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  1. Island
    [Float Away] "Island (Float Away)" is the fourth track and first single off The Starting Line`s 2007 album, Direction. The music video for the song was directed by Jay Martin and it takes place on a shipwrecked beach. The music video premiered on July 31, 2007 on TRL. The song hit #21 on the...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_(Flo

  2. Island
    [Laymon novel] Island is a horror novel by American author Richard Laymon, originally published in 1991 by Headline Features. It was reissued in 2002 by Leisure Publishing, with new cover artwork and a foreword by popular suspense novelist Dean Koontz. ==Synopsis== The novel is structured as...
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  3. Island
    [music group] Island was a band formed for the Eurovision Song Contest 1981. It consisted of: Alexia Bassiliou, Areti Kassapi Haralbidou, Aristos Moskovakis, Roger Lee and Doros Georgiadis. It represented Cyprus for the first time in the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Monika". The band ended in 6th place with 69 points. ...
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  4. Island
    [David Arkenstone album] Island is an instrumental album by David Arkenstone with Andrew White, released in 1989. It is a departure from Arkenstone`s mostly electronic debut album Valley in the Clouds. ==Track listing== ==Personnel== ...
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  5. Island
    [Lost] The result of the debate was (speedy) keep. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 02:56, 22 June 2006 (UTC) ===Mathematics (disambiguation)=== There is no need for this page. I have put a disambiguation notice at the top of the mathematics article that says I think that is enough. "Math", in this ca...
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  6. island
    [n] - a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water 2. [n] - a zone or area resembling an island
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  7. island
    a region of semiconductor material in a chip of a particular conductivity type,separated from other region(s)of the opposite conductivity type by a suitable isolation technique Category: Electrical engineering and energy • the solid curves of Figure 2 show the two menisci of the -- when ...
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  8. Island
    Is'land noun [ Middle English iland , yland , Anglo-Saxon īgland , ...gland , ...glond ; īg , ...g , island + land , lond , land. Anglo-Saxon īg , ...g
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/I/101

  9. Island
    Is'land transitive verb 1. To cause to become or to resemble an island; to make an island or islands of; to isle. Shelley. 2. To furnish with an island or with islands; as, to island the deep. Southey.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/I/101

  10. island
    1. <geography> A tract of land surrounded by water, and smaller than a continent. Cf. Continent. ... 2. Anything regarded as resembling an island; as, an island of ice. ... Origin: OE. Iland, yland, AS. Igland, gland, glond; ig, g, island + land, lond, land. AS. Ig, g, is akin to AS. Ea water,...
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  11. island
    noun a zone or area resembling an island
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  12. island
    a body of land surrounded by water on all sides
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  13. island
    (i´lәnd) a cluster of cells or an isolated piece of tissue. blood islands aggregations of mesenchymal cells in the angioblast of the embryo, developing into vascular endothelium and blood cells. islands of Langerhans islets of Langerhans. ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/21001

  14. Island
    • (n.) Anything regarded as resembling an island; as, an island of ice. • (v. t.) To furnish with an island or with islands; as, to island the deep. • (n.) A tract of land surrounded by water, and smaller than a continent. Cf. Continent. • (v. t.) To cause to become or to resembl...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  15. Island
    (from the article `Izu Islands`) ...(north to south) , To, Nii, Shikine, Kzu, Miyake, and Mikura. The islands form the northernmost part of the Izu Archipelago, which also includes ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/o/1

  16. Island
    (from the article `novel`) ...social stability might condone conditioning techniques that would destroy the fundamental human right to make free choices. Toward the end of his ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/i/43

  17. island
    any area of land smaller than a continent and entirely surrounded by water. Islands may occur in oceans, seas, lakes, or rivers. A group of islands ... [5 related articles]
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  18. island
    Type: Term Pronunciation: ī′land Definitions: 1. In anatomy, any isolated part, separated from the surrounding tissues by a groove, or marked by a difference in structure. Synonyms: insula2
    Found on http://www.medilexicon.com/medicaldictio

  19. Island
    Island is a cultivated variety of potato.
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  20. Island
    [disambiguation] An island is a land mass entirely surrounded by water. Island or Islands may also refer to: ...
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  21. Island
    [novel] Island is the final book by English writer Aldous Huxley, published in 1962. It is the account of Will Farnaby, a cynical journalist who is shipwrecked on the fictional island of Pala. Island is Huxley`s utopian counterpart to his most famous work, the 1932 novel Brave New World, its...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_(nov

  22. Island
    An island d or isle l is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, cays or keys. An island in a river or lake may be called an eyot t (also ait t), or holm. A grouping of geographically or geologi...
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  23. island
    portion of a power system, that is disconnected from the remainder of the system, but remains energized
    Found on http://www.electropedia.org/iev/iev.nsf/

  24. island
    island, relatively small body of land surrounded entirely by water. (As the oceans form a continuous mass of water on the earth's surface, all continents are islands in the strict sense of the word.) The largest islands on earth are, in descending order of size, Greenland, New Guinea, Borneo, Madaga...
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  25. island
    Area of land surrounded entirely by water. Australia is classed as a continent rather than an island, because of its size. Islands can be formed in many ways. Continental islands were once part of the mainland, but became isolated (by tectonic movement, erosion, or a rise in sea level, for example). ...
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27 May 2012

This day in history: The Queen Mary made her maiden voyage, on the Southampton-Cherbourg-New York route, on 27 May 1936. The passenger accommodation emphasised the first two classes, cabin and tourist. The propulsion machinery of the ship produced a massive 160,000 SHP and gave it a speed of over 30 knots. Despite expectations that the ship would try to break speed records on its first voyage a thick fog destroyed any hope of this. The Queen Mary spent a short time in drydock during July whilst adjustments were made to the propellers and turbines. When the ship returned to service, in August, it made a record voyage from Bishop's Rock to Ambrose light and took the Blue Riband from the Normandie. read more

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