Region vs. Zone

Regionnoun

Any considerable and connected part of a space or surface; specifically, a tract of land or sea of considerable but indefinite extent; a country; a district; in a broad sense, a place without special reference to location or extent but viewed as an entity for geographical, social or cultural reasons.

Regionnoun

An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country or the European Union.

Regionnoun

(historical) Such a division of the city of Rome and of the territory about Rome, of which the number varied at different times; a district, quarter, or ward.

Regionnoun

(figuratively) The inhabitants of a region or district of a country.

Regionnoun

(anatomy) A place in or a part of the body in any way indicated.

Regionnoun

(obsolete) Place; rank; station; dignity.

Regionnoun

(obsolete) The space from the earth's surface out to the orbit of the moon: properly called the elemental region.

Regionnoun

One of the grand districts or quarters into which any space or surface, as of the earth or the heavens, is conceived of as divided; hence, in general, a portion of space or territory of indefinite extent; country; province; district; tract.

Regionnoun

Tract, part, or space, lying about and including anything; neighborhood; vicinity; sphere.

Regionnoun

The upper air; the sky; the heavens.

Regionnoun

The inhabitants of a district.

Regionnoun

Place; rank; station.

Regionnoun

the extended spatial location of something;

Regionnoun

a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve;

Regionnoun

a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth;

Regionnoun

the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of');

Regionnoun

a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about;

Region

In geography, regions are areas that are broadly divided by physical characteristics (physical geography), human impact characteristics (human geography), and the interaction of humanity and the environment (environmental geography). Geographic regions and sub-regions are mostly described by their imprecisely defined, and sometimes transitory boundaries, except in human geography, where jurisdiction areas such as national borders are defined in law.

Zonenoun

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).

Zonenoun

Any given region or area of the world.

Zonenoun

A given area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic, use, restriction, etc.

Zonenoun

A band or area of growth encircling anything.

Zonenoun

A band or stripe extending around a body.

Zonenoun

(crystallography) A series of planes having mutually parallel intersections.

Zonenoun

The strike zone.

Zonenoun

(ice hockey) Every of the three parts of an ice rink, divided by two blue lines.

Zonenoun

(handball) A semicircular area in front of each goal.

Zonenoun

A high-performance phase or period.

Zonenoun

A defensive scheme where defenders guard a particular area of the court or field, as opposed to a particular opposing player.

Zonenoun

(networking) That collection of a domain's DNS resource records, the domain and its subdomains, that are not delegated to another authority.

Zonenoun

(Apple computing) A logical group of network devices on AppleTalk.

Zonenoun

A belt or girdle.

Zonenoun

(geometry) The curved surface of a frustum of a sphere, the portion of surface of a sphere delimited by parallel planes.

Zonenoun

A frustum of a sphere.

Zonenoun

A circuit; a circumference.

Zoneverb

To divide into or assign sections or areas.

Zoneverb

To define the property use classification of an area.

Zoneverb

To enter a daydream state temporarily, for instance as a result of boredom, fatigue, or intoxication; to doze off.

Zoneverb

To girdle or encircle.

Zonenoun

A girdle; a cincture.

Zonenoun

One of the five great divisions of the earth, with respect to latitude and temperature.

Zonenoun

The portion of the surface of a sphere included between two parallel planes; the portion of a surface of revolution included between two planes perpendicular to the axis.

Zonenoun

A band or stripe extending around a body.

Zonenoun

A series of planes having mutually parallel intersections.

Zonenoun

Circuit; circumference.

Zonenoun

An area or part of a region characterized by uniform or similar animal and plant life; a life zone; as, Littoral zone, Austral zone, etc.

Zonenoun

A series of faces whose intersection lines with each other are parallel.

Zonenoun

The aggregate of stations, in whatsoever direction or on whatsoever line of railroad, situated between certain maximum and minimum limits from a point at which a shipment of traffic originates.

Zonenoun

any area to or within which a shipment or transportation cost is constant;

Zoneverb

To girdle; to encircle.

Zonenoun

a circumscribed geographical region characterized by some distinctive features

Zonenoun

any of the regions of the surface of the Earth loosely divided according to latitude or longitude

Zonenoun

an area or region distinguished from adjacent parts by a distinctive feature or characteristic

Zonenoun

(anatomy) any encircling or beltlike structure

Zoneverb

regulate housing in; of certain areas of towns

Zoneverb

separate or apportion into sections;