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Zone can be a noun or a verb.
zone used as a noun:
- 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).
- Any given region or area of the world.
- A given area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic, use, restriction, etc.
"There is a no-smoking zone that extends 25 feet outside of each entrance." - Short for the strike zone.
"That pitch was low and away, just outside of the zone." - A high performance phase or period.
"I just got in a zone late in the game, everything was going in." - That collection of a domain's DNS resource records, the domain and its subdomains, that are not delegated to another authority.
- A logical group of network devices on AppleTalk.
- A belt worn by priests in the Greek Orthodox church.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
zone used as a verb:
- To divide into or assign sections or areas.
"Please zone off our staging area, a section for each group." - To define the property use classification of an area.
"This area was zoned for industrial use." - To temporarily enter a daydream state, for instance as a result of boredom, fatigue, or intoxication; to doze off.
"I must have zoned while he was giving us the directions."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
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What type of word is zone?
- Noun usage: There is a no-smoking zone that extends 25 feet outside of each entrance.
- Noun usage: The white zone is for loading and unloading only.
- Noun usage: That pitch was low and away, just outside of the zone.
- Noun usage: I just got in a zone late in the game, everything was going in.
- Verb usage: Please zone off our staging area, a section for each group.
- Verb usage: This area was zoned for industrial use.
- Verb usage: I must have zoned while he was giving us the directions.
- Verb usage: Everyone just put their goddamn heads together and zoned. (Byron Coley, liner notes for the album "Piece for Jetsun Dolma" by Thurston Moore)
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of zone are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of zone, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
