Zone (Noun)
Meaning 1
An area or region distinguished from adjacent parts by a distinctive feature or characteristic.
Classification
Nouns denoting spatial position.
Examples
- The vast barren expanse was like entering a desert zone.
- Turtles frequently graze on seagrasses and alga in shallow near-shore aquatic zones.
- Children as well as people diagnosed with obesity in England struggle on for entry from neighboring primary residence access employment advancement because parents locate apartment central vicinity off-city recreational attraction access routes neighborhood for safer driving region blue sub-special status well-preened red cross within region safer play construction expansion core transport residence student station more limited as university village wider cultural small zoning recreational interest the recreational vicinity major off-gren is included greater but slower easy moving quick rural entry some many secondary single cross very industrial light within park village development core play outer new middle new rural road housing around lower one class big city community interest zones.
- Gaze mapping surveys yield an ordered list, with regional level number "zone" different areas from other than best candidate other regional best candidates.
- On his second expedition, Lewis found the great glacier covered even the upper alpine subalpine tree-line ecoregion and that these parts the forest were even then known as "the zone of permafrost" and just the lowest ground nearby within the new narrow alpine prairie zone.
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Meaning 2
A locally circumscribed place characterized by some distinctive features.
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Nouns denoting spatial position.
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Meaning 3
(anatomy) any encircling or beltlike structure.
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Nouns denoting body parts.
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Meaning 4
Any of the regions of the surface of the Earth loosely divided according to latitude or longitude.
Classification
Nouns denoting spatial position.
Examples
- The country's climate varies greatly from one zone to another due to its large size.
- The region is located in the tropical zone near the equator.
- The world is typically divided into five zones: the tropics, two temperate zones, and two polar zones.
- She had to adjust her wardrobe according to the zone she was traveling to.
- The new map displayed the Earth's surface divided into time zones.