Area vs Neighborhood - What's the difference?
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(mathematics) A measure of the extent of a surface; it is measured in square units.
A particular geographic region.
Any particular extent of surface, especially an empty or unused extent.
Figuratively, any extent, scope or range of an object or concept.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= (British) An open space, below ground level, between the front of a house and the pavement.
(soccer) Penalty box; penalty area.
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, title= (slang) Genitals.
(chiefly, obsolete) The quality of being a neighbor, of living nearby, next to each-other; proximity.
* 1667 , John Milton, Paradise Lost , Book 1, ll. 399-402:
* 1835 , , Rienzi, the Last of the Roman Tribunes :
Close proximity, nearby area; particularly, close proximity to one's home.
The inhabitants of a residential area.
A formal or informal division of a municipality or region.
An approximate amount.
The quality of physical proximity.
(obsolete) The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will.
(topology) An open set which contains the point in question.
(topology) The infinitesimal open set of all points that may be reached directly from a given point.
(label) The set of all the vertices adjacent to a given vertex.
(topology) A set containing an open set which contains point in question.
(obsolete) The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will.
As nouns the difference between area and neighborhood
is that area is a measure of the extent of a surface; it is measured in square units while neighborhood is the quality of being a neighbor, of living nearby, next to each-other; proximity.area
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Noun
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- (Charles Dickens)
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Derived terms
* * area code * area-denial * area of influence * area rug * area rule * Broca's area * combined statistical area * common area * danger area * disaster area * equal-area * free trade area * geographical 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 * Schengen Area * safe 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 areaSee also
* Imperial: square inches, square feet, square yards, square miles, acres * Metric: square meters/square metres, square centimeters/square centimetres, square kilometers/square kilometres, hectaresAnagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----neighborhood
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Alternative forms
* neighbourhood (UK)Noun
- ''Our neighborhood was our only reason to exchange hollow greetings.
- Nor content with such / Audacious neighbourhood , the wisest heart / Of Solomon he led by fraud to build / His Temple right against the Temple of God.
- Then the prison and the palace were in awful neighbourhood .
- He lives in my neighborhood .
- ''The fire alarmed the neighborhood.
- We have just moved to a pleasant neighborhood .
- He must be making in the neighborhood of $200,000 per year.
- The slums and the palace were in awful neighborhood .
