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Grammar : Adj
Spell : zohn
Phonetic Transcription : zoʊn

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Définition of zoned

Origin :
  • late 14c., from Latin zona "geographical belt, celestial zone," from Greek zone "a belt," related to zonnynai "to gird," from PIE root *yes- "to gird, girdle" (cf. Avestan yasta- "girt," Lithuanian juosiu "to gird," Old Church Slavonic po-jasu "girdle").
  • Originally one of the five great divisions of the earth's surface (torrid, temperate, frigid; separated by tropics of Cancer and Capricorn and Arctic and Antarctic circles); meaning "any discrete region" is first recorded 1822. Zone defense in team sports is recorded from 1927. Zoning "land-use planning" is recorded from 1912. Zoned (adj.) in drug-use sense is attested 1960s, from ozone, which is found high in the atmosphere; the related verb to zone is from 1980s.
  • As in outlined : adj marked in outline
Example sentences :
  • This differs from L. cilicioides in its zoned pileus and white milk.
  • Extract from : « The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise » by M. E. Hard
  • I could hear he lov'd Some fair immortal, and that his embrace Had zoned her through the night.
  • Extract from : « Endymion » by John Keats
  • Flesh white, zoned and clouded with different shades of red.
  • Extract from : « The Field and Garden Vegetables of America » by Fearing Burr
  • Flesh white, zoned or marked with yellow, close-grained and sugary.
  • Extract from : « The Field and Garden Vegetables of America » by Fearing Burr
  • The surface is velvety, or hairy, and zoned in varying colors.
  • Extract from : « Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous » by Thomas Taylor
  • She wore a mantle of green silk, inlaid with eider-down, and zoned round her waist with garlands of wild flowers.
  • Extract from : « Legends of the North; The Guidman O' Inglismill and The Fairy Bride » by Patrick Buchan
  • Flesh white, circled or zoned with bright pink; not very close-grained, but very sugary and well-flavored.
  • Extract from : « The Field and Garden Vegetables of America » by Fearing Burr
  • Flesh pale yellow, zoned or circled with white, not close-grained, but sugary.
  • Extract from : « The Field and Garden Vegetables of America » by Fearing Burr
  • It is a warm orange-brown in color, varying slightly with age, and is not zoned.
  • Extract from : « Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous » by Thomas Taylor
  • He waited until the whole valley was zoned with a glittering girdle, but no light glimmered out through his native trees.
  • Extract from : « Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 » by Lucy Maud Montgomery

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