under the large Terrace Bridge the waters move to their final destination, entering into the sixty acre artificially built Prospect Lake that includes several islands. Once severely poluted Prospect Lake now boasts an annual fishing contest; now, again, boats of visitors once more move across the Lake.
This trip along the watercourse demonstrates the revolutionary approach of Olmsted and Vaux in their re-creation of various types of natural water formations; not only did they plant a variety of trees, bushes and other plants, but they moved rocks, boulders and earth to recreate a variety of natural environments for the pleasure and stimulation of Brooklyn’s nineteenth century urban dwellers.
Map of the Park, c. 1880s
The Ravine District
With the watercourse moving through it a 146 acre section of the Park's interior that is the center of Brooklyn's only forest is known as the Ravine District. Olmsted and Vaux saw the Ravine as the heart of Prospect Park and the centerpiece of mountainous tableaux similar to the Adirondack Mountains. As of 2003 the Ravine has been partially restored and the restored section is open to the public. The perimeter of the area is a steep narrow 100 foot gorge. Still recovering from decades of overuse that caused soil compaction and erosion, the Ravine and surrounding woodlands have been undergoing restorations since 1996. The watercourse goes through the Ravine leading to the Boathouse which was designed by the famed architectural firm McKim, Mead, and White and was one of the most fashionable destinations in the Park in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. As the Park decayed this historicall signficant structure was in peril of destruction; luckily, the Boathouse was saved in the 1980s by the then New York Mayor Lindsay Wagner and has been completely restored and refurbished; now housing the Audubon Society's only urban interpretive center in the United States.
Robert Moses and Prospect Park
During the twentieth century a variety of innovations were introduced by Robert Moses into Prospect Park, including a variety of playgrounds for children; he also supervised the building of the Prospect Park Bandshell near the statue of the Marquis de la Fayette on Ninth Street and Prospect Park West. However the landscaping of the interior of the Park continued to hide the original plan of Olmsted and Vaux as soil erosion and lack of maintenance caused the landscaping to deteriorate. In the 1990s a new volunteer and privately controlled non-profit organization was founded to help revitalize the Park; to date the Prospect Park Alliance has begun the work of transforming the Park back to its original state.
External links
- Prospect Park Alliance
- Map of Prospect Park pdf file
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
PARK | English | Photo-astigmatic refractive keratectomy | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: ParkSynonyms: ballpark (n), common (n), commons (n), green (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Abode | Garden, park, pleasure ground, plaisance, demesne. |
Agriculture | Field, meadow, garden; botanic garden, winter garden, ornamental garden, flower garden, kitchen garden, market garden, hop garden; nursery; green house, hot house; conservatory, bed, border, seed plot; grassplot, grassplat, lawn; park. (pleasure ground); parterre, shrubbery, plantation, avenue, arboretum, pinery, pinetum, orchard; vineyard, vinery; orangery; farm. (abode). |
Amusement | Park, plaisance; national park, national forest, state park, county park, city park, vest-pocket park, public park (public) a; arbor; garden; (horticulture); pleasure ground, playground, cricketground, croquet ground, archery ground, hunting ground; tennis court, racket court; bowling alley, green alley; croquet lawn, rink, glaciarum, skating rink; roundabout, merry-go-round; swing; montagne Russe. |
Arms | Gun, piece; firearms; artillery, ordnance; siege train, battering train; park, battery; cannon, gun of position, heavy gun, field piece, mortar, howitzer, carronade, culverin, basilisk; falconet, jingal, swivel, pederero, bouche a feu; petard, torpedo; mitrailleur, mitrailleuse; infernal machine; smooth bore, rifled cannon, Armstrong gun, Lancaster gun, Paixhan gun, Whitworth gun, Parrott gun, Krupp gun, Gatling gun, Maxim gun, machine gun; pompom; ten pounder. |
Inclosure | Wall, hedge, hedge row; espalier; fence; (defense); pale, paling, balustrade, rail, railing, quickset hedge, park paling, circumvallation, enceinte, ring fence. |
Plain | Meadow, mead, haugh, pasturage, park, field, lawn, green, plat, plot, grassplat, greensward, sward, turf, sod, heather; lea, ley, lay; grounds; maidan, agostadero. |
Vegetable | Timber, forest; wood, woodlands; timberland; hurst, frith, holt, weald, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney; underwood, brushwood; scrub; boscage, bosk, ceja, chaparal, motte.; arboretum . |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | He strolled, like a man in a park without a care or a worry in the world, like he had on an invisible coat that would shield him from this place (The Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont) Can we park a block away from school (The Princess Diaries; writing credit: Gina Wendkos) I like a woman with an arse you can park a bike in and balance a pint of beer on. (Bridget Jones's Diary; writing credit: Helen Fielding) See, I told you Park Drive was jammed (Die Hard: With a Vengeance; writing credit: Jonathan Hensleigh) My dad used to make us walk down to the park and collect the sticks he was going to beat us with (Good Will Hunting; writing credit: Matt Damon; Ben Affleck) | |
Lyrics | As we poison the pigeons in the park. (Poisoning Pigeons In The Park; performing artist: Tom Lehrer) They were dating in the park (The Dean And I; performing artist: 10CC) Boy, won't you pick me up at the park right now (Are You That Somebody; performing artist: Aaliyah) Took to the hatter like a walk in the park (Sunshine; performing artist: Aerosmith) The amusement park rises bold and stark ("Born to Run"; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen) | |
Clever | If the people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em. (references; author: Yogi Berra) Stupidity is NOT a handicap! PARK ELSEWHERE! (references; author: unknown) If You Drink Don't Park, Accidents Cause People. (references; author: unknown) Why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways? (references; author: unknown) This evening at 7 P.M., there will be a hymn sing in the park across from the Church. Bring a blanket and come prepared to sin. (references; author: unknown) | |
Tongue Twisters | Spark plug car park. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | To Louna Park (1974) The House in Nightmare Park (1973) Central Park (1972) The Men in the Park (1971) Barefoot in the Park (1970) | |
Song Titles | Palisades Park (performing artist: Freddie Cannon) Park Avenue Beat (Theme From Perry Mason) (performing artist: Ray and his orchestra Conniff) Poisening Pigeons In The Park (performing artist: Tom Lehrer) MacArthur Park (performing artist: Richard Harris) The Rain, The Park & Other Things (performing artist: The Cowsills) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Black woman sitting at a picnic table in a park lighting a cigarette. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). |  | A black woman is seated on a park bench in a wooded area inhaling cigarette smoke. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). |
 | Building 22, Executive Park, CDC. March 1999. Credit: CDC. |  | Female Dermacentor variabilis, American brown dog tick, from Panola Park near Atlanta, Georgia. Parasite. Credit: CDC. |
 | Spanning the southern tip of the Florida Peninsula and most of Florida Bay, Everglades National Park is the only subtropical preserve in North America. It is the only place in the world where alligators and crocodiles exist side by side. Credit: NASA. |  | Portions of Kenya and Tanzania, Africa can be seen in this image. The peak of Kilimanjaro is on the right; the mountain is flanked by the plains of Amboseli National Park to the north and the rugged Arusha National Park to the south and west. Credit: NASA. |
 | MAYFLOWER mariner demonstrating use of cross-staff At Plymouth State Park, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Theodolite tied on top of water tank Seaside Park Water Tank - New Jersey. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Park along Detroit River. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Kilauea Crater at Volcanoes National Park. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
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| "Birds In a Park" by Swan Yap Commentary: "Ducks in a Park in London." | "Antoine in a park" by Antoine Girard Commentary: "Me sitting in a park in montreal." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Roller coaster; amusement park; big dipper; space mountain; Disneyland; Disney world. | | Drinking fountain; drink; slurp; slurping; water; refreshing; refresh; park. |
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David Amram | In the spring of 1956, Monk, Elmo Hope, and I went to Central Park after staying up all night playing at a jam session. While I rowed them around the lake in a rented paddle boat, I received my education in what to look for inmusic and life. 'Listen,' Monk said to Elmo, 'we're moving through the waterin 4/4 time and the birds are singing 6/8 to it.' I stopped rowing and listened; I've been listening ever since. |
Park Benjamin | Beauty and grace command the world. |
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Maggie's Visit to Oxford | Carroll, Lewis | In Magdalen Park the deer are wild With joy, that Maggie brings Some bread a friend had given the child, To feed the pretty things |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The august park of the King of France was invaded by a swarm of vagabonds, the birds |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The practice in the park came to an end when Mike Flynn went into hospital |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | He has a noble palace, and a park of about three thousand acres, surrounded by a wall of hewn stone twenty feet high |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | To test this idea, one researcher has arranged for Alzheimer's patients in a nursing home to have access to an outdoor sheltered park for pacing. (references) | |
Sources for information on the distribution of ticks in an area include state and local health departments, park personnel, and agricultural extension services. (references) | ||
Among U.S. mammalogists and rodent workers with varying degrees of rodent exposure, the seroprevalence of SNV antibodies was 1.14%. In contrast, a recent HPS seroprevalence study focused on selected occupational groups with frequent contact with rodents and their excreta (e.g., farm workers, laborers, professionals, home repairers, service industry and park service workers, heating and plumbing contractors, utility workers, and technicians) found no evidence of SNV infection. (references) | ||
Business | The Wind Park in Comodoro Rivadavia is said to be the biggest of all South America. (references) | |
Moreover, the park is likely to rely on U.S. technology for its world-class installation. (references) | ||
Factories can be contacted directly or more information can be obtained through science park management centers. (references) | ||
Children | Indonesia | Street children sell newspapers, shine shoes, help to park or watch cars, and otherwise attempt to earn money. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Uganda | The charges followed the paper's publication of photos of secondary school students engaging in sexual behavior at a party in a public park. (references) |
Economic History | Hungary | The largest mall complex in Central Europe, West End City Center, was opened in 1999 in central Budapest with construction of MOM Park, another large facility in Budapest slated for completion in late 2001. In other larger cities smaller shopping malls are just starting to be developed. (references) |
Human Rights | Yugoslavia | In August 2000, former Serbian President Ivan Stambolic disappeared while on a daily jog in a park near his home in Belgrade. (references) |
Romania | In June authorities evicted five Romani families from the vicinity of Tineretului Park in Bucharest and returned them to their places of origin in Teleorman County. (references) | |
Cameroon | The incident occurred at "Tropicana," a Yaounde neighborhood where truck drivers in transit park their vehicles. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Bangladesh | The Government had indicated in 1995 that it would establish a national park of 400 acres in the Mymensingh district. (references) |
Indonesia | However, from November 23 to 25, 2000, approximately 70 security personnel sought to evict the Moronene from the park. (references) | |
Venezuela | In Bolivar state, the Pemon indigenous people remain highly skeptical of the Government's willingness and ability to comply with its pledges related to the completion of power lines through the Canaima National Park. (references) | |
Minorities | Russia | On May 9, a group of skinheads attacked and beat approximately 11 members of the church group Pathfinder International in Victory Park in Moscow; one individual was beaten so severely that he lost consciousness. (references) |
Romania | No progress was made on investigations into the desecration of Jewish synagogues and cemeteries in 2000 and 1999. According to the Baha'i Faith, a show and an exhibit sponsored by their association in Herestrau Park in Bucharest in July 2000 were disrupted by a group of youths, who called them a "sect," used a Nazi greeting, shouted "long live the Orthodox Church," and destroyed all the exhibit materials. (references) | |
Germany | In June 2000, three rightwing extremists beat to death Alberto Adriano, a Mozambican immigrant, as he walked home through a park at night in Dessau, Saxony-Anhalt. (references) | |
Political Rights | United Kingdom | Also in July, the British and Irish Governments issued a blueprint--the Weston Park Document--mandating steps for the parties and Governments to address outstanding problems in implementing the agreement. (references) |
Trade | Mauritius | The park provides ISDN and other high bandwidth services. (references) |
Mauritius | An informatics park was established several years ago and a number of firms are currently engaged in typesetting and other pre-press operations, data processing, CD-ROM publishing, image processing and related activities. (references) | |
Travel | Bulgaria | Other hotels include the Ambassador Hotel and Castle Hrankov Hotel (both 15 minutes from the city-center) and the Park Hotel Moskva. (references) |
Chad | Waza National Park: A large northern Cameroon game park, not far from N'Djamena featuring elephants, giraffes, antelopes, gazelles, warthogs, lions, water fowl and many other varieties of birds. (references) | |
Chad | The "campement de Waza" is a hotel with a collection of small stone cottages arranged down the side of a hill offering a scenic restaurant/bar overlooking the park. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Honduras | Members of AHM, both industrial park owners and company owners, are asked to sign the code of conduct to join the AHM; however, workers do not receive training on its provisions. (references) |
Indonesia | It is estimated that more children work in the informal sector than the formal sector, selling newspapers, shining shoes, helping to park or watch cars, and otherwise earning money. (references) | |
India | According to the Indian Center for Indigenous and Tribal Peoples (ICITP), more than 40,000 tribal women, mainly from Orissa and Bihar, were forced into economic and sexual exploitation; many come from tribes that were driven off their land by national park schemes. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FAIRY, n. A creature, variously fashioned and endowed, that formerly inhabited the meadows and forests. It was nocturnal in its habits, and somewhat addicted to dancing and the theft of children. The fairies are now believed by naturalist to be extinct, though a clergyman of the Church of England saw three near Colchester as lately as 1855, while passing through a park after dining with the lord of the manor. The sight greatly staggered him, and he was so affected that his account of it was incoherent. In the year 1807 a troop of fairies visited a wood near Aix and carried off the daughter of a peasant, who had been seen to enter it with a bundle of clothing. The son of a wealthy bourgeois disappeared about the same time, but afterward returned. He had seen the abduction been in pursuit of the fairies. Justinian Gaux, a writer of the fourteenth century, avers that so great is the fairies' power of transformation that he saw one change itself into two opposing armies and fight a battle with great slaughter, and that the next day, after it had resumed its original shape and gone away, there were seven hundred bodies of the slain which the villagers had to bury. He does not say if any of the wounded recovered. In the time of Henry III, of England, a law was made which prescribed the death penalty for "Kyllynge, wowndynge, or mamynge" a fairy, and it was universally respected. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Quaid | Three months before that, he was a teacher teaching in high school science in this little town in west Texas, in May. And then in September, he's fulfilling his lifelong dream of putting them out in a big league park. |
Trisha Meili | Right. And it was always on either the main road of the park or the cross drive is a road, and it has lights on it. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Park" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 53.70% of the time. "Park" is used about 10,746 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 53.7% | 5,771 | 1,700 |
| Noun (singular) | 42.57% | 4,574 | 2,140 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 3.03% | 326 | 15,930 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.68% | 73 | 39,105 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.02% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10,746 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "park" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Park | Last name | 25,000 | 461 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "park". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Parker | Male, Female | English | A park keeper |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Australia | Darling Park Trust | Germany | Park & Bellheimer A.G. |
| Malaysia | Park May Berhad | Singapore | Goodwood Park Hotel Limited |
| Thailand | Natural Park Public Company Limited | United Kingdom | Linton Park P.L.C. |
| USA | Canterbury Park Holding Corporation | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Park, KS (city, FIPS 54400) 2. Park, PA |
Expressions using "park": Abbott Park ♦ Acadia National Park ♦ Allen Park ♦ Allison Park ♦ Alondra Park ♦ Amanda Park ♦ amusement park ♦ aquatic park ♦ arches National Park ♦ Arnolds Park ♦ aroma Park ♦ artillery park ♦ Asbury Park ♦ audubon Park ♦ Averill Park ♦ Avon Park ♦ azalea Park ♦ Babson Park ♦ Badlands National Park ♦ Baldwin Park ♦ ball park ♦ Bassville Park ♦ beach Park ♦ Bedford Park ♦ Belmont Park ♦ belvedere Park ♦ Bethel Park ♦ big Bend National Park ♦ big Park ♦ Biscayne National Park ♦ Biscayne Park ♦ Bletchley Park ♦ bluff Park ♦ Broadview Park ♦ Brook Park ♦ Brooklyn Park ♦ brownlee Park ♦ Bruce Canyon National Park ♦ Buena Park ♦ Bunche Park ♦ business park ♦ Calumet Park ♦ Calverton Park ♦ Cambrian Park ♦ Cameron Park ♦ Canoga Park ♦ canyonlands National Park ♦ Capitol Reef National Park ♦ car park ♦ Carlsbad Caverns National Park ♦ cascade Park ♦ cascade Park East ♦ cascade Park West ♦ cedar Park ♦ central Park ♦ channel Islands National Park ♦ Charlotte Park ♦ Cissna Park ♦ city park ♦ Clearbrook Park ♦ cliffside Park ♦ Clifton Park ♦ Clyde Park ♦ college Park ♦ colonial Park ♦ comstock Park ♦ country park ♦ crater Lake National Park ♦ Crescent Park ♦ Crooked Lake Park ♦ crystal Lake Park ♦ Custer Park ♦ Davis Park ♦ deer park ♦ Denali National Park ♦ Dodge Park ♦ double park ♦ Earl Park ♦ East Glacier Park Village ♦ East Highland Park ♦ Edgemont Park ♦ Edgewater Park ♦ Elk Park ♦ Elka Park ♦ Elkins Park ♦ Elmwood Park ♦ Estes Park ♦ Everglades National Park ♦ Evergreen Park ♦ Fairview Park ♦ Fern Park ♦ Floral Park ♦ Florham Park ♦ Forest Island Park ♦ Forest Park ♦ Franklin Park ♦ Frazier Park ♦ Fruitland Park ♦ Galena Park ♦ game park ♦ Garden City Park. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "park": park-and-culture, park-and-ride, park-and-ride system, park-based, park-bred, park-fence, park-going, park-keeper, park-keepers, park-land, park-like, Park-Miller, park-style, park-type. | |
Ending with "park": ball-park, car-park, deer-park, game-park, lorry-park, theme-park. | |
Containing "park": car-park attendant, car-park-like, car-park-training, inside-the-park home run, Page Park-Pine Manor. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
linkin park | 24,353 | yosemite park | 2,962 |
national park | 18,633 | joshua tree national park | 2,751 |
south park | 11,154 | glacier park | 2,693 |
yellowstone national park | 11,071 | central park | 2,600 |
grand teton national park | 8,506 | asbury park press | 2,294 |
glacier national park | 8,453 | us national park | 2,277 |
yosemite national park | 8,311 | jurassic park | 2,167 |
hershey park | 6,834 | cedar point amusement park | 2,149 |
olympic national park | 5,694 | mobile park virginia | 2,149 |
theme park | 5,667 | rocky mountain national park |
