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Crease vs. Zone — What's the Difference?

Crease vs. Zone — What's the Difference?

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Crease

A line made by pressing, folding, or wrinkling.

Zone

An area or a region distinguished from adjacent parts by a distinctive feature or characteristic.

Crease

In hockey, an area marked in front of the goal in which an offensive player can score a goal only if the puck reaches the area before the player does.

Zone

A section of an area or territory established for a specific purpose, as a section of a city restricted to a particular type of building, enterprise, or activity
A residential zone.

Crease

In lacrosse, the circle marked around the goal into which offensive players cannot enter.
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Zone

An area of a given radius within which a uniform rate is charged, as for transportation or shipping.

Crease

One of the lines in cricket marking off the positions of the bowler and batter or the space between two of these lines.

Zone

Any of the five regions of the surface of the earth that are loosely divided according to prevailing climate and latitude, including the tropics, the North and South Temperate Zones, and the North and South Polar Regions.

Crease

To make a pressed, folded, or wrinkled line in.

Zone

A similar division on any other planet.

Crease

To graze or wound superficially with a bullet.

Zone

(Mathematics) A portion of a sphere bounded by the intersections of two parallel planes with the sphere.

Crease

To become wrinkled.

Zone

(Ecology) An area characterized by distinct physical conditions and supporting a particular type of flora and fauna.

Crease

A line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, however produced.
His pants had a nice sharp crease.
His shirt was brand new with visible creases from its store fold.

Zone

(Anatomy) A ringlike or cylindrical growth or structure.

Crease

(cricket) One of the white lines drawn on the pitch to show different areas of play; especially the popping crease, but also the bowling crease and the return crease.

Zone

(Geology) A region or stratum distinguished by composition or content.

Crease

(lacrosse) The circle around the goal, where no offensive players can go.

Zone

(Sports) A zone defense.

Crease

The goal crease; an area in front of each goal.

Zone

(Archaic) A belt or girdle.

Crease

A crack.

Zone

To divide or designate into zones.

Crease

(transitive) To make a crease in; to wrinkle.

Zone

To surround or encircle.

Crease

(intransitive) To undergo creasing; to form wrinkles.

Zone

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).

Crease

(transitive) To lightly bloody; to graze.
The bullet just creased his shoulder.

Zone

Any given region or area of the world.

Crease

To laugh.
I can't breathe, I'm creasing so hard.

Zone

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.

Crease

Archaic form of kris

Zone

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

Crease

See Creese.

Zone

A band or stripe extending around a body.

Crease

A line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, however produced.

Zone

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

Crease

One of the lines serving to define the limits of the bowler and the striker.

Zone

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

Crease

The combination of four lines forming a rectangle inclosing either goal, or the inclosed space itself, within which no attacking player is allowed unless the ball is there; - called also goal crease.

Zone

(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.

Crease

To make a crease or mark in, as by folding or doubling.
Creased, like dog's ears in a folio.

Zone

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

Crease

An angular or rounded shape made by folding;
A fold in the napkin
A crease in his trousers
A plication on her blouse
A flexure of the colon
A bend of his elbow

Zone

A high-performance phase or period.
I just got in the zone late in the game: everything was going in.

Crease

A slight depression in the smoothness of a surface;
His face has many lines
Ironing gets rid of most wrinkles

Zone

A defensive scheme where defenders guard a particular area of the court or field, as opposed to a particular opposing player.

Crease

A Malayan dagger with a wavy blade

Zone

(networking) That collection of a domain's DNS resource records, the domain and its subdomains, that are not delegated to another authority.

Crease

Make wrinkles or creases into a smooth surface;
The dress got wrinkled

Zone

A logical group of network devices on AppleTalk (an obsolete networking protocol).

Crease

Make wrinkled or creased;
Furrow one's brow

Zone

A belt or girdle.

Crease

Scrape gently;
Graze the skin

Zone

(geometry) The curved surface of a frustum of a sphere, the portion of surface of a sphere delimited by parallel planes.

Crease

Become wrinkled or crumpled or creased;
This fabric won't wrinkle

Zone

A frustum of a sphere.

Zone

A circuit; a circumference.

Zone

(transitive) To divide into or assign to sections or areas.
Please zone off our staging area, a section for each group.

Zone

(transitive) To define the property use classification of (an area).
This area was zoned for industrial use.

Zone

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)

Zone

To girdle or encircle.

Zone

A girdle; a cincture.
An embroidered zone surrounds her waist.
Loose were her tresses seen, her zone unbound.

Zone

One of the five great divisions of the earth, with respect to latitude and temperature.
Commerce . . . defies every wind, outrides every tempest, and invades.

Zone

The portion of the surface of a sphere included between two parallel planes; the portion of a surface of revolution included between two planes perpendicular to the axis.

Zone

A band or stripe extending around a body.

Zone

A series of planes having mutually parallel intersections.

Zone

Circuit; circumference.

Zone

An area or part of a region characterized by uniform or similar animal and plant life; a life zone; as, Littoral zone, Austral zone, etc.

Zone

A series of faces whose intersection lines with each other are parallel.

Zone

The aggregate of stations, in whatsoever direction or on whatsoever line of railroad, situated between certain maximum and minimum limits from a point at which a shipment of traffic originates.

Zone

Any area to or within which a shipment or transportation cost is constant;

Zone

To girdle; to encircle.

Zone

A circumscribed geographical region characterized by some distinctive features

Zone

Any of the regions of the surface of the Earth loosely divided according to latitude or longitude

Zone

An area or region distinguished from adjacent parts by a distinctive feature or characteristic

Zone

(anatomy) any encircling or beltlike structure

Zone

Regulate housing in; of certain areas of towns

Zone

Separate or apportion into sections;
Partition a room off

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