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As nouns the difference between zone and site

is that zone is zone while site is site, location.

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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    site

    English

    Etymology 1

    Probably from (etyl) (compare Norwegian syt).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) Sorrow, grief.
  • * a1307 , , Chronicle'', read in Thomas Hearne, ''Peter Langtoft's Chronicle'' (1725) as reprinted, apparently in facsimile, in ''The Works of Thomas Hearne, M.A. Volume 3, Peter Langtoft's Chronicle, Volume I , Samuel Bagster (1810) p. 5

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl), from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position; as, the site of a city or of a house.
  • * 1613 , Richard Moore, Silvester Jourdain, William Crashaw, William Castell, ''A Plaine Description of the Barmvdas, Now Called Sommer Ilands: With the manner of their discouerie anno 1609...[full title extends to 77 words], W. Welby, p .8,
    • A more full and exact description of the Countrie, and Narration of the nature, site , and commodities, together with a true Historie of the great deliuerance of Sir Thomas Gates and his companie vpon them, which was the first discouerie of them.
  • * 1705 , Robert Plot, The Natural History of Oxford-shire: being an essay towards the natural history of England. The Second Edition with Large Additions and Corections: Also a Short Account of the Author, &c. , Charles Brome & John Nicholson, p. 315,
    • However, I have taken care in the Map prefix'd to this Essay, to put a Mark for the Site of all Religious Houses, as well as ancient Ways and Fortifications....
  • * 1785 , Henry Morris, Surgical diseases of the kidney , Lea Brothers and Co, p. 74,
    • At the site of its termination in the bladder there was a diverticulum a few centimeters long.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site .}}
  • *
    • With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get
  • * 2006 , Ernest B Abbott , A Legal Guide to Homeland Security and Emergency Management for State and Local Governments , American Bar Association, ISBN 1590315936, p. 84,
    • EA critical first line of defense for entrance to more semi-public and semi-private areas of the site .
  • A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation; as, a site for a church.
  • * 1716 , Samuel Wesley, The history of the Old and New Testament, attempted in verse: And adorn'd with Three Hundred & Thirty Sculptures , John Hooke, p. 192,
    • The Town surrender'd soon, the Citadel,/Proud of its Site , do's their Assaults repel/Who e're their Idols cou'd, and them destroy,/For Life he shall the Gen'ral's place enjoy.
  • * 1716 , John Mortimer, Th. Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry: or, The way of managing and improving of land. Being a...[full title extends to 70 words]...The Second Volume...The Fourth Edition, with Additions , R. Robinson, and G. Mortlock, p. 208
    • Having given you an Account of the Site , Form, and other Ornaments of a Garden: I shall proceed to what remains for the beautifying of it, which is Flowers.
  • * 2006 , Geoff Surratt, Greg Ligon, Warren Bird, The Multi-Site Church Revolution: Being One Church in Many Locations , Zondervan, ISBN 0310270154, p. 7,
    • Our first site was the result of a building project that I am told was the first urban redevelopment initiated by a church since "white flight" began in the community surrounding our church.
  • The posture or position of a thing.
  • * 1709 , A Preliminary Discourse to the Commonitory of Vincentius Lirinensis Concerning the Rule of Faith, in Defence of the Primitive Fathers'' read in William Reeves, Tertullian, Marcus Minucius Felix, Vincent, Justin, ''The Apologies of Justin Martyr, Tertullian, and Minutius Felix in Defence of the Christian Religion...[full title extends to over 50 words] , A. and J. Churchill, p. 179,
    • And if this be the Shape, and Site , then the Refraction of the Rays coming from above onto the subjacent Ice, being as about Four to Three, they must when coming out of the superior Ice be as about Three to Four.
  • * 1724 , John Beaumont, Gleanings of Antiquities: containing, I. An Essay for Explaining the Creation and the Deluge, according to the Sense of the Gentiles...[full title extends to over 98 words] , W. Taylor, p. 11,
    • There is an Agreement ammong all their Authors regarding the Names of the said Times, and their Order, and concerning the Number of the Days in general, and of the Order of the Creation ; but concerning the Site of the Times, that is, in what Month, Day, and in what part of the Year they began, it is not so.
    2006 , Ernest B Abbott , A Legal Guide to Homeland Security and Emergency Management for State and Local Governments , American Bar Association, ISBN 1590315936, p. 84,
  • :* Maintain site setbacks as far as possible from roadways and other routes providing rapid public access.
  • A computer installation, particularly one associated with an intranet or internet service or telecommunications.
  • * 1982 , Jack B. Rochester, Perspectives on Information Management: A Critical Selection of Computerworld Feature Articles , John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0471869244, p. 433,
    • The data may be divided among a data base system's nodes in several ways. In a fully redundant data base system, each data base site contains a complete copy of the entire data base...
  • * 1991 , V. Yodaiken, K. Ramamritham, Verification of a Reliable Net Protocol'', read in J. (Jan) Vytopil (editor), ''Formal Techniques in Real-Time and Fault-Tolerant Systems: Second International Symposium, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, January 1992: Proceedings , Springer, ISBN 0387550925, p. 208,
    • If the site' is forced to send a mesage against its will,...we make the '''site''' go to an error state, and remain there. Note that the ' site can fail for other reasons.
  • * 2006 , Keith J. Dreyer, Pacs: A Guide to the Digital Revolution , Springer, ISBN 0387260102, p. 298,
    • The site with the DS3 connection can communicate back to our main network at 45 Mb/s.
  • A website.
  • * 1986 , Penguin Putnam Inc. Online, advertisement inside back cover of Howard Pyle The Story of King Arthur and His Knights , Signet Classic (1986), ISBN 0451524888, p. 398,
    • Every month you'll get an inside look at our upcoming books and new features on our site .
  • * 1992 , Publisher's notes on relevant web sites, in front of Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre , Wordsworth Editions (1992), ISBN 1853260207, p. xxvi,
    • Voice of the Shuttle: http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/shuttle/eng-vict.html; general site with excellent links to contextual as well as author-specific material.
  • * 2006 , Doug Addison, Web Site Cookbook , O'Reilly, ISBN 0596101090, p. 248,
    • When a new visitor arrives at your site', your web server should log the referring ' site , which is generally either a search engine or another web site.
  • (category theory) A category together with a choice of Grothendieck topology.
  • Region of a protein, a piece of DNA or RNA where chemical reactions take place.
  • A part of the body which has been operated on.
    • Derived terms
    * construction site

    Verb

    (sit)
  • (architecture) To situate or place a building.
    • The U.K. government is dusting off an alternative plan to site the center at a military outfit such as Porton Down.
  • * 1835 , Mining Journal ,
    • A reassessment of the requirements of the gold mining industry, including uranium production, for the next few years has revealed the urgent necessity for the provision of additional power, and steps have been taken to site and plan a new station.
  • * 1872 , Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, Transactions of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland , Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, p. 24,
    • For this reason it was found convenient to site pump rooms between groups of cargo tanks.
  • * 2006 , Mark Jaccard, Sustainable Fossil Fuels: The Unusual Suspect in the Quest for Clean And Enduring Energy , Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521861799, p. 22,
    • It is difficult to gauge current public attitudes to nuclear power in industrialized countries because there have been few efforts to site and construct new plants in the last twenty years.
  • * 2006 , The Scotsman (15 Dec 06) ,
    • Fury at plan to site homeless hostel near top Capital school.

    Related terms

    * situate * situation

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