zone

UK/zəʊn/US/zoʊn/

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Other forms: zones

A zone is an area marked off for a particular purpose. A no-go zone, time zone, zone of the pitch.

The marking off is the point: a zone exists because somebody drew a line and attached a rule to it. In the zone means performing without conscious effort, which is the athlete's name for flow. Note that the Greek zone means a belt or girdle — a zone was first a band around something.

Definitions of zone

1nounzoneAn area marked off for a particular purpose.B1
“The town centre is now a pedestrian zone, and cars are not allowed.”

zone is a marked area.

Where it comes from

Latin zona comes from Greek zone, a belt or girdle. The word first named a band around the earth.

Ancient Greek
ζώνη — girdle, belt
Latin
zōna
English, today
zone

From Latin zōna, from Ancient Greek ζώνη (“girdle, belt”). a doublet of zona.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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zone in the wild

A time zone is an area which observes a uniform standard time for legal, commercial, and social purposes.
Time zone
Japan Standard Time, or Japan Central Standard Time, is the standard time zone in Japan, 9 hours ahead of UTC.
Japan Standard Time
During World War II, the time zone was often referred to as Tokyo Standard Time.
Japan Standard Time
The Central Time Zone is a time zone in parts of Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central America, and a few Caribbean Islands.
Central Time Zone
The time in this zone is based on the mean solar time of the 75th meridian west of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich.
Eastern Time Zone

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