area 
area (er′ē ə)
noun
- a level surface or piece of ground
- a part of the earth's surface; region; tract
- the measure of a bounded region on a plane or of the surface of a solid
- a yard of a building
- a part of a house, lot, district, city, etc. having a specific use or character dining area, play area, commercial area
- a part of any surface, as of an organism, or a particular zone, as of the cerebral cortex
- scope or extent, as of an operation
Etymology: L, vacant place, courtyard, prob. (in sense “arid, bare place”) < arere, to be dry: see ash
area
n.
An expanse
A physical unit
section, lot, neighborhood, plot, zone, sector, patch, square, quarter, block, precinct, ward, field, meridian, territory, district, locality, ghetto, township, region, tract, belt, enclosure, parcel, division, city, parish, diocese, principality, dominion, duchy, kingdom, empire, state; see also measure 1, region 1.Scope
Preposition: of
- expertise: All instructors are well qualified to teach their areas of expertise.
- interest: The individual Groups within SAPCA also actively pursue programs of work relevant to their own areas of interest.
Converse of object
- surround: It offers free door locks and personal attack to 1,800 homes in Cardiff and surrounding area each year.
- cover: It is a summary of the main areas covered by the Code.
- deprive: Partnerships have succeeded in securing external funding for the most deprived areas of the Boro.
- identify: The HLF should develop a working relationship with funding agencies which are supporting pure research to identify areas where synergy is possible.
- designate: For example: Do your drivers use the designated parking areas?
- follow: This advocates that assessment is carried out in the following four areas; visual recording, critical thinking, practical research and personal development.
Adjective modifier
- rural: There were also property qualifications for people living in rural areas.
- urban: The B & B City Hotels are located in urban areas.
- subject: Available at JISC Added: 12 March 2002 Reviewer's Note: An easy to read document with good coverage of the subject area.
- key: At the moment we are looking for volunteers in three key areas.
- main: It is a summary of the main areas covered by the Code.
- large: In effect the small area rate will move toward a larger area ' moving average ' .
Noun used with modifier
- conservation: Conservation Areas: Areas of special architectural or historic interest, the character of which it is desirable to preserve or enhance.
- dining: Cozy sitting room with open fire and dining area.
- catchment: Two announcements in 1935 were to have far-reaching consequences for the former GER's suburban catchment area.
- play: There's also a play area for the children.
- reception: Dee showed how easily PRRS could enter a unit on a box passed through a reception area 11.
- patio: In summer meals can also be taken on the new decked patio area which overlooks the garden.
The modern reader (or viewer, or listener: let's include everybody) is perilously overloaded. His attention is, to use the latest lingo,'targeted' by powerful forces Our consciousness is a staging area, a field of operations for all kinds of enterprises, which make free use of it.
The cold reaches of the universe must not become the new area of an even colder war.
All art is solitaryand the studio is a torture area.
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