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Antonyms for zone

Grammar : Noun
Spell : zohn
Phonetic Transcription : zoʊn


Definition of zone

Origin :
  • late 14c., from Latin zona "geographical belt, celestial zone," from Greek zone "a belt," related to zonnynai "to gird," from PIE root *yes- "to gird, girdle" (cf. Avestan yasta- "girt," Lithuanian juosiu "to gird," Old Church Slavonic po-jasu "girdle").
  • Originally one of the five great divisions of the earth's surface (torrid, temperate, frigid; separated by tropics of Cancer and Capricorn and Arctic and Antarctic circles); meaning "any discrete region" is first recorded 1822. Zone defense in team sports is recorded from 1927. Zoning "land-use planning" is recorded from 1912. Zoned (adj.) in drug-use sense is attested 1960s, from ozone, which is found high in the atmosphere; the related verb to zone is from 1980s.
  • noun district
Example sentences :
  • Hungary has also applied the zone system to its freight traffic.
  • Extract from : « The Railroad Question » by William Larrabee
  • Truly, this is a record which few localities can equal in any zone.
  • Extract from : « Aztec Land » by Maturin M. Ballou
  • So Lydia sank upon the zone left by the corset and stockings.
  • Extract from : « The Prisoner » by Alice Brown
  • The artillery duel was more intense in the zone east of Goritz.
  • Extract from : « The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) » by Various
  • Then it entered into a zone of torrid light which the sun threw on the waves.
  • Extract from : « A Romance of the West Indies » by Eugne Sue
  • But even within the zone thus defined there are many thousands of stars.
  • Extract from : « Great Astronomers » by R. S. Ball
  • Many animals live better in our zone than in any other zone.
  • Extract from : « Where We Live » by Emilie Van Beil Jacobs
  • The bubbles floated in the clear air, above and beyond the zone of smoke.
  • Extract from : « The Long Roll » by Mary Johnston
  • The phenomenon is by no means common, even in the Arctic zone.
  • Extract from : « The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century » by John Ruskin
  • We may contract this zone by ten degrees and the same thing is true.
  • Extract from : « 'America for Americans!' » by John Philip Newman

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