acre

  • 51acre — A quantity of land containing 160 square rods, 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet of land, in whatever shape. See land measure. Net acre. The amount of actual acreage that may be used for building lots after installation of streets,… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 52acre — A quantity of land containing 160 square rods, 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet of land, in whatever shape. See land measure. Net acre. The amount of actual acreage that may be used for building lots after installation of streets,… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 53ACRE — I. ACRE civitas Apuliae, ab aliquibus Hydrusa dicta. Est et alia, quae portum in se Brundusium habet; alia in Syracusanis, item in Euboea, Scythia, Cypro, Acarnania; alia supra Antiochiam; alia denique ad Tigrim fluv. Steph. vide Acra. II. ACRE… …

    Hofmann J. Lexicon universale

  • 54acre — akras statusas T sritis Standartizacija ir metrologija apibrėžtis Ploto matavimo vienetas, vartojamas kai kuriose šalyse, tarp jų JAV ir Didžiojoje Britanijoje; 1 akras lygus 4046,86 m². atitikmenys: angl. acre rus. акр, m pranc. acre, f …

    Penkiakalbis aiškinamasis metrologijos terminų žodynas

  • 55ACRE — n. f. Mesure de superficie en usage dans l’ancienne France et encore employée dans divers pays avec des valeurs différentes. L’acre anglaise vaut un peu plus de 10 ares …

    Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 8eme edition (1935)

  • 56Acre —    Is the translation of a word (tse med), which properly means a yoke, and denotes a space of ground that may be ploughed by a yoke of oxen in a day. It is about an acre of our measure (Isa. 5:10; 1 Sam. 14:14) …

    Easton's Bible Dictionary

  • 57acre — a|cre [ˈeıkə US ər] n [: Old English; Origin: Acer] 1.) a unit for measuring area, equal to 4840 square yards or 4047 square metres ▪ They own 200 acres of farmland. ▪ a 200 acre wood 2.) acres of space/room BrE informal a large amount of space …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 58acre — a|cre [ eıkər ] noun count * a unit for measuring the surface area of land, equal to 4,840 square yards or 4,047 square meters: acre of: The hotel sits in 400 acres of woodland. acres of something INFORMAL a very large amount of something: Acres… …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 59acre — [OE] Acre is a word of ancient ancestry, going back probably to the Indo European base *ag , source of words such as agent and act. This base had a range of meanings covering ‘do’ and ‘drive’, and it is possible that the notion of driving… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 60acre — The unit most commonly used to measure farm and ranch land in the United States. An acre is 43,560 square feet, or 0.4048 hectares. To convert acres to hectares, multiply acres by .4048. (Example: 100 acres X .4048 = 40.48 hectares.) …

    Combined glossary of agriculture