| 单词 | area |
| 释义 | area —areal, adj. —areally, adv. /air"ee euh/, n. 1. any particular extent of space or surface; part: the dark areas in the painting; the dusty area of the room. 2. a geographical region; tract: the Chicago area; the unsettled areas along the frontier. 3. any section reserved for a specific function: the business area of a town; the dining area of a house. 4. extent, range, or scope: inquiries that embrace the whole area of science. 5. field of study, or a branch of a field of study: Related areas of inquiry often reflect borrowed notions. 6. a piece of unoccupied ground; an open space. 7. the space or site on which a building stands; the yard attached to or surrounding a house. 8. Brit. areaway (def. 1). 9. the quantitative measure of a plane or curved surface; two-dimensional extent. 10. Anat. a zone of the cerebral cortex having a specific function: The damage to Broca's area affected his speech. [1530-40; < L area vacant piece of level ground, open space in a town, threshing floor; perh. akin to arere to be dry. See ARID] |
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