Zone

Noun

 * 1)  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).
 * 2) * 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, I.2.4.vi:
 * 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 [...].
 * 1) Any given region or area of the world.
 * 2) A given area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic, use, restriction, etc.
 * There is a no-smoking zone that extends 25 feet outside of each entrance.
 * The white zone is for loading and unloading only.
 * 1)  Short for the strike zone.
 * That pitch was low and away, just outside of the zone.
 * 1)  A high performance phase or period.
 * I just got in a zone late in the game, everything was going in.
 * 1)  That collection of a domain's DNS resource records, the domain and its subdomains, that are not delegated to another authority.
 * 2)  A logical group of network devices on AppleTalk.
 * 3)  A belt or girdle.
 * 4) * 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, I:
 * 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).
 * 1) *
 * In putting on the zone or belt, worn by both bishops and priests, he says: "Blessed is God, Who girded me with power, and hath made my path blameless..." (Ps. 47:32-33). The zone denotes the priest's readiness to serve the Lord and is also a sign that he is bound to Christ.
 * 1)  The frustum of a sphere.

Synonyms

 * area, belt, district, region, section, sector, sphere, territory

Derived terms

 * adaptive zone
 * annular zone
 * aphotic zone
 * attacking zone
 * Benioff zone
 * buffer zone
 * communications zone
 * crumple zone
 * death zone
 * defending zone
 * defensive zone
 * demilitarized zone, DMZ


 * erogenous zone
 * euphotic zone
 * exclusion zone
 * feed zone
 * float-zone silicon
 * free zone
 * Fresnel zone plate
 * in the zone
 * life zone
 * loading zone
 * neutral zone
 * no-fly zone


 * no-lone zone
 * nuclear-free zone
 * offensive zone
 * photic zone
 * red zone
 * relegation zone
 * seismogenic zone
 * subduction zone
 * T-zone
 * temperate zone
 * torrid zone
 * transition zone


 * Wadati-Benioff zone
 * war zone
 * white zone
 * work zone
 * zone defense
 * zone melting
 * zone of action
 * zone of avoidance
 * zone of fire
 * zone plate
 * zone refining
 * zonule

Verb

 * 1) To divide into or assign sections or areas.
 * Please zone off our staging area, a section for each group.
 * 1) To define the property use classification of an area.
 * This area was zoned for industrial use.
 * 1) 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.
 * Everyone just put their goddamn heads together and zoned. (Byron Coley, liner notes for the album "Piece for Jetsun Dolma" by Thurston Moore)

Synonyms

 * doze off, zone out

Derived terms

 * zonal
 * zoner
 * zoning

Adjectives for Zone
temperate; frozen; arctic; inner; verdant; fringed; bodiced; interminable; fortunate; arable; wide-spread.

Verbs for Zone
amplify—; apportion—; belt—; bisect—; carve out—; chop up—; circumscribe—; detach—; encircle—; encompass—; enlarge—; flank—; incise—; intersect—; invade—; label—; measure—; outline—; overreach—; pare—; patrol—; penetrate—; permeate—; prescribe—; restrict to—; skirt—; slice up —; subdivide—; swerve from—; widen—; —insulates; —isolates; —partitions; —secludes; —segregates.

Thesaurus
area, bailiwick, belt, circle, department, district, domain, locale, locality, precinct, province, quarter, realm, region, section, sector, segment, sphere, terrain, territory, tract, turf

Etymology
From zona: <  ζώνη:

Noun

 * Catalan: zona
 * Croatian: zona, prostor, područje, pojas, oblast, polje
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 * Japanese: ストライクゾーン


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Verb

 * Finnish: (alueisiin), rajata pois
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 * Japanese: 区分けする,
 * Spanish: dividir en zonas


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Anagrams

 * Enzo, Zeno, zeon

Noun

 * 1) zone

Synonyms

 * område

Etymology
From zona:, from  ζώνη:.

Derived terms

 * bufferzone
 * byzone
 * farezone
 * gråzone


 * inderzone
 * landzone
 * stødpudezone
 * yderzone


 * zoneterapeut
 * zoneterapi
 * zonevis

Noun

 * 1) zone

Anagrams

 * Enzo
 * onze

Noun
zone



Anagrams

 * Enzo

Noun
zone