area
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: âʼrĭ-ə; IPA(key): /ˈɛə.ɹɪ.ə/, [ˈɛə̯.ɹɪ.ə̯]
- (US) enPR: ârʼē-ə; IPA(key): /ˈɛɚ.i.ə/
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NounEdit
- (mathematics) A measure of the extent of a surface; it is measured in square units.
- 2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns
- It is about 4.5 million square kilometers in area and holds the world’s third largest collection of ice after Antarctica and Greenland.
- 2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns
- A particular geographic region.
- Any particular extent of surface, especially an empty or unused extent.
- The photo is a little dark in that area.
- The extent, scope, or range of an object or concept.
- 2013 September-October, Rob Dorit, “Making Life from Scratch”, in American Scientist:
- 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 plans are a bit vague in that area.
- (Britain) An open space, below ground level, giving access to the basement of a house, and typically separated from the pavement by railings. [from 18th c.]
- 1790, Helen Maria Williams, Julia, Routledge 2016, p. 95:
- 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.
- 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch 4:
- 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.
- 1908, Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans":
- 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.
- 1790, Helen Maria Williams, Julia, Routledge 2016, p. 95:
- (soccer) Penalty box; penalty area.
- 2010 December 29, Mark Vesty, “Wigan 2-2 Arsenal”, in BBC:
- 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.
- (slang) Genitals.
- 2003 October 2, “The One Where Ross Is Fine”, in Friends, season 10, episode 2, NBC, spoken by Frank Buffay Jr. (Giovanni Ribisi):
- 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!
Derived termsEdit
- Area 51
- area code
- area-denial
- area of influence
- area rug
- area rule
- areaway
- Broca's area
- catchment area
- combined statistical area
- common area
- danger area
- disaster area
- equal-area
- euro area
- free trade area
- goal area
- gray area
- grey area
- lateral area
- metropolitan area
- metropolitan area network
- notification area
- outside gross area
- penalty area
- Planck area
- prohibited area
- protected area
- rest area
- restricted area
- Ruhr Area
- safe area
- Schengen Area
- second moment of area
- service area
- specific leaf area
- staging area
- surface area
- terminal control area
- Terminal High Altitude Area Defense
- ventral tegmental area
- Wernicke's area
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
maths: measure of extent of a surface
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particular geographic region
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any particular extent
figuratively, any extent, scope or range
open space, below ground level, between the front of a house and the pavement
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soccer: penalty area — see penalty area
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Translations to be checked
See alsoEdit
- Imperial: square inches, square feet, square yards, square miles, acres
- Metric: square meters/square metres, square centimeters/square centimetres, square kilometers/square kilometres, hectares
AnagramsEdit
AfrikaansEdit
NounEdit
area (plural areas)
Derived termsEdit
GalicianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese arẽa, from Latin arēnā (“sand”). Cognate with Portuguese areia and Spanish arena.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
area f (plural areas)
Derived termsEdit
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “area” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
- “area” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
- “area” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
- “area” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “area” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin ārea. Doublet of Italian aia (“threshing floor”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
area f (plural aree)
Related termsEdit
AnagramsEdit
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
- Either from Proto-Italic *āzeā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs-e-yeh₂, from *h₂eHs- (“to burn”) (whence āreō, ārā),
- Or from Proto-Italic *āreā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eh₂r-e-yeh₂, from *h₂eh₂rh₃- (“threshing tool”) (cognate with Hittite [script needed] (ḫaḫḫar, “rake, threshing tool”)), resultative reduplicated noun from verb *h₂erh₃- (“to plough”).[1]
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
ārea f (genitive āreae); first declension
- a piece of level ground, a vacant place (esp. in the town)
- ground for a house, a building-spot
- (figuratively) a vacant space around or in a house, a court
- (figuratively) an open space for games, an open play-ground
- (figuratively) a threshing floor
- (figuratively) the halo around the sun or moon
- (figuratively) a bed or border in a garden
- (figuratively) a fowling-floor
- (figuratively) a burying-ground, church-yard
- (figuratively) a bald spot upon the head, baldness
- vocative singular of ārea
DeclensionEdit
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ārea | āreae |
| Genitive | āreae | āreārum |
| Dative | āreae | āreīs |
| Accusative | āream | āreās |
| Ablative | āreā | āreīs |
| Vocative | ārea | āreae |
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
Borrowings:
NounEdit
āreā f
ReferencesEdit
- area in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- area in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- area in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- area in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- area in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- area in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- ^ Cohen, Paul S. (2014), “Some Hittite and Armenian Reduplications and Their (P)IE Ramifications”, in Indo-European Linguistics
AnagramsEdit
PapiamentuEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Spanish área and English area.
NounEdit
area
PortugueseEdit
NounEdit
area f (plural areas)
- Obsolete spelling of área
SwedishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin area (literally “vacant piece of level ground”)
NounEdit
area c
DeclensionEdit
| Declension of area | ||||
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| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | area | arean | areor | areorna |
| Genitive | areas | areans | areors | areornas |