zone

See also Zone, zoné, zône, and żonę

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: zōn, IPA: /zəʊn/, SAMPA: /z@Un/

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• Rhymes: -əʊn

Noun

zone (plural zones)

1. (geography, now rare) 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).
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, I.2.4.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 five zones, and both extremes of heat and cold [...].

2. Any given region or area of the world.
3. 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.

4. (baseball) Short for the strike zone.

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

5. (chiefly sports) A high performance phase or period.

   I just got in a zone late in the game, everything was going in.

6. (networking) That collection of a domain's DNS resource records, the domain and its subdomains, that are not delegated to another authority.
7. (Apple computing) A logical group of network devices on AppleTalk.
8. (now literary) A belt or girdle.
   • 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, I:

     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, / Her zone to Venus, or his bow to Cupid / (But this last simile is trite and stupid).

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     In putting on the zone or belt, worn by both bishops and priests, he says: "Blessed is God, Who girded me with power, and hath made my path blameless..." (Ps. 47:32-33). The zone denotes the priest's readiness to serve the Lord and is also a sign that he is bound to Christ.

9. (geometry) The frustum of a sphere.

Synonyms

• (area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc): area, belt, district, region, section, sector, sphere, territory
• (baseball: strike zone):
• (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):

Derived terms

Terms derived from the zone (noun)

adaptive zone annular zone aphotic zone attacking zone Benioff zone buffer zone communications zone crumple zone death zone defending zone defensive zone demilitarized zone, DMZ

erogenous zone euphotic zone exclusion zone feed zone float-zone silicon free zone Fresnel zone plate in the zone life zone loading zone neutral zone no-fly zone

no-lone zone nuclear-free zone offensive zone photic zone red zone relegation zone seismogenic zone subduction zone T-zone temperate zone torrid zone transition zone

Wadati-Benioff zone war zone white zone work zone zone defense zone melting zone of action zone of avoidance zone of fire zone plate zone refining zonule

Translations

area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc

Catalan: zona (ca) f. Croatian: zona (hr) f., prostor (hr) m., područje (hr) n., pojas (hr) m., oblast (hr) f., polje (hr) n. Danish: zone (da) c. Finnish: alue (fi), vyöhyke (fi) Galician: zona (gl) f. German: Bereich (de) m., Distrikt (de) m., Eingabefeld (de) n., Feld (de) n., Gebiet (de) n., Gürtel (de) m., Landstrich (de) m., Zone (de) f. Greek: ζώνη (el) (zóni) f.

Hebrew: אֵזוֹר (he) (ezór) m. Hungarian: övezet (hu), zóna (hu) Ido: zono (io) Japanese: 地帯 (ja) (chitai), 地域 (ja) (chiiki), 地区 (ja) (chiku), 場所 (ja) (basho) Russian: зона (ru) (zóna) f., пояс (ru) (pójas) m., район (ru) (rajón) m., полоса (ru) (polosá) f., область (ru) (óblast') f. Spanish: zona (es) f.

baseball: strike zone

Catalan: zona (ca) f.

Japanese: ストライクゾーン (ja) (sutoraiku zōn)

high performance phase or period

Finnish: huippukunto (fi) German: Fixierungszeitraum (de) m.

Japanese: please add this translation if you can

networking: that collection of a domain's DNS resource records that are not delegated to another authority

Catalan: zona (ca) f. German: Zone (de) f. Hungarian: zóna (hu)

Japanese: please add this translation if you can Khmer: ភូមិភាគ (km) (pʰuum pʰiek) Spanish: zona (es) f.

computing: logical group of network devices on AppleTalk

Catalan: zona (ca) f. German: Zone (de) f.

Hungarian: zóna (hu) Japanese: please add this translation if you can

religion: belt worn by priests in the Greek Orthodox church

Catalan: zona (ca) f. Finnish: vyö (fi) Greek: ζώνη (el) (zóni) f.

Hungarian: zóna (hu) Japanese: please add this translation if you can Russian: пояс (ru) (pójas) m.

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Dutch: zone m. French: zone f.

Icelandic: svæði f. Korean: 지대 (jidae) Portuguese: zona f.

See also

• alb
• epigonation
• epimanikion
• epitrachelion
• maniple
• mitre
• omophorion
• rhason
• sakkos
• sticharion
• zone file

Verb

zone (third-person singular simple present zones, present participle zoning, simple past and past participle zoned)

1. To divide into or assign sections or areas.

   Please zone off our staging area, a section for each group.

2. To define the property use classification of an area.

   This area was zoned for industrial use.

3. 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. (Byron Coley, liner notes for the album "Piece for Jetsun Dolma" by Thurston Moore)

4. To girdle or encircle.

Synonyms

• (enter a daydream state): doze off, zone out

Derived terms

• zonal
• zoner
• zoning

Translations

to divide or assign areas

Finnish: jakaa (fi) (alueisiin), rajata pois (fi) (to zone off) German: absperren (de), verzonen (de)

Japanese: 区分けする (ja) (kuwake suru), 仕切る (ja) (shikiru) Spanish: dividir en zonas

to define property use classification

Finnish: kaavoittaa (fi) Japanese: 区分けする (ja) (kuwake suru), 仕切る (ja) (shikiru)

Spanish: declarar (es)

to temporarily enter a daydream state

Arabic: يسهو (ar) Finnish: uinahtaa (fi), pilkkiä (fi), sammahtaa (fi) German: mit (de) den (de) Gedanken (de) abschweifen (de), sich (de) nicht (de) konzentrieren (de)

Japanese: please add this translation if you can: (colloquial) ぼーっとする (ja) (bōttosuru)

See also

• friend zone
• time zone
• zone out
• zoning law
• zone of employment

Anagrams

• Enzo, Zeno, zeon

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Danish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA: /soːnɘ/, [ˈsoːnɘ]
• Homophone: sone

Noun

zone c. (singular definite zonen, plural indefinite zoner)

1. zone

Synonyms

• område

Derived terms

Terms derived from "zone"

bufferzone c. byzone c. farezone c. gråzone c.

inderzone c. landzone c. stødpudezone c. yderzone c.

zoneterapeut c. zoneterapi c. zonevis a

Inflection

    Inflection of zone

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	zone	zonen	zoner	zonerne
genitive	zones	zonens	zoners	zonernes

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French

Pronunciation

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• IPA: /zon/

Noun

zone f. (plural zones)

1. zone

Verb

zone

1. first-person singular present indicative of zoner
2. third-person singular present indicative of zoner
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of zoner
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of zoner
5. second-person singular imperative of zoner

Anagrams

• Enzo
• onze

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Italian

Noun

zone f.

1. Plural form of zona.

Anagrams

• Enzo

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Portuguese

Verb

zone

1. First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of verb zonar.
2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present subjunctive of verb zonar.
3. Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of verb zonar.
4. Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of verb zonar.

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ˈzo.ne]

Noun

zone f. pl.

1. Plural form of zonă.