Area - English meaning

noun

An area of land, typically when used for agricultural purposes, but not necessarily measured in acres.

Usage examples:

A 35 per cent increase in net acreage

noun

A strip of leather or other material worn, typically round the waist, to support or hold in clothes or to carry weapons.

Usage examples:

He tightened his leather belt an extra notch

verb

Fasten with a belt.

Usage examples:

She belted her raincoat firmly

noun

A strip of leather or other material worn around the waist

Usage examples:

A black leather belt, the corn belt (= area known for growing corn), he belted the ball out of the …

noun

A group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common.

Usage examples:

Montreal's italian community

noun

All the people who live in a particular area, or a group of people who are considered as a unit because of their shared interests or background

Usage examples:

[ c ] the scientific community, [ c ] bus fares were raised despite the protests of the community.,…

noun

The people living in a particular area

Usage examples:

We know that 80% of economic growth comes from businesses already located within our communities., …

noun

A separate section or part of a structure or container.

Usage examples:

There's some ice cream in the freezer compartment

verb

Divide (something) into separate parts or sections.

Usage examples:

The buildings are to be compartmented by fire walls

noun

Any of the enclosed parts into which a space, a vehicle, or an object used for storing things is divided

Usage examples:

She folded her coat and put it in the overhead luggage compartment.

noun

An instrument containing a magnetized pointer which shows the direction of magnetic north and bearings from it.

Usage examples:

Walkers should be equipped with a map and compass

verb

Go round (something) in a circular course.

Usage examples:

The ship wherein magellan compassed the world

noun

A device for finding direction with a thin pointed metal part that turns to always point north

noun

A division of a large organization such as a government, university, or business, dealing with a specific area of activity.

Usage examples:

The council's finance department

noun

Any of the divisions or parts of esp. a school, business, or government

Usage examples:

Chavez is the head of the geography department., the shoe department is on the fifth floor., she li…

noun

One part of a large organization, such as a company or university, that deals with a particular area of work, business, study, etc.

Usage examples:

Run/manage a department, the sales/human resources/finance department, he was previously a lecturer…

noun

A measurable extent of a particular kind, such as length, breadth, depth, or height.

Usage examples:

The final dimensions of the pond were 14 ft x 8 ft

verb

Form or shape (something) to particular measurements.

Usage examples:

The seats and backrests are dimensioned to withstand high loads from items such as unsecured luggage

noun

A measurement of something in a particular direction, esp. its height, length, or width

Usage examples:

The dimensions of the room are 26 feet by 15 feet., the new script gave the story a psychological d…

noun

The practice of training people to obey rules or a code of behaviour, using punishment to correct disobedience.

Usage examples:

A lack of proper parental and school discipline

verb

Train (someone) to obey rules or a code of behaviour, using punishment to correct disobedience.

Usage examples:

Many parents have been afraid to discipline their children

noun

Training that produces obedience or self-control, often in the form of rules and punishments if these are broken, or the obedience or self-control produced by this training

Usage examples:

Military discipline, learning a foreign language requires discipline., an academic discipline, he w…

noun

An area of a country or city, especially one characterized by a particular feature or activity.

Usage examples:

A coal-mining district

verb

Divide into areas.

Usage examples:

The committee districted the city into blocks

noun

An area of a country, state, or city that has been given fixed borders for official purposes, or one having a particular feature that makes it different from surrounding areas

Usage examples:

The theater district in new york is in midtown manhattan.

noun

An area of territory owned or controlled by a particular ruler or government.

Usage examples:

The french domains of the plantagenets

noun

The surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates.

Usage examples:

Survival in an often hostile environment

noun

The air, water, and land in or on which people, animals, and plants live

Usage examples:

We’re trying to protect the environment from pollution., a good business environment, for preschool…

noun

The air, water, and land in or on which people, animals, and plants live

Usage examples:

Conserve/preserve/protect the environment he tries to do what he can to preserve the environment by…

noun

A wide continuous area of something.

Usage examples:

The green expanse of the forest

noun

A very wide space or area

Usage examples:

The vast expanse of russia

noun

The area covered by something.

Usage examples:

An enclosure ten acres in extent

noun

The area, length, or size of something

Usage examples:

Approaching the airport, you could see the full extent of the island., to some extent it was my fau…

noun

An area of open land, especially one planted with crops or pasture, typically bounded by hedges or fences.

Usage examples:

A wheat field

verb

Attempt to catch or stop the ball and return it after it has been hit by the batter, thereby preventing runs being scored or base runners advancing.

Usage examples:

First, he took his eyes off the ball while fielding at short leg, and failed to notice that sarwan …

adjective

Attempt to catch or stop the ball and return it after it has been hit by the batsman or batter, thereby preventing runs being scored or base runners advancing.

noun

A long, narrow mark or band.

Usage examples:

A row of closely spaced dots will look like a continuous line

verb

Stand or be positioned at intervals along.

Usage examples:

A processional route lined by people waving flags

verb

Cover the inside surface of (a container or garment) with a layer of different material.

Usage examples:

A basket lined with polythene

noun

A place where something happens or is set, or that has particular events associated with it.

Usage examples:

Her summers were spent in a variety of exotic locales

noun

An area or place, esp. one where something special happens

Usage examples:

The film’s locale is venice in the summer of 1957.

noun

An area or place, especially one where something special happens, such as the action in a book or film

Usage examples:

The book's locale is a coastal town in the summer of 1958.

noun

The position or site of something.

Usage examples:

The rock's size and locality

noun

A particular area or neighborhood

Usage examples:

The schools work with states, localities, teachers, and parents.

noun

A particular area of a state or country

Usage examples:

The plan includes support for small businesses to modernize manufacturing in the locality., the min…

noun

The action of measuring something.

Usage examples:

Accurate measurement is essential

phrase

Your measurements are the sizes of various parts of your body, especially your chest, waist, and hips, that you refer to when you want to buy clothes

Usage examples:

She sent her measurements to the seamstress., the bridesmaids went to have their measurements taken…

noun

A district or community within a town or city.

Usage examples:

She lived in a wealthy neighbourhood of boston

noun

An area of a town, or the people who live or work in this area

Usage examples:

The company aims to set up a nursery school in every neighbourhood., the $150 million bond issue wi…

noun

(in the christian church) a small administrative district typically having its own church and a priest or pastor.

Usage examples:

A parish church

noun

An amount or section which, when combined with others, makes up the whole of something.

Usage examples:

Divide the circle into three equal parts

verb

(of two things) move away from each other.

Usage examples:

His lips parted in a smile

adverb

To some extent; partly (often used to contrast different parts of something).

Usage examples:

The city is now part slum, part consumer paradise

noun

A piece of cloth or other material used to mend or strengthen a torn or weak point.

Usage examples:

The jacket was of well-worn tweed with leather patches on the elbows

verb

Mend or strengthen (fabric or clothing) with a patch.

Usage examples:

Her jeans were neatly patched

noun

A small part of a surface that is different in some way from the area around it

Usage examples:

Watch for patches of ice on the road., we have a small vegetable patch (= area for growing vegetabl…

noun

A part, share, or number considered in comparative relation to a whole.

Usage examples:

The proportion of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is rising

verb

Adjust or regulate (something) so that it has a particular or suitable relationship to something else.

Usage examples:

A life after death in which happiness can be proportioned to virtue

phrase

The size, shape, or level of something

Usage examples:

A building of elegant proportions, i'm not very good at drawing people - i can never get the propor…

noun

A principal administrative division of a country or empire.

Usage examples:

Chengdu, capital of sichuan province

noun

Each of four equal or corresponding parts into which something is or can be divided.

Usage examples:

She cut each apple into quarters

verb

Divide into four equal or corresponding parts.

Usage examples:

Peel and quarter the bananas

noun

A kingdom.

Usage examples:

The defence of the realm

noun

An area, especially part of a country or the world having definable characteristics but not always fixed boundaries.

Usage examples:

The equatorial regions

noun

A particular area or part of a state, country, or the earth’s surface

Usage examples:

Wheat is the major crop of this region., he’s complaining of pain in the lower abdominal region., a…

noun

A particular area or part of the world, or one of the areas into which a country is divided

Usage examples:

The less-developed regions of the world, coastal regions of the country have much better infrastruc…

noun

The extent of the area or subject matter that something deals with or to which it is relevant.

Usage examples:

We widened the scope of our investigation

verb

Assess or investigate something.

Usage examples:

They'd scoped out their market

combining form

Denoting an instrument for observing, viewing, or examining.

Usage examples:

Microscope

noun

Any of the more or less distinct parts into which something is or may be divided or from which it is made up.

Usage examples:

I unscrewed every section of copper pipe, from the roof tank to the hot-water cylinder

verb

Divide into sections.

Usage examples:

She began to section the grapefruit

noun

A part of something

Usage examples:

Dad always reads the sports section of the newspaper., he lived in a poor section of town., you’ll …

noun

An area or portion that is distinct from others.

Usage examples:

Operations in the southern sector of the north sea

noun

A part of society that can be separated from other parts because of its own special character

Usage examples:

The farm sector, the nonprofit sector, she works in the private/public sector (= for a business/gov…

noun

One of the areas of activity that a country's economy is divided into

Usage examples:

The agricultural/industrial/manufacturing sector, the banking/business/financial sector, the it/tec…

noun

The relative extent of something; a thing's overall dimensions or magnitude; how big something is.

Usage examples:

The schools varied in size

verb

Alter or sort in terms of size or according to size.

Usage examples:

Twist drills are sized in millimetres

adjective

Having a specified size; sized.

Usage examples:

Marble-size chunks of hail

noun

A round solid figure, or its surface, with every point on its surface equidistant from its centre.

Usage examples:

There's a particularly good 3d objects tool, which lets you create modelled spheres, cubes, rectang…

verb

Enclose in or as if in a sphere.

Usage examples:

Mourners, sphered by their dark garb

combining form

Denoting a structure or region of spherical form, especially a region round the earth.

Usage examples:

Ionosphere

noun

A small round or roundish mark, differing in colour or texture from the surface around it.

Usage examples:

Ladybirds have black spots on their red wing covers

verb

Short for spotlight.

verb

A point located with respect to surface features of some region

verb

(of something soft or elastic) be made or be capable of being made longer or wider without tearing or breaking.

Usage examples:

My jumper stretched in the wash

noun

An act of stretching one's limbs or body.

Usage examples:

I got up and had a stretch

verb

To reach across a distance or become longer or wider, or to cause something to do this

Usage examples:

[ i ] rubber stretches when you pull it., [ t ] the banner was stretched across the street., [ m ] …

verb

Clean (an area) by brushing away dirt or litter.

Usage examples:

I've swept the floor

noun

An act of sweeping something with a brush.

Usage examples:

I was giving the floor a quick sweep

noun

An area of land under the jurisdiction of a ruler or state.

Usage examples:

Sorties into enemy territory

noun

An area of land, sea, or space, esp. when it belongs to or is connected with a particular country, person, or animal

Usage examples:

[ u ] maryland gave up territory to form washington, dc., [ c ] the un is sending aid to the occupi…

noun

An area of a town, country, etc. that someone has responsibility for in their job

Usage examples:

A salesman's failure to achieve apparently realistic targets might be due to a change in the size o…

noun

An area of land, typically a large one.

Usage examples:

Large tracts of natural forest

noun

A short treatise in pamphlet form, typically on a religious subject.

Usage examples:

I think we all have come across religious tracts in our lives - little pamphlets that are often han…

noun

(in the roman catholic church) an anthem of scriptural verses formerly replacing the alleluia in certain penitential and requiem masses.

Usage examples:

Uses of this format, known as responsorial psalmody, include the prokeimenon and alleluiarion of th…

noun

An area or stretch of land having a particular characteristic, purpose, or use, or subject to particular restrictions.

Usage examples:

A pedestrian zone

verb

Divide into or assign to zones.

Usage examples:

The park has been zoned into four distinct bioregions, each with its own ecological identity