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area
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin area.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: âr'??, IPA(key): /????????/
- (US) enPR: ?r'??, IPA(key): /?æ?.i.?/, /???.i.?/
Noun
area (plural areas or areæ)
- (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 extent, scope, or range of an object or concept.
- (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.
- (slang) Genitals.
Derived terms
Related terms
- areal
Translations
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
Anagrams
- Aare, æra
Afrikaans
Noun
area (plural areas)
- area
Derived terms
- leerarea
Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese ar?a, from Latin ar?n? (“sand”). Cognate with Portuguese areia and Spanish arena.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a??ea?/
Noun
area f (plural areas)
- sand (a grain)
- (figuratively) a grain of salt
- sand (collectively)
- Synonyms: xabre, saibro
- (dated) beach, cove
- Synonyms: areal, praia, arnela
Derived terms
See also
- área
References
- “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.
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ?rea. Doublet of Italian aia (“threshing floor”).
Noun
area f (plural aree)
- area, surface
- land, ground
- field, sector
Related terms
- areale
Anagrams
- aera
Latin
Etymology
- Either from Proto-Italic *?ze?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?eHs-e-yeh?, from *h?eHs- (“to burn”) (whence ?re?, ?r?),
- Or from Proto-Italic *?re?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?eh?r-e-yeh?, from *h?eh?rh?- (“threshing tool”) (cognate with Hittite [script needed] (?a??ar, “rake, threshing tool”)), resultative reduplicated noun from verb *h?erh?- (“to plough”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?a?.re.a/, [?ä??eä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?a.re.a/, [??????]
Noun
?rea f (genitive ?reae); 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 ?rea
Declension
First-declension noun.
Derived terms
- ?realis
- ?reola
Descendants
Borrowings:
Noun
?re? f
- ablative singular of ?rea
References
- 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, 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
Anagrams
- aera
Papiamentu
Etymology
From Spanish área and English area.
Noun
area
- area
Portuguese
Noun
area f (plural areas)
- Obsolete spelling of área
Swedish
Etymology
From Latin area (literally “vacant piece of level ground”)
Noun
area c
- (geometry) area; a measure of squared distance.
Declension
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cartogram
English
Noun
cartogram (plural cartograms)
- (dated) A map used to indicate geographically-bound statistical information, typically region-by-region values of a given variable, for example by using different shadings for different ranges of values.
- 1888 October, Dewey, Davis R., "Elementary Notes on Graphic Statistics", in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Technology Quarterly, Volume II Number 1, published by the students (1888–1889), p. 99,
- […] whether, however, two states with these respective ratios do not consequently sufficiently differ […] as to warrant distinction in the cartogram, is open to question.
- 1895, "Book Notes", in Academy of Political Science (U.S.) and Columbia University Faculty of Political Science, Political Science Quarterly, Volume X Number 3, Academy of Political Science (1895), p. 560,
- The fifth cartogram illustrates the criminal statistics for the period 1882-91, which are of unusual interest because […]
- A map-like graph where the relative areas of graph regions are proportional not to the relative areas of the land regions they represent, but rather to another quantitative variable, such as population or gross domestic product.
- 1888 October, Dewey, Davis R., "Elementary Notes on Graphic Statistics", in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Technology Quarterly, Volume II Number 1, published by the students (1888–1889), p. 99,
Synonyms
- A map-like chart: area cartogram, isodemographic map (when the variable used is population), value-by-area map
References
- Gillard, Quentin. "Places in the News: The Use of Cartograms in Introductory Geography Courses." Journal of Geography. 78 (1979): 114-115.
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