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)

Noun

(countries)

(label) An area of land; a district, region.

* 2010 , David Vann, The Observer , 7 Mar 2010:

We walk along flat, open country , red dirt and spinifex grass, a few short trees.

A set region of land having particular human occupation or agreed limits, especially inhabited by members of the same race, language speakers etc., or associated with a given person, occupation, species etc.

* 2007 , Chris Moss, The Guardian , 17 Feb 2007:

This is condor country - the only region this far east where you can see the magnificent vulture - and a small national park straddling the passes, El Condorito, is a good stopover for walkers and birders.

The territory of a nation, especially an independent nation state or formerly independent nation; a political entity asserting ultimate authority over a geographical area.

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* 1994 , (Nelson Mandela), Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 3:

It is a beautiful country of rolling hills, fertile valleys, and a thousand rivers and streams which keep the landscape green even in winter.

* 2010 , The Economist , 3 Feb 2011:

These days corporate Germany looks rather different. Volkswagen, the country ’s leading carmaker, wants to be the world’s biggest by 2018.

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*, II.17:

*:I was borne and brought up in the Countrie , and amidst husbandry.

* 2000 , Alexander Chancellor, The Guardian , 4 Mar.:

I have always thought that one of the main reasons for the popularity of blood sports in the country is the pointlessness of going outdoors with no purpose or destination in mind.

Country music.

(label) The rock through which a vein runs.