Area
['eərɪə] or ['ɛrɪə]
Definition
(noun.) a part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function; 'the spacious cooking area provided plenty of room for servants'.
(noun.) the extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary; 'the area of a rectangle'; 'it was about 500 square feet in area'.
(noun.) a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve; 'in the abdominal region'.
(noun.) a subject of study; 'it was his area of specialization'; 'areas of interest include...'.
(noun.) a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography); 'it was a mountainous area'; 'Bible country'.
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Definition
(n.) Any plane surface, as of the floor of a room or church, or of the ground within an inclosure; an open space in a building.
(n.) The inclosed space on which a building stands.
(n.) The sunken space or court, giving ingress and affording light to the basement of a building.
(n.) An extent of surface; a tract of the earth's surface; a region; as, vast uncultivated areas.
(n.) The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.
(n.) A spot or small marked space; as, the germinative area.
(n.) Extent; scope; range; as, a wide area of thought.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Region, sphere, realm, territory, domain, district, circuit, circle, definite space.[2]. (Geom.) Superficial contents.
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Definition
n. any plane surface or enclosed space: the sunken space around the basement of a building: (fig.) extent conceived by the mind: (geom.) the superficial contents of any figure.
Typist: Pansy
Examples
- With an area beneath, it was no mean feat to reach that window ledge and open that window. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- By the aid of these lines the barometric conditions over a large area can be studied. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Over most of the area of Western Central Asia and Persia and Mesopotamia, the ancient distinction of nomad and settled population remains to this day. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- All fresh water basins, taken together, make a small area compared with that of the sea or of the land. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- This cell was in shape and size something like an area cellar, only not so light. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- To the end the largest city states of Greece remained smaller than many English counties; and some had an area of only a few square miles. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In the first place we should be extremely cautious in inferring, because an area is now continuous, that it has been continuous during a long period. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- I am not at all obliged to it for making me Guy Fawkes in the vault and a Sneak in the area both at once,' said Eugene. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- With his father's assistance he had become duke of a wide area of Central Italy when Machiavelli visited him. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Not every city is so well peopled as this, or has so ample an area within its walls. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The district selected for lighting was the area--nearly a square mile in extent--included between Wall, Nassau, Spruce, and Ferry Streets, Peck Slip and the East River in New York City. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It had itself neither the area, the agricultural possibilities, nor the mineral wealth to be important. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It ad dressed itself to actual problems, such as determining the area of a square or triangular field from the length of the sides. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The ground area covered by their buildings was fifty acres, giving a floor area of 140 acres, a chill room and cold storage area of forty acres, and a storage capacity of 130,000 tons. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Thus any joke or story originating anywhere in that area was known the next day all over. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But may not the areas of preponderant movement have changed in the lapse of ages? Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- There remained throughout the whole period considerable areas in which the elaboration of the arts of life could go on. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Here and there they were broken with streaks and patches of dusky red, green, and occasional areas of white quartz. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The elevation of the table is proportionate to the quantity of water injected, and the power proportionate to the receptive areas of the pump and the cylinder. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- They probably ranged over very wide areas. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- For the Egyptians, geometry was concerned w ith surfaces and dimensions, with areas and cubical contents; for the Greek, with his powers of abstraction, it became a study of line and angle. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Belgium, Serbia, and Roumania, and large areas of France and Russia, were occupied by Austro-German troops. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- So great was the commercial demand for dyestuffs that large areas of land were given over to the exclusive cultivation of the more important dye plants. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The cultivation and garnering of crops from such vast areas can only be appreciated by comparisons. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- They probably grazed their flocks over great areas much as the sheep ranchers of California do. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The species of all kinds which inhabit oceanic islands are few in number compared with those on equal continental areas: Alph. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- They levied taxes over great areas; they exacted indemnities for real or fancied opposition. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Vast areas were exposed that are now again sea bottom. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Vast areas to the west and northwest which are now under the Atlantic waters were then dry land; the Irish Sea and the North Sea were river valleys. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He thought her brown face looked pallid and the skin sallow and that there were dark areas under her eyes. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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