zone

«zone» in Mova's judaism dictionary: an area or part of a place that is different from the… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a zone, zones); verb (zone, zones, zoned, zoning; zone out)

meaning for a pupil

1) A zone is an area or part of a place that is different from the areas around it or is used for a special purpose. tree →

2) Time zones are areas of the world that use the same clock time. tree →

3) To zone out means to stop paying attention. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life and safety: a «no-parking zone», a «school zone» where cars must drive slowly, a «danger zone», a «quiet zone» in the library. In geography, climate zones (tropical, temperate, polar) and time zones divide the world; when you fly to another time zone, you change your clock. In PE, a playground may have zones for different games. In maths problems with time zones you add or subtract hours.

examples

• By Indians he might have meant Ethio- pians, or any other nation under the torrid zone which the ancients used tu denominate as Indians (T. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →
• Drivers must slow down in the school zone. tree →
• This is a quiet zone; please whisper. tree →
• The playground has a football zone and a quiet zone. tree →
• London and New York are in different time zones. tree →
• Polar bears live in the cold polar zone. tree →
• Stay out of the danger zone near the machine. tree →
• I zoned out during the long film. tree →

note

Countable. Time zones: New York is usually 5 hours behind London, so when it is 3 pm in London it is 10 am in New York (subtract 5). «In the zone» means fully focused and doing well. «Zone out» is informal.

In the corpora

• Nobody should pick mushrooms or berries in the zone.
• Zoning out happens to everyone and is not laziness; you can refocus by asking yourself a question about the topic.
• "Theatre of operations" is military jargon for a war zone.
• The area all around a school bus where the driver cannot see you well is called the danger zone.
• A school zone sign means cars must drive slower near the school at certain times, because children are near the road.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «zone» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.