Girdle vs. Zone — What's the Difference?

A belt, especially if a cord or rope, is called a girdle if it is worn as part of Christian liturgical vestments, or in certain historical, literary or sports contexts. Girdles are used to close a cassock in Christian denominations, including the Anglican Communion, Catholic Church, Methodist Church and Lutheran Church.

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

A belt or cord worn round the waist

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 woman's elasticated corset extending from waist to thigh

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

The part of a cut gem dividing the crown from the base and embraced by the setting.

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.

A ring made around a tree by removing bark.

A similar division on any other planet.

A heavy, flat iron plate that is heated and used for cooking food; a griddle.

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

Encircle (the body) with a girdle

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

Cut through the bark all the way round (a tree or branch), typically in order to kill it or to kill a branch to make the tree more fruitful

(Anatomy) A ringlike or cylindrical growth or structure.

A belt or sash worn around the waist.

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

Something that encircles like a belt.

(Sports) A zone defense.

An elasticized, flexible undergarment worn over the waist and hips to give the body a more slender appearance.

(Archaic) A belt or girdle.

A band made around the trunk of a tree by the removal of a strip of bark.

To divide or designate into zones.

The edge of a cut gem held by the setting.

To surround or encircle.

(Anatomy)The pelvic or pectoral girdle.

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).

To encircle with a belt.

Any given region or area of the world.

To form a circle around:a ring of hills that girdled the city.

A given area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic, use, restriction, etc.

To remove a band of bark and cambium from the circumference of (a tree), usually in order to kill it.

A band or area of growth encircling anything.

That which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference

A band or stripe extending around a body.

A belt or sash at the waist, often used to support stockings or hosiery.

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

A garment used to hold the abdomen, hips, buttocks, and/or thighs in a particular shape.

The strike zone.

The zodiac; also, the equator.

(ice hockey) Every of the three parts of an ice rink, divided by two blue lines.

The line of greatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting.

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

(mining) A thin bed or stratum of stone.

A high-performance phase or period.

The clitellum of an earthworm.

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

The removal or inversion of a ring of bark in order to kill or stunt a tree.

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

(transitive) To gird, encircle, or constrain by such means.

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

(transitive) To kill or stunt a tree by removing or inverting a ring of bark.

A belt or girdle.

A griddle.

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

That which girds, encircles, or incloses; a circumference; a belt; esp., a belt, sash, or article of dress encircling the body usually at the waist; a cestus.

A frustum of a sphere.

The zodiac; also, the equator.

A circuit; a circumference.

The line ofgreatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting. See Illust. of Brilliant.

(transitive) To divide into or assign to sections or areas.

A thin bed or stratum of stone.

(transitive) To define the property use classification of (an area).

The clitellus of an earthworm.

To enter a daydream state temporarily, for instance as a result of boredom, fatigue, or intoxication; to doze off.

To bind with a belt or sash; to gird.

To girdle or encircle.

To inclose; to environ; to shut in.

A girdle; a cincture.

To make a cut or gnaw a groove around (a tree, etc.) through the bark and alburnum, thus killing it.

One of the five great divisions of the earth, with respect to latitude and temperature.

An encircling or ringlike structure

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.

A band of material around the waist that strengthens a skirt or trousers

A band or stripe extending around a body.

A woman's close-fitting foundation garment

A series of planes having mutually parallel intersections.

Cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients;

Circuit; circumference.

Put a girdle on or around;

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.

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

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.

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

To girdle; to encircle.

A circumscribed geographical region characterized by some distinctive features

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

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

(anatomy) any encircling or beltlike structure

Regulate housing in; of certain areas of towns

Separate or apportion into sections;