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(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)

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(label) A portion; a component.

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#3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink.

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#A section of land; an area of a country or other territory; region.

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#*:the Faery knight / Besought that Damzell suffer him depart, / And yield him readie passage to that other part .

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Duty; responsibility.

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#Position or role (especially in a play).

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#(label) The melody played or sung by a particular instrument, voice, or group of instruments or voices, within a polyphonic piece.

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#Each of two contrasting sides of an argument, debate etc.; "hand".

#*, II.15:

#*:the fruition of life cannot perfectly be pleasing unto us, if we stand in any feare to lose it. A man might nevertheless say on the contrary part , that we embrace and claspe this good so much the harder, and with more affection, as we perceive it to be less sure, and feare it should be taken from us.

#*Bible, (w), ix.40:

#*:He that is not against us is on our part .

#*(Edmund Waller) (1606-1687)

#*:Make whole kingdoms take her brother's part .

(US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.

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(label) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3? seconds. (jump)

A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective sense.

*(Edmund Burke) (1729-1797)

*:men of considerable parts

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*:great quickness of parts

*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

*:which maintained so politic a state of evil, that they will not admit any good part to intermingle with them.