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islandsnoun
The Caribbean islands.
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Islands
An island or isle is a piece of sub-continental land completely surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, skerries, cays or keys. An island in a river or a lake island may be called an eyot or ait, and a small island off the coast may be called a holm. Sedimentary islands in the Ganges Delta are called chars. A grouping of geographically or geologically related islands, such as the Philippines, is referred to as an archipelago. There are two main types of islands in the sea; continental and oceanic. There are also man-made islands.
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Islands
Islands is an indie rock band formed in 2005 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and currently based in Los Angeles, California.
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islandsnoun
Plural noun of the word island.
The Pacific islands are a popular holiday destination for many across the world.
Submitted by MaryC on April 26, 2016
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Rank popularity for the word 'islands' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2758
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of islands in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of islands in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of islands in a Sentence
Fighting in a river, the komodo will lose, but fighting in the jungle on one of our islands, the komodo has a pretty good chance to win.
Despite deteriorating weather conditions, approximately 48,000 refugees and migrants crossed from Turkey to the Greek islands -- or about 9,600 migrants and refugees in each of the past five days.
Chief Executive Officer Bjoern Kjos:
We anticipate that there is a market from these islands into the U.S, you have to take into consideration that the dollar is very strong against the Euro, so it's cheap to go to these islands now.
They must have done so using relatively sophisticated watercraft of some kind, as there were no land bridges between the islands, even during the glacial peaks of the last ice age, when global sea levels were up to 140 meters( 459 feet) lower than they are today.
Cloudy conditions and strong westerly winds associated with an active monsoon tend to suppress sea breezes over the islands, reducing the likelihood of Hector forming regularly, an active monsoon also generates regular showers and thunderstorms which move rapidly across the islands from west to east in the relatively cool maritime airstream.
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