noun, verb, slang ·Very common ·Middle school level
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"And as two Zones 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 […]."
"There is a no-smoking zone that extends 25 feet outside of each entrance."
"The discussion was veering off into a danger zone."
"a zone of evergreens on a mountain"
"That pitch was low and away, just outside the zone."
"Players are off side, if they enter the attacking zone before the puck."
"The defender playing at the top of the zone is nine to fourteen metres out from the goal line."
"I just got in the zone late in the game: everything was going in."
"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 embroidered zone surrounds her slender waist."
"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 spherical zone. Rule.—Multiply the altitude of the zone by the circumference of a great circle of the sphere, and the product will be the surface (Book VIII. Prop. X. Sch. 1)."
"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."
"Please zone off our staging area, a section for each group."
"This area was zoned for industrial use."
"I must have zoned while he was giving us the directions."
"We've zoned each other as friends; we'll never be anything more."
"Our combined fleet broke through the enemy's defense zone."
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).
Common synonyms include: address, administrative area, air space, aires, apogee, apportion.
Our combined fleet broke through the enemy's defense zone.
Pronounced /zoʊn/.
From Latin zōna, from Ancient Greek ζώνη (zṓnē, “girdle, belt”).