zone1 nounzone2 verb
zonezone1 /zəʊn $ zoʊn/ ●●○ W3 noun [countable] 
WORD ORIGINzone1
Origin:
1400-1500 Latin zona ‘belt, zone’, from Greek zoneEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Half of the community lies in a flood zone.
- Most of the town centre is now a pedestrian zone.
- The government has set up a special economic zone in the south for private enterprises.
- This is a residential zone -- no commercial buildings are allowed.
- UN troops are unwilling to enter the battle zone.
- A fine Highland rain, like the spray from a plant mister, was falling in the wrong meteorological zone.
- All the people Fletcher surveyed have a buffer zone, usually somewhere between 3 and 5 pounds.
- However, because of the hysteresis, there is still an intermediate zone - one in which either behaviour may occur permanently.
- It looks like a war zone tip here, and perhaps it is.
- It was rubbing up and down as if he were titillating an unseen erogenous zone.
- Maybe there would be just a simple name change, or the establishment of a free trade zone.
- Subduction zones are also responsible for some of the Northwest's most dramatic natural features, including Mount Rainier.
- This may shed light on Soviet views of such zones.
THESAURUS
a part of a town or country, or of the world: · They live in a very wealthy area.· coastal areas
a large area of a country or the world: · the northwest region of Russia· desert regions
an area that is different from other areas around it in some way: · a war zone· a no-parking zone· We crossed two different time zones (=areas where there is a particular time compared to the rest of the world.)
one of the areas a city or town is officially divided into, or an area of a city where a particular group live or an activity happens: · the Chelsea district of Manhattanthe business/financial/theatre etc district: · the financial district of London
British English American English an area of a town where people live: · a friendly neighbourhood· There are lots of trees in our neighborhood.
an area outside the centre of a city, where people live: · a suburb of Boston
an area of a town or city where people of a particular nationality live: · the French quarter of New Orleans
an area of a city that is in very bad condition, where many poor people live: · He grew up in the slums of East London.
an area of a city where poor people of a particular race or class live: · a black baby born in the ghetto
Longman Language Activatoran area in or around a town or city an area in or around a town or city: area of: · The family lives in Roxbury, a working-class area of Boston.poor/rich area: · Raul grew up in a poor area of Buenos Aires.
one of the areas that a town or city is officially divided into, or one of the areas of a town or city where a particular group of people live or a particular activity happens: district of: · Their apartment is in the Chongwen district of Peking.business/financial/historical etc district: · Blaine works in the financial district.
British /neighborhood American one of the parts of a town or city: · The Cranstons live in a very wealthy neighbourhood.neighbourhood of: · I grew up in a quiet neighborhood of Birmingham.in the neighbourhood/neighborhood: · Are there any good restaurants in the neighborhood?
an area in a town or city that is lived in by people of a particular type or nationality: quarter of: · We rented a house in the Creole quarter of New Orleans.· The Dahdah palace is in the old Jewish quarter of Damascus.
part of a city that is officially divided from other parts because it is of a particular type: residential/commercial zone: · This is a residential zone -- no commercial buildings are allowed.pedestrian zone (=a zone where cars, motorcycles etc are not allowed): · Most of the town centre is now a pedestrian zone.
especially American a group of buildings in a city, with four streets around it - often used as a way of talking about distances in the city: · She lived three blocks away from me when we were kids.· Many of the families on our block are Hispanic-Americans.
an area away from the centre of a city, where people live, especially an area where there are houses with gardens: suburb of: · Amy teaches at a primary school in a suburb of Atlanta.the suburbs: · My family moved to the suburbs when I was ten.
American an area in an American town or city that is officially divided from other parts and that has its own police department etc: · the fourteenth precinct· The mayor has lost support in many precincts of the city.
an area of the world or a country an area of land that is part of the world or part of a country: · Police think the crime was committed by someone from outside the area.area of: · There is a shortage of water in many areas of the world.· Hannah grew up in a beautiful area of Ireland.somebody's area (=the area where someone lives): · The cost of electricity has risen in our area.
a large area that is part of a country or of the world: · There have been reports of fighting in the region.region of: · For several years they lived in a remote region of Kenya.· Severe winter weather is expected in the northeast region of the country.
an area that is in some way special or different from the areas around it, for example because it has a particular type of problem: · San Francisco and Tokyo are both located in earthquake zones.· Half of the community lies in a flood zone.war/battle zone: · UN troops are unwilling to enter the battle zone.
an area of land that is of a particular type or that is used for a particular activity, lived in by particular people etc: · The Midwest is largely farming country.· Not many people live in the hill country any more.
formal a small area of a country: · In some localities the price of housing has risen by more than fifty percent in the last decade.· The city council is responsible for providing police protection in each locality.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYADJECTIVES/NOUN + zone
the demilitarized zone between the two countries In our solar system, only Earth lies in the Goldilocks zone. pollution in industrial areas a nuclear-free zone
· Civilians were told to leave the danger zone.
· Planes were diverted to avoid flying over the war zone.
(=where earthquakes are quite likely to happen)· It’s not advisable to build nuclear reactors in an earthquake zone.
· The damage is so serious that the government has declared the city a disaster zone.
(=an area with special trade or tax conditions)· The area has been made a special economic zone.
(=where businesses are encouraged)· Small businesses predominated in the enterprise zone.
· You can’t leave your car here – it’s a no-parking zone.
(=where no vehicles are allowed)· The main part of the city centre is a pedestrian zone.
(=where vehicles’ speed is limited to 20 mph, 30 mph etc)· He was doing 42 mph in a 30 mph zone.
(=where soldiers and military activities are not allowed)· The demilitarized zone between Iraq and Kuwait was created after the first Gulf war.
(=an area that aircraft are not allowed to fly in)· the no-fly zone over Iraq
(=where nuclear weapons, smoking etc is not allowed)· The county council offices are a smoke-free zone.
verbs· The government intends to set up an enterprise zone in the region.
· He didn’t see the sign saying he’d entered a 20 mph zone.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES (=an area where there is fighting)· refugees from the combat zone
(=an area that could be dangerous)· People living in the danger area have been told to leave.
the demilitarized zone between the two countries (=area where a disaster has happened)· Military planes flew food supplies to the disaster area.
(=an area created by the government to attract businesses)· Many firms relocate to enterprise zones because of tax incentives.
In our solar system, only Earth lies in the Goldilocks zone. pollution in industrial areas a nuclear-free zone (=an area where a war is fought)· The country had turned into a war zone.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· On March 30, 1972, Hanoi launched its own major offensive across the demilitarized zone.
· Maintaining control over these ties can be tricky, especially from the other side of the world in a different time zone.· If the stations are in different time zones, the work can be grueling, albeit with high visibility and pay.· He finished his prayers, rapidly rethought his assumptions, and woke up Jesuit colleagues in several different time zones.· Our four children and their families live in four different time zones.· Like Rolex watches from a different time zone.· In detail, the Council's planning policy applies to the mainland of Orkney and divided the island up into different zones.
· As the special economic zones expanded, the scope of the market expanded.· Their main role is search and rescue, but economic zone surveillance is also undertaken.· The base has been made a free port and special economic zone.
· Her skin is flawless, her legs endless and her entire body a flab-free zone.· They have agreed to form a free trade zone in 2000.· They oversee the activities of both the port and the free zone.· Which is why schools should be commerce-free zones.· They work predominantly in industries such as food-processing, clothing and textiles and in the multinational assembly plants in the industrial free zones.· Maybe there would be just a simple name change, or the establishment of a free trade zone.· But Northern Ireland remains a Labour free zone.· The free trade zone failed in various incarnations, and investment has been only sporadic.
· Factories may be required to be sited at some distance from residential areas in specially designated industrial zones.· They work predominantly in industries such as food-processing, clothing and textiles and in the multinational assembly plants in the industrial free zones.· Some factories have started operating again in the Pul-i-Charki industrial zone.· The raid devastated Hitler's strategically vital industrial zone in the Ruhr by breaching the Eder and Molne dams.
· But these would have been mainly in the military zones, such as the example already noted of Hercules and Hesione at Chester.· The plant is situated on the Kola Peninsula - formerly a military zone.· Discussion of the plant's problems was impossible whilst the area was a military zone.· Curfews were imposed on the Strip and the area was declared a closed military zone.
· Otherwise the neutral zone can become an utterly bewildering array of possibilities.
· In the red zone we stop them.· The red zone scoring was a disappointment.
· As the special economic zones expanded, the scope of the market expanded.· The wartime allies had distinguished Berlin as a special zone of occupation, divided into four sectors.· The base has been made a free port and special economic zone.· The Pars special energy zone is one of the biggest projects being run under this scheme.
· Rodomonte hardly noticed the magnificent, unearthly architecture preserved so beautifully away from the squalls of the less temperate zones.· Most aquarium plants come from tropical and subtropical areas, with a few from the warmer parts of the temperate zone.· The epidemiology, at least in temperate zones, is similar to that of Ostertagia in ruminants with seasonal hypobiosis a feature.· Its distribution ranges from the tropics to the warmer areas of the temperate zone of both hemispheres.· The epidemiology in subtropical areas is basically similar to that in temperate zones, except that the seasonable timing of events is different.· Altogether there are four similar species known from he tropics and the temperate zones.· The life cycle varies, but some species from temperate zones have an annual cycle.· The length of the day changes in the temperate zone with the change of seasons.
· As relations with the Soviet Union deteriorated the Western zones began to be seen as a potential ally against Soviet expansion.· Du sseldorf, by contrast, is one of the most prosperous cities in the country's western zone.· With few exceptions the territories of the new Länder in the Western zones were completely different from those of the Weimar Länder.· Its emergence was to be a key factor in the establishment of democracy in the Western zones.
NOUN· Below us was the battle zone, 464 square miles of urban decay, whose every street was a border to some one.· Voice over More recently the Hercules has again headed for a battle zone.· For two hours, they're packed together as the Hercules fly low above the make believe battle zone.· Migrants flocking in panic from the battle zone provided a useful veil of confusion.
· In this buffer zone around the park, people survive through subsistence farming and cash crops such as cotton.· These buffer zones would be similar to the quiet zones around hospitals.· Martin Smith is correct about increasing the buffer zone to four shots.· Severe obesity represents a buffer zone between you and the world.· Each park will be bordered by a buffer zone where environmentally friendly farming will be encouraged.· All the people Fletcher surveyed have a buffer zone, usually somewhere between 3 and 5 pounds.
· She was actually in the combat zone now and she noted uneasily that once again she was placed firmly beside the count.· You may think so too, Michael, when you ride a Huey into combat zone.· Yuletide in Walford is traditionally a combat zone with crackers, but the soap excelled itself this year.· Later, I found out there were worse duties in a combat zone.· Jean-Pierre said the doctors were considered too valuable to be sent into the combat zone.
· The team were still wrapped together in the comfort zone of a four-year period when each had cosseted and protected the other.· Many investors struggle to get past the comfort zone of mutual funds.· The width of the comfort zone can then be taken as 4 degrees, i.e., from-2 to.· The Chargers took the Raiders out of a lot of things, including their comfort zone.· The easiest thing in this situation is to do nothing and rest miserably in the comfort zone of doing something predictable.
· So I believe we could be entering a danger zone now.· It is just a danger zone, a boundary beyond which all is lost.· The staff at Usher were advised to leave the danger zone.· I sent my son, Danny, far out of the danger zone.· With the volume level edged up to the danger zone, Rattle's conception clicks into place.· He worked inside Karelin's danger zone and frustrated him.
· What is that guy doing out there, diving into the end zone?· A wide receiver does the same dance in the end zone and draws a penalty.· Elvis Grbac took the snap, tucked his body into a tight C and dropped it into the end zone.· Then, in a new twist, the Raiders actually reached the end zone.· But as Rice tumbled into the end zone, he landed awkwardly.· Pope intercepted in the end zone.· A super job would have been to go down and put it in the end zone.· As the clock ran down to zero, Harris ran down the sideline into the end zone.
· Between 1981-2 and 1985-6, total public costs associated with enterprise zones amounted to a gross figure of almost £400 million.· An important debate surrounding the concept of enterprise zones has been the question of displacement.· We have only their failed policies and an enterprise zone in Inverclyde.· First, the rhetoric of deregulation has not matched the reality: enterprise zones and Freeports have largely proved mundane.· On the other hand, a substantial minority considered that infrastructural investment was a significant factor for location within an enterprise zone.· In recent years, property within enterprise zones has also enjoyed relief.· Firms within enterprise zones would not pay rates for ten years, local government being reimbursed for lost revenue by the Treasury.
· The Braer was outside a ten mile exclusion zone when its engines failed.· Morris Thomas, 61, runs an old people's home deep in the exclusion zone.· Within two hours officials had set up a five-mile exclusion zone round Burdon Farm.· In thirty minutes he substantially re-established his parliamentary position and announced a 200-mile naval exclusion zone around the Falklands.· The Government said that strictly controlled licences would be awarded to farms outside the foot and mouth exclusion zones.· A six-mile exclusion zone was ordered around the ship while a tug towed the casualty further offshore.· Dozens of towns and villages were abandoned as 135,000 people and 35,000 cattle left the exclusion zone.· The exclusion zone approved by the Home Secretary bans any procession or convoy of vehicles in the area.
· Meanwhile Hereford's great escape from the relegation zone is going to plan - four games now without defeat.· Oxford began the night teetering on the brink of the relegation zone and pulse rates soared as early as the second minute.· They are treading unfamiliar ground in the relegation zone and have failed to keep a clean sheet this season.· Brandon slipped into the relegation zone in midweek after both Shildon and West Auckland collected points to move above them.· Only 4 points between them and the dreaded relegation zone.· Rick James and Alison Gower also recorded a win in the 6-2 result which sees them clear of the relegation zone.· Nomads have been hovering near the relegation zone all season while Colchester are chasing second promotion spot.· Despite their improving results, United are still in the relegation zone.
· In a large fenced-off security zone, drums pile up to the level of a two storey house.· Meanwhile, Sharpness Docks themselves became an annual security zone after the dockside cranes had been occupied by opponents of the dumping.
· Glossary of popular terms Ball: called by the umpire when a pitch misses the strike zone.· After all, Greg Maddux enjoyed the same strike zone and struck out nine in seven innings.· The strike zone shall be determined from the batter's stance as the batter is prepared to swing at a pitched ball.· Gregg was called into the postgame interview room and asked about his strike zone.· I never thought there was a question how low a strike zone is.· Better be ready to expand that strike zone, Robbie.· He expects to profit from the high strike mostly when he throws his overhand curve which breaks late into the strike zone.· How about starting with the strike zone, fellas?
· He finished his prayers, rapidly rethought his assumptions, and woke up Jesuit colleagues in several different time zones.· This is now a league of nine active teams spanning six states and three time zones.· Like Rolex watches from a different time zone.· The time zone changes as we went west further increased our sensation that time was no longer a hard fact.· The severity of jet-lag, however, is dependent upon the number of time zones crossed rather than the length of flight.· Teams form over national boundaries and across multiple time zones.· However, the world is not flat and we have time zones.· Our four children and their families live in four different time zones.
· Free trade zones already established at Kish Island, Queshm and Chabahar will be developed.· They have agreed to form a free trade zone in 2000.· Maybe there would be just a simple name change, or the establishment of a free trade zone.· The free trade zone failed in various incarnations, and investment has been only sporadic.
· Ashanti are Ireland's latest voyagers into this strange twilight zone.· It was strictly the twilight zone.· Check your preconceptions at the door, for you are entering the twilight zone.· Why is there a large twilight zone in Glasgow - the area where many buildings are being demolished and new ones erected?· It's like the twilight zone, as if you're travelling back to the depression of the 1930s.
· If they stayed in the war zone they would face almost certain death.· Pusan was the only region that was not in an active war zone.· Work with Royal Logistics Corps plays a crucial role in getting supplies and troops in and out of the war zone.· One cautious council member thought the parish would be asking for trouble by starting a sister-parish relationship in a war zone.· In Kitwe city centre normality ceased altogether and the area resembled a war zone.· The school is in the thick of a war zone between two rival gangs.· The Rift Valley, the scene of the clashes involving Moi's minority Kalenjin people, was described a war zone.· A war zone is a dangerous place to be even in the ab-sence of combat.
VERB· All 68 major-league umpires went through orientation sessions this winter and have vowed to create a uniform strike zone.· The lower federal court created both the 15-foot zone around the clinic entrances and the floating zone.· Various guarantees create zones of privacy.
· A hospital spokesman said the wards had been declared election-free zones.· One of its first acts was to declare a 200-mile zone within which all foreign vessels need licences to fish.· The government maintained pressure on the rebels by declaring an exclusion zone around Bougainville and blockading all supplies to the island.· Many have been left homeless and the region was declared a disaster zone.· And the seafront of the Humberside resort of Bridlington was declared an exclusion zone by police after similar havoc.· Curfews were imposed on the Strip and the area was declared a closed military zone.
· The six data bits of a character are divided into two zone bits and four numeric bits.· He divided his operational zone into twelve districts for the sake of flexibility.· Oceanographers traditionally divide the oceans into zones.· The body is divided into zones, each one of which relates to a corresponding zone on the underside of the foot.
· Military experts think more than 50 fighter jets would be needed to enforce the zone.· S.-enforced no-fly zone.· However, those ships can not enforce the no-fly zone.
· In effect only cars transporting food or medicine would be able to enter or leave sealed zones, he said.· Again, this might be the result of entering an unusually cloud-free zone.· As the tyre rolled, each point on it would enter the contact zone.· The MiGs had also entered the zone 20 minutes earlier, but fled to safety when asked to identify themselves.· Only strike out if the attacker enters your personal safety zone.· Check your preconceptions at the door, for you are entering the twilight zone.· Any car that does enter such a forbidden zone will lose all power, and remain until the traffic-warden arrives.· The majority of rejected photographic claims are due to impatience - the photograph is taken before entering the zone.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► be in the friend zone
1a large area that is different from other areas around it in some way: - Do you really expect us to believe, as you say, that many people feel the buffer zone should be scrapped?
- Each park will be bordered by a buffer zone where environmentally friendly farming will be encouraged.
- Severe obesity represents a buffer zone between you and the world.
- These buffer zones would be similar to the quiet zones around hospitals.
- New laws to create a smoke-free environment at work and in public places.
- The freedom of the individual is important; everyone is entitled to a smoke-free environment.
- Altogether there are four similar species known from he tropics and the temperate zones.
- Here I review these data and their implications for a temperate climate.
- Its distribution ranges from the tropics to the warmer areas of the temperate zone of both hemispheres.
- Most aquarium plants come from tropical and subtropical areas, with a few from the warmer parts of the temperate zone.
- Rodomonte hardly noticed the magnificent, unearthly architecture preserved so beautifully away from the squalls of the less temperate zones.
- The epidemiology in subtropical areas is basically similar to that in temperate zones, except that the seasonable timing of events is different.
- The epidemiology, at least in temperate zones, is similar to that of Ostertagia in ruminants with seasonal hypobiosis a feature.
- The length of the day changes in the temperate zone with the change of seasons.
San Francisco and Tokyo are both located in earthquake zones. The government has set up a special economic zone to promote private enterprise.► see thesaurus at area2in the zone informal having all your attention on what you are doing, especially playing a sport, and doing it well: When I’m in the zone, every shot seems easy. → buffer zone at buffer1(3), → no-fly zone, time zoneCOLLOCATIONSADJECTIVES/NOUN + zonea danger zone· Civilians were told to leave the danger zone.a war/battle/combat zone· Planes were diverted to avoid flying over the war zone.an earthquake zone (=where earthquakes are quite likely to happen)· It’s not advisable to build nuclear reactors in an earthquake zone.a disaster zone· The damage is so serious that the government has declared the city a disaster zone.an economic zone (=an area with special trade or tax conditions)· The area has been made a special economic zone.an enterprise zone (=where businesses are encouraged)· Small businesses predominated in the enterprise zone.a no-parking zone· You can’t leave your car here – it’s a no-parking zone.a pedestrian zone (=where no vehicles are allowed)· The main part of the city centre is a pedestrian zone.a 20 mph/30 mph etc zone (=where vehicles’ speed is limited to 20 mph, 30 mph etc)· He was doing 42 mph in a 30 mph zone.a demilitarized zone (=where soldiers and military activities are not allowed)· The demilitarized zone between Iraq and Kuwait was created after the first Gulf war.a no-fly zone (=an area that aircraft are not allowed to fly in)· the no-fly zone over Iraqa nuclear-free/smoke-free etc zone (=where nuclear weapons, smoking etc is not allowed)· The county council offices are a smoke-free zone.verbsset up/establish/create a zone· The government intends to set up an enterprise zone in the region.enter a zone· He didn’t see the sign saying he’d entered a 20 mph zone.zone1 nounzone2 verb
zonezone2 verb VERB TABLE
zone
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | zone |
| he, she, it | zones | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | zoned |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have zoned |
| he, she, it | has zoned | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had zoned |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will zone |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have zoned |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am zoning |
| he, she, it | is zoning | |
| you, we, they | are zoning | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was zoning |
| you, we, they | were zoning | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been zoning |
| he, she, it | has been zoning | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been zoning |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be zoning |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been zoning |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Abrams' land is currently zoned for residential use.
- What? Oh, sorry - I was just zoning out there for a minute.
- More than three-quarters of the province has now been zoned.
- Rita Ranch was zoned industrial long before homes started sprouting there.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES the demilitarized zone between the two countries In our solar system, only Earth lies in the Goldilocks zone. pollution in industrial areas a nuclear-free zone
(=an area where there is fighting)· refugees from the combat zone
(=an area that could be dangerous)· People living in the danger area have been told to leave.
the demilitarized zone between the two countries (=area where a disaster has happened)· Military planes flew food supplies to the disaster area.
(=an area created by the government to attract businesses)· Many firms relocate to enterprise zones because of tax incentives.
In our solar system, only Earth lies in the Goldilocks zone. pollution in industrial areas a nuclear-free zone (=an area where a war is fought)· The country had turned into a war zone.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► be in the friend zone
[transitive] American English if an area of land is zoned, it is officially kept to be used for a particular purposebe zoned for something- Do you really expect us to believe, as you say, that many people feel the buffer zone should be scrapped?
- Each park will be bordered by a buffer zone where environmentally friendly farming will be encouraged.
- Severe obesity represents a buffer zone between you and the world.
- These buffer zones would be similar to the quiet zones around hospitals.
- New laws to create a smoke-free environment at work and in public places.
- The freedom of the individual is important; everyone is entitled to a smoke-free environment.
- Altogether there are four similar species known from he tropics and the temperate zones.
- Here I review these data and their implications for a temperate climate.
- Its distribution ranges from the tropics to the warmer areas of the temperate zone of both hemispheres.
- Most aquarium plants come from tropical and subtropical areas, with a few from the warmer parts of the temperate zone.
- Rodomonte hardly noticed the magnificent, unearthly architecture preserved so beautifully away from the squalls of the less temperate zones.
- The epidemiology in subtropical areas is basically similar to that in temperate zones, except that the seasonable timing of events is different.
- The epidemiology, at least in temperate zones, is similar to that of Ostertagia in ruminants with seasonal hypobiosis a feature.
- The length of the day changes in the temperate zone with the change of seasons.
The land is currently zoned for residential use.GRAMMAR Zone is usually passive in this meaning.zone out phrasal verb informal to stop paying attention, for example because you are bored or tired: He tends to zone out when I talk to him about my job.