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As nouns the difference between zone and room

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 room is opportunity or scope (to do something).

As verbs the difference between zone and room

is that zone is to divide into or assign sections or areas while room is to reside, especially as a boarder or tenant.

As an adjective room is

wide; spacious; roomy.

As an adverb room is

far; at a distance; wide in space or extent.

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

    Anagrams

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    room

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) roum, rom, rum, from (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (dialectal, or, obsolete) Wide; spacious; roomy.
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) rome, from (etyl) .

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (dialectal, or, obsolete) Far; at a distance; wide in space or extent.
  • (nautical) Off from the wind.
  • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) roum, from (etyl) through Indo-European. More at (l). Apparently an exception to the , which otherwise would have produced the pronunciation , but /a?/ does not occur before noncoronal consonants in Modern English.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , (w) I:
  • Thou lorde whiche knowest the hertes of all men, shewe whether thou hast chosen of these two, that the one maye take the roume of this ministracion, and apostleshippe from the which Judas by transgression fell, that he myght goo to his awne place.
  • * 1748 , (Samuel Richardson), (Clarissa) :
  • Nor shalt thou give me room to doubt whether it be necessity or love, that inspires this condescending impulse.
  • (label) Space for'' something, or ''to carry out an activity.
  • * 2010 , Jonathan Franklin, The Guardian , 27 Aug 2010:
  • He explains they have enough room to stand and lie down, points out the "little cup to brush our teeth", and the place where they pray.
  • (label) A particular portion of space.
  • * (rfdate) (Thomas Overbury) (c.1581-1613)
  • If he have but twelve pence in his purse, he will give it for the best room in a playhouse.
  • * (rfdate) Bible, (w) xiv. 8
  • When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room .
  • * (rfdate) (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
  • There was no prince in the empire who had room for such an alliance.
  • * 2010 , Roger Bootle, The Telegraph , 12 Sep 2010:
  • There are major disagreements within the Coalition and politicians always want to retain room for manoeuvre.
  • (label) A space between the timbers of a ship's frame.
  • (label) A separate part of a building, enclosed by walls, a floor and a ceiling.
  • * 1813 , (Jane Austen), (Pride and Prejudice) :
  • Miss Bingley made no answer, and soon afterwards she got up and walked about the room .
  • * , chapter=10
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=He looked round the poor room', at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a '''room''' like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a ' room as he had hoped to have for his own.}}
  • (label) With possessive pronoun: one's bedroom.
  • * , chapter=6
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=20 citation , passage=‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room . I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’}}
  • (label) A set of rooms inhabited by someone; one's lodgings.
  • (label) An area for working in a coal mine. (jump)
  • (label) A portion of a cave that is wider than a passage. (jump)
  • Place or position in society; office; rank; post, sometimes when vacated by its former occupant.
  • * (rfdate) Bible, (w) ii. 22
  • When he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judea in the room of his father Herod.
  • * (rfdate) (William Tyndale) (1494-1536)
  • Neither that I look for a higher room in heaven.
  • * (rfdate) (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • Let Bianca take her sister's room .
    Synonyms
    * (jump) elbow room, legroom, space * (jump) chamber, quarters * (jump) chamber * See also
    Derived terms
    * art room * AV room * backroom * ballroom * bathroom * bedroom * billiards room * blue room * boardroom * boiler room * box-room * break room * changing room * chat room * classroom * clean my room * cold room * common room * computer room * control room * copy room * courtroom * cutting room * darkroom * delivery room * dining room * discussion room * display room * dormroom * dressing room * elbow room * elephant in the room * embalming room * emergency room * engine room * examination room * fitting room * Florida room * front room * game room * get a room * giftwrapping room * green room * guest room * headroom * inner room * in the room * lamp room * laundry room * legroom * living room * locker room * lunchroom * map room * meditation room * meeting room * mud room * music room * need a room * newsroom * no room at the inn * operating room * padded room * panic room * plant room * play room * pool room * powder room * prep room * press room * private room * pump room * reading room * ready room * recording room * reptile room * romper room * room and board * room at the top * room for abuse * room for apology * room for dessert * room for error * room for improvement * room service * room to breathe * room to grow * room to roam * room with a view * roommate * roomie * roomy * rubber room * rumpus room * save room * school room * science room * screening room * sewing room * showroom * sitting room * sound room * spare room * standing room only * steam room * storeroom * strong room * study room * sunroom * the other room * the upper room * upstairs room * viewing room * waiting room * war room * washroom * weightroom * wiggle room * work the room * workroom

    Verb

  • To reside, especially as a boarder or tenant.
  • Doctor Watson roomed with Sherlock Holmes at Baker Street.
    Derived terms
    * roomer * room together * roomy

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