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Land Area

Definition: Land Area

Land Area

Noun

1. An area of ground used for some particular purpose (such as building or farming); "he wanted some acreage to build on".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Land Area

Synonym: acreage (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Land Area

English words defined with "land area": clearing, coastland, common, commons, coursedevelopmentexpanse, exploitationFertile Crescent, flyglade, greenice cap, icecapland development, Land measuremire, morasspanhandle, parcel, parcel of land, park, piece of ground, piece of landquagmireTable-land, tortoise, tractwetland. (references)
Specialty definitions using "land area": active mining area, agistment fee, agricultural area utilized for farming, Agricultural district, American Indian area, American Indian Area, Alaska Native Area, Hawaiian Home Land, American Indian area/Alaska Native area/Hawaiian home land, American Indian off-reservation trust land, American Indian reservation, American Indian tribal subdivision, American Indian trust land, American Indian/Alaska Native area, amphibious objective area, approximate original contour, arable land area, area of artesian flow, area of responsibility, area-development consultantbase-level plain, baseleveled plain, betterment levy, blind bombing zone, buffer zone, buildings startedCalah, census tract number, consolidated rate, Critical habitat, crop water-use efficiencyDECONTAMINATOR, defensive coastal area, density of population, denudation plain, DRAINAGE-DESIGN COORDINATOR, dummy locatorerosion surfacefire fighter, airport, FIRE FIGHTER, CRASH, FIRE, AND RESCUE, flat rate, Floodplain, Floodwall, floor area ratio, FOREST ENGINEERgeneral manager, land department, Geographic Component, Geographic Identifiers, grazing fee, grazing rent, GSM PLMN area, GUIDE, HUNTING AND FISHINGHelipadice cover, ice sheet, inclusion fee, irrigated pasturejoint use areaLAND, land department head, Land use plan, land-and-leases supervisor, landing area, Landscape Indicator, lease agent, leases-and-land supervisor, lode claim, LZMANAGER, AREA DEVELOPMENT, manager, land department, MANAGER, LAND SURVEYING, MANAGER, LEASING, MANAGER, SOLID-WASTE-DISPOSAL, marine invasion, meander line, MPONon-point source, non-point source pollutionother wooded areasPacking Factor, peneplain, peneplane, PERMIT AGENT, GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING, permits issued, PLANIMETER OPERATOR, Population density, pseudo-LCORecharge Area, restricted areasabkha, SANITATION INSPECTOR, Section 523 loans, specific degradation, specific yield, stone land, strath terrace, strike stream, subsequent stream, superintendent, land department, superintendent, landfill operationsTDSA, timber cruiser. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Land Area

DomainTitle

Books

  • Pellonvaraustoiminta ja sopimuksista vapautuneen peltoalan jèalkikèayttèo Kainuussa = Field reservation operations and the use of the arable land area in Kainuu after the expiration of contracts (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Land Area

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The West Fjords are a series of peninsulas in northwestern Iceland. They represent less than one-eighth the country's land area, but their jagged perimeter accounts for more than half of Iceland's total coastline.Credit: NASA.

McCone County, Montana. Dry land area.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Land Area

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

South Africa is not richly endowed in natural resources and only 12% of the land area are arable. (references)

Singapore is a tropical country with an average daily temperature of 26.8 degrees celsius and a total land area of approximately 650 square kilometers. (references)

It is a mountainous country and internal communications are partly restricted through the need for tunneling to build new motor ways. About 45 percent of the total land area is forested. (references)

Economic History

South Korea

Arable land--22% of land area. (references)

Armenia

Only 17 percent of Armenia's land area is arable. (references)

Libya

Libya has a small population in a large land area. (references)

Political Economy

Israel and the occupied territories

The Government owns and manages 77 percent of the country's land area, and as a matter of policy it does not sell land. (references)

Israel and the occupied territories

The Jewish National Fund (JNF), an organization established in 1897 for the purchase and management of land for the Jewish people, owns 8 percent of the country's land area, including a considerable amount transferred directly from the Government, and manages another 8 percent on behalf of the Government. (references)

THE BAHAMAS

Under the new law, approval is automatically granted for non-Bahamians to purchase residential property of less than five acres on any single island in The Bahamas, except where the property constitutes over fifty percent of the land area of a cay (small island) or involves ownership of an airport or marina. (references)

Trade

Hungary

The land area of any enterprise or that of plants already existing or under construction can be declared a duty-free zone by customs authorities. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Expression: Land Area

Expression using "land area": arable land area. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Land Area

Language Translations for "land area"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

udkantsområde (land not zoned, outlying area, outlying district, reserved zone, white area, white land, white land area, zone not scheduled for development), udkantområde (land not zoned, outlying area, outlying district, reserved zone, white area, white land, white land area, zone not scheduled for development), dyrkede arealer (arable land, arable land area). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

landelijk gebied (country area, country region, land not zoned, outlying area, outlying district, reserved zone, rural area, rural district, rural region, rural zone, white area, white land, white land area, zone not scheduled for development), buitengebied (land not zoned, outlying area, outlying district, reserved zone, rural area, white area, white land, white land area, zone not scheduled for development), bouwland (arable area, arable land, arable land area, arable lands, farmland, plough lands, tilled area, tilled lands). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

reservialue (land not zoned, outlying area, outlying district, reserved zone, white area, white land, white land area, zone not scheduled for development), peltoala (arable area, arable land, arable land area, tilled area). (various references)

   

French

  

zone réservée (land not zoned, lane, white land, white land area), zone non affectée (land not zoned, white land, white land area), terres arables (arable land, arable land area, arable lands, plough lands, tilled lands). (various references)

   

German

  

Reservefläche (land not zoned, outlying area, outlying district, reserved zone, white area, white land, white land area, zone not scheduled for development), Außenbereich (land not zoned, outlying area, outlying district, reserved zone, white area, white land, white land area, zone not scheduled for development), Ackerland (arable farm Land, arable land, arable land area, arable lands, cropped land, cultivated area, cultivated land, farmland, infield, plough lands, plowland, tilled lands). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

περιοχή εκτός ορίων ρυθμιστικού σχεδίου (land not zoned, outlying area, outlying district, reserved zone, white area, white land, white land area, zone not scheduled for development), εφεδρική έκταση (land not zoned, outlying area, outlying district, reserved zone, white area, white land, white land area, zone not scheduled for development), αροτραίες εκτάσεις (arable land, arable land area), δεσμευμένη ζώνη (land not zoned, outlying area, outlying district, reserved zone, white area, white land, white land area, zone not scheduled for development). (various references)

   

Italian

  

zona riservata (land not zoned, outlying area, outlying district, reserved zone, white area, white land, white land area, zone not scheduled for development), zona non edificata (land not zoned, outlying area, outlying district, reserved zone, white area, white land, white land area, zone not scheduled for development), zona non destinata all'urbanizzazione (land not zoned, outlying area, outlying district, reserved zone, white area, white land, white land area, zone not scheduled for development), seminativi (arable land, arable land area). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

段別 (acreage, marking off fields in units of tan), 反別 (acreage, marking off fields in units of tan). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

た"べつ (acreage, marking off fields in units of tan). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

andlay areaay

   

Portuguese

  

terras aráveis (arable land, arable land area, arable lands, plough lands, tilled lands). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

zona de reserva (land not zoned, outlying area, outlying district, reserved zone, white area, white land, white land area, zone not scheduled for development), tierras arables (arable land, arable land area). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

oplanerade ytterområden (land not zoned, outlying area, outlying district, reserved zone, white area, white land, white land area, zone not scheduled for development), oplanerad mark (land not zoned, outlying area, outlying district, reserved zone, white area, white land, white land area, zone not scheduled for development). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Land Area

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-d-e-l-n-r"

-1 letter: adrenal.

-2 letters: darnel, lander.

-3 letters: aland, alane, alder, anear, areal, arena, denar, eland, laden, lader, learn, naled, redan, renal.

-4 letters: alae, alan, alar, anal, area, dale, dare, darn, deal, dean, dear, earl, earn, elan, lade, land, lane, lard, lead, lean, lear, lend, nada, nard, near, nerd, rale, rand, read, real, rend.

-5 letters: aal, ala, ale, ana, and, ane, are, dal, del, den, ear, eld, end, era, ern, lad, lar, lea, led, nae, rad, ran, red.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-a-d-e-l-n-r"
 

+2 letters: calamander, candelabra, salamander.

 

+3 letters: calamanders, candelabras, cardinalate, rataplanned, salamanders.

 

+4 letters: cardinalates, salamandrine.

 

+5 letters: aerodynamical, antidiarrheal, grandparental, transvaluated.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Land Area


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 61 6E 64      41 72 65 61

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01100001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01000001 01110010 01100101 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#97 &#110 &#100 &#32 &#65 &#114 &#101 &#97

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0061 006E 0064      0041 0072 0065 0061

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

46678070235847167

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Expressions
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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