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See also:Zone,zoné,zône,zonë,zonę,andżonę

English

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Etymology

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FromLatinzōna, fromAncient Greekζώνη(zṓnē,“girdle,belt”).

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zone (pluralzones)

  1. (geography, now rare) Each of the fiveregions of the earth's surface into which it was divided byclimatic differences, namely thetorrid zone (between the tropics), twotemperate zones (between the tropics and the polar circles), and twofrigid zones (within the polar circles).
    • 1567, Ovid, translated byArthur Golding,Metamorphoses, section I:
      And as twoZones 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 […].
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym;Robert Burton],The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps,→OCLC, partition I, section 2, member 4, subsection 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 fivezones, and both extremes of heat and cold […].
    • 1841,George Bancroft,History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent, volume 2,page270:
      And while idle curiosity may take its walk in shady avenues by the ocean side, commerce[…]defies every wind, outrides every tempest, and invades everyzone.
  2. Any givenregion orarea of the world.
  3. A givenarea distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic, use, restriction, etc.
    There is a no-smokingzone that extends 25 feet outside of each entrance.
    The whitezone is for loading and unloading only.
    Files in the Internetzone are blocked by default, as a security measure.
  4. (by extension) A restricted category or virtual place.
    The discussion was veering off into a dangerzone.
  5. A band or area of growth encircling anything.
    azone of evergreens on a mountain; thezone of animal or vegetable life in the ocean around an island or a continent
  6. Aband orstripe extending around a body.
  7. (crystallography) A series ofplanes havingmutuallyparallelintersections.
  8. (baseball, informal) Thestrike zone.
    That pitch was low and away, just outside thezone.
  9. (ice hockey) Every of the three parts of anice rink, divided by twoblue lines.
    Players are off side, if they enter the attackingzone before the puck.
  10. (handball) Asemicircular area in front of eachgoal.
    • 1974, Franko Blazic with Zorko Soric,Team Handball‎[1], page31:
      The defender playing at the top of the zone is nine to fourteen metres out from the goal line.
  11. (chiefly sports) A high-performancephase orperiod.
    I just got in thezone late in the game: everything was going in.
  12. (basketball, American football) Adefensive scheme where defenders guard a particular area of the court or field, as opposed to a particular opposing player.
  13. (networking) That collection of adomain'sDNSresource records, thedomain and itssubdomains, that are notdelegated to another authority.
  14. (networking, dated) A logical group of networkdevices onAppleTalk (an obsolete networking protocol).
  15. (now literary) Abelt orgirdle.
    • 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 embroideredzone surrounds her slender waist.
    • 1667,John Milton, “Book II”, inParadise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […];[a]nd by Robert Boulter […];[a]nd Matthias Walker, […],→OCLC; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […],1873,→OCLC, lines211-220:
      […] Or should she, confident, / As sitting queen adored on beauty's throne, / Descend with all her winning charms begirt / To enamour, as thezone 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 ?[…]
    • 1779,Thomas Forrest,A Voyage to New Guinea and the Moluccas from Balambangan,page21:
      From the waiſt downwards, they wore a looſe robe, girt with an embroideredzone 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, herzone 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, / Herzone 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 littlezone, and yet obliged to have assistance because her fingers were in such terrible perplexity; […].
    • 1886 October –1887 January,H[enry] Rider Haggard,She: A History of Adventure, London:Longmans, Green, and Co., published1887,→OCLC:
      `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 snakyzone, 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.
  16. (geometry) The curved surface of afrustum of asphere, the portion of surface of a sphere delimited by parallel planes.
    • 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 sphericalzone.
      Rule.—Multiply the altitude of thezone by the circumference of a great circle of the sphere, and the product will be the surface (Book VIII. Prop. X. Sch. 1).
    • 2014, John Bird,Engineering Mathematics,page183:
      Azone 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 thezone formed.
  17. (geometry, loosely, perhaps bymeronymy) Afrustum of asphere.
  18. Acircuit; acircumference.
    • 1667, John Milton,Paradise Lost, Book V, lines 558 to 560:
      And we have yet large day; for scarce the sun / Hath finish'd half his journey, and scarce begins / His other half in the greatzone of heaven.

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  • (area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc):area,belt,district,region,section,sector,sphere,territory
  • (baseball: strike zone):
  • (handball: area in front of a goal):crease
  • (high performance phase or period):
  • (networking: that collection of a domain's DNS resource records):
  • (computing: logical group of network devices on AppleTalk):
  • (religion: belt worn by priests in the Greek Orthodox church):

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Translations

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area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
baseball: strike zone
part of ice-hockey rink
handball: area in front of a goal
high performance phase or period
networking: that collection of a domain's DNS resource records that are not delegated to another authority
computing: logical group of network devices on AppleTalk
religion: belt worn by priests in the Greek Orthodox church
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Verb

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zone (third-person singular simple presentzones,present participlezoning,simple past and past participlezoned)

  1. (transitive) Todivide into orassign to sections or areas.
    Pleasezone off our staging area, a section for each group.
    • 2018, Bertrand Dufrasne, Christian Burns, Wenzel Kalabza,IBM XIV Storage System Business Continuity Functions, page331:
      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.
  2. (transitive) Todefine the property use classification of (an area).
    This area waszoned for industrial use.
  3. (intransitive, slang) To enter adaydream state temporarily, for instance as a result ofboredom,fatigue, orintoxication; todoze off.
    I must havezoned while he was giving us the directions.
  4. To assign to a restricted category.
    We'vezoned each other as friends; we'll never be anything more.

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Translations

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to divide or assign areas
to define property use classification
to temporarily enter a daydream state

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Albanian

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zone

  1. indefinitedative/ablativesingular ofzonë

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Etymology

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FromLatinzōna, fromAncient Greekζώνη(zṓnē,“girdle,belt”).

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zone c (singular definitezonen,plural indefinitezoner)

  1. zone

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Declension ofzone
common
gender		singularplural
indefinitedefiniteindefinitedefinite
nominativezonezonenzonerzonerne
genitivezoneszonenszonerszonernes

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Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromFrenchzone orMiddle Frenchzone, fromLatinzona, fromAncient Greekζώνη(zṓnē).

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zone f (pluralzonenorzones,diminutivezonetje n)

  1. zone

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French

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromLatinzōna.

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zone f (pluralzones)

  1. zone

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Verb

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zone

  1. inflection ofzoner:
    1. first/third-personsingularpresentindicative/subjunctive
    2. second-personsingularimperative

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Indonesian

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Noun

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zonê

  1. Nonstandard form ofzona.

Italian

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Noun

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zone f

  1. plural ofzona

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Portuguese

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Verb

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zone

  1. inflection ofzonar:
    1. first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
    2. third-personsingularimperative

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zone f pl

  1. plural ofzonă
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