area
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛə.ɹɪ.ə/
ipa: [ˈɛː.ɹɪ.ə]
enpr: ĕʼrē-ə
ipa: /ˈɛɹ.i.ə/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈerɪjɑ/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.ə
Forms: form: areas
form: areæ
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin ārea.
Senses: examples: text: It is about 4.5 million square kilometers in area and holds the world’s third largest collection of ice after Antarctica and Greenland.
ref: 2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A measure of the extent of a surface; it is measured in square units.
examples: text: Eggimann used a computer algorithm to analyze data from the open-source geographic database OpenStreetMap and automatically detect areas with the superblock potential. He applied this analysis to 5 km x 5 km areas of the city center in 18 different cities around the world.
ref: 2022 March 8, Sarah DeWeerdt, “Barcelona-style “superblocks” could make a surprising number of cities greener and less car-centric”, in Anthropocene Magazine, archived from the original on 20 Oct 2022:
glosses: A particular geographic region.
examples: text: The photo is a little dark in that area.
glosses: Any particular extent of surface, especially an empty or unused extent.
examples: text: The plans are a bit vague in that area.
text: Today, a new area of research that similarly aims to mimic a complex biological phenomenon—life itself—is taking off. Synthetic biology, a seductive experimental subfield in the life sciences, seems tantalizingly to promise custom-designed life created in the laboratory.
ref: 2013 September-October, Rob Dorit, “Making Life from Scratch”, in American Scientist:
text: The Green-Tao theorem on primes was a similar collaboration. Green is a specialist in an area called number theory, and Tao originally trained in an area called harmonic analysis.
ref: 2015 July 24, Gareth Cook, “The Singular Mind of Terry Tao”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Mar 2020:
glosses: The extent, scope, or range of an object or concept.
examples: text: A boy seized it, whom she bribed with a shilling to relinquish his prize, which she was taking home, when it escaped from her hand, and fell down the area of a house.
ref: 1790, Helen Maria Williams, Julia, Routledge, published 2016, page 95:
text: This was so favourably received by the milkman and beadle that he would immediately have been pushed into the area if I had not held his pinafore while Richard and Mr. Guppy ran down through the kitchen to catch him when he should be released.
ref: 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 4, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
text: He crept down the back stairs; but as he could not quite condescend to escape through the area, he was forced to emerge upon the hall, and here his aunt pounced upon him, coming out of the breakfast-parlour.
ref: 1865, Anthony Trollope, “LXVI. Lady Monk's Plan”, in Can You Forgive Her?:
text: A minute later we were both in the area. Hardly had we reached the dark shadows before the step of the policeman was heard in the fog above. As its soft rhythm died away, Holmes set to work upon the lower door. I saw him stoop and strain until with a sharp crash it flew open. We sprang through into the dark passage, closing the area door behind us.
ref: 1908, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans:
glosses: An open space, below ground level, giving access to the basement of a house, and typically separated from the pavement by railings.
examples: text: Bendtner's goal-bound shot was well saved by goalkeeper Ali Al Habsi but fell to Arsahvin on the edge of the area and the Russian swivelled, shaped his body and angled a sumptuous volley into the corner.
ref: 2010 December 29, Mark Vesty, “Wigan 2-2 Arsenal”, in BBC:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Penalty box; penalty area.
examples: text: But what do I do when the third one runs at me with his bike helmet on? I got no more hands to protect my area!
ref: 2003 October 2, “The One Where Ross Is Fine”, in Friends, season 10, episode 2, spoken by Frank Buffay Jr. (Giovanni Ribisi), via NBC:
glosses: Genitals.
Derived terms: anti-access area denial
Area 51
area boy
area code
area control center
area control centre
area-denial
area denial
area meeting
area of influence
area of occupancy
area rug
area rule
area sneak
area state
area studies
areaway
areawide
areawise
areic
Broca's area
Brodmann area
catchment area
census area
coarea
combined statistical area
common area
council area
danger area
debris response area
denied area
disaster area
drainage area
equal-area
euro area
free trade area
free-trade area
Gauss's area formula
goal area
gray area
grey area
high memory area
impact area
important bird area
interarea
intimate area
language area
lateral area
local area network
low post area
macroarea
metropolitan area
metropolitan area network
microarea
multiarea
neutral area
notification area
output area
outside gross area
penalty area
personal area network
Planck area
planning area
polar area diagram
private area
prohibited area
protected area
rest area
restricted area
Ruhr Area
sacrifice area
safe area
safety area
Schengen Area
sea area
second moment of area
service area
sitting-out area
six-yard area
special area
specific leaf area
staging area
storage area network
subarea
supplementary motor area
surface area
tactical assembly area
technical area
terminal control area
Terminal High Altitude Area Defense
tourist area
traffic conference area
training area
type area
upper memory area
ventral tegmental area
waiting area
Wernicke's area
wetted area
wide area network
wide-area network
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sense: Imperial
word: square inch
sense: Imperial
word: square feet
sense: Imperial
word: square yard
sense: Imperial
word: square mile
sense: Imperial
word: acre
sense: Metric
word: square meter
sense: Metric
word: square metre
sense: Metric
word: square centimeter
sense: Metric
word: square centimetre
sense: Metric
word: square kilometer
sense: Metric
word: square kilometre
sense: Metric
word: hectare