area English
Noun
( wikipedia area)
(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.
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Figuratively, any extent, scope or range of an object or concept.
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, magazine=( American Scientist), title= Making Life from Scratch
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(British) An open space, below ground level, between the front of a house and the pavement.
- (Charles Dickens)
(soccer) Penalty box; penalty area.
* {{quote-news, year=2010, date=December 29, author=Mark Vesty, work=BBC
, title= Wigan 2-2 Arsenal
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(slang) Genitals.
Derived terms
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* 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 area
Related terms
* areal
See also
* Imperial: square inches, square feet, square yards, square miles, acres
* Metric: square meters/square metres, square centimeters/square centimetres, square kilometers/square kilometres, hectares
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tract English
Etymology 1
From tractus, the perfect passive participle of (etyl) .
Noun
( en noun)
An area or expanse.
- an unexplored tract of sea
* Milton
- the deep tract of hell
* Addison
- a very high mountain joined to the mainland by a narrow tract of earth
A series of connected body organs, as in the digestive tract .
A small booklet such as a pamphlet, often for promotional or informational uses.
A brief treatise or discourse on a subject.
* Jonathan Swift
- The church clergy at that writ the best collection of tracts against popery that ever appeared.
A commentator's view or perspective on a subject.
Continued or protracted duration, length, extent
* Milton
- improved by tract of time
* 1843 ,
- Nay, in another case of litigation, the unjust Standard bearer, for his own profit, asserting that the cause belonged not to St. Edmund’s Court, but to his in , involved us in travellings and innumerable expenses, vexing the servants of St. Edmund for a long tract of time
Part of the proper of the liturgical celebration of the Eucharist for many Christian denominations, used instead of the alleluia during Lenten or pre-Lenten seasons, in a Requiem Mass, and on a few other penitential occasions.
(obsolete) Continuity or extension of anything.
- the tract of speech
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(obsolete) Traits; features; lineaments.
* Francis Bacon
- The discovery of a man's self by the tracts of his countenance is a great weakness.
(obsolete) The footprint of a wild animal.
- (Dryden)
(obsolete) Track; trace.
* Sir Thomas Browne
- Efface all tract of its traduction.
* Shakespeare
- But flies an eagle flight, bold, and forth on, / Leaving no tract behind.
(obsolete) Treatment; exposition.
- (Shakespeare)
Related terms
* tractate noun
Etymology 2
From tractus , the participle stem of (etyl) trahere.
Verb
( en verb)
(obsolete) To pursue, follow; to track.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.i:
- Where may that treachour then (said he) be found, / Or by what meanes may I his footing tract ?
(obsolete) To draw out; to protract.
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English syncopic forms
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