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zoned, a.|zəʊnd|
[f. zone n. or v. + -ed.]
†1. Located in a zone or region of the celestial sphere: = zonic a. Obs. rare—1.
1662Stanley Hist. Chaldaick Philos. 4 Or else by fiery Zone, he means the Seat of the zoned Deities just above the Empyreal or Corporeal Heaven.
2. Wearing a zone or girdle. Hence, virgin, chaste.
1718Pope Odyss. xxiii. 142 Fair zoned damsels. 1829Lytton Devereux ii. ix, A zoned and untainted Innocence.
3. Characterized by or arranged (naturally) in zones, rings, or bands.
1794R. J. Sulivan View Nat. I. 435 The zoned or tabulated form of the onyx. 1805–17R. Jameson Char. Min. (ed. 3) 213 Zoned (zonaire), when a row of facets is arranged around the middle part, thus forming a kind of zone or girdle. Example, Zoned calcareous-spar. 1845G. Dodd Brit. Manuf. Ser. iv. 200 As a fifth source of variety [in wood] may be mentioned eyes, zoned spots, and curls.
b. Marked with zones, circles, or bands of colour.
1792Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 2) III. 433 Auricularia ferruginea,..zoned above. 1805Shaw Nat. Misc. XVI. pl. 657 The Zoned Parrot. 1849W. H. Harvey Brit. Mar. Algæ 121 Zoned tetraspores exist in Rhod[ymenia] ciliata. 1874Birch 1st and 2nd Egypt. Rooms B. Mus. 31 With side handles of zoned alabaster.
4. a. Arranged according to zones or definite regions.
1795Herschel in Phil. Trans. LXXXV. 384 A zoned catalogue of the stars. 1890A. M. Clerke Syst. Stars v. 80 The spectra of the great nebulæ, like those of the ‘zoned’ stars, must be considered as integrating the results of emanations taking their rise under notably diverse circumstances.
b. Distributed according to zones. Cf. zone v. 5.
1943Daily Express 16 Sept. 3/3 Compelling some grocers to buy their zoned cake through the co-ops.
5. (Town) Planning. Designated for a particular type of use or development. orig. U.S.
1920Michigan Rep. (Michigan Supreme Court) May 210 A penalty is provided for violation of said ordinance with a mandate prohibiting departments of the city from issuing permits for erection of the forbidden buildings within such zoned district. 1939Florida (Fed. Writers' Project) iii. 396 Zoned residential, business, and industrial districts. 1970Cape Times 28 Oct. 20/3 (Advt.), Paarl shopping centre. On 11000 sq. ft., zoned special business with free car park..in fast developing area.
▸ slang (orig. and chiefly U.S.). Perhaps influenced by ozoned adj., zonked adj., or stoned adj.; though compare spaced adj. Also with out. a. Of a person: intoxicated by drugs or alcohol; (in extended use) characteristic of a person in such a state; weird, offbeat, surreal. Cf. zonked adj. 1.
1971Current Slang (Univ. S. Dakota) 6 11 Zoned, drunk. 1982Time (Nexis) 4 Jan. 86 A well-turned hour of live, zoned-out comedy, which featured everything from Belushi to Bartok and raised the question, ‘Did the dinosaurs build Stonehenge?’. 1985U.S. News & World Rep. 1 Apr. 68/2 A few are so doped they're zombies... You just about have to set a cherry bomb off under them to get their heads up because they're all zoned out. 1987N. Spinrad Little Heroes 332 He was zoned, hung over, and exhausted already, and the contemplation of sex brought only unbearable images that quenched any desire. 1991Boston Globe 27 Dec. (Living Section) 48/5 Peppered with howler cameos, ranging from Deborah Harry's metallic-beehive moan with a screeching nails-on-a-blackboard voice to Pia Zadora's zoned-out hippie. 1994Movieline Jan.–Feb. 88/2 Movies today can offer nothing to compare with the sight of sloe-eyed MM, stuffed into a skintight dress, lazily singing ‘Kiss’, as if she's zoned on downers. 2000M. Hamid Moth Smoke xiii. 232 My mouth is dry and I'm zoned on hairy.
b. Of a person: exhausted, burnt out; unresponsive, detached. Cf. zonked adj. 2.
1980L. Birnbach et al. Official Preppy Handbk. 223/2 Zoned,..blitzed, exhausted, burned out. 1981Daily Tel. 20 Feb. 17/2 Parents are quick to imitate their young and can be heard to exclaim they are ‘really psyched’ (carried away) or perhaps ‘zoned’ (exhausted). 1988Sun (Brisbane) 30 Nov. (Comics section) 41 You're zoned, Dad... It means you'll never be up on the current slang. 1993H. Stern Private Parts vi. 191 I've asked Bob Hope questions nobody else would..and there's no way of telling if he's just avoided answering them or he's too zoned out to understand. 1996G. Scott Can we Talk? ix. 223 As a result, a growing concern was that we were in danger of becoming a nation of zoned-out ‘couch potatoes’. |