Zone vs Realm - What's the difference?
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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).
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* 1841 , (George Bancroft), History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent , Volume 2,
Any given region or area of the world.
A given area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic, use, restriction, etc.
A band or area of growth encircling anything.
A band or stripe extending around a body.
(crystallography) A series of planes having mutually parallel intersections.
(baseball) Short for the strike zone.
(chiefly, sports) A high-performance phase or period.
(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 ,
* 1779 , , A Voyage to New Guinea and the Moluccas from Balambangan ,
* 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,
* 1819', Lord Byron, ''Don Juan'', Canto I, LV, '''1827 , ''The Works of Lord Byron, including The Suppressed Poems ,
* 1844', (Charles Dickens), '''', '''1865 , ''Works of Charles Dickens'', Volume VI: ''Martin Chuzzlewit —Volume II,
(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 ],
* 2014 , John Bird, Engineering Mathematics ,
(geometry, loosely, perhaps by meronymy) A frustum of a sphere.
A circuit; a circumference.
To divide into or assign sections or areas.
To define the property use classification of an area.
To enter a daydream state temporarily, for instance as a result of boredom, fatigue, or intoxication; to doze off.
To girdle or encircle.
An abstract sphere of influence, real or imagined.
* 1907 , Tada Kanai, translated by Arthur Lloyd, Seven Buddhist Sermons , ""
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The domain of a certain abstraction.
* 1922 , Judson Eber Conant,The Church The Schools and Evolution , "",
(formal, or, legal) A territory or state, as ruled by a specific power, and particularly those territories ruled by a king.
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* 1913 , Leslie Alexander Toke, Catholic Encyclopedia , "",
As nouns the difference between zone and realm
is that 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) while realm is an abstract sphere of influence, real or imagined.As a verb zone
is to divide into or assign sections or areas.zone
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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 […].
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- 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 .
- There is a no-smoking zone that extends 25 feet outside of each entrance.
- The white zone is for loading and unloading only.
- a zone''' of evergreens on a mountain; the '''zone of animal or vegetable life in the ocean around an island or a continent
- That pitch was low and away, just outside of the zone .
- I just got in the zone late in the game: everything was going in.
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- Her tapered fingers too with rings are graced, / And an embroidered zone surrounds her slender waist.
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- 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.
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- Love fram'd with Mirth a gay fantastic round, / Loose were her tresses seen, her zone unbound,
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- 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).
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- 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; […].
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- 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).
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- 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.
- (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 fileVerb
- Please zone off our staging area, a section for each group.
- This area was zoned for industrial use.
- 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)
Synonyms
* (enter a daydream state) doze off, zone outDerived terms
* * *See also
* exclusion zone * friend zone * time zone * zone out * zoning law * zone of employmentAnagrams
* ----realm
English
Noun
(en noun)- Why should we despise anything in the realm of Buddha?
Diary of a Collapsing Superpower", Spiegel Magazine , November 22,
- At home in Moscow, Mikhail Sergeyevitch Gorbachev, who had launched a campaign to rejuvenate the Soviet realm
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- One thing more which the scientific man does is to accord primacy to that realm of truth which is primary in importance.
- And, of this island realm , he and his companion were the undisputed sovereigns.
- Then seeing his life was threatened he fled the realm and crossed over to Flanders,