Sectors - English meaning

noun

A region or part of a town, a country, or the world.

Usage examples:

Rural areas of britain

noun

A part of the earth’s surface of land and water, or a particular part of a country, city, town, etc.

Usage examples:

An industrial/suburban/mountainous area, this area of the brain is called the cerebral cortex., his…

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A particular part of a place, piece of land, or country

Usage examples:

This is an area of the city where 48% of the properties are rental properties., our goal is to grow…

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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 town or district which is an administrative unit.

Usage examples:

But modern life has moved beyond such administrative units as boroughs and as a result, the need fo…

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One of the five divisions of new york city or, in some states, a town or part of a town

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

The action of separating something into parts or the process of being separated.

Usage examples:

The division of the land into small fields

noun

The separation of something into parts or groups, or one of the parts or groups that has been separated

Usage examples:

[ u ] the division of responsibilities among the officers of the company was spelled out in detail.…

noun

One of the main separate parts that a company, or group of companies, is divided into

Usage examples:

The year-on-year profit figure for the division fell by 36%., investment/services/international div…

noun

A covering for the head and neck with an opening for the face, typically forming part of a coat or cloak.

Usage examples:

A jacket with a detachable hood

verb

Put a hood on or over.

Usage examples:

She was forced into a car, hooded, and taken to a cell

noun

A gangster or similar violent criminal.

Usage examples:

I been beaten up by hoods

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

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

noun

A district or community within a town or city.

Usage examples:

She lived in a wealthy neighbourhood of boston

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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

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

The area within the walls or perceived boundaries of a particular building or place.

Usage examples:

A former mp who still works in the precincts of the house

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

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

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

A position to the left or right of an object, place, or central point.

Usage examples:

A town on the other side of the river

verb

Support or oppose in a conflict, dispute, or debate.

Usage examples:

He felt that max had betrayed him by siding with beatrice

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