Acre vs. Are
Acrenoun
An English unit of land area (symbol: a. or ac.) originally denoting a day's plowing for a yoke of oxen, now standardized as 4,840 square yards or 4,046.86 square meters.
Acrenoun
Any of various similar units of area in other systems.
Acrenoun
A wide expanse.
Acrenoun
A large quantity.
Acrenoun
(obsolete) A field.
Acrenoun
(obsolete) The acre's breadth by the length, English units of length equal to the statute dimensions of the acre: 22 yds (≈20 m) by 220 yds (≈200 m).
Acrenoun
(obsolete) A duel fought between individual Scots and Englishmen in the borderlands.
Acrenoun
Any field of arable or pasture land.
Acrenoun
A piece of land, containing 160 square rods, or 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet. This is the English statute acre. That of the United States is the same. The Scotch acre was about 1.26 of the English, and the Irish 1.62 of the English.
Acrenoun
a unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries
Acrenoun
a territory of western Brazil bordering on Bolivia and Peru
Acrenoun
a town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean
Acre
The acre is a unit of land area used in the imperial and US customary systems. It is traditionally defined as the area of one chain by one furlong (66 by 660 feet), which is exactly equal to 10 square chains, 1⁄640 of a square mile, or 43,560 square feet, and approximately 4,047 m2, or about 40% of a hectare.
Arenoun
Grace, mercy.
Arenoun
(obsolete) Honour, dignity.
Arenoun
(rare) An accepted (but deprecated and rarely used) SI unit of area equal to 100 square metres, or a former unit of approximately the same extent. Symbol: a.
Are
The present indicative plural of the substantive verb to be; but etymologically a different word from be, or was. Am, art, are, and is, all come from the root as.
Arenoun
The unit of superficial measure, being a square of which each side is ten meters in length; 100 square meters, or about 119.6 square yards.
Arenoun
a unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters
Arenoun
a metric unit of measurement, equal to 100 square metres.
