Location vs. Zone

Location vs. Zone — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Location and Zone

Locationnoun

A particular point or place in physical space.

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).

Locationnoun

An act of locating.

Zonenoun

Any given region or area of the world.

Locationnoun

(South Africa) An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; township.

Zonenoun

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.The white zone is for loading and unloading only.Files in the Internet zone are blocked by default, as a security measure.
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Locationnoun

(legal) A leasing on rent.

Zonenoun

A band or area of growth encircling anything.

a zone of evergreens on a mountain; the zone of animal or vegetable life in the ocean around an island or a continent

Locationnoun

A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire.

Zonenoun

A band or stripe extending around a body.

Locationnoun

The marking out of the boundaries, or identifying the place or site of, a piece of land, according to the description given in an entry, plan, map, etc.

Zonenoun

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

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Locationnoun

a point or extent in space

Zonenoun

The strike zone.

That pitch was low and away, just outside of the zone.

Locationnoun

the act of putting something in a certain place or location

Zonenoun

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

Players are off side, if they enter the attacking zone before the puck.

Locationnoun

a determination of the location of something;

he got a good fix on the target

Zonenoun

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

Zonenoun

A high-performance phase or period.

I just got in the zone late in the game: everything was going in.

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.

Please zone off our staging area, a section for each group.

Zoneverb

To define the property use classification of an area.

This area was zoned for industrial use.

Zoneverb

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

I must have zoned while he was giving us the directions.Everyone just put their goddamn heads together and zoned. (Byron Coley, liner notes for the album "Piece for Jetsun Dolma" by Thurston Moore)

Zoneverb

To girdle or 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;

partition a room off