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area (iou)



area noun. Pl. areas, (occas.) areae. M16.
[Latin = vacant piece of level ground.]
I. A particular extent of ground or of another surface.
A piece of ground, or space within a building, that is not built on or occupied, or is enclosed or reserved for a particular purpose. M16.
J. Leland In the west Part of this Street is a large Area invironed with meetly good Buildinges. E. Waugh One could not normally go further into it than a small roped area around the door. Lore & Language The two tarmac play areas would nowadays be considered cramped.
b. A sunken enclosure giving access to the basement of a house. E18.
Dickens Pulling the caps from the heads of small boys and tossing them down areas.
A particular tract of the earth's (or another planet's) surface; a region; a neighbourhood, a vicinity. M18.
H. George There are still in India great areas uncultivated. F. Raphael I should have a scout round the area, get your bearings. C. Sagan We imagined..that the bright areas that retain frost on Mars are..low.
A particular part of any Other surface (e.g. of a living organism), usu. distinguished by coloration, structure, or function. Also, a part of a solid body; esp. a region of the brain of specified function. E19.
Broca's area, language area, motor area, Wernicke's area, etc.
R. T. Peterson A very large white stork with..extensive black wing areas and black tail. A. H. Cottrell The formation of rust layers on the cathodic areas of the metal surface. J. Z. Young The brain areas involved in speech.
II. Extent.
Superficial or two-dimensional extent; the amount of this contained within given limits. L16.
Steele The Area of my Green-House is a Hundred Paces long, Fifty broad. J. Updike In area Kush measures 126,912,180 hectares. F. Hoyle A retreat of the ice sheet at its margin, a shrinkage of its area and decrease in its thickness.
III. fig.
A part of anything conceived as having superficial extent; a field (of study etc.), a range of topics etc.; scope, extent. E17.
G. Greene Whole areas of both our lives were blank like an early map, to be filled in later. D. Davie The images serve to indicate roughly the area of experience that the poet is dealing with. G. C. Faber The feeling..was strongly rooted in a still hateful area of memory.
Phrases: special area: see SPECIAL adjective. twilight area: see TWILIGHT adjective. utility area: see UTILITY adjective.
Comb.: area bishop in the Church of England, a bishop who has much of the authority of a diocesan bishop within a particular part of a diocese, by delegation from the diocesan; area bombing the indiscriminate bombing of an extended area; area code N. Amer. a telephone dialling code for another part of the country; area defence: designed to protect an entire area against air attack; area linguistics areal linguistics; areaway N. Amer. a sunken passageway; esp. = sense 1b above.

Yen bond (money)


Definition: [crh] Any bond denominated in Japanese yen currency.