The difference between Belt and Zone

When used as nouns, belt means a band worn around the waist to hold clothing to one's body (usually pants), hold weapons (such as a gun or sword), or serve as a decorative piece of clothing, whereas zone means 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).

When used as verbs, belt means to encircle, whereas zone means to divide into or assign sections or areas.

check bellow for the other definitions of Belt and Zone

  1. Belt as a noun:

    A band worn around the waist to hold clothing to one's body (usually pants), hold weapons (such as a gun or sword), or serve as a decorative piece of clothing.

    Examples:

    "As part of the act, the fat clown's belt broke, causing his pants to fall down."

  2. Belt as a noun:

    A band used as a restraint for safety purposes, such as a seat belt.

    Examples:

    "Keep your belt fastened; this is going to be quite a bumpy ride."

  3. Belt as a noun:

    A band that is used in a machine to help transfer motion or power.

    Examples:

    "The motor had a single belt that snaked its way back and forth around a variety of wheels."

  4. Belt as a noun:

    Anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or crosses like a belt; a strip or stripe.

    Examples:

    "a belt of trees; a belt of sand"

  5. Belt as a noun:

    A trophy in the shape of a belt, generally awarded for martial arts.

    Examples:

    "the heavyweight belt"

  6. Belt as a noun (astronomy):

    A collection of rocky-constituted bodies (such as asteroids) which orbit a star.

  7. Belt as a noun (astronomy):

    One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds.

  8. Belt as a noun:

    A powerful blow, often made with a fist or heavy object.

    Examples:

    "After the bouncer gave him a solid belt to the gut, Simon had suddenly had enough of barfighting."

  9. Belt as a noun:

    A quick drink of liquor.

    Examples:

    "Care to join me in a belt of scotch?"

  10. Belt as a noun (usually, capitalized):

    A geographical region known for a particular product, feature or demographic (Corn Belt, Bible Belt, Black Belt, Green Belt).

  11. Belt as a noun (baseball):

    The part of the strike zone at the height of the batter's waist.

    Examples:

    "That umpire called that pitch a strike at the belt."

  12. Belt as a noun (weapons):

    device that holds and feeds cartridges into a belt-fed weapon

  1. Belt as a verb (transitive):

    To encircle.

    Examples:

    "The small town was belted by cornfields in all directions."

  2. Belt as a verb (transitive):

    To fasten a belt on.

    Examples:

    "Edgar belted himself in and turned the car's ignition."

    "The rotund man had difficulty belting his pants, and generally wore suspenders to avoid the issue."

  3. Belt as a verb (transitive):

    To invest (a person) with a belt as part of a formal ceremony such as knighthood.

  4. Belt as a verb (transitive):

    To hit with a belt.

    Examples:

    "The child was misbehaving so he was belted as punishment."

  5. Belt as a verb (transitive):

    To scream or sing in a loud manner.

    Examples:

    "He belted out the national anthem."

  6. Belt as a verb (transitive):

    To drink quickly, often in gulps.

    Examples:

    "He belted down a shot of whisky."

  7. Belt as a verb (transitive, slang):

    To hit someone or something.

    Examples:

    "The angry player belted the official across the face, and as a result was ejected from the game."

  8. Belt as a verb (transitive, baseball):

    To hit a pitched ball a long distance, usually for a home run.

    Examples:

    "He belted that pitch over the grandstand."

  9. Belt as a verb (intransitive):

    To move very fast

    Examples:

    "He was really belting along."

  1. Zone as a noun (geography, now, _, rare):

    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).

  2. Zone as a noun:

    Any given region or area of the world.

  3. Zone as a noun:

    A given area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic, use, restriction, etc.

    Examples:

    "There is a no-smoking zone that extends 25 feet outside of each entrance."

    "The white zone is for loading and unloading only."

    "Files in the Internet zone are blocked by default, as a security measure."

  4. Zone as a noun:

    A band or area of growth encircling anything.

    Examples:

    "a zone of evergreens on a mountain; the zone of animal or vegetable life in the ocean around an island or a continent"

  5. Zone as a noun:

    A band or stripe extending around a body.

  6. Zone as a noun (crystallography):

    A series of planes having mutually parallel intersections.

  7. Zone as a noun (baseball, informal):

    The strike zone.

    Examples:

    "That pitch was low and away, just outside of the zone."

  8. Zone as a noun (ice hockey):

    Every of the three parts of an ice rink, divided by two blue lines.

    Examples:

    "Players are off side, if they enter the attacking zone before the puck."

  9. Zone as a noun (handball):

    A semicircular area in front of each goal.

  10. Zone as a noun (chiefly, sports):

    A high-performance phase or period.

    Examples:

    "I just got in the zone late in the game: everything was going in."

  11. Zone as a noun (basketball, American football):

    A defensive scheme where defenders guard a particular area of the court or field, as opposed to a particular opposing player.

  12. Zone as a noun (networking):

    That collection of a domain's DNS resource records, the domain and its subdomains, that are not delegated to another authority.

  13. Zone as a noun (Apple computing):

    A logical group of network devices on AppleTalk.

  14. Zone as a noun (now, _, literary):

    A belt or girdle.

  15. Zone as a noun (geometry):

    The curved surface of a frustum of a sphere, the portion of surface of a sphere delimited by parallel planes.

  16. Zone as a noun (geometry, loosely, perhaps by meronymy):

    A frustum of a sphere.

  17. Zone as a noun:

    A circuit; a circumference.

  1. Zone as a verb:

    To divide into or assign sections or areas.

    Examples:

    "Please zone off our staging area, a section for each group."

  2. Zone as a verb:

    To define the property use classification of an area.

    Examples:

    "This area was zoned for industrial use."

  3. Zone as a verb:

    To enter a daydream state temporarily, for instance as a result of boredom, fatigue, or intoxication; to doze off.

    Examples:

    "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)"

  4. Zone as a verb:

    To girdle or encircle.

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