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What is the noun for islet?

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island
  1. A contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, totally surrounded by water.
  2. An entity surrounded by other entities that are very different from itself.
  3. A superstructure on an aircraft carrier's deck.
  4. A traffic island.
  5. (government) An unincorporated area wholly surrounded by one or more incorporated areas.
  6. (grammar) A phrase from which a wh-word cannot be extracted without yielding invalid grammar.
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  8. Examples:
    1. “Each island is gorgeous, with waterfalls, rivers, and all sorts of vegetation.”
isle
  1. A (small) island.
  2. Obsolete form of aisle.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “I realized one particular tip of this land seemed to point to a tiny isle off the southern coast.”
      “Already, there were tales last week of German beef being cut up in Ireland and repackaged for the supermarket shelves of this sceptred isle.”
      “Yes, all is not just illusion, but theatrical illusion, on this cool sea-green isle.”
islanding
  1. The condition of a distributed generation (DG) generator continuing to power a location even though power from the electric utility is no longer present.
isleman
  1. A man who inhabits an island.
islander
  1. A person who lives on an island.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “On the way back Mr Harrington meets another islander as he waits for the cable car to take him to the mainland.”
      “The photograph shows an islander standing in the lade that channels water from the adjacent burn into the waterwheel below.”
      “At the beginning of the year, we look in the mirror and see sags and wrinkles we would ignore in an Albanian or a Fiji islander.”
islandful
  1. As much as an island can hold.
islet
  1. A small island.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “He said the ship's navigator was allegedly watching a football match when the ferry collided with the islet.”
      “Buffumville Lake surrounds this white-pine-forested islet, which is equipped only with a picnic table, a fire pit and an outhouse.”
      “One way to determine the mechanism is to attempt to reset the islet by injecting a brief current pulse.”
islesman
  1. Synonym of isleman
islesmen
  1. plural of islesman
  2. Examples:
    1. “A naval and a land attack was made upon the Islesmen, and they for a time were quelled.”
      “A local tradition in Skye tells that the Islesmen held a council at which they decided to offer Somerled the chiefship.”
islanders
  1. plural of islander
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Secure in their home, the islanders, known as Kelpers, are getting on with making money.”
      “The Melians were colonists of the Lacedaemonians who would not submit to Athens like the other islanders.”
      “The first Cape Verdean islanders settled in the United States in the middle of the nineteenth century.”
islemen
  1. plural of isleman
islands
islets
  1. plural of islet
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  3. Examples:
    1. “It is tastefully landscaped, dotted with islets, ringed by a trail and helpful interpretive signs.”
      “There are 13 main islands in the archipelago, plus four islets and some 40 outcrops of jagged rocks.”
      “The river is more a stream, eventually splitting into marshy islets and after such a rainless spring was bone dry for a mile of so.”
isles
  1. plural of isle
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  3. Examples:
    1. “It had some random ghouls in it, so we swept the isles and took out maybe 5, dragged them out and used Lysol to disinfect the place.”
      “We walked down the side isles of the auditorium, with the wonderful sound of bagpipes leading us in.”
      “Celtic legends tell of the misty westward isles, the place of repose to which the soul is borne after death.”
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