(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.
Seaboard
Definition:
(n.) The seashore; seacoast.
(a.) Bordering upon, or being near, the sea; seaside; seacoast; as, a seaboard town.
(adv.) Toward the sea.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gardner is looking to add to this - focusing on the eastern Seaboard and Midwest, where energy markets are deregulating, giving Centrica the chance to sell both gas and electricity to some 44 million households.
(2) In 1830, the Celtic seaboard nations made up nearly 40% of the United Kingdom; that dropped throughout the 19th century due to the Irish famine and emigration.
(3) A puppet Government set up at Vichy which may at any moment be forced to become our foe; the whole western seaboard of Europe, from the North Cape to the Spanish frontier, in German hands; all the ports, all the airfields upon this immense front employed against us as potential springboards of invasion.
(4) "Secondly … because people who pose a threat to this country are six hours away from the eastern seaboard, something which the Americans are acutely aware of, as are we, and therefore take a very close interest in."
(5) 11 September 2001 Attacks on the eastern seaboard of the US signal the beginning of the “war on terror”.
(6) According to The Hollywood Reporter , in this film the implausible weather event will “cause mass destruction in the nation’s capital” before tearing down the eastern seaboard.
(7) Google is extending its investment in green technology with a $5bn (£3.2bn) programme to build an undersea, wind energy transmission backbone along 350 miles of the Atlantic seaboard.
(8) Pleural mesothelioma incidence rates among white males increased over time and were highest in seaboard areas where shipyards have been located (Seattle, San Francisco-Oakland, Hawaii).
(9) Anticysticercus antibody titre levels were measured in the sera of 1352 school children from two rural areas of Transkei with different climatic conditions, in the southeastern seaboard of South Africa.
(10) The recent Russian build-up in bases along Syria’s western seaboard reportedly includes attack helicopters, combat jets and armed forces personnel.
(11) It is a war within a war, fought across thousands of miles of desert, scrub and forest, from the Atlantic seaboard to the Indian Ocean coastline.
(12) Still, the Atlantic Seaboard was spared what could have been much worse damage had Hurricane Joaquin not continued on a path well off the US coast.
(13) Tuesday’s storm developed off the coast before moving up the eastern seaboard.
(14) It's been 24 hours and Hurricane Sandy still has the eastern seaboard in its sights.
(15) A powerful storm system that spread hazardous snow, sleet and freezing rain widely across the midsection of the US rumbled towards the densely populated eastern seaboard on Sunday, promising more of the same.
(16) A previously unreported radionuclide, nickel-63 (half-life, 92 years), produced in the testing of nuclear devices, was measured in biological and environmental samples from areas of the Pacific Ocean and the eastern seaboard of the United States.
(17) It also emerged that the day before, interior secretary Ryan Zinke told industry insiders that Trump plans overturn bans on drilling off Alaska and the Eastern Seaboard, while making new oil and gas exploitation rights available.
(18) The worst affected counties were Donegal, Cork, Killarney, Galway, Athlone, Tullow, and Wexford on the eastern seaboard.
(19) And he's often looked at the fast trains on the southern seaboard of China – and he thinks, if only Leeds, Manchester, Rotherham, Barnsley, Derby could have the same sort of connections – if people who lived there could apply for jobs elsewhere, or potential clients in London could source business from those places."
(20) We present a patient who has been hospitalized several times and who has undergone ear surgery and treatment at different institutions along the eastern seaboard.