park

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. An area of land set aside for public use, as:
2. n. A piece of land with few or no buildings within or adjoining a town, maintained for recreational and ornamental purposes.
3. n. A landscaped city square.
4. n. A large tract of rural land kept in its natural state and usually reserved for the enjoyment and recreation of visitors.
5. n. A broad, fairly level valley between mountain ranges: the high parks of the Rocky Mountains.
6. n. A tract of land attached to a country house, especially when including extensive gardens, woods, pastures, or a game preserve.
7. n. Sports A stadium or an enclosed playing field: a baseball park.
8. n. An area where military vehicles or artillery are stored and serviced.
9. n. The materiel kept in such an area.
10. n. An area in or near a town designed and usually zoned for a certain purpose: a commercial park.
11. n. A position in an automatic transmission that disengages the gears and sets the brake so the vehicle cannot move: put the car in park and turned off the engine.
12. v. To put or leave (a vehicle) for a time in a certain location.
13. v. Aerospace To place (a spacecraft or satellite) in a usually temporary orbit.
14. v. Informal To place or leave temporarily: parked the baby with neighbors; parking cash in a local bank account.
15. v. To assemble (artillery or other equipment) in a military park.
16. v. To park a motor vehicle: pulled over and parked next to the curb.
17. v. Slang To engage in kissing and caressing in a vehicle stopped in a secluded spot.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. In English law, a tract of land inclosed and privileged for wild beasts of chase, by the monarch's grant or by prescription. A chase was distinguished from a park by not being inclosed; and both differed from a forest in having no peculiar courts or judicial officers, nor any particular laws.
2. n. A considerable extent of pasture and woodland, surrounding or adjoining a country-house and devoted primarily to purposes of recreation or enjoyment, and often serving to support a herd of cattle or a flock of sheep, or, in Europe, stocked with deer.
3. n. A piece of ground, usually of considerable extent, set apart and maintained for public use, and laid out in such a way as to afford pleasure to the eye as well as opportunity for open-air recreation: as, Central Park in New York, or Hyde Park in London.
4. n. An inclosed piece of ground suitable for tillage or pasture; an inclosed field.
5. n. A high plateau-like valley, resembling the “holes” and “prairies” of the more northern parts of the Rocky Mountain ranges.
6. n. Milit.: The space or inclosure occupied by the guns, wagons, animals, pontoons, powder, provisions, stores, etc., when brought together, or the objects themselves: as, a park of artillery, of provisions, of wagons, etc.
7. n. A complete set or equipment, as of guns, tools, etc.: as, a park of siege-guns.
8. n. A large net placed at the margin of the sea, with only one entrance, which is next the shore, and is left dry by the ebb of the tide.
9. n. In oyster-culture, a sunken bed on which oysters are placed for reproduction and growth, and which is filled with water by each high tide.
10. n. A prison.
11. To inclose or shut up in as in a park.
12. To bring together in a park or compact body: as, to park artillery.
13. To frequent a public park.

Wiktionary

1. n. 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.
2. n. A piece of ground, in or near a city or town, enclosed and kept for ornament and recreation
3. n. this sense?) A space occupied by the animals, wagons, pontoons, and materials of all kinds, as ammunition, ordnance stores, hospital stores, provisions, etc., when brought together.
4. n. UK An inventory of matériel.
5. n. A partially inclosed basin in which oysters are grown.
6. n. An enclosed parcel of land stocked with animals for hunting, which one may have by prescription or royal grant.
7. n. An area zoned for a particular (industrial or technological) purpose.
8. n. US A grassy basin surrounded by mountains.
9. n. soccer A pitch; the area on which a match is played.
10. n. Australia, New Zealand A space in which to leave a car; a parking space.
11. v. transitive To bring (something such as a vehicle) to a halt or store in a specified place.
12. v. transitive, informal To defer (a matter) until a later date.
13. v. transitive To bring together in a park, or compact body.
14. v. transitive To enclose in a park, or as in a park.
15. v. transitive, baseball To hit a home run, to hit the ball out of the park.
16. v. intransitive, slang To engage in romantic or sexual activities inside a nonmoving vehicle.
17. v. transitive, informal To sit, recline, or put, especially in a manner suggesting an intent to remain for some time.
18. v. transitive, finance To invest money temporarily in an investment instrument considered to relatively free of risk, especially while awaiting other opportunities.
19. v. Internet To register a domain name, but make no use of it (See domain parking)

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (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. n. 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.
3. n. A piece of ground, in or near a city or town, inclosed and kept for ornament and recreation
4. n. (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
5. n. A partially inclosed basin in which oysters are grown.
6. n. Any place where vehicles are assembled according to a definite arrangement; also, the vehicles.
7. n. 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.
8. v. To inclose in a park, or as in a park.
9. v. (Mil.) To bring together in a park, or compact body
10. v. In oyster culture, to inclose in a park.
11. v. 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.
12. v. informal To place (an object) in a temporary location.
13. v. To promenade or drive in a park; also, of horses, to display style or gait on a park drive.
14. v. 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.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. Scottish explorer in Africa (1771-1806)
2. n. a gear position that acts as a parking brake
3. n. a large area of land preserved in its natural state as public property
4. n. a facility in which ball games are played (especially baseball games)
5. v. maneuver a vehicle into a parking space
6. v. place temporarily
7. n. a lot where cars are parked
8. n. a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area