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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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scale
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ske?l/, [ske???]
- Hyphenation: scale
- Rhymes: -e?l
Etymology 1
From Middle English scale, from Latin sc?la, usually in plural sc?lae (“a flight of steps, stairs, staircase, ladder”), for *scadla, from scand? (“I climb”); see scan, ascend, descend, etc. Doublet of scala.
Noun
scale (plural scales)
- (obsolete) A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.
- An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement, means of assigning a magnitude.
- Please rate your experience on a scale from 1 to 10.
- The magnitude of an earthquake is measured on the open-ended Richter scale.
- Size; scope.
- There are some who question the scale of our ambitions.
- The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.
- This map uses a scale of 1:10.
- A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced.
- (music) A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.
- A mathematical base for a numeral system; radix.
- the decimal scale; the binary scale
- Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order.
- A standard amount of money to be received by a performer or writer, negotiated by a union.
- Sally wasn't the star of the show, so she was glad to be paid scale.
Hyponyms
- (earthquake): Mercalli scale, Palermo scale, Richter scale
- (economy): wage scale
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ???? (suk?ru)
Translations
See also
- degree
- ordinal variable
References
- scale on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
scale (third-person singular simple present scales, present participle scaling, simple past and past participle scaled)
- (transitive) To change the size of something whilst maintaining proportion; especially to change a process in order to produce much larger amounts of the final product.
- We should scale that up by a factor of 10.
- (transitive) To climb to the top of.
- Hilary and Norgay were the first known to have scaled Everest.
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IX
- At last I came to the great barrier-cliffs; and after three days of mad effort--of maniacal effort--I scaled them. I built crude ladders; I wedged sticks in narrow fissures; I chopped toe-holds and finger-holds with my long knife; but at last I scaled them. Near the summit I came upon a huge cavern.
- 1932, Dorothy L Sayers, Have his Carcase, Chapter 1.
- A solitary rock is always attractive. All right-minded people feel an overwhelming desire to scale and sit upon it.
- (intransitive, computing) To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.
- That architecture won't scale to real-world environments.
- (transitive) To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.
Hyponyms
- scale back
- scale down
- scale up
Related terms
- scaling ladder
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English scale, from Old French escale, from Frankish and/or Old High German skala, from Proto-Germanic *skal?. Cognate with Old English s?ealu (“shell, husk”), whence the modern doublet shale. Further cognate with Dutch schaal, German Schale, French écale. Also related to English shell, French écaille, Italian scaglia.
Noun
scale (plural scales)
- Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard pieces of keratin covering the skin of an animal, particularly a fish or reptile.
- A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color.
- A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis.
- Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard protective layers forming a pinecone that flare when mature to release pine nut seeds.
- The flaky material sloughed off heated metal.
- Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail).
- Limescale.
- A scale insect.
- The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife.
Derived terms
- antiscalant
- criticola scale
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ???? (suk?ru)
Translations
Verb
scale (third-person singular simple present scales, present participle scaling, simple past and past participle scaled)
- (transitive) To remove the scales of.
- Please scale that fish for dinner.
- Synonym: descale
- (intransitive) To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.
- The dry weather is making my skin scale.
- (transitive) To strip or clear of scale; to descale.
- to scale the inside of a boiler
- (transitive) To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
- 1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth
- if all the mountains and hills were scaled, and the earth made even
- 1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth
- (intransitive) To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae.
- Some sandstone scales by exposure.
- (Britain, Scotland, dialect) To scatter; to spread.
- (transitive) To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Totten to this entry?)
Translations
Etymology 3
From Old Norse skál (“bowl”). Compare Danish skål (“bowl, cup”), Dutch schaal; German Schale; Old High German sc?la; Gothic ???????????????????????? (skalja, “tile, brick”), Old English scealu (“cup; shell”). Cognate with scale, as in Etymology 2.
Noun
scale (plural scales)
- A device to measure mass or weight.
- After the long, lazy winter I was afraid to get on the scale.
- Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance or scales.
Usage notes
- The noun is often used in the plural to denote a single device (originally a pair of scales had two pans).
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ???? (suk?ru)
Translations
Further reading
- scale up on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- scale in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- scale in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- -clase, Salce, acles, alecs, claes, laces, selca
Italian
Noun
scale f pl
- plural of scala
Anagrams
- calse, salce
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old French escale.
Alternative forms
- skale, scalle
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ska?l(?)/
Noun
scale (plural scales)
- flake
Descendants
- English: scale
- Yola: skaulès (plural)
References
- “sc?le, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2
From Latin sc?la.
Alternative forms
- skale, schale
Noun
scale (plural scales)
- ladder
Descendants
- English: scale
References
- “sc?le, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 3
From Old Norse [Term?].
Alternative forms
- shale, schale
Noun
scale (plural scales)
- hut, hovel
References
- “sc?le, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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