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Zone Definition

zone

See also Zone, zoné, zône, and żonę

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English

Etymology

From Latin zōna < Ancient Greek ζώνη (zōnē, “girdle, belt”)

Pronunciation

Noun

zone (plural zones)

  1. (geography, now rare) 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).
    • 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 [...].
  2. Any given region or area of the world.
  3. 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.
  4. (baseball) Short for the strike zone.
    That pitch was low and away, just outside of the zone.
  5. (chiefly sports) A high performance phase or period.
    I just got in a zone late in the game, everything was going in.
  6. (networking) That collection of a domain's DNS resource records, the domain and its subdomains, that are not delegated to another authority.
  7. (Apple computing) A logical group of network devices on AppleTalk.
  8. (now literary) A belt or girdle.
    • 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.
  9. (geometry) The frustum of a sphere.

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Terms derived from the zone (noun)

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Verb

zone (third-person singular simple present zones, present participle zoning, simple past and past participle zoned)

  1. To divide into or assign sections or areas.
    Please zone off our staging area, a section for each group.
  2. To define the property use classification of an area.
    This area was zoned for industrial use.
  3. 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)
  4. To girdle or encircle.

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Translations

to divide or assign areas
  • Finnish: jakaa (fi) (alueisiin), rajata pois (fi) (to zone off)
  • German: absperren (de), verzonen (de)
to define property use classification
  • Finnish: kaavoittaa (fi)
  • Japanese: 区分けする (ja) (kuwake suru), 仕切る (ja) (shikiru)
to temporarily enter a daydream state
  • Japanese: please add this translation if you can: (colloquial) ぼーっとする (ja) (bōttosuru)

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Anagrams

Danish

Etymology

From Latin zōna, from Ancient Greek ζώνη (zōnē, “girdle, belt”).

Pronunciation

Noun

zone c. (singular definite zonen, plural indefinite zoner)

  1. zone

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Derived terms

Terms derived from "zone"
  • bufferzone c.
  • byzone c.
  • farezone c.
  • gråzone c.
  • inderzone c.
  • landzone c.
  • stødpudezone c.
  • yderzone c.
  • zoneterapeut c.
  • zoneterapi c.
  • zonevis a

Inflection

Inflection of zone
common gender Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative, dative and accusative zone zonen zoner zonerne
genitive zones zonens zoners zonernes

French

Pronunciation

Noun

zone f. (plural zones)

  1. zone

Verb

zone

  1. first-person singular present indicative of zoner
  2. third-person singular present indicative of zoner
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of zoner
  4. third-person singular present subjunctive of zoner
  5. second-person singular imperative of zoner

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Italian

Noun

zone f.

  1. Plural form of zona.

Anagrams

Portuguese

Verb

zone

  1. First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of verb zonar.
  2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você?) present subjunctive of verb zonar.
  3. Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of verb zonar.
  4. Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of verb zonar.

Romanian

Pronunciation

Noun

zone f. pl.

  1. Plural form of zonă.

 

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