area
part of speech
noun (area, areas)
meaning for a pupil
1) Area is how much flat space a shape covers; we measure it in squares, like square meters or square feet. tree →
2) An area is a part of a place, like a play area or a city area. tree →
3) An area is a subject or a field of study. tree →
sense in the lessons
the size of a flat shape: length × width for a rectangle; also floors, gardens and rooms; in geography, the area of countries; phrases «square units», «play area», «picnic area», «local area»
examples
- The garden is 8 m long and 5 m wide. What is its area? tree →
- The area of the room is 120 square feet. tree →
- Each tile covers an area of 4 square inches. tree →
- Find the area of a square with sides of 6 cm. tree →
- The park has a picnic area. tree →
- Russia covers the largest area of any country. tree →
- There is a quiet reading area in the library. tree →
- We live in a rural area. tree →
- Count the squares to find the area. tree →
- Science is her favourite area of study. tree →
note
Area of a rectangle = length × width, in square units. Trap: do not add the sides; that is the perimeter. Area is in square units (cm², ft²), length in plain units. Doubling each side makes the area 4 times bigger.
In the corpora
- A tiger needs a large territory, so saving tigers also saves big areas of forest and all the animals in it.
- City foxes are active mostly at night and find food in gardens and bins, so they need smaller areas than country foxes.
- Every rainy season the Amazon rises by up to ten metres or more and floods huge areas of forest for months.
- Rescue dogs can smell a person buried under snow or rubble and can search an area much faster than a line of people.
- Pigs are clean when they have space: they keep their toilet area well away from their beds.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «area» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.