zone

SEE DEFINITION OF zone

noundistrict

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Antonyms for zone

whole

belt

noun. strip of land with characteristic feature

Word Origin & History

late 14c., from Latin zona "geographical belt, celestial zone," from Greek zone "a belt," related to zonnynai "to gird," from PIE root *yes- "to gird, girdle" (cf. Avestan yasta- "girt," Lithuanian juosiu "to gird," Old Church Slavonic po-jasu "girdle").

Originally one of the five great divisions of the earth's surface (torrid, temperate, frigid; separated by tropics of Cancer and Capricorn and Arctic and Antarctic circles); meaning "any discrete region" is first recorded 1822. Zone defense in team sports is recorded from 1927. Zoning "land-use planning" is recorded from 1912. Zoned (adj.) in drug-use sense is attested 1960s, from ozone, which is found high in the atmosphere; the related verb to zone is from 1980s.

Example Sentences forzone

Hungary has also applied the zone system to its freight traffic.

Truly, this is a record which few localities can equal in any zone.

So Lydia sank upon the zone left by the corset and stockings.

The artillery duel was more intense in the zone east of Goritz.

Then it entered into a zone of torrid light which the sun threw on the waves.

But even within the zone thus defined there are many thousands of stars.

Many animals live better in our zone than in any other zone.

The bubbles floated in the clear air, above and beyond the zone of smoke.

The phenomenon is by no means common, even in the Arctic zone.

We may contract this zone by ten degrees and the same thing is true.

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