to zone
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4.2
- verb
- /zoʊn/
- Do you ever catch yourself zoning out, drifting off, or staring into space?
- municipalities can zone
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Examples
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Armed with a well-defined police power mandate and an honest assessment of all community needs, municipalities must instead zone in the public interest.
Academic text (2001) -
In contrast, men will zone out from the day's pressures by silently heading for the couch and the remote.
Blog text (18) -
And also, this slow process gives me the opportunity to both zone in and zone out.
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But it kind of goes through zone by zone his approach.
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People listen to me and they zone out...
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You get into a place where you zone everything out.
Blog text (1) -
But why did you zone in on that and niche on that?
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When I'm playing, I can zone out all the noise.
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"You keep zoning out," Terry said.
Fiction book (1996) -
The city planners decided to zone the area to accommodate residential and commercial buildings.
Synonyms
494
1.1
To split something into parts or groups
10
3.5
To divide something into separate parts
10
4.0
To divide something into parts
4
3.3
To divide something into separate parts
1
6.8
To divide a country or organization into regions for local control
1
3.9
To divide a space using a wall or screen
1
8.0
To divide a country or city into areas for local government
1
5.8
To divide a place into areas for official use
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
To do new or difficult things on purpose to learn and grow
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
- Specialized
39
4.1
An area near a port where companies store goods for export without paying customs duties
- Specialized
12
4.4
Area over home plate between a batter's knees and shoulders where a pitch must pass to be called a strike
- Specialized
10
6.0
An area where supplies or soldiers are dropped from a plane by parachute
2
7.2
A strip of land across Panama with the Panama Canal that the United States once ran
2
3.8
Areas of Earth between the hot tropics and the cold polar regions that have mild weather
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6.0
A strip of land across Panama that included the Panama Canal and was controlled by the United States until 1979
- Specialized
1
4.3
A temperature range around 28 to 30°C where a person with no clothes does not shiver or sweat
- NSFW
1
7.2
An area of sea or land used as a route by smugglers to move drugs between places
- Jargon
1
9.5
Artillery or mortar guns fire in one direction with changing elevation to hit different distances across a target area
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7.3
A very hot area of the Earth between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn
- Specialized
1
9.9
A very deep part of the ocean below 2,000 meters with no light, very cold water, and high pressure
- Specialized
1
9.9
The part of the ocean between the shallow sea edge and the deep sea, about 200 to 2000 meters deep
- Specialized
1
7.7
Area along the edge of a sea or lake that is often affected by water
- Specialized
1
4.5
The part of Earth between the Arctic Circle and the Tropic of Cancer with changing seasons
1
5.1
Part of the Earth in the south between the Antarctic Circle and the Tropic of Capricorn
- Specialized
The part of the sea that includes the bottom and the area near the shore
- Jargon
An area where aircraft drop supplies or people to support soldiers on the ground
- Specialized
The shallow part of the sea near the shore that gets sunlight and has many sea animals
- Specialized
Area around the South Pole inside the Antarctic Circle that includes Antarctica and nearby seas
- Formal
An area away from the front where the military keeps supplies and has offices
How Divided
Surface Forms
Etymology
To zone comes from the same Greek zōnē 'belt', like putting a belt around part of a map. That's why to zone land is to divide it into sections for a specific purpose.