Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Wearing a zone, as a woman.
- Having zones, or bands resembling zones; zonate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Wearing a zone, or girdle.
- adjective Having zones, or concentric bands; striped.
- adjective (Bot.) Zonate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
zone .
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Examples
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But in the Zoned Zone, which lies along the coasts, a combination of high population density and land-use restrictions - hence "zoned" - makes it hard to build new houses.
Krugman explains the housing bubble... Mumon 2005
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While Levy admires a number of charter schools, he is no less impressed with charismatic principals in zoned schools: We’re not talking about charter versus noncharter; we’re talking about quality of leadership.
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This means 88 people per acre. 6000 acres of Tamra's land has been zoned, that is designated for farming or as green land.
Desicritics 2008
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But in the Zoned Zone, which lies along the coasts, a combination of high population density and land-use restrictions hence "zoned" makes it hard to build new houses.
Cap-and-Trade Bill Would Make Housing Less Affordable Wendell Cox 2010
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I think the 9th means what it says, and should include things like a right to preserve one's health (controversial abortions now and someday therapeutic cloning), a right to eat foie gras in Chicago, and a right to build as much house as you can afford on the land you can afford (even in towns "zoned" for rich people).
Balkinization 2006
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There was also some stuff about yard lines, birdies, and triple-axles, but I kind of zoned out at that point.
What's Better Than a Hockey Wreck? Jen 2008
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There was also some stuff about yard lines, birdies, and triple-axles, but I kind of zoned out at that point.
Archive 2008-10-01 Jen 2008
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I kind of zoned out on the methodology section while I was getting my wifi connection up and running, but the slides on the presentation are in the book, which says that they got results on their survey by mass-emailing their 19,000 students, and got a 14% reply rate, or 2700 responses.
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Even newspapers, once the medium promoted as offering "something for everyone," have focused increasingly on upscale suburbanites with "zoned" editions edited for specific neighborhoods and a greater emphasis on local news, lifestyle, and personal finance.
One Nation, Unquestionable: The News Media Responds to September 11 2001
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I kind of zoned out while A. handled the conversation.
partygirl Diary Entry partygirl 2001
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