area
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
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hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
sciences
soccer
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin ārealbor.
English area
Learned borrowing from Latin ārea.
Inflected forms:
form: areas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: areæ
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A measure of the extent of a surface; it is measured in square units.
pos: noun
examples: It is about 4.5 million square kilometers in area and holds the world’s third largest collection of ice after Antarctica and Greenland.
gloss: A particular geographic region.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: Any particular extent of surface, especially an empty or unused extent.
pos: noun
examples: The photo is a little dark in that area.
gloss: The extent, scope, or range of an object or concept.
pos: noun
examples: The plans are a bit vague in that area.
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.
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.
gloss: An open space, below ground level, giving access to the basement of a house, and typically separated from the pavement by railings.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: 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.
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.
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.
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.
gloss: Penalty box; penalty area.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: Genitals.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: 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!
Related words: areal
Derived words: 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
diaper area
disaster area
drainage area
equal-area
euro area
fat upper pubic area
fat upper pussy 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
nappy area
neutral area
notification area
output area
outside gross area
penalty area
personal area network
picnic area
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
visual area V4
waiting area
Wernicke's area
wetted area
wide-area network
wide area network
Wundt area illusion
Wundt's area illusion
Translations:
lang: Bashkir
word: даирә
roman: dairə
lang: Finnish
word: alue
lang: French
word: domaine
lang: Greek
word: έκταση
roman: éktasi
lang: Greek
word: διάσταση
roman: diástasi
lang: Hindi
word: क्षेत्र
roman: kṣetra
lang: Korean
word: 범위
roman: beomwi
lang: Korean
word: 분야
roman: bunya
lang: Malay
word: lingkungan
lang: Old English
word: stede
lang: Polish
word: dziedzina
lang: Portuguese
word: área
lang: Slovak
word: oblasť
lang: Walloon
word: dominne