Word Finder - region

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Any considerable and connected part of a space or surface; specifically, a tract of land or sea of considerable but indefinite extent; a country; a district; in a broad sense, a place without special reference to location or extent but viewed as an entity for geographical, social or cultural reasons.

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the equatorial regions

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An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country.

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The inhabitants of a region or district of a country.

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A place in or a part of the body in any way indicated.

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the abdominal regions

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Place; rank; station; dignity.

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The space from the earth's surface out to the orbit of the moon: properly called the elemental region.

In its earlier history the region was agricultural.

If you travel to a different region, you may find an idiom that you don't understand.

This policy did not allay the discontent of the Macedonian army, and when Alexander in the summer of 324 moved to the cooler region of Media, an actual mutiny of the Macedonians broke out on the way at Opis on the Tigris.

But he did not stop short in the region of what is usually termed physics.

This elevated region is known as the plateau of Matto Grosso, and its elevations so far as known rarely exceed 3000 ft.

This eastern region was occupied in the 17th century by the Annamese, who in the 18th century absorbed the western provinces.

Albania is perhaps the least-known region in Europe; and though more than a hundred years have passed since Gibbon described it as "a country within sight of Italy, which is less known than the interior of America," but little progress has yet been made towards a scientific knowledge of this interesting land and its inhabitants.

Araucaria Cunninghami, the Moreton Bay pine, is a tall tree abundant on the shores of Moreton Bay, Australia, and found through the littoral region of Queensland to Cape York Peninsula, also in New Guinea.

In the eastern region this was the last folding which has affected the country, and the Mesozoic and Tertiary beds are almost undisturbed.

Dolmadakia can be coated in a lemon sauce, which varies widely by region.

Alkmaar derives its chief importance from being the centre of the flourishing butter and cheese trade of this region of Holland.

The meat (beef, goat or lamb) and vegetables vary by region and season.

The first rise in the lower Senegal is due to the rains in the source region of the Faleme, the flood water passing down that stream more quickly than down the Bafing owing to its shorter course.

Next the plains of eastern Europe were lost, then the AraloCaspian region, southern Russia and finally the valley of the Danube.

The highland region of northern Albania is divided into two portions by the lower course of the Drin; the mountains of the northern portion, the Bieska Malziis, extend in a confused and broken series of ridges from Scutari to the valleys of the Ibar and White Drin; they comprise the rocky group of the Prokletia, or Accursed Mountains, with their numerous ramifications, including Mount Velechik, inhabited by the Kastrat and Shkrel tribes, Bukovik by the Hot, Golesh by the Klement, Skulsen (7533 ft.), Baba Vrkh (about 7306 ft.), Maranay near Scutari, and the Bastrik range to the east.

Greek snacks derive from the custom of spending hours socializing in a taverna, and vary widely by region.

In the area of the Newer Appalachian Mountains, the eastern Panhandle region has a forest similar to that of the plateau district; but between these two areas of hardwood there is a long belt where spruce and white pine cover the mountain ridges.

It is in a rich farming region, of which Indian corn and oats are important products, and has a large trade.

The two sources together drain the region south as the Euphrates drains the region north of the Taurus mountains.

The pursuit had brought Alexander into that region of mountains to the south of the Caspian which connects western Iran with the provinces to the east of the great central desert.

Napoleon's generals--Davout, Ney, and Murat, who were near that region of fire and sometimes even entered it--repeatedly led into it huge masses of well-ordered troops.

The most common dishes, though identically named, express the local flavor of the region.

Descartes began with the certainty that we are thinking beings; that region remains untouched; but up to its very borders the mechanical explanation of nature reigns unchecked.

Shortly below Kut-el-Amara all traces of ancient canalization on the east side vanish, and it would appear as though much of that region, now largely under water at flood time, constituted an inland sea.

A portion of the Mirdite region, the Mat district, the neighbourhood of Dibra, Jakova and Ipek and other localities have never been s.

The foreboding of evil that had suddenly come over Rostov was more and more confirmed the farther he rode into the region behind the village of Pratzen, which was full of troops of all kinds.

There is a nice cheese menu, which is organized by region, and great for pairing with many of the wines from the elaborate list.

This ocean, already diminished in area, retreated after Oligocene times from the Iranian plateau, Turkestan, Asia Minor and the region of the north-west Alps.

The prevailing winds in this region, which the sea traverses longitudinally, are westerly, but the sea itself causes the formation of bands of low barometric pressure during the winter season, within which cyclonic disturbances frequently develop, while in summer the region comes under the influence of the polar margin of the tropical high pressure belt.

Maps of the 16th and 17th centuries often show Cambaluc in an imaginary region to the north of China, a part of the misconception that has prevailed regarding Cathay.

The idea of force is one of those obscure conceptions which originate in an obscure region, in the sense of muscular power.

It forms part of the educational division (academie) of Douai and of the region of the second army corps, its military centre being at Amiens, where also is its court of appeal.

Government buildings were converted into silos to hold the abundance, as other countries in the region placed orders for massive amounts of these seeds.

The meat and spices vary widely by region but often use beef, lamb, dill or oregano.

The bituminous coal of West Virginia is a particularly good coking coal, and in 1905, 1906, 1907 and 1908 West Virginia ranked second (to Pennsylvania) among the states of the Union in the amount of coke manufactured; the Flat Top district is the principal cokemaking region.

As a residence, however, for the rulers of the empire, a remote place in a difficult alpine region was far from convenient, and the real capitals were Susa, Babylon and Ecbatana.

It varies widely by region and season but always contains tomatoes, cucumbers, bell peppers, onions, olives and feta cheese.

This region is backed by a belt of about zoo m.

His ancestors, it is believed, came from Scotland, and settled at Bayonne when that region was occupied by the English.

With regard to the region north of the Rhine we first obtain information from the accounts of the campaigns of Nero, Claudius, Drusus and Tiberius.

In the Cyanophyceae the contents of the cell are differentiated into a central colorless region, and a peripheral layer containing the chlorophyll and other coloring matters together with granules of a reserve substance called cyanophycin.

The region is to-day covered with ruins and ruin mounds.

The Forest Region of the Russian botanists includes the greater part of the country, from the Arctic tundras to the steppes, and over this immense expanse it maintains a remarkable uniformity of character.

This, however, is not a real decrease, salaries of functionaries not on the active list having been removed to the region of supplementary credits, as are those of civil departments.

On the right the Guards were entering the misty region with a sound of hoofs and wheels and now and then a gleam of bayonets; to the left beyond the village similar masses of cavalry came up and disappeared in the sea of mist.

He rode on to the region where the greatest number of men had perished in fleeing from Pratzen.

That same day Kutuzov was appointed commander-in- chief with full powers over the armies and over the whole region occupied by them.

There are many activities for outdoor enthusiasts to enjoy during their stay in the blue grass region.

There are steak restaurants that specialize in cooking food over wood fired grills and use fresh seasonal produce grown in the region in recipes.

Farther to the north a number of small rivers, the chief of which is the Svre Niortaise, drain the coast region to the south of the plateau of Gtine.