confined area
collocation in Englishmeaningsofconfineandarea
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confine
verb
uk/kənˈfaɪn/us/kənˈfaɪn/
to limit an activity, person, or problem in ...
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area
noun
uk/ˈeə.ri.ə/us/ˈer.i.ə/
a particular part of a place, piece of land, ...
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(Definition ofconfineandareafrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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These interactions are likely to take place within aconfinedarea, perhaps within a few microns of the synapse.
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Formal observations of three species with abundant males revealed that males of these species were highly territorial: they physically challenged intruders while remaining within aconfinedarea.
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Where, however, there are several hundred boats working in aconfinedareait is difficult to avoid occasionally causing inconvenience.
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I do not think that it is satisfactory bottling in nearly 100,000 people in a veryconfinedarea.
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I doubt whether many constituencies have as many as eight level crossings in such aconfinedarea, a situation crying out for special treatment.
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It is aconfinedareawith tourist potential, which must be developed further, and important fishing interests.
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The weather was dry and dusty, and the effect of having 40,000 people in aconfinedareacould only be described as squalid.
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Underground, it is 100 times worse, because of theconfinedareaand because there is only one source of air.
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They have built up in that littleconfinedareaa series of settlements of great value, as experiments if you like.
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We may say that we cannot afford within thisconfinedareato have traffic and vehicles of every kind.
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Frankly, it is a matter for considerable regret that a concentration of homes housing disturbed young people should have been allowed to develop in such aconfinedarea.
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Here is a town huddled on to a narrow shelf of land which rises steeply from the sea within a veryconfinedareawhich produces its own local problems.
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Moreover, the choice of an alternative system for parliamentary elections is likely to be much harder than in the moreconfinedareaof local government that we are discussing today.
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I say that to the extent to which this policy is successful, to the same extent, are we forced to rely upon wheat production in aconfinedarea.
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Modern specialist machinery is being installed because of the nature of the terrain and the pit'sconfinedarea.
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An application may have a certain effect on the water table so what effect would half a dozen different ones for the sameconfinedareahave on the water table?
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To prevent such calamities settlers had controlled burns by burning off the under-brush in aconfinedarea.
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Oval circuits allow athletes to cover long distances in aconfinedarea.
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This allows the horse to turn in a veryconfinedarea.
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Then the troop concentrated heavy fire on aconfinedareacontaining a small group, which had developed into a rear guard for the others.
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