What's the difference between area and perambulate?

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.

Perambulate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To walk through or over; especially, to travel over for the purpose of surveying or examining; to inspect by traversing; specifically, to inspect officially the boundaries of, as of a town or parish, by walking over the whole line.
  • (v. i.) To walk about; to ramble; to stroll; as, he perambulated in the park.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I seem to see Madonna Grimes drifting vacantly from job to job, a perambulating pain in the neck wherever she works.
  • (2) A brief account is given of a person, small in stature, with retarded development, who, following the breakdown of marital intimacy and the failure of his efforts to adopt a child, found sexual satisfaction by defecating in unoccupied perambulators and subsequently inflicting damage on them.
  • (3) The Steinway's perambulations are a symbol of that cumbrous, precious heritage of images and ideas that the refugees from Hitler carried into exile.
  • (4) Taking our afternoon perambulations, Sir Henry and I encountered the local naturalist John Stapleton out on the moor with his sister.
  • (5) Dancers will negotiate the slippery limestone rocks, disappearing into underground passageways and then popping up later in front of the perambulating audience; a choir's singing will rise as if from the centre of the earth.
  • (6) The abdominal symptoms develop latently and surgery prevalently ensues during the stage of intestinal wall necrosis or perambulating peritonitis.