island

«island» in Mova's judaism dictionary: a piece of land with water all around it — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (an island, islands)

meaning for a pupil

1) An island is a piece of land with water all around it. tree →

2) An island is anything that stands alone, surrounded by something different, like a traffic island in a road or a kitchen island. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Bible "islands" often means far-off coastlands across the sea, which stand for distant nations. Interpretation: Isaiah calls the faraway lands to praise God, and tradition reads this as the hope that all nations will one day know God. In the primary lessons: In geography, Great Britain, Ireland, Tasmania, New Zealand's North and South Islands and Hawaii are islands; Australia is so big it is called a continent. A group of islands is an archipelago. Islands can form from volcanoes or coral. In road safety, a traffic island lets pedestrians stop halfway across. In stories, a desert island, treasure island or castaway tells the reader the hero is alone and must survive. Phrases: «on an island», «desert island», «island country», «traffic island», «no man is an island».

examples

• Let them give glory unto the LORD, and declare His praise in the islands. (Prophets ISA.42.12, JPS 1917) tree →
• According to their deeds, accordingly He will repay, fury to His adversaries, recompense to His enemies; to the islands He will repay recompense. (Prophets ISA.59.18, JPS 1917) tree →
• I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools. (Prophets ISA.42.15, JPS 1917) tree →
• Ireland is an island in the Atlantic Ocean. tree →
• We took a ferry to the island. tree →
• New Zealand is made up of two main islands and many smaller ones. tree →
• Hawaii's islands were made by volcanoes. tree →
• The castaway lived alone on a desert island. tree →
• Wait on the traffic island before crossing the second lane. tree →
• Robinson Crusoe was stranded on an island. tree →
• We ate breakfast at the kitchen island. tree →

note

Spelling trap: the «s» is silent — «EYE-land». An island → «an», because it starts with a vowel sound. People live «on» an island, not «in» (except for large island countries: «in Ireland»). «Isle» is a poetic word for island (the Isle of Wight).

In the corpora

• Let them give glory unto the LORD, and declare His praise in the islands.
• Tigers love water and swim well; Sundarbans tigers swim between islands in the mangroves of India and Bangladesh and can swim several kilometres.
• Jonathan, a giant tortoise on the island of St Helena, hatched around 1832 and is the oldest known living land animal.
• Great apes do not swim naturally and can drown, so zoos use water moats around ape islands.
• Lemurs live wild only on Madagascar and a few nearby islands; about a hundred kinds are known, and many are in danger.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «island» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.