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Definition: Disaster Area |
Disaster AreaNoun1. A region whose population is affected by a general disaster. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Disaster Area |
| Specialty definitions using "disaster area": Disaster payments ♦ Emergency Disaster Loan Program ♦ Pacific Disaster Center ♦ risk map ♦ STATE-HIGHWAY POLICE OFFICER. (references) |
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Screenplays | There's always a little bit of heaven in a disaster area. (Woodstock; writing credit: Derek Ford; Donald Ford) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Aerial view of the disaster area, looking northward, seen from a plane assigned to USS Aroostook (CM-3). Visible are six of the seven destroyers that ran aground on Honda Point during the night of 8 September 1923. They are: USS Fuller (DD-297), at left; USS Woodbury (DD-309), just ahead of Fuller; USS Young (DD-312), capsized in the center of the view; USS Chauncey (DD-296), upright just ahead of Young; USS Nicholas (DD-311), beyond the rocks in the center; and USS Delphy (DD-261), capsized in the small cove between Chauncey and Nicholas. The remaining ship, USS S.P. Lee (DD-310), is out of sight behind the rocky point, astern of Nicholas. Credit: NAVY. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
Expressions using "disaster area": declare a federal disaster area ♦ federal disaster area ♦ walking disaster area. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "disaster area"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 災區 (stricken region). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | région sinistrée. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | pechvogel (unlucky fellow (girl), unlucky person, unlucky wretch, walking disaster area). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | isasterday areaay zona de calamidade pública. (various references) territorio de desastre. (various references) afet bölgesi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-d-e-e-i-r-r-s-s-t" | |
-2 letters: reradiates. | |
-3 letters: destriers, dreariest, eradiates, reradiate, steadiers. | |
-4 letters: airdates, arrested, arteries, asserted, asserter, asterias, atresias, dataries, derrises, desirers, destrier, diastase, diasters, diesters, disaster, disrates, drearies, dressier, editress, eradiate, radiates, readiest, reassert, reraised, reraises, residers, resisted, resister, retreads, seriated, seriates, serrated, serrates, sistered, steadier, steadies, striders, tarsiers, terrases, treaders, tressier. | |
-5 letters: aerated, aerates, aeriest, airdate. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 69 73 61 73 74 65 72 41 72 65 61 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101001 01110011 01100001 01110011 01110100 01100101 01110010 00100000 01000001 01110010 01100101 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D i s a s t e r   A r e a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0069 0073 0061 0073 0074 0065 0072 0041 0072 0065 0061 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3875856785867184235847167 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , Chinois, Chinesisch, chinês, chino, çinli, çince, çin ile ilgili, çin |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, français, französisch, francês, francés, fransızca, fransız, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransa ile ilgili |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , allemand, deutsch, Deutsche, alemão, alemán, alman |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | 葡萄牙語 , 葡萄牙人 , 葡萄牙语, portugais, portugiesisch, português, portugués, portekizce, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | 西班牙語 , 西班牙文 , 西班牙语, espagnol, spanisch, espanhol, español, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | 土耳其語 , 土耳其, turque, türkisch, turco, türkçe, türk |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , anglais, englisch, inglês, inglés, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce |
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