What Words Do I Use Most on Domain_6

domain

( doʊmeɪn )

Word forms: plural domains

1. countable noun

[formal]

...the great experimenters in the domain of art. [+ of ]

This information should be in the public domain.

2. countable noun [usually with poss]

Someone's domain is the area they own or have control over.

[literary]

...the mighty king's domain.

3. countable noun

On the internet, a domain is a set of addresses that shows, for example, the category or geographical area that an internet address belongs to.

[computing]

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domain

domain in British English

( dəˈmeɪn )

noun

2.

land owned by one person or family

4.

a region having specific characteristics or containing certain types of plants or animals

5. Australian and New Zealand

7. mathematics

b.

any open set containing at least one point

10. Also called : magnetic domain physics

12. Also called : superkingdom biology

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Word origin

C17: from French domaine, from Latin dominium property, from dominus lord

domain in American English

( doʊˈmeɪn ; dəˈmeɪn )

noun

2.

land belonging to one person; estate

4.

field or sphere of activity or influence

the domain of science

6. Ancient Mathematics

a.

the set of those values of an independent variable which exist for a given function

7. Physics

a region in a ferromagnetic material within which the atoms are magnetically aligned: alignment of these regions results in the material being magnetized

Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Word origin

ME domein < MFr domaine < L dominium, right of ownership, dominion < dominus, a lord: see dominate

Examples of 'domain' in a sentence

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One of my core beliefs about business success is that domain knowledge really matters.

Times, Sunday Times (2017)

The media organisations applied to have the entire judgment put into the public domain.

Times, Sunday Times (2016)

Should the athlete be expected to put that into the public domain?

The Sun (2016)

But questions were being asked last night how they were allowed into the public domain.

The Sun (2016)

She's been in the public domain for three decades.

The Sun (2016)

And once this information is in the public domain, we have no control over what happens to it.

Computing (2010)

Each test launch costs 17 million of taxpayers' money yet information about this unsuccessful venture was deemed to be outside the public domain.

Times, Sunday Times (2017)

Students lacking prior knowledge in either of the domains fared poorly in both domains.

Advanced Educational Psychology For Educators, Researchers and Policymakers, (1995)

It is the domain of family building and family contentment.

Forrest, Ray & Murie, Alan & Williams, Peter Home-ownership - differentiation and fragmentation (1990)

The front page of that section became his personal domain and one he closely guarded.

Times, Sunday Times (2013)

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They have embraced the technology firms now entering their domain.

Times, Sunday Times (2014)

We soon learnt the perils of having our notebooks in the public domain.

Times, Sunday Times (2010)

But domain knowledge and relevant experience also matter.

Times, Sunday Times (2016)

Nowadays the very concept of personal ethics has become problematic in one domain after another.

Times, Sunday Times (2010)

Now once you enter this theological domain there is really no turning back.

Kovel, Joel Red Hunting in the Promised Land: Anticommunism and the Making of America (1994)

It also reflects the fact that people can differ radically from one domain to the next.

Evans, Peter & Deehan, Geoff The Descent of Mind - the how and why of intelligence (1990)

At least two more such cases are likely to enter the public domain in the coming months.

Times, Sunday Times (2006)

The judge blurted out things he was not supposed to have put in the public domain.

Times, Sunday Times (2015)

The acclaimed results were removed from the public domain.

Times, Sunday Times (2007)

Some of the intelligence has found its way quickly into the public domain.

Times, Sunday Times (2011)

Knowing the information came from the public domain my research group gaily put it on the internet.

Michael Boulter EXTINCTION: Evolution and the End of Man (2002)

Outside working hours, the hut becomes a family domain.

Times, Sunday Times (2010)

When you enter the public domain, you cede control to the horse.

Times, Sunday Times (2010)

Politics doesn't really enter their domain.

Times, Sunday Times (2010)

Better still, those with deep experience of one domain have a great deal to offer to the other.

Times, Sunday Times (2010)

The first involves a transformation of how one writes philosophy, and the second involves a change in the domain of one 's attentive exploration.

Wood, David Philosophy at the Limit (1990)

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