A zone is an area that has some special characteristic, like a loading zone.
A girdle; a cincture.
Noun
(anatomy) any encircling or beltlike structure
Noun
an area or region distinguished from adjacent parts by a distinctive feature or characteristic
Noun
any of the regions of the surface of the Earth loosely divided according to latitude or longitude
Noun
a circumscribed geographical region characterized by some distinctive features
Verb
separate or apportion into sections; "partition a room off"
Verb
regulate housing in; of certain areas of towns
n.
A girdle; a cincture.
n.
One of the five great divisions of the earth, with respect to
latitude and temperature.
n.
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.
n.
A band or stripe extending around a body.
n.
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.
n.
A series of planes having mutually parallel intersections.
n.
Circuit; circumference.
v. t.
To girdle; to encircle.
Zone
An embroidered zone surrounds her waist.
Loose were her tresses seen, her zone unbound.2.
Commerce . . . defies every wind, outrides every tempest, and invades.3.
Zone
A girdle; a cincture.
To girdle; to encircle.
Usage Examples
I was so happy that it filmed in New York not only because it's an amazing city, but also because a lot of people across the world somehow started to think about New York as a dangerous place to be and envisioned it as some war zone after that happened.
I love the game, it's the greatest game on earth, that's why I can't understand all of this talk about trying to make the game better. People talk about the high strike zone and changing this and that. Why? To speed up the game? That's the beauty of baseball. There is no time element.
Most of what needs to be changed in the euro zone can be done without treaty changes. The demand for treaty change is as political as it is legal and I don't think it's going to happen soon.
Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.
A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
If the euro zone doesn't come up with a comprehensive vision of its own future, you'll have a whole range of nationalist, xenophobic and extreme movements increasing across the European Union. And, frankly, questions about the British debate on EU membership will just be a small sideshow compared to the rise of political populism.
Don't kid yourself. President Obama's decision to withdraw 33,000 troops from Afghanistan before he stands for reelection is not driven by the United States' 'position of strength' in the war zone as much as it is by grim economic and political realities at home.
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Other Usage ExamplesI'd love to play more challenging roles, characters that would stretch my comfort zone and imagination.
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
There's already a marriage clock, a career clock, a biological clock. Sometimes being a woman feels like standing in the lobby of a hotel, looking at the dials depicting every time zone in the world behind the front desk - except they all apply to you, and all at once.
To increase the zone of peace is to build the inner core of a stable international zone.
As all of us with any involvement in sports knows, no two umpires or no two referees have the same strike zone or call the same kind of a basketball game.
Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.
In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know.
The whole point of being in the Army is wanting to get killed, wanting to test yourself to the limits. Now you have to fly 15,000ft above the war zone to avoid getting hit. I don't think there is any point in having wars if that's how you're going to behave. It's pathetic. All this whining!