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zone

UK /zəʊn/US /zoʊn/

noun 18
verb 5
forms 3
phrases 6

noun18

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an area that is set apart from others by its use, its rules or what it is like
- There is a no-smoking zone that extends 25 feet outside of each entrance.
- The white zone is for loading and unloading only.
Any given region or area of the world.
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A restricted category or virtual place.
- The discussion was veering off into a danger zone.
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Every of the three parts of an ice rink, divided by two blue lines.
- Players are off side, if they enter the attacking zone before the puck.
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A semicircular area in front of each goal.
- The defender playing at the top of the zone is nine to fourteen metres out from the goal line. — 1974
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(informal) The strike zone.
- That pitch was low and away, just outside the zone.
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(figurative) A mental state of high concentration and performance; see: in the zone.
- I just got in the zone late in the game: everything was going in.
A defensive scheme where defenders guard a particular area of the court or field, as opposed to a particular opposing player.
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A band or area of growth encircling anything.
- a zone of evergreens on a mountain
A band or stripe extending around a body.
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(literary) A belt or girdle.
- 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.
- 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,
That collection of a domain's DNS resource records, the domain and its subdomains, that are not delegated to another authority.
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The curved surface of a frustum of a sphere, the portion of surface of a sphere delimited by parallel planes.
- 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). — 1835
A frustum of a sphere.
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A circuit; a circumference.
- 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. — 1667
A series of planes having mutually parallel intersections.
(old-fashioned) A logical group of network devices on AppleTalk (an obsolete networking protocol).
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(no longer used) 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).
- 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. — 1841

verb5

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To divide into or assign to sections or areas.
- Please zone off our staging area, a section for each group.
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To define the property use classification of (an area).
- This area was zoned for industrial use.
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(slang) To enter a daydream state temporarily, for instance as a result of boredom, fatigue, or intoxication; to doze off.
- I must have zoned while he was giving us the directions.
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To assign to a restricted category.
- We've zoned each other as friends; we'll never be anything more.
(literary, no longer used) To girdle or encircle.

forms

zoned · zoning · zones

Phrases with zone

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