": a figure representing the signs of the zodiac and their symbols":[],
": an imaginary band in the heavens centered on the ecliptic that encompasses the apparent paths of all the planets and is divided into 12 constellations or signs each taken for astrological purposes to extend 30 degrees of longitude":[]
},
"examples":[
"a political candidate dealing with the never-ending zodiac of rubber-chicken dinners and meet and greets",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Because Capricorn is ruled by Saturn, which is the task master of the zodiac , these folks love to feel respected by those around them. \u2014 Glamour , 31 May 2022",
"This was the ancients\u2019 guide for placing the four cardinal signs in the zodiac . \u2014 Emily Simone, Allure , 20 May 2022",
"Regardless of your zodiac sign, flowers can have a positive impact on your mood. \u2014 Irene Richardson, Country Living , 9 May 2022",
"Skip straight to your sign: Aries, a fiery and ambitious ram is the first sign of the zodiac . \u2014 Sophie Saint Thomas, Allure , 26 Apr. 2022",
"The tiger is the third animal of the 12-year cycle in the Chinese zodiac . \u2014 Marilisa Barbieri, Forbes , 27 Jan. 2022",
"And Mont\u00fafar says since this Venus retrograde happened in Capricorn, a zodiac sign that focuses on career and work, we were affected in this department even more than usual. \u2014 Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com , 27 Jan. 2022",
"The Year of the Tiger \u2014 a Chinese zodiac symbol that represents strength and courage \u2014 also is the perfect time to convince Asian elders who have lived in fear because of widespread anti-Asian sentiment to join in the festivities. \u2014 NBC News , 3 Feb. 2022",
"Aries is the first sign of the zodiac , and yes, that's why Aries love getting their way and going first. \u2014 Allure , 18 Mar. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
},
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"Middle English, borrowed from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French zodias, zodiac, borrowed from Latin z\u014ddiacus, adjective (in the combinations circulus/orbis z\u014ddiacus \"zodiac\"), borrowed from Greek z\u014didiak\u00f3s \"zodiac\" (originally modifying k\u00fdklos \"circle\"), from z\u1e53idion \"painted or carved figure, sign of the zodiac\" (from z\u00f4ion \" animal, figure, image\" + -idion, diminutive suffix) + -akos, variant of -ikos -ic entry 1 after a vowel \u2014 more at zoo-":""
": any of five great divisions of the earth's surface with respect to latitude and temperature \u2014 compare frigid zone , temperate zone , torrid zone":[],
": any of the eight concentric bands of territory centered on a given postal shipment point designated as a distance bracket for U.S. parcel post to which mail is charged at a single rate":[],
"at that point we were out of the danger zone for avalanches",
"Verb",
"The town council voted to zone the area for industrial use.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Eddings called more than two dozen pitches outside the zone strikes in Tuesday\u2019s game between the teams, according to multiple analyses of his performance behind the plate. \u2014 Wire Reports, BostonGlobe.com , 24 June 2022",
"Only three storms have formed in this zone during June previously, according to Phil Klotzbach, a tropical weather expert at Colorado State University. \u2014 Jason Samenow, Washington Post , 24 June 2022",
"While 'Black & Blue' is only cold hardy in USDA Plant Hardiness Zones 7 to 10, some perennial varieties are hardy as low as zone 4. \u2014 Terri Robertson, Country Living , 24 June 2022",
"The World Games has teamed with non-profit ministries to come up with a plan for helping the homeless who will be displaced by a security zone that will be established downtown next month. \u2014 al , 23 June 2022",
"Mayfield Heights Unity Days Enjoy carnival food, live music and a kids zone with giant inflatables and interactive games at this annual celebration at Mayfield Heights City Park. \u2014 cleveland , 23 June 2022",
"All the outcrops of similar age around Sydney seemed to contain a fossil dead zone . \u2014 Chris Mays, Scientific American , 23 June 2022",
"Tampa\u2019s got two guys jumping on with their D coming off the ice from a zone away. \u2014 Cale Clinton, USA TODAY , 23 June 2022",
"The agent asked Wright for a favorable vote in expanding the city\u2019s cannabis business zone so that his business could operate elsewhere. \u2014 Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times , 23 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"To see someone like him recalibrate and zone back in to life... \u2014 Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times , 10 June 2022",
"The Birmingham City Council voted in 2020 to re- zone the former Carraway Methodist Medical Center campus, setting in motion a redevelopment that has been years in coming. \u2014 al , 10 May 2022",
"Laguna Niguel\u2019s requirement, approved by the city last year, is to zone for 1,207 new housing units. \u2014 Hannah Frystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 8 May 2022",
"The reluctance of Connecticut towns to zone for multifamily housing was a focus of a report Giffin authored called Zoning For Equity, Vol. \u2014 Seamus Mcavoy, Hartford Courant , 23 Apr. 2022",
"In addition to reviewing Lakewood\u2019s codes, the mayor said her administration has been examining how larger municipalities such as Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati zone large buildings and parking garages. \u2014 John Benson, cleveland , 24 Jan. 2022",
"The association calculated that O.C. should zone for about 183,000 new units. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 22 Jan. 2022",
"Elliott, who was a county commissioner for four years before he was elected to the state Senate in 2018, said there was not one request to zone unincorporated areas of Baldwin County during his time with the county. \u2014 al , 14 Oct. 2021",
"Users can zone in on specific municipalities as well as filter by income and eligibility requirements, availability, and number of bedrooms. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 15 Aug. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"There are also smart ductless air conditioners on the market, plus the majority of units come in a range of capacity options, along with single- and multi- zone models. \u2014 Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics , 6 June 2022",
"And, there\u2019s tri- zone climate controls, so passengers can control their own climate and cupholders for the second-row passengers. \u2014 Christian De Looper, BGR , 7 May 2022",
"High-efficiency gas furnaces and hot water heaters, energy-efficient insulation and multi- zone heating and cooling systems (in the two-level home styles) help to offset energy costs. \u2014 Karen A. Avitabile, Hartford Courant , 23 Apr. 2022",
"There is also a water filtration system, multi- zone central air conditioning and an LED lighting system to suit any ambience. \u2014 Emma Reynolds, Robb Report , 25 Mar. 2022",
"Just six seconds later, after a faceoff violation, Epstein threw a cross- zone pass to Degnon, who tied the game at 4 entering halftime. \u2014 Mike Preston, baltimoresun.com , 13 Mar. 2022",
"The full-time missionaries were attending a multi- zone conference in Torre\u00f3n, Mexico. \u2014 Fox News , 13 Nov. 2021",
"Another great feature for rear passengers is the tri- zone air conditioning. \u2014 James Morris, Forbes , 29 Sep. 2021",
"The air conditioning is tri- zone , so rear passengers have their own controls alongside both front occupants. \u2014 James Morris, Forbes , 12 June 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
"1782, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb",
"1795, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective"
"borrowed from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French, borrowed from Latin z\u014dna \"belt, girdle, imaginary band encircling the earth,\" borrowed from Greek z\u1e53n\u0113, going back to Indo-European *i\u032feh 3 s-neh 2 , whence also, with stem variation, Russian Church Slavic po jasn\u012d \"belt,\" Sanskrit r\u0101\u0301sn\u0101 \"girdle\" ( *y\u0101\u0301sn\u0101 crossed with ra\u015ban\u0101 \u0301 \"rope, bridle, girth\"); derivative from a verbal base *i\u032feh 3 s- \"encircle, girdle,\" whence, with various stem formatives, Old Church Slavic po ja\u0161\u01eb, po jasati \"to gird,\" Lithuanian j\u00faosiu, j\u00faosti, Albanian n gjesh- \"gird, encircle, compress,\" Greek z\u1e53nn\u0233mi, aorist \u00e9z\u014dsa \"(I) gird(ed)\"; from a verbal adjective in *-t- Lithuanian j\u00faosta \"band, zone,\" Greek z\u014dst\u00f3s \"belted, girded,\" Avestan y\u0101sta-":"Noun",
"derivative of zone entry 1":"Verb",
"from attributive use of zone entry 1":"Adjective"
"later claimed that she was zonked for the entire recording session",
"her only living relative is a permanently zonked sister who can't even care for herself",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"After the Monkees split, Nesmith began his eccentric solo career, with amiably zonked records that were years ahead of their time. \u2014 Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone , 10 Dec. 2021",
"Only Andersson, the doyen of inaction movies, could offer beatitudes to the ineffectual and the zonked . \u2014 Anthony Lane, The New Yorker , 30 Apr. 2021",
"Most people take pre-workout for performance reasons or to simply feel better and less zonked when working out. \u2014 SELF , 27 Aug. 2020",
"And that's what an asphalt nation of zonked American teenagers did during the '80s. \u2014 Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al , 8 Jan. 2020",
"But the movie\u2019s high point is a scene where Diane Varsi, playing the most zonked member of Max\u2019s entourage (which includes a young Richard Pryor), addresses Congress as if from the stage of the Fillmore. \u2014 J. Hoberman, New York Times , 30 Sep. 2016"
": a hybrid between a zebra and a donkey : zedonk":[
"A zonkey is strong for its size and makes a powerful pack animal.",
"\u2014 John Strohm",
"Just call them Romeo and Zoo-liet: a male zebra hopped a fence at an Italian animal preserve to mate with his seemingly illicit lover, a female donkey. Their offspring? A zonkey , of course, which zookeepers promptly named Ippo.",
": a facility with usually indoor and outdoor settings where living, typically wild animals are kept especially for public exhibition":[],
": a place, situation, or group marked by crowding, confusion, or unrestrained behavior":[
"The convention was a zoo ."
],
": animal : animal kingdom or kind":[
"zo oid",
"zoo logy"
],
": motile":[
"zoo spore"
]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"The sixth grade classroom was a zoo after recess.",
"The supermarket was a real zoo on the night before the storm.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Some animals who call the Atlanta Zoo home may be brought inside earlier in the day than usual because of the high temperatures, said Rachel Davis, the zoo 's director of communications. \u2014 Emily Shapiro, ABC News , 22 June 2022",
"Sari the orangutan gave birth on June 19 in front of a delighted crowd at Sch\u00f6nbrunn Zoo \u2014 the zoo 's first orangutan birth in 20 years. \u2014 People Staff, PEOPLE.com , 22 June 2022",
"According to the ruling, the Bronx Zoo Director James Breheny explained that Happy was housed in an adjoining but separate unit from the zoo 's other elephant because Happy has a history of not interacting well with other elephants. \u2014 Sonia Moghe, CNN , 14 June 2022",
"Video footage showed the dog unexpectedly enter the gorilla exhibit at the zoo 's Safari Park, and onlookers can be heard trying to lure the dog away from the primate. \u2014 Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY , 14 June 2022",
"When: The zoo 's summer hours are 7 a.m.-1 p.m. daily through Aug. 31. \u2014 Amaris Encinas, The Arizona Republic , 13 June 2022",
"The zoo 's 2-year-old seal, Bosco, had to be separated from Cossette and the pup at first. \u2014 Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel , 8 June 2022",
"The Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden is launching a virtual membership package, giving access to a members-only site that includes a live hippo feed at Hippo Cove, exclusive videos, discounts at the zoo 's online store and insider news. \u2014 Emily Deletter, The Enquirer , 6 June 2022",
"Check out the zoo 's website for more information on exhibits. \u2014 Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal , 21 May 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1835, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from Greek z\u014do-, z\u014dio-, combining form from z\u00f4ion \"animal,\" derivative from the base of z\u1e53\u014d, z\u1e53ein (Homeric), z\u00f4, z\u00ean (Attic) \"to be alive, live,\" going back to Indo-European *g w i\u032f\u00e9h 3 -(u)- \"live\" (whence also Tocharian B \u015b\u0101yau \"[I] live\"), full grade of a stem attested elsewhere with zero grade as *g w ih 3 -u-, whence Latin v\u012bv\u014d, v\u012bvere \"to live,\" Old Church Slavic \u017eiv\u01eb, \u017eiti, Old Prussian giwa \"(s/he) lives,\" Latvian dz\u012bvu \"(I) live,\" Sanskrit j\u012bvati \"(s/he) lives,\" Avestan juuaiti":"Combining form",
"The sixth grade classroom was a zoo after recess.",
"The supermarket was a real zoo on the night before the storm.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Some animals who call the Atlanta Zoo home may be brought inside earlier in the day than usual because of the high temperatures, said Rachel Davis, the zoo 's director of communications. \u2014 Emily Shapiro, ABC News , 22 June 2022",
"Sari the orangutan gave birth on June 19 in front of a delighted crowd at Sch\u00f6nbrunn Zoo \u2014 the zoo 's first orangutan birth in 20 years. \u2014 People Staff, PEOPLE.com , 22 June 2022",
"According to the ruling, the Bronx Zoo Director James Breheny explained that Happy was housed in an adjoining but separate unit from the zoo 's other elephant because Happy has a history of not interacting well with other elephants. \u2014 Sonia Moghe, CNN , 14 June 2022",
"Video footage showed the dog unexpectedly enter the gorilla exhibit at the zoo 's Safari Park, and onlookers can be heard trying to lure the dog away from the primate. \u2014 Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY , 14 June 2022",
"When: The zoo 's summer hours are 7 a.m.-1 p.m. daily through Aug. 31. \u2014 Amaris Encinas, The Arizona Republic , 13 June 2022",
"The zoo 's 2-year-old seal, Bosco, had to be separated from Cossette and the pup at first. \u2014 Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel , 8 June 2022",
"The Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden is launching a virtual membership package, giving access to a members-only site that includes a live hippo feed at Hippo Cove, exclusive videos, discounts at the zoo 's online store and insider news. \u2014 Emily Deletter, The Enquirer , 6 June 2022",
"Check out the zoo 's website for more information on exhibits. \u2014 Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal , 21 May 2022"
"borrowed from Greek z\u014do-, z\u014dio-, combining form from z\u00f4ion \"animal,\" derivative from the base of z\u1e53\u014d, z\u1e53ein (Homeric), z\u00f4, z\u00ean (Attic) \"to be alive, live,\" going back to Indo-European *g w i\u032f\u00e9h 3 -(u)- \"live\" (whence also Tocharian B \u015b\u0101yau \"[I] live\"), full grade of a stem attested elsewhere with zero grade as *g w ih 3 -u-, whence Latin v\u012bv\u014d, v\u012bvere \"to live,\" Old Church Slavic \u017eiv\u01eb, \u017eiti, Old Prussian giwa \"(s/he) lives,\" Latvian dz\u012bvu \"(I) live,\" Sanskrit j\u012bvati \"(s/he) lives,\" Avestan juuaiti":"Combining form",
"There is evidence that MRSA can be transmitted both from animal to human (zoonotic transmission) and human to animal ( zooanthroponosis or reverse zoonotic transmission).",
": a branch of biogeography concerned with the geographic distribution of animals and especially with the determination of the areas characterized by specific groups of animals and the study of the causes and significance of such groups":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1851, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"probably borrowed from German Zoogeographie, from zoo- zoo- + Geographie geography":""
": one of the asexually produced individuals of a compound organism (such as a bryozoan, siphonophore, or coral colony)":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Each siphonophore is a colony of individual zooids , clusters of cells that clone themselves thousands of times to produce an extended, stringlike body. \u2014 Devi Lockwood, New York Times , 14 Apr. 2020",
"The creatures, made up of individual zooids -- small, multicellular organisms -- normally reside in warmer waters, like the tropics, and usually don't travel farther north than the waters off southern California. \u2014 Ted Sickinger, OregonLive.com , 22 Apr. 2018",
"Inside the wall of this gelatinous tube, which can get up to 60 cm, individual zooids are tightly packed together. \u2014 The Washington Post, OregonLive.com , 29 June 2017",
"These zooids have an incurrent and excurrent siphon and use cilia to pump water for feeding, respiration and movement. \u2014 The Washington Post, OregonLive.com , 29 June 2017",
"In fact, these giants, called pyrosomes, are actually made up of thousands of much smaller creatures called zooids . \u2014 National Geographic , 29 Mar. 2017"
"\u2014 used with in trying to zoom in on the cause of these problems"
],
": to cause to zoom":[],
": to climb for a short time at an angle greater than that which can be maintained in steady flight so that the machine is carried upward at the expense of stored kinetic energy":[],
": to focus a camera or microscope on an object using a zoom lens so that the object's apparent distance from the observer changes":[
"\u2014 often used with in or out"
],
": to go speedily : zip":[
"cars zooming by on the highway"
],
": to increase sharply":[
"retail sales zoomed"
],
": to move with a loud low hum or buzz":[],
": to use the Zoom service to hold or participate in online meetings with enabled video support":[
"\u2026 last week I Zoomed with friends in Ireland that I hadn't talked to in years \u2026",
"\u2014 Megan Schuster and Michael Surrey",
"In the other room, while I was slacking off, my wife would be Zooming with her coworkers \u2026",
"\u2014 Andrew Hamm",
"There's little doubt students who spend their summer Zooming with state legislators, journalists and commissioners are going to be future leaders.",
"After her first successful cases she zoomed to the top of her profession.",
"Housing sales have zoomed in recent months.",
"Noun",
"The camera was equipped with a zoom .",
"The truck went by with a zoom .",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Anna Netrebko, the superstar Russian soprano, stood on the steps of the ornate Casino de Monte-Carlo, taking photos with friends and watching Aston Martins and Ferraris zoom through the night. \u2014 New York Times , 22 June 2022",
"The doctors watched the drivers zoom around a race track at 300 kilometers per hour. \u2014 Shane Snow, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
"Those that zoom toward vehicle headlights will probably be gone even sooner. \u2014 Ed Yong, The Atlantic , 13 June 2022",
"This one was particularly devastating because the plan was to take the hour-and-45-minute train ride from the ship to Florence, rent a Vespa, and zoom around the Tuscan countryside. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 9 June 2022",
"The Universal tentpole will zoom past $200 million domestic tomorrow, having long since passed Jurassic Park III ($181 million in 2001/$292 million adjusted). \u2014 Scott Mendelson, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"The filmmakers zoom out as well to give us a bigger picture, caught in fragments, of a public health system whose professionals are straining under the weight of too many patients and not enough funding and time. \u2014 Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter , 23 May 2022",
"Experts zoom in on touch-screen maps to show how votes are coming in. \u2014 Benjamin Mullin, WSJ , 2 Nov. 2020",
"Beyond the overall look, heat mapping functionality allows users to zoom in to see where garments will fit loose or come up tight. \u2014 Stephanie Hirschmiller, Forbes , 29 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Phones like the Pixel 6 Pro and the Galaxy S22 Ultra have periscope zoom cameras. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 21 June 2022",
"Volunteers provided social events for free via zoom to those isolated at home and now services are back in person. \u2014 Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune , 15 Oct. 2021",
"The power of meeting colleagues for lunch, (social posts, zoom channels). \u2014 Michael Gale, Forbes , 10 June 2022",
"Camera reports say the iPhone 15 series might introduce a periscope zoom camera. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 9 June 2022",
"The quad camera array is completed with a 48 megapixel ultra wide sensor and a 5x periscope zoom camera. \u2014 Ewan Spence, Forbes , 3 June 2022",
"As a backup to the Yondr pouches, Second Stage Theater has installed an infrared camera with the ability to pan, tilt and zoom so that security officials can see if any members of the audience are trying to film the nude scenes. \u2014 Matt Stevens, New York Times , 1 June 2022",
"Laura Carmichael estimated there were probably 50 people at that group gathering, and one was indeed Dame Maggie Smith, bringing her best Dowager disdain to zoom . \u2014 Natalie Jamieson, The Hollywood Reporter , 21 May 2022",
"What was once a calendar full of happy hours, conferences, and networking events is now filled with strict blocks, zoom fatigue, and constant tradeoffs. \u2014 Alyssa Jaffee, Fortune , 7 Mar. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1886, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1a":"Verb",
"1917, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
"And the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control has mentioned the possibility of reverse zoonosis \u2014 the virus moving from people into animal in Europe and gaining a foothold there. \u2014 Helen Branswell, STAT , 4 June 2022",
"Experts in Africa have warned that monkeypox could change from a regionally widespread zoonosis to a globally relevant infectious disease. \u2014 Tanya Lewis, Scientific American , 24 May 2022",
"Another theory is known as reverse zoonosis , Venter added. \u2014 Michael Nedelman, CNN , 1 Apr. 2022",
"Worobey\u2019s paper drew strong praise from those favoring the natural zoonosis theory. \u2014 Joel Achenbach, Anchorage Daily News , 18 Nov. 2021",
"The degree to which reverse zoonosis increases the risks of pandemics or major outbreaks more broadly remains less clear. \u2014 Stacey Mckenna, Scientific American , 20 May 2020",
"About 60 percent of human infectious diseases are zoonoses . \u2014 David Quammen, Popular Science , 15 Oct. 2012",
"Rabies\u2014like toxoplasmosis, malaria, Zika, typhus, the bubonic plague, and all flus\u2014is a zoonosis , a disease that can make the leap from animal to human. \u2014 Elisa Gabbert, Harper's Magazine , 25 May 2020",
"Some of them may be the result of unrecognised zoonoses . \u2014 The Economist , 2 May 2020"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"probably alteration, by conformation to -osis , of French zoonose, from zoo- zoo- + Greek n\u00f3sos \"disease\" \u2014 more at nosology":""
