Crease vs. Zone — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Crease and Zone
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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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