Of or pertaining to a zone; having the form of a zone or zones.
This would have the effect of bursting the shell at the muzzles, and so creating a death-zone of leaden bullets through which the attacking infantry would have to fight their way.
The battery position, we found, was just on the borderland of this zone of desolation.
I am directly responsible for the welfare and efficiency of the battery which this long train is bearing into the zone of war.
In a colder clime their condition would have been sufficiently comfortless; but in the ocean atmosphere of the torrid zone the night hours are warm enough to render "wet sheets" not only endurable, but at times even pleasant.
The tomatoes do not rival ours, but Tahiti being seventeen degrees below the equator, one cannot expect such tropical regions to produce temperate-zone plants to perfection.
The officers and stewards appeared in white; the passengers, too, put off their temperate-zone clothes, and the decks were gay with color.
Above this is the region of eternal snow, an Arctic zone within the tropics.
What we may term the littoral or shore zoneof the sea occupies a belt of prevailingly shallow water, varying in width from a few score to a few hundred miles.
Under the tropics, in the doldrum belt, there is a zone of low barometer connected to the ascending currents which take place along that line.
They lift their materials miles above the level where they were originally laid, probably from a zone which is rarely if ever exposed to view, placing them near the surface, where the erosive agents can readily find access to them.
In many regions, where the earth has worn down so as to reveal the zone of dikes which was formed at a great depth, the surface of the country is fairly laced with these intrusions.
The hot springs and volcanoes work swiftly and directly, and return the water, the carbon dioxide, and a host of other vaporizable and soluble and fusible substances to the realm of solar activity, to the living surface zone of the earth.
The most important variations which occur in the deposits of the littoral zone are brought about by the formations of rocks more or less composed of limestone.
The greater part of these ruptures below the serac zonerun from the sides of the stream toward the centre without attaining that region.
Footnote 126: This uninhabitable zone was gradually reduced by the improvements of ancient geography, from forty-five to twenty-four, or even sixteen degrees of latitude.
The skin under the postage stamps was thickened, necrotic, of a yellowish-white colour, puffy with the serum of the blood and leucocytes, and surrounded by an intensely red zone of inflammation.
The symptoms of the disease are severe pain in the upper left zone of the abdomen, that is, above and to the left of the umbilicus.
The Germans were still making continuous and determined efforts to break through to Ypres by way of Klein Zillebeke, and to that particular zone of the fighting our attention can henceforth be confined.
Steele, who was the only man in the whole section who had not been killed or wounded, caught him up in his arms and carried him across the fire zone to a place of safety beyond, where however he later on succumbed to his wounds.
The Gordons, on the right of the Middlesex, also suffered severely, but the Royal Scots beyond them were just outside of the zone of pressure, and their casualties were few.
So the position of the sleeper must vary according as he finds himself to the north or south of the torrid zone or within it.
At length he entered a zoneof shade, and looked up.
Venters ran down the declivity to enter a zone of light shade streaked with sunshine.
The advantage of such an invention when the war zone is filled with submarines waiting for a chance for pot shots at craft is obvious.
Other vessels soon followed, and the country witnessed the anomalous condition of the navy in war service in the European war zone before war was declared.
The particulars in the above paragraph refer to United States naval forces operating in the war zone from French ports.
We haven't worried about them because we only got into the war zone last night; but I may have more to write about before we get into Bordeaux on Wednesday or Thursday.
The seas of the war zone are, of course, filled with all sorts of flotsam and jetsam, and very often that which appears to be a periscope is nothing of the sort.
But to send them to the war zone and then have them lost was a heart-breaking situation for every one concerned.
Assignment to duty and the despatch abroad of naval vessels for operations in the war zone in conjunction with the naval forces of our allies.
When we follow these zones over to the United States we find an attempt to make the middle of each zone correct to local time, so at the hour jumping points, we pass from half an hour slow to half an hour fast, or the reverse.
For the present, banish this zonesystem from your mind and let us consider the beginning and ending of a day, using strictly local time.
The first zone commences at Greenwich and as that is near the eastern edge of the British Islands, their single zone time is fast at nearly all places, especially the west coast of Ireland.
Parcels containing books weighing 8 ounces or less will be carried anywhere for 1 cent for each 2 ounces, and on those weighing more than 8 ounces, the parcel-post rate for the zone will apply.
A simple electrical appliance will turn any office or bedroom into a zone of quiet.
The proposal that after teams have lined up for play, the team in possession of the ball will not be allowed to encroach on the neutral zone in shift plays, before the ball is snapped, was also adopted.
The image of this zone upon the screen is crossed by portions of the iris-rings.
Let a thin slice of light fall upon the glasses which show the rings, so as to cover a narrow central vertical zone passing through them all.
Subjecting the reflected beam to prismatic analysis, the resultant spectrum may be regarded as an indefinite number of images of the zone placed side by side.
In the case of the plate of selenite, a slit is placed in front of the polarizer, and the film of selenite is held close to the slit, so that the light passes through the centralzone of the film.
It is no mere accident that all civilisation began and first flourished exclusively in that zone which is equally removed from the equator and from the polar circle.
For the pacification of the most quarrelsome and unquestionably the bravest of all the tribes of the equatorial zone was not too dearly bought by the sacrifice of a few thousand pounds sterling per annum.
The notion that the torrid zone engenders stagnation of mind and body is a foolish fancy.
The forest zone proved to be of comparatively small breadth, and on the morning of the 30th we emerged from it again into open undulating park-land.
The main part of the agriculture had been transferred to a plain some 650 feet lower down, beyond the zone of forest.
Then first did necessity teach men how to employ the elemental forces in increasing the productiveness of human labour; the moderately cold zone is the birthplace of man's dominion over nature.
In that temperate zone were found united all the conditions which protected the still infantile art of production from the danger of being crushed on the one hand or stunted on the other by the overwhelming power or the parsimony of nature.
At the north end of the Zone are the cities of Cristobal and Colon, the latter in Panama.
Hundreds of Negroes with oil cans sprayed almost every nook and corner of the Zone with kerosene.
The Canal Zone is a strip of land ten miles wide across the Isthmus of Panama, the distance being about forty miles from shore to shore.
A mighty victory was won by Gorgas and today the Canal Zone is as healthful as any tropical country on earth.
We paid the Republic of Panama ten million dollars for the lease on the zone through which the canal passes, and are now paying the same government two hundred and fifty thousand dollars per year to keep them in a good humor.
Further, Wing Commander Samson got into touch with Captain Goldsmith, of the General Headquarters Intelligence Department, and, by his efforts, was put in control of the gendarmes in the villages of the zone where he was operating.
The main idea of these preparations was to organize attacks on the German lines of communication in the zone of country between Lille and Valenciennes.
The village had been on the edge of the fighting zone for months, had been casually shelled each day in normal times, bombarded furiously during every attack or counter-attack.
The space covered by the Forward Officer's zone was flat and bare of cover clear to the German trench two hundred yards away.
Empty as it is, it is moving fast, and with luck and a clear road it will be well inside the danger zone at the back door of the trenches in less than twenty minutes.
This was no 'artillery preparation for the assault,' although the Royal Blanks did not know that and so dare not stir from the danger zone of the forward trench.
The Germs must have thought there was a big assault on, and their gunners were putting a zone of fire behind the trenches to stop supports coming up.
Up to the shrapnel zone the advance could press; through, it could not.
All the time they were under the fire of high-explosive shells and had to pass through a zone or 'barrage' of shrapnel built across their path for just this special purpose of destroying supports and supplies.
The strait-waistcoat is the narrowest zone of confinement, and the padded room but a little wider.
The drifting rain fell upon their hair, and they were exposed in cold, wet weather to a temperature which even man, who ranges from the torrid zone to the arctic circle, could not resist unprotected.
During the continuation of the fighting in the northern part of the line, the Austrian lines on the Carso Plateau and on the coastal zone began to bend and give way at various points.
In the second zone it was permissible to form groups of the size allowed in the first zone, on days of poor visibility, but there must be intervals of 500 yards.
American participation from the west had been less conspicuous; but American troops left their mark, whatever their zone of operations, and in this area they made their presence painfully felt south of Soissons.
As they proceeded disconsolately toward the zone of the German prison cages, they encountered a small body of British troops who had been separated from their comrades and were wandering about aimlessly.
On the former date this was accomplished near Log, in the northern zone of the plateau, and on the latter date in the southeastern corner.
Though lines of demarcation intervene, No peaceful neutralzone may lie between.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "zone" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
