Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word OASIS

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Definitions of OASIS

1. A spring of fresh water, surrounded by a fertile region of vegetation, in a desert.
2. (figuratively) A quiet, peaceful place or situation separated from surrounding noise or bustle.
3. (computing) Acronym of Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards.
4. A CDP in Riverside County, California, US.
5. A CDP in Elko County, Nevada, US.

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Examples of Using OASIS in a Sentence

• In geography, an oasis may be a current or past rest stop on a transportation route, or less-than-verdant location that nonetheless provides access to underground water through deep wells created and maintained by humans.
• Water in the Libyan desert is limited to a few small watering holes, such as Bir an Natrun, where the water table reaches the surface to form wells that provide water for nomads, caravans, and administrative patrols, although insufficient to support an oasis and inadequate to provide for a settled population.
• The languages are known from manuscripts dating from the 5th to the 8th century AD, which were found in oasis cities on the northern edge of the Tarim Basin (now part of Xinjiang in Northwest China) and the Lop Desert.
• The oasis state is conquered, and Western Turks sent to assist Karasahr are defeated by the Tang forces.
• Dahham built a mudbrick palace and a wall around the town, and the best-known source of the name Riyadh is from this period, thought to be referring to the earlier oasis towns that predated the wall built by Ibn Dawwas.
• The name Neve Shalom is taken from a passage in the Isaiah 32:18: "My people shall dwell in an oasis of peace".
• Lakeland Wildlife Oasis, a small zoological collection near the town of Milnthorpe, Cumbria, England.
• It started as an oasis around a series of watering holes eight miles north of present-day Maricopa, and about a mile west of Pima Butte.
• Palm Aire Country Club is home to several smaller sub-communities: Misty Oaks, Vizcaya, Fairview Pointe, Cypress Reach, Oasis, Palm Aire Gardens, & Royal Point.
• It lies on the northern side of the Joshua Tree National Park and includes one of the entrances to the park, at the Oasis of Mara.
• By 2006, Mesquite was one of the fastest-growing small towns in the United States, though the late-2000s recession led to the closure of the Oasis (formerly the Peppermill) casino.
• Irrigation water from the Sevier River, passing nearby, has been used to turn Hinckley into a farming oasis.
• Definitely Maybe is the debut studio album by the English rock band Oasis, released on 29 August 1994 by Creation Records.
• The oasis is located on the east-west caravan route between Egypt and Tripoli, Libya, and the north-south route between Benghazi and the Sahel between Lake Chad and Darfur.
• The group is made of up three members: K DUB SHINE (MC/concept leader of the group), ZEEBRA (MC), and DJ OASIS (DJ).
• Broken Hill, historically considered one of Australia's boomtowns, has been referred to as "The Silver City", and less commonly as the "Oasis of the West", and the "Capital of the Outback".
• It also consists of a little, primarily agricultural oasis containing quarries and mines of magnesium and chromium.
• Stekene profiles itself as an oasis of green within industrialized Flanders as a large part of its area consists of forests and agricultural lands.
• Oasis signed to independent record label Creation Records in 1993 and released their record-setting debut album Definitely Maybe (1994), which topped the UK Albums Chart and quickly became the fastest-selling debut album in British history at the time.
• Heathen Chemistry was recorded between 2001 and early 2002 and is the first Oasis album to have significant writing contributions from members other than chief songwriter Noel Gallagher.
• Britpop eventually declined in popularity, and Oasis failed to revive it; however, all of their subsequent albums topped the UK charts, and they continued to tour, playing gigs to 1,000,000+ people worldwide, but particularly in Europe, and South America.
• He learnt that his younger brother Liam had joined a band called the Rain, which eventually became Oasis; Liam invited him to join the group as manager.
• Ontologically Anthropocentric Sensory Immersive Simulation (OASIS), a virtual reality simulator accessible by players in the novel Ready Player One.
• Certified four times platinum in the United Kingdom by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), the album came to define the emerging Britpop scene in the year following its release, along with the album Definitely Maybe by future rivals Oasis.
• Saint-Exupéry and his navigator were left almost completely without water and food, and as the chances of finding an oasis or help from the air gradually decreased, the two men nearly died of thirst before they were saved by a Bedouin on a camel.

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