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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | area, subdivision |
| Synonyms: | category, district, division, part, precinct, quarter, region, stratum, zone |
| Antonyms: | whole |
| Main Entry: | sphere |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | domain of influence |
| Synonyms: | bailiwick, capacity, champaign, circle, class, compass, demesne, department, dominion, employment, field, function, ground, jungle, jurisdiction, level, neck of the woods, orbit, pale, position, precinct, province, range, rank, realm, scope, station, stomping ground, stratum, terrain, territory, turf*, walk of life, zone |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | territory |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | domain, region |
| Synonyms: | area, belt, block, boundary, colony, commonwealth, country, district, dominion, empire, enclave, exclave, expanse, extent, field, land, mandate, nation, neck of the woods, neighborhood, province, quarter, section, sector, sphere, state, stomping grounds, street, terrain, terrene, township, tract, turf*, walk, zone |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tract |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | area, lot |
| Synonyms: | amplitude, belt, district, estate, expanse, extent, field, parcel, part, piece, plat, plot, portion, quarter, region, section, sector, spread, stretch, zone |
| Main Entry: | ward |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | district |
| Synonyms: | area, canton, department, diocese, division, parish, precinct, quarter, territory, zone |
| Main Entry: | locale |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | setting |
| Synonyms: | area, bailiwick, belt, district, domain, haunt, hole, home, locality, location, locus, neighborhood, place, position, region, scene, sector, site, sphere, spot, stage, stomping ground, territory, theater, tract, turf, venue, vicinity, zone |
| Notes: | a location is a place, a locality is an area within a place, and a locale is a place regarded as an environment |
| Main Entry: | locality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | neighborhood |
| Synonyms: | adjacency, area, belt, block, closeness, confines, contiguity, district, environs, ghetto, hood, jungle*, locale, nearness, neck of the woods, parish, part, precinct, propinquity, proximity, purlieus, quarter, region, section, slum, stomping ground, street, suburb, territory, tract, turf, vicinage, vicinity, ward, zone, zoo |
| Notes: | a location is a place, a locality is an area within a place, and a locale is a place regarded as an environment |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | layer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
discoid, esquamate, filmy, flaky, foliaceous, foliated, ganoid, lamellar, lamellate, lamellated, lamelliform, laminated, laminiferous, membranous, micaceous, overlayed, scaly, schistose, schistous, scutiferous, squamous, squamulose, stratified, stratiform, tabular, tegulated
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| Concept: | Circuit. |
| Category: | 1. Conceptional volition |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
circuit, roundabout way, digression, detour, circumbendibus, ambages, loop; winding (circuition); zigzag (deviation).
-verbs
perform a circuit; go round about, go out of one's way; make a detour; meander (deviate)., lead a pretty dance; beat about the bush; make two bites of a cherry.
-adjectives
circuitous, indirect, roundabout; zigzag (deviating); backhanded.
-adverbs
by a side wind, by an indirect course; in a roundabout way; from pillar to post.
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