What's the difference between area and cordon?

Area


Definition:

  • (n.) Any plane surface, as of the floor of a room or church, or of the ground within an inclosure; an open space in a building.
  • (n.) The inclosed space on which a building stands.
  • (n.) The sunken space or court, giving ingress and affording light to the basement of a building.
  • (n.) An extent of surface; a tract of the earth's surface; a region; as, vast uncultivated areas.
  • (n.) The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.
  • (n.) A spot or small marked space; as, the germinative area.
  • (n.) Extent; scope; range; as, a wide area of thought.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The accumulation of lipids and enzymes such as simple estarase, lipase, beta-HDH, alpha-GDH and NADPH-reductase in those areas, suggests that lipids are not a simple excretory product.
  • (2) We used the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to amplify the breakpoint area of alpha-thalassemia-1 of Southeast Asia type and several parts of the alpha-globin gene cluster to make a differential diagnosis between alpha-thalassemia-1 and Hb Bart's hydrops fetalis.
  • (3) For some time now, public opinion polls have revealed Americans' strong preference to live in comparatively small cities, towns, and rural areas rather than in large cities.
  • (4) On Friday night, in a stadium built in an area once deemed an urban wasteland, the flame that has journeyed from Athens to every corner of these islands will light the fire that launches the London Olympics of 2012.
  • (5) Neuropsychological testing is a relatively new field in the area of clinical neuroscience.
  • (6) A study of factors influencing genetic counseling attendance rate has been conducted in the Bouches-du-Rhône area, in the south of France.
  • (7) To quantify the size of the lesion in mice, the area of the infarct on the brain surface was assessed planimetrically 48 h after MCA occlusion by transcardial perfusion of carbon black.
  • (8) The cross sectional area of the aortic lumen was gradually decreased while the length of the stenotic lesion gradually increased by using strips with different width.
  • (9) No reaction product was observed in the lamellar areas.
  • (10) This computer is connected to a fileserver via a local area network and is used exclusively for data acquisition.
  • (11) Graft life is even more prolonged with patch angioplasty at venous outflow stenoses or by adding a new segment of PTFE to bypass areas of venous stenosis.
  • (12) The coefficient of variation in the integrated area of a single peak is 16%.
  • (13) A quadripolar catheter was positioned either at the site of earliest ventricular activation during induced monomorphic ventricular tachycardia or at circumscribed areas of the left ventricle.
  • (14) Blood flow decreased immediately after skin expansion in areas over the tissue expander on days 0 and 1 and returned to baseline levels within 24 hours.
  • (15) Consensual but rationally weak criteria devised to extract inferences of causality from such results confirm the generic inadequacy of epidemiology in this area, and are unable to provide definitive scientific support to the perceived mandate for public health action.
  • (16) In the fall of 1975, 1,915 children in grades K through eight began a school-based program of supervised weekly rinsing with 0.2 percent aqueous solution of sodium fluoride in an unfluoridated community in the Finger Lakes area of upstate New York.
  • (17) Pain is not reported in the removal area, the clinical examinations show identical findings on both patellar tendons, X-ray and ultrasound evaluations do not demonstrate any change in patellar position.
  • (18) However, there was no statistically significant difference in mean areas under the LH and FSH curves in the GnRH-treated groups.
  • (19) In 22 cases (63%), retinal detachment was at least partially flattened in the area of the posterior pole of the eye.
  • (20) The hospital whose A&E unit has been threatened with closure on safety grounds has admitted that four patients died after errors by staff in the emergency department and other areas.

Cordon


Definition:

  • (n.) A cord or ribbon bestowed or borne as a badge of honor; a broad ribbon, usually worn after the manner of a baldric, constituting a mark of a very high grade in an honorary order. Cf. Grand cordon.
  • (n.) The cord worn by a Franciscan friar.
  • (n.) The coping of the scarp wall, which projects beyong the face of the wall a few inches.
  • (n.) A line or series of sentinels, or of military posts, inclosing or guarding any place or thing.
  • (n.) A rich and ornamental lace or string, used to secure a mantle in some costumes of state.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As May delivered her statement in the chamber, police helicopters hovered overhead and a police cordon remained in place around Westminster, but MPs from across the political spectrum were determined to show that they were continuing with business as usual.
  • (2) In north-west Copenhagen, among the quiet, graffiti-tagged streets of red-brick blocks and low-rise social housing bordering the multi-ethnic Nørrebro district, police continued to cordon off roads and search a flat near the spot where officers killed a man believed to be behind Denmark’s bloodiest attacks in over a decade.
  • (3) A spokesperson for Staffordshire police said: “A detailed investigation is under way and the scene will remain cordoned off while the investigation continues.
  • (4) Police cordoned off the street and were allowing people to protest in groups of 50 for about five to 10 minutes before escorting them away.
  • (5) He had a private table on Dakota’s second floor that would often be cordoned off by a curtain upon his party’s arrival.
  • (6) Security experts have warned for years that they could be a target for terrorists because they are rarely cordoned off and have few or no bag checks.
  • (7) Members of the elite police squad wearing helmets came running out of the building and a police union representative at the cordon around the area shouted: "He's dead, he's dead."
  • (8) Photographs of the site in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero were released on Tuesday after a small group of journalists were taken behind a heavily policed cordon.
  • (9) The recent arrest of the brother, Liu Hui, may be particular retaliation for two incidents that broke the security cordon around Liu Xia and her isolation in her fifth-floor apartment in central Beijing.
  • (10) Just beyond the cordon, everyday life in one of the capital’s busiest areas for tourism and other commerce continued as best it could, with the addition of TV news crews gathered as close as possible to the scene, mainly by Lambeth Bridge, to the west of parliament, and just over the river on the South Bank.
  • (11) It’s a real shame.” 8.05am Facebook Twitter Pinterest A 500-metre cordon was set up around the rue du Corbillon.
  • (12) Then he fenced tamely outside his off stump at Plunkett, Jonny Bairstow pouched the ball and appealed with the slip cordon and Nigel Llong raised his finger.
  • (13) "Syrian security services quickly cordoned and searched the entire beach neighbourhood where the shooting had occurred," the embassy was informed.
  • (14) There are no police to unspool tape and cordon-off sensitive areas.
  • (15) But police allowed one family with three small children to pass through the cordon and go home.
  • (16) The force said officers had created a ­cordon around Tomlinson to give him CPR.
  • (17) There was a security cordon around the cemetery, where a high-level government delegation including the mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, stood on a stage draped in red and black and addressed a small crowd through loudspeakers.
  • (18) Amid reports that a large area around Qunu might be cordoned off for a funeral, she added: "I don't think that would be right."
  • (19) At the Green, where a local supermarket was set ablaze on Monday night, police kept the volunteers behind a cordon for fear of falling material from the building.
  • (20) More than 560 people were arrested across Toronto over the weekend after violence erupted between riot police and masked protesters as leaders of the G20 countries gathered behind the toughest security cordon in the history of the summit.