Word Finder - zone

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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).

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Any given region or area of the world.

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A given area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic, use, restriction, etc.

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Files in the Internet zone are blocked by default, as a security measure.

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A band or area of growth encircling anything.

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a zone of evergreens on a mountain; the zone of animal or vegetable life in the ocean around an island or a continent

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A band or stripe extending around a body.

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A series of planes having mutually parallel intersections.

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The strike zone.

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

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Every of the three parts of an ice rink, divided by two blue lines.

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Players are off side, if they enter the attacking zone before the puck.

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A semicircular area in front of each goal.

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A high-performance phase or period.

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

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A defensive scheme where defenders guard a particular area of the court or field, as opposed to a particular opposing player.

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That collection of a domain's DNS resource records, the domain and its subdomains, that are not delegated to another authority.

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(Apple computing) A logical group of network devices on AppleTalk.

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A belt or girdle.

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The curved surface of a frustum of a sphere, the portion of surface of a sphere delimited by parallel planes.

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(perhaps by meronymy) A frustum of a sphere.

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A circuit; a circumference.

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To divide into or assign sections or areas.

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

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To define the property use classification of an area.

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This area was zoned for industrial use.

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To enter a daydream state temporarily, for instance as a result of boredom, fatigue, or intoxication; to doze off.

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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 girdle or encircle.

He just slid into the zone when his phone rang.

He breached her comfort zone in a way that left her shaken, scared.

It comprises a comparatively narrow coastal zone, a high inland plateau, and an intermediate zone formed by the terraces and slopes between the two.

It looked like a war zone and smelled like a cesspool.

He parked in a no-parking zone, figuring even the police wouldn't be out on a night like this.

The barley zone is geographicall xtensive but embraces not more than 1% of the total area, of whic raif is situated in Sardinia and Sicily.

Rain in the lower zone is scanty, and from May to January does not occur.

Before Nerazzini could reach Adis Ababa, Rudini, in order partially to satisfy the demands of his Radical supporters for the abandonment of the colony, announced in the Chamber the intention of Italy to limit her occupation to the triangular zone between the points Asmar, Keren and Massawa, and, possibly, to withdraw to Massawa alone.

An important zone of sulphur-bearing Miocene rocks occurs on the east side of the Apennines, constituting a great part of the province of Forli and part of Pesaro.

Two miles inland is Ancon, in the Canal Zone, in which are the hospitals of the Isthmian Canal Commission and the largest hotel on the isthmus.

He stopped in her personal zone, too close, but she wasn't about to back down this time.

The coastal zone is low, well-wooded and fertile.

The sense of being in the Twilight Zone returned.

She took it all in, feeling as if she'd stepped into the Twilight Zone, and followed Toby down the hall.

She'd almost managed to return to the zone when Darian gripped the chain at the top of the punching bag, stabilizing it before her and disrupting the swaying rhythm.

The zone of level country extending from Reims and Troyes to Angers and Poitiers, with the exception of the Loire valley and the Brie, receives less than 24 in.

The contrast between this low zone and the upper zone of rich vegetation (above about Boo ft.) is curiously marked.

So far as is known, the Malay Peninsula consists of an axial zone of crystalline rocks, flanked on each side by an incomplete band of sedimentary deposits.

Aristotle had himself shown that in the southern temperate zone winds similar to those of the northern temperate zone should blow, but from the opposite direction.

The only part of the sea-bed the configuration of which is at all well known is the zone bordering the coasts where the depth is less than about loo fathoms or 200 metres, i.e.

In the agro Romano, or zone immediately around Rome, land is as a rule left for pasturage.

Sahel thus understood comprises regions which form the inter mediate zone between the fertile lands of the Sudan and the desert.

Russia, may be subdivided into two zones-an intermediate zone and that of the steppes proper.

He had to preserve and protect the underworld, even if it meant stepping away from the comfort zone he'd existed in for millennia.

Different species of organisms come to perfection in different climates; and it may be stated as a general rule that a species, whether of plant or animal, once established at one point, would spread over the whole zone of the climate congenial to it unless some barrier were interposed to its progress.

The white type, originating in the north temperate zone, has spread over the whole world.

In the extreme north a little over a degree and a half of territory lies within the torrid zone, extending from the Pilcomayo about 500 m.

The middle zone, called the caa.tinga or agreste region, has a drier climate and lighter vegetation.

From July to November the clouds hang low on the mountains, and give moisture to the upper zone, while the climate of the lower is dry.

The poplars are almost entirely confined to the north temperate zone, but a few approach or even pass its northern limit, and they are widely distributed within that area; they show, like the willows, a partiality for moist ground and often line the river-sides in otherwise treeless districts.

In the Old World the boreal zone is almost sharply cut off and afforded no means of escape for the Miocene vegetation when the climate became more severe.

Their absolute freedom from diffraction, the perfect control of the illumination and thickness of the lines, and the accuracy with which it will be possible to construct scales for zone observations will be important features of the new method.

A similar zone surrounds the permanent snow on lofty mountains in all latitudes.

In the temperate zone, where the seasons are sharply contrasted, but follow each other with regularity, foresight and self-denial were fostered, because if men did not exercise these qualities seed-time or harvest might pass into lost opportunities and the tribes would suffer.

Maybe the cabin sat in a dead zone.

Having sounded Lord Granville, Mancini received encouragement to seize Beilul and Massawa, in view of the projected restriction of the Egyptian zone of military occupation consequent on the Mahdist rising in the Sudan.

The extension of the Italian zone excited the suspicions of John, negus of Abyssinia, whose apprehensions were assiduously fomented by Alula, ras of Tigr, and by French and Greek adventurers.

Maybe it provided a buffer zone to protect the mind.

The resignation of the Gladstone-Granville cabinet further precluded the projected Italian occupation of Suakin, and the Italians, wisely refraining from an independent attempt to succour Kassala, then besieged by the Mahdists, bent their efforts to the increase of their zone of occupation around Massawa.

Aristotle, too, gave greater definiteness to the idea of zones conceived by Parmenides, who had pictured a torrid zone uninhabitable by reason of heat, two frigid zones uninhabitable by reason of cold, and two intermediate temperate zones fit for human occupation.

The illustrative strings and the orange stick representing the poles seemed so real that even to this day the mere mention of temperate zone suggests a series of twine circles; and I believe that if any one should set about it he could convince me that white bears actually climb the North Pole.

When did she step into the Twilight Zone?

She rose and announced it was far past her bedtime, in any time zone.

Sarah said, "She probably lost track of time and is in a dead zone."

Remove him from his comfort zone.

It'll destroy his comfort zone.

Upper Poitou and the zone of south-western France to the north of the Pyrenees are the chief regions for the breeding of mules.

Aristotle defined the temperate zone as extending from the tropic to the arctic circle, but there is some uncertainty as to the precise meaning he gave to the term " arctic circle."

The circular outline had given way in geographical opinion to the elliptical with the long axis lying east and west, and Aristotle was inclined to view it as a very long and relatively narrow band almost encircling the globe in the temperate zone.

The belief in a vast Antarctic continent stretching far into the temperate zone had never been abandoned, and was vehemently asserted by Charles Dalrymple, a disappointed candidate nominated by the Royal Society for the command of the Transit expedition of 1769.