domain
150
4.2
- noun
- /dəˈmeɪn/
:
ámbito
- There might not be a door here, but this is my domain.
- domain-specific
- domain knowledge
- academic domain
And very few other domains show that, right?
- And very few other domains show that, right?
- So what we're interested in is the domain of universal spirit, right?
- Now you can do it for other domains like spatial reasoning.
- We don't think that it's our domain because we've been told it's not.
- And that's where that's the realm, that's the domain in which human consciousness lives.
- But outside of that, she was mostly in the domain of domesticated duties.
- One of my favorite studies in this domain came from southeastern Brazil.
- But that's the domain of socio ecology, right?
- Facts, figures, numbers, stories are in the domain of people.
- So the next one was what I think of as multi domain natural language understanding.
- Or does this domain of the family in some respect matter?
- OK, our final domain of disgust is animals and insects.
- It goes into all of these domains, right, and finds things.
Examples
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My husband feels that anything to do with the house, the school, the backyard, is my domain.
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Policies scored highest on the Tobacco-Free Environment domain and lowest on the Enforcement domain.
Academic text (2013) -
We have come to your domain... ...as agreed.
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We're in his domain now.
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Facts, figures, numbers, stories are in the domain of people.
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Given our findings, we suggest that future research in this domain focus on the following topics:
Academic text (2015) -
One of my favorite studies in this domain came from southeastern Brazil.
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You remember last time I was telling you how bathrooms have become a woman's domain.
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Health care is a potentially important domain for developing and applying computational models of argument.
Academic text (2017) -
In her new role, she aims to expand her influence in the domain of environmental policy.
Synonyms
∞
2.9
A particular area of study or work
752
2.0
A subject people study, like biology or history
713
6.5
A place where a particular quality or activity is common
222
5.1
An area of knowledge or activity like music
215
4.6
The range that an activity or rule covers
190
4.8
An area of knowledge or activity, for example history and music
168
3.1
An area of activity or competition where people try to succeed
120
4.8
A part of life, work or society where people act and have influence
105
2.3
An area of knowledge or activity that people study, for example mathematics
24
6.0
The group of people and things that are part of someone's life or work
1
6.0
An area of study or work with its own words and ways
Compounds
- Texting
26
3.3
A unique address made of letters and numbers separated by dots that people type to visit a website
- Formal
20
6.3
The government's right to take private property for public use and pay the owner
How Broad
Surface Forms
Etymology
Domain comes from the Latin words dominus ('lord') and domus ('home'), because a domain was first the land or house a lord owned; so it came to mean any 'area' someone controls or knows, like a field of study.