region

«region» in Mova's school dictionary: a large area of land or of a country, with its own… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a region, regions)

meaning for a pupil

1) A region is a large area of land or of a country, with its own features, such as a type of weather, plants or people. tree →

2) A part of the body: the lower back region. tree →

3) In maths, an area or space on a diagram, for example the parts of a Venn diagram. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used in geography lessons: polar regions, desert regions, regions of a country. In maths: sorting numbers into regions of a Venn or Carroll diagram. Phrase: "in the region of" means "about" (in the region of 100 = about 100).

examples

• The Arctic is a cold region. tree →
• Wine is made in this region of France. tree →
• Which region of the country do you live in? tree →
• Put the number in the correct region of the Venn diagram. tree →
• The cost will be in the region of fifty pounds. tree →
• Rainforests grow in tropical regions. tree →
• He felt pain in his stomach region. tree →
• The region round the little town of Kjoge is very bleak and cold. tree →

note

Countable. Adjective: regional. "In the region of" = approximately, important in estimates.

In the corpora

• Marmots almost vanished when most steppe was ploughed and came back in reserves in the Luhansk and Kharkiv regions.
• Under the Mughals India was one of the richest regions in the world, famous for its cotton cloth.
• Until the 1700s almost all the world's diamonds came from India, from the Golconda region.
• A magnet can pull a paper clip across the table without touching it, through an invisible region around it called its magnetic field.
• A biome is a large region with its own climate, plants and animals.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «region» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.