Значение

значений: 8
  1. An English unit of land area (symbol: a. or ac.) originally denoting a day's ploughing for a yoke of oxen, now standardized as 4,840 square yards or 4,046.86 square metres.

    a unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries

  2. An English unit of land area (symbol: a. or ac.) originally denoting a day's ploughing for a yoke of oxen, now standardized as 4,840 square yards or 4,046.86 square metres.

    (историческое)An area of 10,240 square yards or 4 quarters.

  3. Any of various similar units of area in other systems.

  4. (разговорное, обычно во множественном числе)A wide expanse.

    I like my new house—there’s acres of space!

  5. (разговорное, обычно во множественном числе)A large quantity.

  6. (устаревшее)A field.

  7. (устаревшее)The acre's breadth by the length, English units of length equal to the statute dimensions of the acre: 22 yd (≈20 m) by 220 yd (≈200 m).

  8. (устаревшее)A duel fought between individual Scots and Englishmen in the borderlands.

Примеры

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  1. I bought an eight-acre farm for my retirement.

    Я прикупил к своей пенсии ферму с восемью акрами земли.

  2. That pasture is ten acres.

    Это пастбище десять акров.

  3. Tom owns a thirteen-acre farm.

    deTom besitzt eine fünf Hektar große Farm.

  4. Tom owns a thirty-acre farm.

    deTom besitzt eine zwölf Hektar große Farm.

  5. Tom has three acres of land.

Переводы

языков: 8
Українська
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Русский
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Deutsch
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Происхождение

From Middle English acre, aker, from Old English æcer (“field where crops are grown”), fro

From Middle English acre, aker, from Old English æcer (“field where crops are grown”), from Proto-West Germanic *akr, from Proto-Germanic *akraz (“field”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros (“field”). Doublet of agriculture.

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