domaindo‧main /dəˈmeɪn, dəʊ- $ də-, doʊ-/ ●○○ AWL noun [countable] formal 
This problem is outside the domain of medical science. Looking after the house was viewed as a woman’s domain. → public domain2an area of land owned and controlled by one person or government, especially in the past: the extent of the royal domain3 technical the set of possible quantities by which something can vary in mathematics4a domain name
WORD ORIGINdomain
Origin:
1400-1500 French domaine, from Latin dominus ‘lord’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- In the US, manual labor remains a male domain.
- The abortion issue has shifted from the political to the religious domain.
- The building was once the domain of the Soviet KGB.
- The discovery of X-rays added to the domain of natural science.
- Work in skilled trades and union jobs remains a male domain.
- But any illegal littering of city streets is the domain of the four litter cops.
- But at the same time, the classroom can not simply be an extension of the experimental domain.
- But later in the day, the president of Cook County will call and ask how his domain should be run.
- In this domain it serves, to use the unavoidable cliche, merely as a rubber stamp.
- Raising the matter in the public domain is not advocated.
- There is no reason to suppose that what goes on in one domain is necessarily relevant to what goes on in another.
Longman Language Activatoran area of knowledge, duties, study etc
an area of knowledge, activity, or responsibility: · They fund research in areas like information technology.area of: · The President has won new support because of his reforms in the areas of health and education.· Nordstrom does research in the area of heart disease.
a subject or area of study, especially one that you know a lot about: · Keith has a degree in engineering, but couldn't find a job in his field.the field: · Laycock is one of the most brilliant psychiatrists in the field.field of: · There are good employment opportunities in the field of healthcare, particularly nursing.
one part of a large area of study or knowledge: branch of: · Trigonometry is a branch of mathematics.· He's interested in the branch of international law that deals with war crimes.
an area of activity or work - use this especially when talking about all the people who work in that area: business/fashion/hi-tech etc world: · Jaffrii is now one of the richest and most successful men in the business world.· the fashion worldthe world of something: · the fast-paced world of technology
formal an area of activity, interest, or knowledge to which something belongs: · The abortion issue has shifted from the political to the religious domain.male/female domain: · In the US, manual labor remains a male domain.
formal a general area of thought, interest, or knowledge: · the spiritual realmthe realm of something: · new discoveries in the realm of science
an area of activity, interest, knowledge etc, especially one that people consider should be respected or admired: · Mitchell's greatest achievements have been in the diplomatic sphere.in scientific/political etc spheres: · She has a solid reputation in scientific spheres.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY This problem is outside the domain of medical science.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES The information is not currently in the public domain.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
1an area of activity, interest, or knowledge, especially one that a particular person, organization etc deals withoutside/within the domain of something/somebody This problem is outside the domain of medical science. The information is not currently in the public domain.· How is relevance to be determined? Different domains of enquiry and action work to different criteria of significance.· Conclusion: There is a great degree of variability in the performance of the overlap technique across different domains.· At the next level, objects in different domains may be organized according to a comparable underlying logic.· Sampson applies an evolutionary model due to Simon, originally devised for quite different domains than the present one.· The different levels of domain are examined, and in particular how e-mail and Web addressing are handled.· This need not mean that the private/public distinction vanishes altogether but it applies to different domains.· Nuclei could be successfully transferred between embryos that were in the same developmental domain, but not between embryos in different domains.
· The power company is taking part of his land by eminent domain.· Boston even let one community organization take over abandoned buildings and lots through eminent domain.· The City bought the property under eminent domain proceedings after a protracted battle with the owner.· When Physioc refused to sell his property, the government condemned it and set about to take it under eminent domain laws.
· Rationing should not be the exclusive domain of managers and professionals.· Visual communication is not the exclusive domain of the graphic designer or the advertising executive.
· The highly conserved globular domain is essential for the binding of H1 to the nucleosome.
· The northern Swanwic formed a very large domain, formerly held by the wife of Hugh Fitzgrip.· The largest basic domain within the amino terminal region is underlined.
· In the new domains such as foreign policy, the commission will for the first time have a right to propose.· The company charges $ 100 to register new domains and $ 50 a year for subsequent renewals.· Skirmishes are already going on as rivals battle to gain control of potentially lucrative new domains such as.pro.· Verio's new self-serve domain name registration services provide customers with an easy-to-use and faster way to register and manage domain names.· Last month, the group issued a preliminary proposal that seven new domains be created.
· However, it is not necessarily the case that these characteristics will be exhibited within other domains.· Fiction is heavily over-represented whilst many other domains are heavily under-represented.· The mapping of this input, as it unfolds across time, on to other domains such as semantics will then be studied.· It remains to be seen whether this process can be extended to other domains.· His rationality was exiled to that other phantom domain where the Weapon of Law was being constructed according to dream-logic.
· The student acquires knowledge, understanding and a range of competencies in a particular domain.· Its content is not determined by a particular task domain, nor do we assume much grammatical constraint.· It is therefore better to reach some compromise, and perhaps use a word list tailored to the particular domain.· A domain-specific dictionary may provide good performance within its own particular domain, but outside this its performance is brittle and inflexible.
· It had always been a much loved and private domain.· The bathroom was her private domain.· Generally it is true to say that use of Creole is restricted to the private domain, and informal situations.· The family in early times for Marx belongs to the private domain, rather than to the public and political.· The private domain is that world where families, individuals and associations of private affiliation live alongside each other.· Even Hegel, who apparently extends the notion of autonomy to the private domain does not really do so.
· The upshot, Mace hopes, is that interface copyrights will be broken and will therefore pass into the public domain.· Freeware, shareware and public domain software can all be legally copied and distributed by anyone.· Broadly, the purpose of the City Code is to protect the shareholder in the public domain.· The aim would be to put as much information as possible into the public domain as quickly as possible, he said.· Indeed as the public domain has become more impersonal and technical so the family has increased in importance.· It was inevitable that women would lay claims to enter the public domain.· Women are entitled to space both in the domestic context and in the public domain.· A company can protect information of this kind only so long as it is confidential to the business and not in the public domain.
· It is also possible to take advantage of compounds, phrases and idioms which are specific to certain domains and/or contexts.· Existential claims are more naturally expressed within the context of a specific domain of discourse.· However, expertise within a specific domain is needed in order for the techniques to be effective.
NOUN· Seven new top-level domain names have been agreed on after lengthy deliberations.· Some domain names have reportedly sold for as much as $ 50, 000.· A simple tactic is domain name registration.· Initial offerings, available today at www.gateway-hosting.com, include a complete range of web hosting and domain name registration services.· Fortunately humans get an easier system to remember-the domain name system that makes up site addresses.· The service provider will register the domain name for the customer and act as the customer mail forwarder.· Bimpson recognised a business opportunity when he discovered that the government had secured domain names for all the schools in his borough.· Verio's new self-serve domain name registration services provide customers with an easy-to-use and faster way to register and manage domain names.
· In contrast, the POU domain is a bipartite DNA-binding motif.· The sequence of part of the POU domain of Oct-11a is compared to that of Oct-11b.· Elucidation of the genomic organization of the Oct-11a POU domain revealed a striking concordance of intron/exon junctions with Oct-2.· This provides further evidence that the POU domain gene family arose from a series of gene duplications.· In contrast to the amino-terminal region, the POU domain is highly conserved.· All POU domain proteins are thought to function as transcription factors.· Here we describe a novel murine POU domain gene, Oct-11, that is expressed during embryogenesis as well as in specific adult tissues.· However, seven additional residues are shown to indicate class-specific homologies extending N-terminally to the POU domain.
VERB· It was inevitable that women would lay claims to enter the public domain.· Then James Carlson Sweatt enters her book-lined domain, and her heart.· When we ask these questions, we enter the domain of sociolinguistics.· And now Lucky was about to enter some truer domain.· The virus has entered the public domain.· Thus, if the second-messenger network were to enter a domain of chaotic behavior, chaotic variation in membrane potential would result.· Chopra had felt ill at ease since entering the strange domain.· Theoretical arguments also indicate that multicellular neural systems can enter domains of chaotic behavior.
· Verio previously hosted over 55,000 domain names.· Initial offerings, available today at www.gateway-hosting.com, include a complete range of web hosting and domain name registration services.
· But what if Yahoo! felt the need to register itself under both domains?· The company charges $ 100 to register new domains and $ 50 a year for subsequent renewals.· The service provider will register the domain name for the customer and act as the customer mail forwarder.· Verio's new self-serve domain name registration services provide customers with an easy-to-use and faster way to register and manage domain names.
· Those waters remained the domain of the jellyfish and other floating invertebrates.· Painting the frontier, either as it was or as it is, hardly remains an exclusively male domain.· The family remained ostensibly a privileged domain, even while it was being legally and ideologically constructed and unified.
This problem is outside the domain of medical science. Looking after the house was viewed as a woman’s domain. → public domain2an area of land owned and controlled by one person or government, especially in the past: the extent of the royal domain3 technical the set of possible quantities by which something can vary in mathematics4a domain name