ZONE

Zone

Zone was an all-female pop rock band started in Sapporo, Japan in 1999. Although it initially started as a dance group, they turned to an all-female band. Zone has been categorized in a new genre called "bandol" . The band was started by Studio RunTime and released their first single, "Good Days", under the major record label Sony Records, on February 7, 2001. The group has officially ended on March 2, 2013.

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zone

Noun

  1. 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).
  2. 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.
  3. 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
  4. A band or stripe extending around a body.
  5. A series of planes having mutually parallel intersections.
  6. Short for the strike zone.
    That pitch was low and away, just outside of the zone.
  7. A high-performance phase or period.
    I just got in the zone late in the game: everything was going in.
  8. That collection of a domain's DNS resource records, the domain and its subdomains, that are not delegated to another authority.
  9. A logical group of network devices on AppleTalk.
  10. A belt or girdle.
  11. The frustum of a sphere.
  12. circuit; circumference

Verb

  1. To divide into or assign sections or areas.
    Please zone off our staging area, a section for each group.
  2. To define the property use classification of an area.
    This area was zoned for industrial use.
  3. 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)
  4. To girdle or encircle.


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