Zone vs Strip - 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.
(countable, uncountable) Material in long, thin pieces.
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A landing strip.
A strip steak.
A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
(fencing) The fencing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
(UK football) the uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
Striptease.
(mining) A trough for washing ore.
The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
To remove or take away.
(usually) To take off clothing.
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To perform a striptease.
To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
* Bible, Genesis xxxvii. 23
* Macaulay
* The robbers stripped Norm of everything he owned.
* 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part III Chapter XI, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
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To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear.
To remove the thread or teeth from (a screw, nut, or gear).
To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
(bridge) To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also, strip-squeeze.)
To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).
To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.
(television) To run a television series at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.
(agriculture) To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
(obsolete) To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
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To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands"; to remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).
As nouns the difference between zone and strip
is that zone is zone while strip is (countable|uncountable) material in long, thin pieces.As a verb strip is
to remove or take away.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,
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).
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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
* ----strip
English
Etymology 1
From alteration ofNoun
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.}}
- (Farrow)
Derived terms
* bimetal strip * clip strip * comic strip * electronic strip * landing strip * * nature strip * rubbing strip * strip cartoon * strip mallEtymology 2
From (etyl)Verb
- Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair.
- They stripped Joseph out of his coat.
- opinions which no clergyman could have avowed without imminent risk of being stripped of his gown
- He was obliged to sell his silver piece by piece; next he sold the drawing-room furniture. All the rooms were stripped ; but the bedroom, her own room, remained as before.
citation, page= , passage=The lawyer and twice-divorced mother of three had presented herself as the modern face of her party, trying to strip' it of unsavoury overtones after her father's convictions for saying the Nazi occupation of France was not "particularly inhumane".}}
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- After the confession, the lawsuits. Lance Armstrong's extended appearance on the Oprah Winfrey network, in which the man stripped of seven Tour de France wins finally admitted to doping, has opened him up to several multi-million dollar legal challenges.
- The thread is stripped .
- The screw is stripped .
- when first they stripped the Malean promontory
- Before he reached it he was out of breath, / And then the other stripped him.