zone
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From Latin zōna < Ancient Greek ζώνη (zōnē), “‘girdle, belt’”)
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zone (plural zones)
- 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.
- (baseball) Short for the strike zone.
- That pitch was low and away, just outside of the zone.
- (chiefly sports) A high performance phase or period.
- I just got in a zone late in the game, everything was going in.
- (networking) That collection of a domain's DNS resource records, the domain and it's subdomains, that are not delegated to another authority.
- (Apple computing) A logical group of network devices on AppleTalk.
- (religion) A belt worn by priests in the Greek Orthodox church.
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- (area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc): area, belt, 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):
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area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
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high performance phase or period
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networking: that collection of a domain's DNS resource records that are not delegated to another authority
computing: logical group of network devices on AppleTalk
religion: belt worn by priests in the Greek Orthodox church
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- alb
- epigonation
- epimanikion
- epitrachelion
- maniple
- mitre
- omophorion
- rhason
- sakkos
- sticharion
- zone file
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to zone (third-person singular simple present zones, present participle zoning, simple past and past participle zoned)
- 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.
- Everyone just put their goddamn heads together and zoned. (Byron Coley, liner notes for the album "Piece for Jetsun Dolma" by Thurston Moore)
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to divide or assign areas
to define property use classification
to temporarily enter a daydream state
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[edit] Danish
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From Latin zōna, from Ancient Greek ζώνη (zōnē), “‘girdle, belt’”).
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zone c. (singular definite zonen, plural indefinite zoner)
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Inflection of “zone”
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zone f. (plural zones)
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zone
- First-person singular present indicative of zoner.
- Third-person singular present indicative of zoner.
- First-person singular present subjunctive of zoner.
- Third-person singular present subjunctive of zoner.
- Second-person singular imperative of zoner.
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zone f.
- Plural form of zona.
[edit] Romanian
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- IPA: ['zo.ne]
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zone f. pl.