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sash
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sæ?/
- Rhymes: -æ?
Etymology 1
From Arabic ????? (š?š, “muslin cloth”).
Noun
sash (plural sashes)
- A piece of cloth designed to be worn around the waist.
- Synonyms: belt, cummerbund, obi, waistband
- A decorative length of cloth worn over the shoulder to the opposite hip, often for ceremonial or other formal occasions.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
sash (third-person singular simple present sashes, present participle sashing, simple past and past participle sashed)
- (transitive) To adorn with a sash.
- 1796, Edmund Burke, Letters on a Regicide Peace, Letter IV to the Earl Fitzwilliam, in The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, London: C. and J. Rivington, 1826, Volume 9, p. 46,[2]
- […] the Costume of the Sans-culotte Constitution of 1793 was absolutely insufferable […] but now they are so powdered and perfumed, and ribanded, and sashed and plumed, that […] there is something in it more grand and noble, something more suitable to an awful Roman Senate, receiving the homage of dependant Tetrarchs.
- 1796, Edmund Burke, Letters on a Regicide Peace, Letter IV to the Earl Fitzwilliam, in The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, London: C. and J. Rivington, 1826, Volume 9, p. 46,[2]
Etymology 2
[circa 1680] From sashes, from French châssis (“frame (of a window or door)”), taken as a plural and -s trimmed off by the late 17th century. See also chassis.
Noun
sash (plural sashes)
- The opening part (casement) of a window usually containing the glass panes, hinged to the jamb, or sliding up and down as in a sash window.
- 1722, Daniel Defoe, The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders, London: W. Chetwood and T. Edling, p. 91,[3]
- One Morning he pulls off his Diamond Ring, and writes upon the Glass of the Sash in my Chamber this Line, You I Love, and you alone.
- 1823, Clement Clarke Moore, “Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas” (“The Night before Christmas”),[4]
- Away to the window I flew like a flash,
- Tore open the shutters, and threw up the sash.
- 1908, Arnold Bennett, The Old Wives’ Tale, Book 4, Chapter 2,[5]
- She chiefly recalled the Square under snow; cold mornings, and the coldness of the oil-cloth at the window, and the draught of cold air through the ill-fitting sash (it was put right now)!
- 1722, Daniel Defoe, The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders, London: W. Chetwood and T. Edling, p. 91,[3]
- (software, graphical user interface) A draggable vertical or horizontal bar used to adjust the relative sizes of two adjacent windows.
- Synonym: splitter
- In a sawmill, the rectangular frame in which the saw is strained and by which it is carried up and down with a reciprocating motion; the gate.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
sash (third-person singular simple present sashes, present participle sashing, simple past and past participle sashed)
- (transitive) To furnish with a sash.
- 1741, Samuel Richardson, Pamela, London, Volume 3, Letter 1, p. 2,[6]
- The old Bow-windows he will have preserv'd, but will not have them sash’d,
- 1741, Samuel Richardson, Pamela, London, Volume 3, Letter 1, p. 2,[6]
Derived terms
- unsashed
References
Anagrams
- shas, šâhs, š?hs
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zone
English
Etymology
From Latin z?na, from Ancient Greek ???? (z?n?, “girdle, belt”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) enPR: z?n, IPA(key): /zo?n/
- (Received Pronunciation), IPA(key): /z??n/
- Rhymes: -??n
Noun
zone (plural zones)
- (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).
- 1567, Arthur Golding, translating Ovid, Metamorphoses, I:
- And as two Zones doe cut the Heaven upon the righter side, / And other twaine upon the left likewise the same devide, / The middle in outragious heat exceeding all the rest: / Even so likewise through great foresight to God it seemed best, / The earth encluded in the same should so devided bee […].
- 1841, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent, Volume 2, page 270,
- And while idle curiosity may take its walk in shady avenues by the ocean side, commerce […] defies every wind, outrides every tempest, and invades every zone.
- 1567, Arthur Golding, translating Ovid, Metamorphoses, I:
- Any given region or area of the world.
- 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.
- Files in the Internet zone are blocked by default, as a security measure.
- A band or area of growth encircling anything.
- a zone of evergreens on a mountain; the zone of animal or vegetable life in the ocean around an island or a continent
- A band or stripe extending around a body.
- (crystallography) A series of planes having mutually parallel intersections.
- (baseball, informal) The strike zone.
- That pitch was low and away, just outside of the 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.
- I just got in the zone late in the game: everything was going in.
- (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.
- 17th c, John Dryden, 2005, Pygmalion and the Statue, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (editors), The Poems of John Dryden: Volume Five: 1697-1700, page 263,
- Her tapered fingers too with rings are graced, / And an embroidered zone surrounds her slender waist.
- 1671, John Milton, Paradise Regained, Book II, lines 211 to 220.
- 1779, Thomas Forrest, A Voyage to New Guinea and the Moluccas from Balambangan, page 21,
- From the wai?t downwards, they wore a loo?e robe, girt with an embroidered zone or belt about the middle, with a large cla?p of gold, and a precious ?tone.
- 18th c, William Collins, The Passions: An Ode for Music, 1810, Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (editors), The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 13, page 204,
- Love fram'd with Mirth a gay fantastic round, / Loose were her tresses seen, her zone unbound,
- 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto I, LV, 1827, The Works of Lord Byron, including The Suppressed Poems, page 565,
- 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).
- 1844, Charles Dickens, The life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, 1865, Works of Charles Dickens, Volume VI: Martin Chuzzlewit—Volume II, page 421,
- […] it was the prettiest thing to see her girding on the precious little zone, and yet obliged to have assistance because her fingers were in such terrible perplexity; […].
- 17th c, John Dryden, 2005, Pygmalion and the Statue, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (editors), The Poems of John Dryden: Volume Five: 1697-1700, page 263,
- (geometry) The curved surface of a frustum of a sphere, the portion of surface of a sphere delimited by parallel planes.
- 1835, Charles Davies, David Brewster (editors and translators), Adrien-Marie Legendre, Elements of Geometry and Trigonometry, [1794, Eléments de géométrie], page 293,
- To find the surface of a spherical zone.
- Rule.—Multiply the altitude of the zone by the circumference of a great circle of the sphere, and the product will be the surface (Book VIII. Prop. X. Sch. 1).
- 2014, John Bird, Engineering Mathematics, page 183,
- A zone of a sphere is the curved surface of a frustum. […] Determine, correct to 3 significant figures (a) the volume of the frustum of the sphere, (b) the radius of the sphere and (c) the area of the zone formed.
- 1835, Charles Davies, David Brewster (editors and translators), Adrien-Marie Legendre, Elements of Geometry and Trigonometry, [1794, Eléments de géométrie], page 293,
- (geometry, loosely, perhaps by meronymy) A frustum of a sphere.
- A circuit; a circumference.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book V, lines 558 to 560.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book V, lines 558 to 560.
Synonyms
- (area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc): area, belt, district, region, section, sector, sphere, territory
- (baseball: strike zone):
- (handball: area in front of a goal): crease
- (high performance phase or period):
- (networking: that collection of a domain's DNS resource records):
- (computing: logical group of network devices on AppleTalk):
- (religion: belt worn by priests in the Greek Orthodox church):
Coordinate terms
- (religion: belt worn by priests in the Greek Orthodox church): alb, epigonation, epimanikion, epitrachelion, maniple, mitre, omophorion, rhason, sakkos, sticharion
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- zone file
Verb
zone (third-person singular simple present zones, present participle zoning, simple past and past participle zoned)
- To divide into or assign sections or areas.
- Please zone off our staging area, a section for each group.
- To define the property use classification of an area.
- This area was zoned for industrial use.
- 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)
- To girdle or encircle.
Synonyms
- (enter a daydream state): zone out, doze off (if also sleeping; See Thesaurus:fall asleep).
Derived terms
- zonal
- zone in on
- zoner
- zoning
Translations
See also
- exclusion zone
- friend zone
- time zone
- zone out
- zoning law
- zone of employment
Anagrams
- Enzo, Zeno, noze, zeon
Danish
Etymology
From Latin z?na, from Ancient Greek ???? (z?n?, “girdle, belt”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /so?n?/, [?so?n?]
- Homophone: sone
Noun
zone c (singular definite zonen, plural indefinite zoner)
- zone
Inflection
Synonyms
- område
Derived terms
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French zone (or Middle French zone), via Middle French from Latin zona, from Ancient Greek ???? (z?n?).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?z??.n?/, [?z??n?]
- Hyphenation: zo?ne
- Rhymes: -??n?
Noun
zone f (plural zonen or zones, diminutive zonetje n)
- zone
Derived terms
- zonaal
- milieuzone
- parkeerzone
Related terms
- zona
French
Etymology
From Latin z?na
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /zon/
Noun
zone f (plural zones)
- zone
Derived terms
Verb
zone
- first-person singular present indicative of zoner
- third-person singular present indicative of zoner
- first-person singular present subjunctive of zoner
- third-person singular present subjunctive of zoner
- second-person singular imperative of zoner
Further reading
- “zone” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- Enzo, onze
Italian
Noun
zone f
- plural of zona
Anagrams
- Enzo
Portuguese
Verb
zone
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of zonar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of zonar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of zonar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of zonar
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?zo.ne]
Noun
zone f pl
- plural of zon?
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