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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
zone
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a combat zone (=an area where there is fighting)
▪ refugees from the combat zone
a danger area/zone (=an area that could be dangerous)
▪ People living in the danger area have been told to leave.
a disaster area/zone (=area where a disaster has happened)
▪ Military planes flew food supplies to the disaster area.
a war zone (=an area where a war is fought)
▪ The country had turned into a war zone.
an enterprise zone (=an area created by the government to attract businesses)
▪ Many firms relocate to enterprise zones because of tax incentives.
comfort zone
demilitarized zone
▪ the demilitarized zone between the two countries
end zone
enterprise zone
erogenous zone
exclusion zone
▪ the military exclusion zone
industrial area/zone
▪ pollution in industrial areas
no-fly zone
nuclear-free zone
▪ a nuclear-free zone
temperate zone
the Goldilocks zone
▪ In our solar system, only Earth lies in the Goldilocks zone.
time zone
tolerance zone
towaway zone
war zone
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
demilitarized
▪ On March 30, 1972, Hanoi launched its own major offensive across the demilitarized zone.
different
▪ 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.
economic
▪ 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.
free
▪ 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.
industrial
▪ 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.
military
▪ 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.
neutral
▪ Otherwise the neutral zone can become an utterly bewildering array of possibilities.
red
▪ In the red zone we stop them.
▪ The red zone scoring was a disappointment.
special
▪ 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.
temperate
▪ 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.
western
▪ 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
battle
▪ 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.
buffer
▪ 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.
combat
▪ 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.
comfort
▪ 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.
danger
▪ 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.
end
▪ 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.
enterprise
▪ 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.
exclusion
▪ 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.
relegation
▪ 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.
security
▪ 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.
strike
▪ 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?
time
▪ 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.
trade
▪ 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.
twilight
▪ 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.
war
▪ 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
create
▪ 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.
declare
▪ 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.
divide
▪ 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.
enforce
▪ 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.
enter
▪ 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
buffer zone
▪ 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.
smoke-free environment/zone etc
▪ 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.
temperate climate/zone/region etc
▪ 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.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ 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.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ 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.
II.verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Abrams' land is currently zoned for residential use.
▪ What? Oh, sorry - I was just zoning out there for a minute.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ More than three-quarters of the province has now been zoned.
▪ Rita Ranch was zoned industrial long before homes started sprouting there.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Zone

Zone \Zone\ (z[=o]n), n. [F. zone, L. zona, Gr. zw`nh; akin to zwnny`nai to gird, Lith. j[*u]sta a girdle, j[*u]sti to gird, Zend y[=a]h.]

  1. A girdle; a cincture. [Poetic]

    An embroidered zone surrounds her waist.
    --Dryden.

    Loose were her tresses seen, her zone unbound.
    --Collins.

  2. (Geog.) One of the five great divisions of the earth, with respect to latitude and temperature.

    Note: The zones are five: the torrid zone, extending from tropic to tropic 46[deg] 56[min], or 23[deg] 28[min] on each side of the equator; two temperate or variable zones, situated between the tropics and the polar circles; and two frigid zones, situated between the polar circles and the poles.

    Commerce . . . defies every wind, outrides every tempest, and invades.
    --Bancroft.

  3. (Math.) The portion of the surface of a sphere included between two parallel planes; the portion of a surface of revolution included between two planes perpendicular to the axis.
    --Davies & Peck (Math. Dict.)

  4. (Nat. Hist.)

    1. A band or stripe extending around a body.

    2. A band or area of growth encircling anything; as, a zone of evergreens on a mountain; the zone of animal or vegetable life in the ocean around an island or a continent; the Alpine zone, that part of mountains which is above the limit of tree growth.

  5. (Crystallog.) A series of planes having mutually parallel intersections.

  6. Circuit; circumference. [R.]
    --Milton.

  7. (Biogeography) An area or part of a region characterized by uniform or similar animal and plant life; a life zone; as, Littoral zone, Austral zone, etc.

    Note: The zones, or life zones, commonly recognized for North America are Arctic, Hudsonian, Canadian, Transition, Upper Austral, Lower Austral, and Tropical.

  8. (Cryst.) A series of faces whose intersection lines with each other are parallel.

  9. (Railroad Econ.)

    1. The aggregate of stations, in whatsoever direction or on whatsoever line of railroad, situated between certain maximum and minimum limits from a point at which a shipment of traffic originates.

    2. Any circular or ring-shaped area within which the street-car companies make no differences of fare.

  10. any area to or within which a shipment or transportation cost is constant; specifically, in the United States parcel-post system, any of the areas about any point of shipment for which but one rate of postage is charged for a parcel post shipment from that point. The rate increases from within outwards. The first zone includes the unit of area ``(a quadrangle 30 minutes square)'' in which the place of shipment is situated and the 8 contiguous units; the outer limits of the second to the seventh zones, respectively, are approximately 150, 300, 600, 1000, 1400, and 1800 miles from the point of shipment; the eighth zone includes all units of area outside the seventh zone.

    Abyssal zone. (Phys. Geog.) See under Abyssal.

    Zone axis (Crystallog.), a straight line passing through the center of a crystal, to which all the planes of a given zone are parallel.

Zone

Zone \Zone\, v. t. To girdle; to encircle. [R.]
--Keats.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
zone

late 14c., from Latin zona "geographical belt, celestial zone," from Greek zone "a belt, the girdle worn by women at the hips," related to zonnynai "to gird," from PIE root *yos- "to gird" (cognates: Avestan yasta- "girt," Lithuanian juosiu "to gird," Old Church Slavonic po-jasu "girdle"). The 10c. Anglo-Saxon treatise on astronomy translates Latin quinque zonas as fyf gyrdlas.\n

\nOriginally 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.

zone

1760, "mark with zones," from zone (n.). Land use planning sense is from 1916. Related: Zoned; zoning.\n

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Wiktionary
zone

n. 1 (context geography now rare English) 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). 2 Any given region or area of the world. 3 A given area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic, use, restriction, etc. 4 A band or area of growth encircling anything. 5 A band or stripe extending around a body. 6 (context crystallography English) A series of planes having mutually parallel intersections. 7 (context baseball English) Short for the strike zone. 8 (context chiefly sports English) A high-performance phase or period. 9 (context networking English) That collection of a domain's DNS resource records, the domain and its subdomain, that are not delegate to another authority. 10 (context Apple computing English) A logical group of network devices on AppleTalk. 11 (context now literary English) A belt or girdle. 12 (context geometry English) The curved surface of a frustum of a sphere, the portion of surface of a sphere delimited by parallel planes. 13 (context geometry loosely perhaps by meronymy English) A frustum of a sphere. 14 A circuit; a circumference. vb. 1 To divide into or assign sections or areas. 2 To define the property use classification of an are

  1. 3 To enter a daydream state temporarily, for instance as a result of boredom, fatigue, or intoxication; to doze off. 4 To girdle or encircle.

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WordNet
zone

  1. n. a circumscribed geographical region characterized by some distinctive features

  2. any of the regions of the surface of the Earth loosely divided according to latitude or longitude [syn: geographical zone]

  3. an area or region distinguished from adjacent parts by a distinctive feature or characteristic

  4. (anatomy) any encircling or beltlike structure [syn: zona]

zone

  1. v. regulate housing in; of certain areas of towns [syn: district]

  2. separate or apportion into sections; "partition a room off" [syn: partition]

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Wikipedia
Zone

Zone or The Zone or In the Zone may refer to:

Zone (colony)

Zone was an ancient Greek polis on the Aegean coast of Thrace, located in the neighborhood of the cities of Sale, Serreion, and Drys. It was a member of the Delian league. Its location has been sought in various places by archaeologists, but it is now commonly identified with a site known from excavations near the mouth of the stream Shabla Dere, which was formerly believed to have been called Mesembria.

Zone (band)

Zone was an all-female pop rock band started in Sapporo, Japan in 1999. Although it initially started as a dance group, they turned to an all-female band. Zone has been categorized in a new genre called "bandol" (a portmanteau of the words band and idol). The band was started and managed by Studio RunTime and released their first single, "Good Days", under the major record label Sony Records, on February 7, 2001. The group has officially ended on March 2, 2013.

Their most famous song is "Secret Base (Kimi ga Kureta Mono)", released on August 8, 2001. The single sold about 744,000 copies on Japanese Oricon charts.

Zone (vestment)

The Zone is a form of girdle or belt common in the ancient eastern Mediterranean. The term occurs in Homer, for instance, as girdle and can also refer to the waist itself. Classical Greek had a verb put a girdle around the loins, or "gird one's self."

In modern Greek and Church Slavonic the zone or (Поясъ, poyas - belt) is a liturgical belt worn as a vestment by priests and bishops of the Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodox Churches and Eastern Catholic Churches. It is made of brocade with an embroidered or appliquéd cross in the center, with long ribbons at the ends for tying around the waist. It is worn over the sticharion and the epitrachelion and keeps them in place as the priest performs the Divine Liturgy. In this regard it is similar to the cincture of the Roman Catholic Church.

The zone is not worn for services when the priest is not fully vested, e.g. vespers or matins.

The zone worn by priests of the Old Believers of the Russian Tradition, have a unique design, with four pendant strips, two on each hip. This was the result of legislation passed under Empress Catherine the Great, mandating that the vestments of Old Believer clergy be sufficiently different from those of clergy belonging to the State Church, in order to avoid confusion.

Zone (album)

Zone is the third and final studio album by Australian music group Southern Sons. The album was released in Australia in 1995. The album was re-released in 1996 with an alternate track listing and three live tracks. All the tracks were written by guitarist Phil Buckle with various contributions. The album was also released in the Australian iTunes Store as a digital download in 2010. Colin Hay appears as guest on track "Don't Tell Me What's Right"

Zone (play)

Zone is a French-language three-act play written by French-Canadian author Marcel Dubé. Written when Dubé was 21 and based on memories of his childhood, Zone revolves around a gang of teenaged Québécois criminals who sell contraband cigarettes, and the internal conflicts that ultimately tear the group apart. The title "Zone" refers to the fact that each of the smugglers are stuck in a zone of society from which it is almost impossible to escape.

Zone (video games)

In a MUD or MMO, zone and area are terms used to refer to one of the parts of the shared virtual environment.

They should not be confused with levels (where a player proceeds through a series of stages in a linear or semi-linear manner). Areas may vary in the challenge they present to visiting players, but are typically accessible by characters irrespective of the character's advancement within the game. Where 'levels' are sections of a game, 'areas' are special sections of a virtual environment in which there may or may not be a game at all.

The environments of MUDs and MMOs may be seamlessly sewn together, in which case it may be difficult or impossible for the player to know the precise boundaries of a particular area, or they may be connected by connector zones (such as the classic sight-line blocking z-shaped corridor) or portals. In some games it is possible to note changes in area through different flora and fauna, altered livery of guards, or special skills.

Many MUDs are hybrids, containing sections which are seamlessly stitched together alongside other areas which are only accessible via portals, etc. In MUDs, and other games where characters transiting zones is a trivial server task, connector zones frequently areas in their own right.

Zones are useful for game developers, because they enable the developer to create and modify the game in parts, and online games, such as MUDs can focus their server resources on areas which are populated.

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Usage examples of "zone".

Near the centre of the formation a zone of space the size of a quark warped to an alarming degree as its mass leapt towards infinity, and the first frigate emerged.

Throughout the world Tierra Alvarado was known informally as the Clone Zone, the place where anyone could go to have a reasonable facsimile manufactured at a reasonable price.

Evaporite deposits of anhydrite and gypsum were formed in the circum-Atlantic rifting and circum-Tethyan zones, and evoke a picture of coastal deserts such as near the modern Red Sea.

The Siberian line is designed to run through the arable lands of the fertile zone.

His face was as livid as that of the corpse that had drifted down from the far latitudes of the austral zone.

We should have to seek land of the austral zone under higher latitudes without being sure of ever coming across it!

Iryala, but as virtually the entire human population of recent millennia lives in the equatorial zone, axial tilt does not directly impact the lives of Terfreyans.

Friday, November 4 2244 hours Landing zone in hills Near Chah Bahar, Iran Murdock watched as Magic and Kat both ran to the open door of the Seahawk while the rotors whirled.

Whitmore, had taken the parenting class into the Twilight Zone when he had his students adopt the eggs of a mind-controlling bezoar living under the school basement.

He walked around the end zone and down the track and as he stepped up to the bleachers he noticed Neely and Curry sitting higher, watching every move he made.

Other ships of task force split off to enforce blockade further around perimeter of Home Islands, the line the Americans have called exclusion zone boundary.

She was banking on the zoned and shut off his IV drip of blockers without a twinge of remorse.

Amos Bulla walked around the still-warm zone of glazed, brownish glass that surrounded the defunct BioBubble.

Since nearly all of the caravanserai was in a breakdown zone, maintenance machines were disqualified from cleaning the toilets and performing the hundred other tasks of daily housekeeping.

Round her zone was clasped The scintillant cestus, stiff with flaming gold, Thicker with restless gems than heaven with stars.