A girdle; a cincture. [Poetic] [1913 Webster] An
embroidered zone surrounds her waist. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Loose were her tresses seen, her zone unbound. --Collins. [1913
Webster]
(Geog.) One of the five great divisions of the
earth, with respect to latitude and temperature. [1913 Webster]
Note: The zones are five: the torrid zone, extending from tropic to
tropic 46[deg] 56[min], or 23[deg] 28[min] on each side of the
equator; two temperate or variable zones, situated between the
tropics and the polar circles; and two frigid zones, situated
between the polar circles and the poles. [1913 Webster] Commerce .
. . defies every wind, outrides every tempest, and invades.
--Bancroft. [1913 Webster]
(Math.) The portion of the surface of a sphere
included between two parallel planes; the portion of a surface of
revolution included between two planes perpendicular to the axis.
--Davies & Peck (Math. Dict.) [1913 Webster]
(Nat. Hist.) (a) A band or stripe extending
around a body. (b) A band or area of growth encircling anything;
as, a zone of evergreens on a mountain; the zone of animal or
vegetable life in the ocean around an island or a continent; the
Alpine zone, that part of mountains which is above the limit of
tree growth. [1913 Webster]
(Crystallog.) A series of planes having mutually
parallel intersections. [1913 Webster]
Circuit; circumference. [R.] --Milton. [1913
Webster]
(Biogeography) An area or part of a region
characterized by uniform or similar animal and plant life; a life
zone; as, Littoral zone, Austral zone, etc. Note: The zones, or
life zones, commonly recognized for North America are Arctic,
Hudsonian, Canadian, Transition, Upper Austral, Lower Austral, and
Tropical. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
(Cryst.) A series of faces whose intersection
lines with each other are parallel. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
(Railroad Econ.) (a) The aggregate of stations,
in whatsoever direction or on whatsoever line of railroad, situated
between certain maximum and minimum limits from a point at which a
shipment of traffic originates. (b) Any circular or ring-shaped
area within which the street-car companies make no differences of
fare. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
any area to or within which a shipment or
transportation cost is constant; specifically, in the United States
parcel-post system, any of the areas about any point of shipment
for which but one rate of postage is charged for a parcel post
shipment from that point. The rate increases from within outwards.
The first zone includes the unit of area "(a quadrangle 30 minutes
square)" in which the place of shipment is situated and the 8
contiguous units; the outer limits of the second to the seventh
zones, respectively, are approximately 150, 300, 600, 1000, 1400,
and 1800 miles from the point of shipment; the eighth zone includes
all units of area outside the seventh zone. [Webster 1913 Suppl.
+PJC] Abyssal
zone. (Phys. Geog.) See under Abyssal. Zone axis
(Crystallog.), a straight line passing through the center of a
crystal, to which all the planes of a given zone are parallel.
[1913 Webster]
Zone \Zone\, v. t. To girdle; to encircle. [R.]
--Keats. [1913 Webster]
Word Net
zoneNoun
1 a circumscribed geographical region
characterized by some distinctive features
2 any of the regions of the surface of the Earth
loosely divided according to latitude or longitude [syn: geographical
zone]
3 an area or region distinguished from adjacent
parts by a distinctive feature or characteristic
4 (anatomy) any encircling or beltlike structure
[syn: zona]
Verb
1 regulate housing in; of certain areas of towns
[syn: district]
2 separate or apportion into sections; "partition
a room off" [syn: partition]
Moby Thesaurus
area, bailiwick, belt, circle, department, district, domain, locale, locality, precinct, province, quarter, realm, region, section, sector, segment, sphere, terrain, territory, tract, turfsee Zone
English
Etymology
From zona < sc=GrekPronunciation
- /zəʊn/
- /z@Un/
Noun
- An 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.
- There is a no-smoking zone that extends 25 feet outside of each
entrance.
- Short for the strike zone.
- That pitch was low and away, just outside of the zone.
- especially sport A
high performance phase or
period.
- I just got in a zone late in the game, everything was going in.
- In the context of "networking": That collection of a domain's DNS resource records, the domain and it's subdomains, that are not delegated to another authority.
- In the context of "Apple computing": A logical group of network devices on AppleTalk.
- A belt worn by priests in the Greek Orthodox church.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
area distinguished on the basis of a particular
characteristic etc
- Finnish: alue, vyöhyke
- Japanese: 地帯, 地域, 地区, 場所
- Russian: зона, пояс, район, полоса, область
- Spanish: zona
baseball: strike zone
- Japanese: ストライクゾーン
high performance phase or period
- Finnish: huippukunto
- trreq Japanese
networking: that collection of a domain's DNS
resource records that are not delegated to another authority
- trreq Japanese
computing: logical group of network devices on
AppleTalk
- trreq Japanese
religion: belt worn by priests in the Greek
Orthodox church
- Finnish: vyö
- trreq Japanese
- Russian: пояс
See also
Verb
- To divide into or
assign sections or areas.
- Please zone off our staging area, a section for each group.
- To define the
property use classification of an area.
- This area was zoned for industrial use.
- To temporarily enter a daydream state, for instance as
a result of boredom,
fatigue, or intoxication; to doze off.
- I must have zoned while he was giving us the directions.
Synonyms
Translations
to divide or assign areas
- Finnish: jakaa (alueisiin), rajata pois (to zone off)
- Japanese: 区分けする, 仕切る
- Spanish: dividir en zonas
to define property use classification
- Finnish: kaavoittaa
- Japanese: 区分けする, 仕切る
- Spanish: declarar
to temporarily enter a daydream state
- Finnish: uinahtaa, pilkkiä, sammahtaa
- trreq Japanese: qualifier colloquial ぼーっとする
French
Pronunciation
Noun
- zone
Italian
Noun
zone- Plural of zona
Romanian
Pronunciation
Noun
zone f|p- Plural of zonă zones
Zone (from Greek ζωνη) originally meant a belt,
worn in various forms by ancient Greek men and women, as in the
Orthodox priestly Zone
(vestment), later extended by analogy to the idea of dividing
the earth into latitudinal belts or climes. It now may mean a general
region or domain in many contexts.
In geography:
- One of five geographical zones of the earth:
- The torrid zone
- The north and south temperate zones
- The north and south frigid zones
- Hardiness zone, in gardening and other agriculture a geographically-defined zone in which a specific category of plant life is capable of growing
- "The zone" (die (Ost)Zone in German), a derogatory term for the German Democratic Republic
- Zone (BS), a town and comune in the Province of Brescia, Lombardy, Italy
- Zone of alienation, the exclusion zone around the site of the Chernobyl disaster
- Zones (Permaculture), a method of planning civil/agricultural placement
- Zone, in zone pricing, a geographical area in which charges are constant
- Zoning, in urban planning
In entertainment and literature:
- In
the Zone, Britney Spears' 4th album
- In the Zone (DVD), released in connection with the album
- In the Zone, a play by Eugene O'Neill
- "In the Zone" (The Outer Limits), TV episode
- In the Zone, the third part of Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow
- The Zone, a programming block on the Canadian television channel YTV
- Zone (book), a three-act drama by Marcel Dubé
- Zone (poem), a poem by Guillaume Apollinaire
- Zones, level names in early Sonic the Hedgehog games
- Zone (band), an all-female J-pop group
- Zone.com, alternate name for the MSN Games online video game site
- "The Zone", the fictional area central to the story of the Andrei Tarkovsky movie Stalker
- The Zone (Enter Shikari), an album
- The Zone (film), a Swedish short film from the 1970s
- Zone (guitar), a Fender bass guitar model
- Zone Records, a record label
- The Zone (TV series), a 2007 interactive game show
In technology:
- DNS zone, a portion of the namespace in the Domain Name System
- Fibre Channel zoning, a method for facilitating low interference and high security in computer data storage systems
- Solaris Zones, one component of the Solaris Containers virtualization feature first available as part of Solaris 10
- A thermal zone, or just zone, in heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (HVAC)
- Zone, a short name for DVD Region code
Other:
- Erogenous zone, an area on the body which is sexually stimulating
- "The zone", or flow, a mental state attained by a person fully immersed in some activity
- "The Zone", a brand of gymnastic leotard
- Zone defense, in basketball
- Zone diet, a diet that involves precise proportions by weight of protein, fat and carbohydrate
- The Zone (Michigan), the University of Michigan women's volleyball cheering section
- Zone system, a method of taking black-and-white pictures
- Zone (vestment), a belt worn by priests and bishops of the Eastern Orthodox Church
zone in Danish: Zone
zone in German: Zone (Begriffsklärung)
zone in French: Zone
zone in Indonesian: Zona
zone in Dutch: Zone
zone in Japanese: ゾーン
zone in Polish: Strefa
zone in Russian: Зона
zone in Ukrainian:
Зона