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tract
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?ækt/
- Homophone: tracked
- Rhymes: -ækt
Etymology 1
From tractate, from Latin tractatus, or borrowed from Latin tractus, the perfect passive participle of trah?. Doublet of trait.
Noun
tract (plural tracts)
- An area or expanse.
- a very high mountain joined to the mainland by a narrow tract of earth
- 1662, Thomas Fuller, History of the Worthies of England
- small tracks of ground
- A series of connected body organs, as in the digestive tract.
- A small booklet such as a pamphlet, often for promotional or informational uses.
- A brief treatise or discourse on a subject.
- 1731, Jonathan Swift, The Presbyterians Plea of Merit
- The church clergy at that writ the best collection of tracts against popery that ever appeared.
- 1731, Jonathan Swift, The Presbyterians Plea of Merit
- A commentator's view or perspective on a subject.
- Continued or protracted duration, length, extent
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. XIV, Henry of Essex
- Nay, in another case of litigation, the unjust Standard bearer, for his own profit, asserting that the cause belonged not to St. Edmund’s Court, but to his in Lailand Hundred, involved us in travellings and innumerable expenses, vexing the servants of St. Edmund for a long tract of time […]
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. XIV, Henry of Essex
- Part of the proper of the liturgical celebration of the Eucharist for many Christian denominations, used instead of the alleluia during Lenten or pre-Lenten seasons, in a Requiem Mass, and on a few other penitential occasions.
- (obsolete) Continuity or extension of anything.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Older to this entry?)
- (obsolete) Traits; features; lineaments.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Simulation and Dissimulation
- The discovery of a man's self by the tracts of his countenance is a great weakness.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Simulation and Dissimulation
- (obsolete) The footprint of a wild animal.
- The Prophet Telemus […] mark'd the Tracts of every Bird that flew
- (obsolete) Track; trace.
- c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens
- But flies an eagle flight, bold, and forth on, / Leaving no tract behind.
- c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens
- (obsolete) Treatment; exposition.
- 1613, William Shakespeare, Henry VIII, Act I, Scene I
- The tract of every thing Would, by a good discourser, lose some life Which action's self was tongue to.
- 1613, William Shakespeare, Henry VIII, Act I, Scene I
Synonyms
- (series of connected body organs): system
Related terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Latin tractus, the participle stem of trahere (“to pull, drag”).
Verb
tract (third-person singular simple present tracts, present participle tracting, simple past and past participle tracted)
- (obsolete) To pursue, follow; to track.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:
- Where may that treachour then (said he) be found, / Or by what meanes may I his footing tract?
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:
- (obsolete) To draw out; to protract.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ben Jonson to this entry?)
Anagrams
- T-cart
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English tract.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?akt/
Noun
tract m (plural tracts)
- flyer, circular, pamphlet
Derived terms
- tracter
Further reading
- “tract” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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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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