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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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space
English
Etymology
From Middle English space, from Anglo-Norman space, variant of espace, espas et al., and Old French spaze, variant of espace, from Latin spatium, from Proto-Indo-European *speh?- 'to stretch, to pull'.
Pronunciation
- enPR: sp?s, IPA(key): /spe?s/
- Hyphenation: space
- Rhymes: -e?s
Noun
space (countable and uncountable, plural spaces)
- (heading) Of time.
- (now rare, archaic) Free time; leisure, opportunity. [from 14thc.]
- A specific (specified) period of time. [from 14thc.]
- 1893, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Giles Corey
- I pray you, sirs, to take some cheers the while I go for a moment's space to my poor afflicted child.
- 2007, Andy Bull, The Guardian, 20 October:
- The match was lost, though, in the space of just twenty minutes or so.
- 1893, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Giles Corey
- An undefined period of time (without qualifier, especially a short period); a while. [from 15thc.]
- 1923, PG Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves
- Even Comrade Butt cast off his gloom for a space and immersed his whole being in scrambled eggs.
- 1923, PG Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves
- (now rare, archaic) Free time; leisure, opportunity. [from 14thc.]
- (heading) Unlimited or generalized extent, physical or otherwise.
- Distance between things. [from 14thc.]
- 2001, Sam Wollaston, The Guardian, 3 November:
- Which means that for every car there was 10 years ago, there are now 40. Which means - and this is my own, not totally scientific, calculation - that the space between cars on the roads in 1991 was roughly 39 car lengths, because today there is no space at all.
- 2001, Sam Wollaston, The Guardian, 3 November:
- Physical extent across two or three dimensions; area, volume (sometimes for or to do something). [from 14thc.]
- 2007, Dominic Bradbury, The Guardian, 12 May:
- They also wanted a larger garden and more space for home working.
- 2007, Dominic Bradbury, The Guardian, 12 May:
- Physical extent in all directions, seen as an attribute of the universe (now usually considered as a part of space-time), or a mathematical model of this. [from 17thc.]
- 1656, Thomas Hobbes, Elements of Philosophy, II
- Space is the Phantasme of a Thing existing without the Mind simply.
- 1880, Popular Science, August:
- These are not questions which can be decided by reference to our space intuitions, for our intuitions are confined to Euclidean space, and even there are insufficient, approximative.
- 2007, Anushka Asthana & David Smith, The Observer, 15 April:
- The early results from Gravity Probe B, one of Nasa's most complicated satellites, confirmed yesterday 'to a precision of better than 1 per cent' the assertion Einstein made 90 years ago - that an object such as the Earth does indeed distort the fabric of space and time.
- 1656, Thomas Hobbes, Elements of Philosophy, II
- The near-vacuum in which planets, stars and other celestial objects are situated; the universe beyond the earth's atmosphere; outer space. [from 17thc.]
- 1901, HG Wells, The First Men in the Moon:
- After all, to go into outer space is not so much worse, if at all, than a polar expedition.
- 2010, The Guardian, 9 August:
- The human race must colonise space within the next two centuries or it will become extinct, Stephen Hawking warned today.
- 1901, HG Wells, The First Men in the Moon:
- The physical and psychological area one needs within which to live or operate; personal freedom. [from 20thc.]
- 1996, Linda Brodkey, Writing Permitted in Designated Areas Only:
- Around the time of my parents' divorce, I learned that reading could also give me space.
- 2008, Jimmy Treigle, Walking on Water
- "I care about you Billy, whether you believe it or not; but right now I need my space."
- 1996, Linda Brodkey, Writing Permitted in Designated Areas Only:
- Distance between things. [from 14thc.]
- (heading) A bounded or specific extent, physical or otherwise.
- A (chiefly empty) area or volume with set limits or boundaries. [from 14thc.]
- Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, […]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
- 2000, Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Islam and Gender
- The street door was open, and we entered a narrow space with washing facilities, curtained off from the courtyard.
- 2012, Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian, 16 July:
- Converted from vast chambers beneath the old Bankside Power Station which once held a million gallons of oil, the new public areas consist of two large circular spaces for performances and film installations, plus a warren of smaller rooms.
- (music) A position on the staff or stave bounded by lines. [from 15thc.]
- 1849, John Pyke Hullah, translating Guillaume Louis Bocquillon-Wilhem, Wilhelm's Method of Teaching Singing
- The note next above Sol is La; La, therefore, stands in the 2nd space; Si, on the 3rd line, &c.
- 1990, Sammy Nzioki, Music Time
- The lines and spaces of the staff are named according to the first seven letters of the alphabet, that is, A B C D E F G.
- 1849, John Pyke Hullah, translating Guillaume Louis Bocquillon-Wilhem, Wilhelm's Method of Teaching Singing
- A gap in text between words, lines etc., or a digital character used to create such a gap. [from 16thc.]
- 1992, Sam H Ham, Environmental Interpretation
- According to experts, a single line of text should rarely exceed about 50 characters (including letters and all the spaces between words).
- 2005, Dr BR Kishore, Dynamic Business Letter Writing:
- It should be typed a space below the salutation : Dear Sir, Subject : Replacement of defective items.
- 1992, Sam H Ham, Environmental Interpretation
- (letterpress typography) A piece of metal type used to separate words, cast lower than other type so as not to take ink, especially one that is narrower than one en (compare quad). [from 17thc.]
- 1683, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises: Or, the Doctrine of Handy-Works. Applied to the art of Printing., v.2, pp.240–1:
- If it be only a Single Letter or two that drops, he thru?ts the end of his Bodkin between every Letter of that Word, till he comes to a Space: and then perhaps by forcing tho?e Letters closer, he may have room to put in another Space or a Thin Space; which if he cannot do, and he finds the Space ?tand Loo?e in the Form; he with the Point of his Bodkin picks the Space up and bows it a little; which bowing makes the Letters on each ?ide of the Space keep their parallel di?tance; for by its Spring it thru?ts the Letters that were clo?ed with the end of the Bodkin to their adjunct Letters, that needed no clo?ing.
- 1979, Marshall Lee, Bookmaking, p.110:
- Horizontal spacing is further divided into multiples and fractions of the em. The multiples are called quads. The fractions are called spaces.
- 2005, Phil Baines and Andrew Haslam, Type & Typography, 2nd ed., p.91:
- Other larger spaces – known as quads – were used to space out lines.
- 1683, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises: Or, the Doctrine of Handy-Works. Applied to the art of Printing., v.2, pp.240–1:
- A gap; an empty place. [from 17thc.]
- 2004, Harry M Benshoff (ed.), Queer Cinéma
- Mainstream Hollywood would not cater to the taste for sexual sensation, which left a space for B-movies, including noir.
- 2009, Barbara L. Lev, From Pink to Green
- A horizontal scar filled the space on her chest where her right breast used to be.
- 2004, Harry M Benshoff (ed.), Queer Cinéma
- (geometry) A set of points, each of which is uniquely specified by a number (the dimensionality) of coordinates.
- (countable, mathematics) A generalized construct or set whose members have some property in common; typically there will be a geometric metaphor allowing these members to be viewed as "points". Often used with a restricting modifier describing the members (e.g. vector space), or indicating the inventor of the construct (e.g. Hilbert space). [from 20thc.]
- (countable, figuratively) A marketplace for goods or services.
- A (chiefly empty) area or volume with set limits or boundaries. [from 14thc.]
Quotations
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:space.
Synonyms
- (free time): leisure time, spare time
- (specific period of time): duration, span; see also Thesaurus:period
- (undefined period of time): spell, while; see also Thesaurus:uncertain period
- (distance between things): break, gap; see also Thesaurus:interspace
- (intervening contents of a volume): volume
- (space occupied by or intended for a person or thing): room, volume
- (area or volume of sufficient size to accommodate a person or thing): place, spot, volume
- (area beyond the atmosphere of planets that consists of a vacuum): outer space
- (gap between written characters): blank, gap, whitespace (graphic design)
- (metal type): quad, quadrat
- (set of points each uniquely specified by a set of coordinates):
- (personal freedom to think or be oneself):
- (state of mind one is in when daydreaming):
- (generalized construct or set in mathematics):
- (one of the five basic elements in Indian philosophy): ether
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
See also
Punctuation
Verb
space (third-person singular simple present spaces, present participle spacing, simple past and past participle spaced)
- (obsolete, intransitive) To roam, walk, wander.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii:
- But she as Fayes are wont, in priuie place / Did spend her dayes, and lov'd in forests wyld to space.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii:
- (transitive) To set some distance apart.
- Faye had spaced the pots at 8-inch intervals on the windowsill.
- The cities are evenly spaced.
- To insert or utilise spaces in a written text.
- This paragraph seems badly spaced.
- (transitive, science fiction) To eject into outer space, usually without a space suit.
- The captain spaced the traitors.
- (intransitive, science fiction) To travel into and through outer space.
Derived terms
- spaced
- spaced-out
- unspace
Translations
Related terms
- espace
- spacious
- spatial
References
- space on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- -scape, EAPCs, EPACs, a-spec, aspec, capes, paces, scape
Old French
Noun
space m (oblique plural spaces, nominative singular spaces, nominative plural space)
- Alternative form of espace
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