zone

IPA: zˈoʊn

(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).
Any given region or area of the world.
A given area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic, use, restriction, etc.
A band or area of growth encircling anything.
A band or stripe extending around a body.
(crystallography) A series of planes having mutually parallel intersections.
(baseball, informal) The strike zone.
(ice hockey) Every of the three parts of an ice rink, divided by two blue lines.
(handball) A semicircular area in front of each goal.
(chiefly sports) A high-performance phase or period.
(basketball, American football) A defensive scheme where defenders guard a particular area of the court or field, as opposed to a particular opposing player.
(networking) That collection of a domain's DNS resource records, the domain and its subdomains, that are not delegated to another authority.
(networking, dated) A logical group of network devices on AppleTalk (an obsolete networking protocol).
(now literary) A belt or girdle.
(geometry) The curved surface of a frustum of a sphere, the portion of surface of a sphere delimited by parallel planes.
(geometry, loosely, perhaps by meronymy) A frustum of a sphere.
A circuit; a circumference.

(transitive) To divide into or assign to sections or areas.
(transitive) To define the property use classification of (an area).
(intransitive, slang) To enter a daydream state temporarily, for instance as a result of boredom, fatigue, or intoxication; to doze off.

Examples of "zone" in Sentences

I said he was in “needy” zone and I was in “E” zone.
Simone's game, when you're in zone, is at the foul line area.
The term zone does not apply to pass blocking where the changes in scheme were made.
Looking at the numbers, what jumps out as different between 2007 and 2009 are isolated power and zone% - i.e. how hard the ball is hit and how often a pitch ends up in the strike zone.
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I am trying to run a formcheck error which looks for the user specified zone ($zone) in a table ($zones_table) to see if a row exists and my code is as follows: if (! defined ( 'FRMCHK_USER')) {die ( "Access Denied");} $inner = substr ($zone, -3, 3);
Israel's defense minister, Ehud Barak, coined the phrase "zone of immunity" to define the circumstances under which Israel would judge it could no longer hold off from an attack because Iran's effort to produce a bomb would be invulnerable to any strike.
* More than 1,500 people flee war zone* Red Cross says conditions getting worse By Ranga SirilalCOLOMBO, March 17 (Reuters) - Tamil Tiger separatists counterattacked with a failed suicide bombing in clashes that killed at least 14 rebels and more than 1,500 refugees fled Sri Lanka's war zone, the military said on Tuesday.