What (who) is zone - definition
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Zone
·noun A girdle; a cincture.
II. Zone ·noun Circuit; circumference.
III. Zone ·noun A band or stripe extending around a body.
IV. Zone ·noun A series of planes having mutually parallel intersections.
VI. Zone ·noun One of the five great divisions of the earth, with respect to latitude and temperature.
VII. Zone ·add. ·noun A series of faces whose intersection lines with each other are parallel.
VIII. Zone ·add. ·noun Any circular or ring-shaped area within which the street-car companies make no differences of fare.
IX. Zone ·add. ·noun 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.
X. Zone ·noun 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.
XI. Zone ·add. ·noun 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.
XII. Zone ·noun 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.
XIII. Zone ·add. ·noun 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.
zone
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n.
1) to establish, set up a zone
2) a climatic; frigid; temperate; time; torrid zone
3) a buffer; combat; communications; danger; demilitarized; drop; neutral; no-parking; no-passing; occupation; postal; safety; school; security; towaway; war zone
4) an erogenous zone (of the body)
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v. (d; tr.,) to zone as (they zoned the area as residential)
zone
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1. an area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic, use, restriction, etc.
(also time zone) a range of longitudes where a common standard time is used.
2. chiefly Botany & Zoology an encircling band or stripe of distinctive colour, texture, etc.
3. archaic a belt or girdle.
¦ verb
1. divide into or assign to zones.
2. archaic encircle as or with a band or stripe.
3. (zone out) N. Amer. informal fall asleep or lose concentration.
Derivatives
zonal adjective
zonally adverb
Origin
ME: from Fr., or from L. zona 'girdle', from Gk zone.
Pronunciation examples for zone
1. zone.
Pivot - The Only Move That Matters is Your Next One _ Jenny Blake _ Talks at Google
2. zone.
Bar Tartine _ Nick Balla & Cortney Burns _ Talks at Google
3. zone.
Burned Bridge _ Edith Sheffer _ Talks at Google
4. zone.
Navy SEALâs 10 Fail Safe Principles _ Brent Gleeson _ Talks at Google
5. zone.
I'm Judging You - The Do Better Manual _ Luvvie Ajayi _ Talks at Google
Examples of use of zone
1. Embassy. International Zone‘‘ is another name for the Green Zone.
2. "International Zone" is another name for the Green Zone.
3. KAEC has six key components: Sea Port, Industrial Zone, Central Business District, Educational Zone, Resort Zone and Residential Communities.
4. KAEC has six zones The Sea Port, Central Business District, Industrial Zone, Educational Zone, Resort Zone and Residential Communities.
5. A series of cameras caught him driving at 41mph in a 30mph zone, 80mph in a 20mph zone and 115mph in a 40mph zone in nearby Woodley.