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Zoneless vs Boneless - What's the difference?

zoneless | boneless |

As adjectives the difference between zoneless and boneless

is that zoneless is without zones; unzoned while boneless is without bones, especially as pertaining to meat or poultry prepared for eating.

zoneless

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Without zones; unzoned.
  • (literary, archaic) Without a belt or girdle.
  • That reeling Goddess with the zoneless waist — Cowper.

    boneless

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Without bones, especially as pertaining to meat or poultry prepared for eating.
  • *
  • The packers were always originating such schemes—they had what they called "boneless hams," which were all the odds and ends of pork stuffed into casings.
  • (chiefly, British, figuratively) Lacking strength, courage, or resolve; spineless.
  • * 1916 , , (Uneasy Money) , ch. 18:
  • I'm scared, I'm just boneless with fright.
  • * 1931 , (Winston Churchill), House of Commons, 13 May:
  • I remember, when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit [...] which I most desired to see was the one described as "The Boneless' Wonder." My parents judged that the spectacle would be too revolting and demoralizing for my youthful eyes, and I have waited fifty years to see the ' boneless wonder sitting on the Treasury Bench.
  • * 2006 , Graham Searjeant, " Loyalty pays off for M&S shareholders", (The Times) of London, 11 November:
  • Had the Green consortium made a straight bid, boneless fund managers would easily have outvoted private investors.
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  • References

    * Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989.