Definizione monolingua

zone

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.

zone (plural zones)

1. (geography, now rare) Each of the five regions of the earths 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 domains 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 priests readiness to serve the Lord and is also a sign that he is bound to Christ.

9. (geometry) The frustum of a sphere.

Definizione dizionario zone

	zona
	A physical or logical division within a warehouse, defined for efficient resource utilization. A zone might be identified by type of materials stored, by type of equipment used, or by assigned picker.

area

dipartimento

distretto

fascia

paese

patria

provincia

regione

stato

territorio

Altri significati:

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

To define the property use classification of an area.

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

(chiefly sports) A high performance phase or period.

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

religion: belt worn by priests in the Greek Orthodox church

computing: logical group of network devices on AppleTalk

(baseball) Short for the strike zone.

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

to define property use classification

To divide into or assign sections or areas.

baseball: strike zone

(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).

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

to divide or assign areas

area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc

high performance phase or period

(now literary) A belt or girdle.

Any given region or area of the world.

(geometry) The frustum of a sphere.

to temporarily enter a daydream state