zone
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Latin zōna, from Ancient Greek ζώνη (zṓnē, “girdle, belt”).
Inflected forms:
form: zones
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: zones
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: zoning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: zoned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: zoned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Each of the five regions of the earth's surface into which it was divided by climatic differences, namely the torrid zone (between the tropics), two temperate zones (between the tropics and the polar circles), and two frigid zones (within the polar circles).
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: And as two Zones doe cut the Heaven upon the righter side, / And other twaine upon the left likewise the same devide, / The middle in outragious heat exceeding all the rest: / Even so likewise through great foresight to God it seemed best, / The earth encluded in the same should so devided bee […].
To avoid which, we will take any pains […]; we will dive to the bottom of the sea, to the bowels of the earth, five, six, seven, eight, nine hundred fathom deep, through all five zones, and both extremes of heat and cold […].
And while idle curiosity may take its walk in shady avenues by the ocean side, commerce[…]defies every wind, outrides every tempest, and invades every zone.
gloss: Any given region or area of the world.
pos: noun
gloss: A given area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic, use, restriction, etc.
pos: noun
examples: There is a no-smoking zone that extends 25 feet outside of each entrance.
The white zone is for loading and unloading only.
Files in the Internet zone are blocked by default, as a security measure.
gloss: A restricted category or virtual place.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: The discussion was veering off into a danger zone.
gloss: A band or area of growth encircling anything.
pos: noun
examples: a zone of evergreens on a mountain
the zone of animal or vegetable life in the ocean around an island or a continent
Some of the lagoons, said to have subterranean outlets, have no visible ones; the inclosing island, in such cases, being a complete zone of emerald.
gloss: A band or stripe extending around a body.
pos: noun
gloss: A series of planes having mutually parallel intersections.
pos: noun
gloss: The strike zone.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: That pitch was low and away, just outside the zone.
gloss: Every of the three parts of an ice rink, divided by two blue lines.
pos: noun
examples: Players are off side, if they enter the attacking zone before the puck.
gloss: A semicircular area in front of each goal.
pos: noun
examples: The defender playing at the top of the zone is nine to fourteen metres out from the goal line.
gloss: A mental state of high concentration and performance; see: in the zone.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: I just got in the zone late in the game: everything was going in.
gloss: A defensive scheme where defenders guard a particular area of the court or field, as opposed to a particular opposing player.
pos: noun
gloss: That collection of a domain's DNS resource records, the domain and its subdomains, that are not delegated to another authority.
pos: noun
gloss: A logical group of network devices on AppleTalk (an obsolete networking protocol).
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: A belt or girdle.
pos: noun
tags: literary
examples: 17th c, John Dryden, 2005, Pygmalion and the Statue, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (editors), The Poems of John Dryden: Volume Five: 1697-1700, page 263,
Her tapered fingers too with rings are graced, / And an embroidered zone surrounds her slender waist.
[…] Or should she, confident, / As sitting queen adored on beauty's throne, / Descend with all her winning charms begirt / To enamour, as the zone of Venus once / Wrought that effect on Jove, so fables tell : / How would one look from his majestic brow, / Seated as on the top of virtue's hill, / Discountenance her despised, and put to rout / All her array; her female pride deject, / Or turn to reverent awe ? […]
From the waiſt downwards, they wore a looſe robe, girt with an embroidered zone or belt about the middle, with a large claſp of gold, and a precious ſtone.
18th c, William Collins, The Passions: An Ode for Music, 1810, Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (editors), The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 13, page 204,
Love fram'd with Mirth a gay fantastic round, / Loose were her tresses seen, her zone unbound,
1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto I, LV, 1827, The Works of Lord Byron, including The Suppressed Poems, page 565,
There was the Donna Julia, whom to call / Pretty were but to give a feeble notion / Of many charms in her as natural / As sweetness to the flower, or salt to ocean, / Her zone to Venus, or his bow to Cupid / (But this last simile is trite and stupid).
1844, Charles Dickens, The life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, 1865, Works of Charles Dickens, Volume VI: Martin Chuzzlewit—Volume II, page 421,
[…] it was the prettiest thing to see her girding on the precious little zone, and yet obliged to have assistance because her fingers were in such terrible perplexity; […].
`Look now on me, Kallikrates!' and with a sudden motion she shook her gauzy covering from her, and stood forth in her low kirtle and her snaky zone, in her glorious radiant beauty and her imperial grace, rising from her wrappings, as it were, like Venus from the wave, or Galatea from her marble, or a beatified spirit from the tomb.
gloss: The curved surface of a frustum of a sphere, the portion of surface of a sphere delimited by parallel planes.
pos: noun
examples: 1835, Charles Davies, David Brewster (editors and translators), Adrien-Marie Legendre, Elements of Geometry and Trigonometry, [1794, Eléments de géométrie], page 293,
To find the surface of a spherical zone.
Rule.—Multiply the altitude of the zone by the circumference of a great circle of the sphere, and the product will be the surface (Book VIII. Prop. X. Sch. 1).
A zone of a sphere is the curved surface of a frustum.[…]Determine, correct to 3 significant figures (a) the volume of the frustum of the sphere, (b) the radius of the sphere and (c) the area of the zone formed.
gloss: A frustum of a sphere.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: A circuit; a circumference.
pos: noun
examples: And we have yet large day; for scarce the sun / Hath finish'd half his journey, and scarce begins / His other half in the great zone of heaven.
gloss: To divide into or assign to sections or areas.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Please zone off our staging area, a section for each group.
The high-level process is to shut down the server, unzone the server from Generation 2, zone the server to Gen3, and then define and activate the data-migration (DM) volumes between the Generation 2 and Gen3.
gloss: To define the property use classification of (an area).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: This area was zoned for industrial use.
gloss: To enter a daydream state temporarily, for instance as a result of boredom, fatigue, or intoxication; to doze off.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
examples: I must have zoned while he was giving us the directions.
Everyone just put their goddamn heads together and zoned. # (transitive, archaic, poetic) To girdle or encircle.
gloss: To assign to a restricted category.
pos: verb
examples: We've zoned each other as friends; we'll never be anything more.
Synonyms: doze off
Related words: zone file
exclusion zone
friend zone
time zone
zone out
zoning law
zone of employment
Derived words: abscission zone
abyssal zone
abyssopelagic zone
adaptive zone
aeration zone
annular zone
aphotic zone
attacking zone
availability zone
bang zone
bathyal zone
bathypelagic zone
Benioff zone
biozone
black zone
blue zone
Brillouin zone
brother-zone
bro-zone
bubble zone
buffer zone
chemoreceptor trigger zone
chemotrigger zone
combat zone
comfort zone
communications zone
conflict zone
continuously habitable zone
crumple zone
crush zone
danger zone
dead zone
death zone
defending zone
defensive zone
demilitarized zone
DMZ
drop zone
end zone
epipelagic zone
erogenous zone
euphotic zone
eurozone
exchange zone
exclusion zone
exclusive economic zone
fan zone
feed zone
float-zone silicon
flood the zone
foveal avascular zone
foveal zone
free speech zone
free trade zone
free zone
Fresnel zone plate
friend-zone
fuck zone
galactic habitable zone
geopolitical zone
geozone
Goldilocks zone
habitable zone
hadalpelagic zone
hadal zone
hadopelagic zone
home zone
hot zone
intertidal zone
intertropical convergence zone
in the zone
kill zone
landing zone
lethal zone
life zone
limnetic zone
lineage zone
littoral zone
loading zone
lower leaf zone
machine zone
mesopelagic zone
midnight zone
neutral zone
neutral-zone infraction
no fall zone
no-fly zone
no-lone zone
no lone zone
north temperate zone
nuclear-free zone
offensive zone
orogenous zone
pedestrian zone
pelagic zone
photic zone
phreatic zone
purple zone
quiet zone
red-zone
red zone
relegation zone
rift zone
romance zone
root zone
sacrifice zone
saturated zone
seismogenic zone
shadow zone
shear zone
smokeless zone
south temperate zone
space equivalent zone
special economic zone
subduction zone
sunlight zone
temperate zone
temporal dead zone
time-zone
torrid zone
tow-away zone
transition zone
tropical zone
twilight zone
T-zone
upper leaf zone
Venus zone
Wadati-Benioff zone
war zone
white zone
work zone
zone-batch picking
zone-batch-wave picking
zone defense
zone foot therapy
zone melting
zone of action
zone of avoidance
Zone of Death
zone of fire
zone of polarizing activity
zone of proximal development
zone of rarity
zone of saturation
zone picking
zone plate
zone punch
zone refining
zone-tailed hawk
zone time
zone-wave picking
zonule
zonal
zone in
zone in on
zone off
zoner
zoning
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