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zone

noun
/zoʊn/US/zəʊn/UK

Etymology

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

  1. derived from ζώνη
  2. derived from zōna

Definitions

  1. Each of the five regions of the earth's surface into which it was divided by climatic…

    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).

    • 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.

  2. Any given region or area of the world.

  3. A given area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic, use, restriction,…

    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.
    • Files in the Internet zone are blocked by default, as a security measure.
  4. ›+ 19 more definitions

    1. A restricted category or virtual place.

      • The discussion was veering off into a danger zone.

    2. A band or area of growth encircling anything.

      • 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.

    3. A band or stripe extending around a body.

    4. A series of planes having mutually parallel intersections.

    5. The strike zone.

      • That pitch was low and away, just outside the zone.

    6. 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.

    7. 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.

    8. A mental state of high concentration and performance

      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.

    9. A defensive scheme where defenders guard a particular area of the court or field, as…

      A defensive scheme where defenders guard a particular area of the court or field, as opposed to a particular opposing player.

    10. That collection of a domain's DNS resource records, the domain and its subdomains, that…

      That collection of a domain's DNS resource records, the domain and its subdomains, that are not delegated to another authority.

    11. A logical group of network devices on AppleTalk (an obsolete networking protocol).

    12. A belt or girdle.

      • 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.

    13. The curved surface of a frustum of a sphere, the portion of surface of a sphere delimited…

      The curved surface of a frustum of a sphere, the portion of surface of a sphere delimited by parallel planes.

      • 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.

    14. A frustum of a sphere.

    15. A circuit

      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.

    16. To divide into or assign to sections or areas.

      • 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.

    17. To define the property use classification of (an area).

      • This area was zoned for industrial use.

    18. To enter a daydream state temporarily, for instance as a result of boredom, fatigue, or…

      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. # (transitive, archaic, poetic) To girdle or encircle.

    19. To assign to a restricted category.

      • We've zoned each other as friends; we'll never be anything more.

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Derived

abscission zone, abyssal zone, adaptive zone, aeration zone, annular zone, aphotic zone, attacking zone, availability zone, bang 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 · +110 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at zone. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at zone. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at zone

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA