park
noun
[ pɑːk ]
• a large public garden or area of land used for recreation.
• "a walk round the park"
• an area devoted to a specified purpose.
• "an industrial park"
• (in a car with automatic transmission) the position of the gear selector in which the gears are locked, preventing the vehicle's movement.
park
verb
• bring (a vehicle that one is driving) to a halt and leave it temporarily, typically in a car park or by the side of the road.
• "he parked his car outside her house"
Origin:
Middle English: from Old French parc, from medieval Latin parricus, of Germanic origin; related to German Pferch ‘pen, fold’, also to paddock. The word was originally a legal term designating land held by royal grant for keeping game animals: this was enclosed and therefore distinct from a forest or chase, and (also unlike a forest ) had no special laws or officers. A military sense ‘space occupied by artillery, wagons, stores, etc., in an encampment’ (late 17th century) is the origin of the verb sense (mid 19th century) and of park (sense 2 of the noun) (early 20th century).
