Engelsk navneord: region | |||
1. | region (om sted) the extended spatial location of something | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | The farming regions of France. Religions in all parts of the world. Regions of outer space. | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | part | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | location | ||
Mere specifikke termer | aerospace, air, air, atmosphere, belt, biosphere, black hole, bottom, county, deep space, depth, distance, Eden, Edgeworth-Kuiper belt, exterior, extremity, heaven, heliosphere, hell, hell on earth, hellhole, house, inferno, inside, intergalactic space, interior, interplanetary space, interstellar space, ionosphere, Kuiper belt, layer, mansion, mare, maria, nirvana, outside, Papua, paradise, planetary house, promised land, radius, Shangri-la, side, sign, sign of the zodiac, Sind, snake pit, star sign, the pits, top, vacuity, vacuum, zodiac, zone | ||
Eksempler på forekomster af mere specifikke termer | Achaea, Appleton layer, Cynoscephalae, D region, D-layer, Doris, E layer, E region, F layer, F region, Heaviside layer, Kennelly-Heaviside layer, Rand, Reef, Transylvania, Witwatersrand | ||
2. | region (i anatomi) a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | In the abdominal region. | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | area | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | body part | ||
Mere specifikke termer | area of cardiac dullness, areola, cleavage, cortical area, cortical region, epigastrium, erogenous zone, fovea, fovea centralis, groin, half-moon, hypochondrium, inguen, loins, lunula, lunule, macula, macula lutea, macular area, middle, midriff, midsection, palm, parafovea, perineum, pressure point, pubes, pubic region, quick, ring of color, side, sole, thenar, thenar, waist, waistline, yellow spot | ||
3. | region (om sted) a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | Penguins inhabit the polar regions. | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | location | ||
Mere specifikke termer | antipodes, area, backwater, biogeographical region, breadbasket, country, demesne, district, domain, dominion, field, field, field of operations, geographic area, geographic region, geographical area, geographical region, heartland, irredenta, irridenta, laboratory, land, northland, southland, terra incognita, territorial dominion, territory, testing ground, theater, theater of operations, theater of war, theatre, theatre of operations, theatre of war, unknown, unknown region, zone of interior | ||
Eksempler på forekomster af mere specifikke termer | Far East, French West Indies, Occident, Old World, West | ||
4. | region (om mængde el. mål) the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of') | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | It was going to take in the region of two or three months to finish the job. The price is in the neighborhood of $100. | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | neighborhood | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | indefinite quantity | ||
5. | region (om erkendelse) a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | It was a limited realm of discourse. Here we enter the region of opinion. The realm of the occult. | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | realm | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | domain, knowledge base, knowledge domain | ||