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arena

[uh-ree-nuh]

noun

the oval space in the center of a Roman amphitheater for gladiatorial combats or other performances.

a central stage, ring, area, or the like, used for sports or other forms of entertainment, surrounded by seats for spectators: a boxing arena; a circus arena.

a building housing an arena.

a field of conflict, activity, or endeavor: the arena of politics.

Origin:
1620–30; < Latin (h)arēna sand, sandy place, area sanded for combat

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Example Sentences

Talk about appearances might seem unjustified given the profession's showing in the arena of good looks and good taste.

And surveys evaluating its use in football have found that it is more effective than arena signs and logos on uniforms.

Con el paso del tiempo, la arena y la suciedad se convirtieron en roca.

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Talk about appearances might seem unjustified given the profession's showing in the arena of good looks and good taste.

And surveys evaluating its use in football have found that it is more effective than arena signs and logos on uniforms.

Con el paso del tiempo, la arena y la suciedad se convirtieron en roca.

Many of the robots featured a chute for scooping up balls from the arena floor.

Her persona in the skating arena was rough and tumble but she was not at all of that type.

Enter a closed arena teeming with zombies and take down as many enemies as possible before time expires.

But an even better gift is to enter an arena in which you think you're fairly accomplished and end up having your butt kicked.

The brotherhood needs the army to facilitate its dominance in the political arena and the imminent running of the country.

Desafortunadamente, extraer el petróleo de arena o de rocas es muy caro.

No area of physics stimulates more nonsense in the public arena than quantum mechanics-and with good reason.

It's where brain turns into brawn, electronics trump athletic prowess and the arena is heavy not with.

Online education appears to be a new arena for this fight.

Depending on where they have been, outsiders portray the continent either as an arena of looming.

He continues to work in the arena of alternative energy.

Again, by four years of age, children have become expert at working the social arena.

But the highest ground in the context arena may not end up in the hands of the technocrats at all.

Right now cost is the only arena where the feds can enter the fray.

Coca adopted a black drop of crude oil for its mascot, a symbol that still adorns an arena there.

Agreed, but one plays in a poor karmic arena making any sort of deserved/undeserved judgements.

The key here is the use of cameras throughout an arena to synchronize the shot clock with streaming video.

Surely reform in this arena is an appropriate part of the dialogue.

And, as it turns out, the tuberous bushcricket isn't quite so well endowed in this arena.

Freed expects transplants of neurons derived from embryonic stem cells to enter the clinical arena soon as well.

Intel's presence has been conspicuously missing in the tablet and smartphone arena to date.

So any criticism of my posts outside of that arena have been unfounded so far.

La morena cinta se entierra en la arena o se esconde detrás de las rocas.

Such enthusiasm is harder to find in the scientific arena.

The walk to the arena was strewn with the broken remains of scalpers overburdened with tickets for the.

We are talking about the larger arena of politics, not the micro-managing of daily affairs.

Cuando la inundación para, la ceniza y la arena se asientan.

It would force for the first time rhetoric and speculation out of the arena.

And the hundreds of different items that drop randomly into the arena means that matches are utterly unpredictable.

So, the crux is that landing a teaching job teaching or a job in the professional arena in this area is close to impossible.

También llevan consigo enormes cantidades de ceniza volcánica y arena negra.

Fortunately there have been a number of break throughs in this arena that should hit the market in the next few years.

The three arenas are a cruise ship, an outdoor table, and a sports arena.

The peer review element also gives them an arena in which to share information about their projects, while it is still in process.

They explored the virtue of powerlessness in the arena of race relations.

The division champions will then go on to the main arena to playoff to determine the world champion.

Before going public it was an incredible learning arena.

By your logic, it would be relatively impossible to prove or disprove anything about any topic in any arena.

In case even this is not enough, glowing launch pads around the arena will blast you skyward so you can glide above the arena.

The jockeying of genes has direct parallels in the arena of human behavior, especially with regard to conflict.

Anyone that works in the science arena should be concerned about accuracy of labelling.

The adult movie arena is even more crowded than the market for games.

It is not a slow-paced arena from which to endlessly ponder and contemplate.

It s time to remove this whole issue out of the arena of rhetoric and place it back into science.

Still others will not engage in the arena of discourse because they are unwilling to defend their position.

The challenge is to teach politicians and lawyers that spinning doesn't work in this arena.

It also suggests that spacetime shades from a smooth arena to a funky fractal on small scales.

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World English Dictionary

arena (əˈriːnə)

—n
1.	a. an enclosure or platform, usually surrounded by seats on all sides, in which sports events, contests, entertainments, etc, take place: a boxing arena
	b. (as modifier): arena stage
2.	the central area of an ancient Roman amphitheatre, in which gladiatorial contests and other spectacles were held
3.	a sphere or scene of conflict or intense activity: the political arena

[C17: from Latin harēna sand, place where sand was strewn for the combats]

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Word Origin & History

arena

1620s, "place of combat," from L. harena "place of combat," originally "sand, sandy place," perhaps from Etruscan. The central stages of Roman amphitheaters were strewn with sand to soak up the blood.

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Computing Dictionary

arena definition

programming
The area of memory attached to a Unix process by the brk and sbrk system calls and used by malloc as dynamic storage. So named from a "malloc: corrupt arena" message emitted when some early versions detected an impossible value in the free block list.
See overrun screw, aliasing bug, memory leak, memory smash, smash the stack.
[Jargon File]
(1995-12-28)

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