different between stretch vs zone

English

Etymology

From Middle English strecchen, from Old English stre??an (“to stretch, hold out, extend, spread out, prostrate”), from Proto-West Germanic *strakkjan (“to stretch, make taut or tight”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)treg-, *streg-, *treg- (“stiff, rigid”). Cognate with West Frisian strekke, Dutch strekken (“to stretch, straighten”), German strecken (“to stretch, straighten, elongate”), Danish strække (“to stretch”), Swedish sträcka (“to stretch”), Dutch strak (“taut, tight”), Albanian shtriqem (“to stretch”). More at stark.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st??t?/
• Rhymes: -?t?

Verb

stretch (third-person singular simple present stretches, present participle stretching, simple past and past participle stretched or (obsolete) straught or (obsolete) straight)

1. (transitive) To lengthen by pulling.

2. (intransitive) To lengthen when pulled.
   • 1660, Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-Mechanical: Touching the Spring of the Air and their Effects

     The inner membrane […] because it would stretch and yield, remained unbroken.

3. (transitive) To pull tight.

4. (figuratively, transitive) To get more use than expected from a limited resource.

5. (figuratively, transitive) To make inaccurate by exaggeration.

6. (intransitive) To extend physically, especially from limit point to limit point.

7. (intransitive, transitive) To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles

8. (intransitive) To extend to a limit point

9. (transitive) To increase.
10. (obsolete, colloquial) To stretch the truth; to exaggerate.

11. (nautical) To sail by the wind under press of canvas.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Ham. Nav. Encyc to this entry?)

12. (slang, transitive, archaic) To execute by hanging.
13. To make great demands on the capacity or resources of something.

Translations

See also

• pandiculate

Noun

stretch (plural stretches)

1. An act of stretching.

2. The ability to lengthen when pulled.

3. A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief or exaggeration.

4. A segment of a journey or route.

5. A segment or length of material.

6. (Britain, slang, archaic) A walk.
   • Evelyn Underhill, quoted in 2010, Evelyn Underhill, ?Carol Poston, The Making of a Mystic: New and Selected Letters of Evelyn Underhill (page 81)

     In the afternoon I went for a stretch into the country, & about 4 it cleared up pretty well, so I hurried back & we got a cart & drove to Bassano, a little town about 8 miles off, that we wanted to see.

7. (baseball) A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it.
8. (baseball) A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman in order to catch the ball sooner.
9. (informal) Term of address for a tall person.
10. (horse racing) The homestretch, the final straight section of the track leading to the finish.
11. A length of time.

    • After the harvest there was a stretch of clear dry weather, and the animals toiled harder than ever […]

    1. (Ireland) Extended daylight hours, especially said of the evening in springtime when compared to the shorter winter days.

    2. (sports) The period of the season between the trade deadline and the beginning of the playoffs.
    3. (slang) A jail or prison term.

       Synonym: stint

       1. (slang) A jail or prison term of one year's duration.
    4. A single uninterrupted sitting; a turn.
12. A stretch limousine.

Translations

Derived terms

Descendants

• Esperanto: stre?i

Further reading

• stretch at OneLook Dictionary Search

References

• (a walk): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

Anagrams

• strecht

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)

1. (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.

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.

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

4. 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

5. A band or stripe extending around a body.
6. (crystallography) A series of planes having mutually parallel intersections.
7. (baseball, informal) The strike zone.

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

8. (ice hockey) Every of the three parts of an ice rink, divided by two blue lines.

9. (handball) A semicircular area in front of each goal.
10. (chiefly sports) A high-performance phase or period.

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

11. (basketball, American football) A defensive scheme where defenders guard a particular area of the court or field, as opposed to a particular opposing player.
12. (networking) That collection of a domain's DNS resource records, the domain and its subdomains, that are not delegated to another authority.
13. (networking, dated) A logical group of network devices on AppleTalk (an obsolete networking protocol).
14. (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; […].
15. (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.

16. (geometry, loosely, perhaps by meronymy) A frustum of a sphere.
17. A circuit; a circumference.
    • 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)

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.

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)

1. 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)

1. zone

Derived terms

• zonaal
• milieuzone
• parkeerzone

Related terms

• zona

French

Etymology

From Latin z?na

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zon/

Noun

zone f (plural zones)

1. zone

Derived terms

Verb

zone

1. first-person singular present indicative of zoner
2. third-person singular present indicative of zoner
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of zoner
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of zoner
5. 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

1. plural of zona

Anagrams

• Enzo

Portuguese

Verb

zone

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of zonar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of zonar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of zonar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of zonar

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?zo.ne]

Noun

zone f pl

1. plural of zon?