What's the difference between area and place?

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.

Place


Definition:

  • (n.) Reception; effect; -- implying the making room for.
  • (n.) Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding; as, he said in the first place.
  • (n.) Any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use; position; ground; site; spot; rarely, unbounded space.
  • (n.) A broad way in a city; an open space; an area; a court or short part of a street open only at one end.
  • (n.) A position which is occupied and held; a dwelling; a mansion; a village, town, or city; a fortified town or post; a stronghold; a region or country.
  • (n.) Rank; degree; grade; order of priority, advancement, dignity, or importance; especially, social rank or position; condition; also, official station; occupation; calling.
  • (n.) Vacated or relinquished space; room; stead (the departure or removal of another being or thing being implied).
  • (n.) A definite position or passage of a document.
  • (n.) Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude.
  • (n.) To assign a place to; to put in a particular spot or place, or in a certain relative position; to direct to a particular place; to fix; to settle; to locate; as, to place a book on a shelf; to place balls in tennis.
  • (n.) To put or set in a particular rank, office, or position; to surround with particular circumstances or relations in life; to appoint to certain station or condition of life; as, in whatever sphere one is placed.
  • (n.) To put out at interest; to invest; to loan; as, to place money in a bank.
  • (n.) To set; to fix; to repose; as, to place confidence in a friend.
  • (n.) To attribute; to ascribe; to set down.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, this deficit was observed only when the sample-place preceded but not when it followed the interpolated visits (second experiment).
  • (2) Cantact placing reaction times were measured in cats which were either restrained in a hammock or supported in a conventional way.
  • (3) You can see where the religious meme sprung from: when the world was an inexplicable and scary place, a belief in the supernatural was both comforting and socially adhesive.
  • (4) It would be fascinating to see if greater local government involvement in running the NHS in places such as Manchester leads over the longer term to a noticeable difference in the financial outlook.
  • (5) Other research has indicated that placing gossypol in the vagina does inhibit the effect of herpes simplex virus type 2 infection, however.
  • (6) It is a place that occupies two thirds of our planet but very little is known of vast swaths of it.
  • (7) Under these conditions the meiotic prophase takes place and proceeds to the dictyate phase, obeying a somewhat delayed chronology in comparison with controls in vivo.
  • (8) 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.
  • (9) Small pieces of anterior and posterior quail wing-bud mesoderm (HH stages 21-23) were placed in in vitro culture for up to 3 days.
  • (10) A specimen of a very early ovum, 4 to 6 days old, shown in the luminal form of imbedding before any hemorrhage has taken place, confirms that the luminal form of imbedding does occur.
  • (11) I think part of it is you can either go places where that's bound to happen.
  • (12) Socially acceptable urinary control was achieved in 90 per cent of the 139 patients with active devices in place.
  • (13) After 1 year, anesthesia was induced with chloralose and an electrode catheter placed at the right ventricular apex.
  • (14) In both experiments, Gallus males were placed on a commercial feed restriction program in which measured amounts of feed are delivered on alternate days beginning at 4 weeks of age.
  • (15) These episodes continued for the duration of the suckling test and were enhanced when a second pup was placed on an adjacent nipple.
  • (16) "This was very strategic and it was in line of the ideology of the Bush administration which has been to put in place a free market and conservative agenda."
  • (17) In Essex, police are putting on extra patrols during and after England's first match and placing domestic violence intelligence teams in police control rooms.
  • (18) After a due process hearing, the child was placed in a school for autistic children.
  • (19) and then placed in the chamber containing a CO atmosphere (0.325-0.375%).
  • (20) The popularly used procedure in Great Britain is that in which a sheet of Ivalon sponge is sutured to the sacrum and wrapped around the rectum thus anchoring it in place.