Area vs Outland - What's the difference?
area | outland |
(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.
Provincial: from a province (of the same land).
Foreign: from abroad, from a foreign land.
* 1921 , Gordon Bottomley, Gruach and Britain's daughter: two plays , page 74:
* 1966 , Donald Davidson, Poems, 1922-1961 , page 107:
(used with ethnic nationalities) Living abroad, living in a foreign land, expatriate.
* 1919 , William Milligan Sloane, The powers and aims of western democracy , page 402:
* 1949 , The Reader's Digest , volume 54, page 101:
* 1980 , New Society , volume 51, page 546:
* 2001 June 12, "Mike Echo Mike" (username), "Why do I fly !!!", in rec.aviation.student, Usenet :
As nouns the difference between area and outland
is that area is a measure of the extent of a surface; it is measured in square units while outland is any outlying area of a country; the provinces.As an adjective outland is
provincial: from a province (of the same land).area
English
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 ----outland
English
Adjective
(-)- These outland Romans will not kill us all If you permit them to do their governing, Which is so dear to them, over you and us.
- I heard strange pipes when I was young, / Piping songs of an outland tongue.
- Whatever dependence the Pan-German chauvinist had placed on outland Germans proved to be a broken reed.
- When the "outland Danes ," who live in other countries, return by the thousand for the summer festivals, they gather first in the grim 13th-century fortress of Kronborg, [...]
- To China, it is "Chinese territory under British administration" : its citizens are regarded as "home Chinese," not "outland Chinese ," and can travel freely to the mother country.
- And Bruno's name is "Bienenfeld" meaning that I would place him as what are in Cleveland anyway called "Donau Schwaben" i.e., outland Germans living in SE Europe [...]