The difference between Zone and Zone out

When used as verbs, zone means to divide into or assign sections or areas, whereas zone out means to stop paying attention and think about something else, or to think about nothing.

Zone is also noun with the meaning: 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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  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.

  1. Zone out as a verb (informal, intransitive):

    To stop paying attention and think about something else, or to think about nothing

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