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As verbs the difference between define and zone

is that define is to determine while zone is to divide into or assign sections or areas.

As nouns the difference between define and zone

is that define is (computing|programming) a kind of macro in source code that replaces one text string with another wherever it occurs while zone is 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).

define

English

(Definition)

Verb

(defin)
  • To determine with precision; to mark out with distinctness; to ascertain or exhibit clearly.
  • * Sir (Isaac Newton)
    • Ringsvery distinct and well defined .
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Lee S. Langston
    • , title= The Adaptable Gas Turbine , passage=Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo'', meaning ''vortex , and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.}}
  • (obsolete) To settle, decide (an argument etc.).
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , IV.3:
    • These warlike Champions, all in armour shine, / Assembled were in field the chalenge to define .
  • To express the essential nature of something.
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author=
    • , volume=101, issue=3, page=178, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= Crinkly Curves , passage=Cantor defined a one-to-one correspondence between the points of the square and the points of the line segment. Every point in the square was associated with a single point in the segment; every point in the segment was matched with a unique point in the square.}}
  • To state the meaning of a word, phrase, sign, or symbol.
  • To describe, explain, or make definite and clear.
  • To demark sharply the outlines or limits of an area or concept.
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April, author=(Jan Sapp)
    • , volume=100, issue=2, page=164, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= Race Finished , passage=Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?}}
  • (mathematics) To establish the referent of a term or notation.

    • Derived terms

    * definable * definer

    Related terms

    * definiendum * definiens * definition * definitory

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing, programming) A kind of macro in source code that replaces one text string with another wherever it occurs.
  • * 1996 , James Gosling, Henry McGilton, The Java Language Environment
    • From the computer programming perspective, Java looks like C and C++ while discarding the overwhelming complexities of those languages, such as typedefs, defines , preprocessor, unions, pointers, and multiple inheritance.
  • * 1999 , Ian Joyner, Objects unencapsulated: Java, Eiffel, and C++ (page 309)
    • Anyone who has attempted to do OO programming in a conventional language using defines will find out that it is impossible to realize the benefits easily, if at all, without compiler support.

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    zone

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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).
  • * , I.2.4.vi:
    • To avoid which, we will take any pains […]; we will dive to the bottom of the sea, to the bowels of the earth, five, six, seven, eight, nine hundred fathom deep, through all five zones , and both extremes of heat and cold […].
  • * 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, commercedefies every wind, outrides every tempest, and invades every zone .
  • 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.
  • 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) Short for the strike zone.
    • That pitch was low and away, just outside of the zone .
  • (chiefly, sports) A high-performance phase or period.
    • I just got in the zone late in the game: everything was going in.
  • (networking) That collection of a domain's DNS resource records, the domain and its subdomains]], that are not [[delegate, delegated to another authority.
  • (Apple computing) A logical group of network devices on AppleTalk.
  • A belt or girdle.
  • * 17th c , , 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.
  • * 1779 , , 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', , ''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), '''', '''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; […].
  • (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), , 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.
  • (geometry, loosely, perhaps by meronymy) A frustum of a sphere.
  • A circuit; a circumference.
    • (Milton)

    Synonyms

    * (area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc) area, belt, district, region, section, sector, sphere, territory * * (high performance phase or period) * * *

    Derived terms

    * * * * * * * * * * * * demilitarized zone, DMZ * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

    See also

    * alb * epigonation * epimanikion * epitrachelion * maniple * mitre * omophorion * rhason * sakkos * sticharion * zone file

    Verb

  • 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) doze off, zone out

    Derived terms

    * * *

    See also

    * exclusion zone * friend zone * time zone * zone out * zoning law * zone of employment

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