I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a combat zone (= an area where there is fighting )
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refugees from the combat zone
a danger area/zone (= an area that could be dangerous )
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People living in the danger area have been told to leave.
a disaster area/zone (= area where a disaster has happened )
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Military planes flew food supplies to the disaster area.
a war zone (= an area where a war is fought )
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The country had turned into a war zone.
an enterprise zone (= an area created by the government to attract businesses )
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Many firms relocate to enterprise zones because of tax incentives.
comfort zone
demilitarized zone
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the demilitarized zone between the two countries
end zone
enterprise zone
erogenous zone
exclusion zone
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the military exclusion zone
industrial area/zone
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pollution in industrial areas
no-fly zone
nuclear-free zone
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a nuclear-free zone
temperate zone
the Goldilocks zone
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In our solar system, only Earth lies in the Goldilocks zone .
time zone
tolerance zone
towaway zone
war zone
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
demilitarized
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On March 30, 1972, Hanoi launched its own major offensive across the demilitarized zone .
different
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Maintaining control over these ties can be tricky, especially from the other side of the world in a different time zone .
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If the stations are in different time zones , the work can be grueling, albeit with high visibility and pay.
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He finished his prayers, rapidly rethought his assumptions, and woke up Jesuit colleagues in several different time zones .
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Our four children and their families live in four different time zones .
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Like Rolex watches from a different time zone .
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In detail, the Council's planning policy applies to the mainland of Orkney and divided the island up into different zones .
economic
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As the special economic zones expanded, the scope of the market expanded.
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Their main role is search and rescue, but economic zone surveillance is also undertaken.
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The base has been made a free port and special economic zone .
free
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Her skin is flawless, her legs endless and her entire body a flab-#free zone .
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They have agreed to form a free trade zone in 2000.
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They oversee the activities of both the port and the free zone .
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Which is why schools should be commerce-#free zones .
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They work predominantly in industries such as food-processing, clothing and textiles and in the multinational assembly plants in the industrial free zones .
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Maybe there would be just a simple name change, or the establishment of a free trade zone .
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But Northern Ireland remains a Labour free zone .
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The free trade zone failed in various incarnations, and investment has been only sporadic.
industrial
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Factories may be required to be sited at some distance from residential areas in specially designated industrial zones .
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They work predominantly in industries such as food-processing, clothing and textiles and in the multinational assembly plants in the industrial free zones .
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Some factories have started operating again in the Pul-i-Charki industrial zone .
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The raid devastated Hitler's strategically vital industrial zone in the Ruhr by breaching the Eder and Molne dams.
military
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But these would have been mainly in the military zones , such as the example already noted of Hercules and Hesione at Chester.
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The plant is situated on the Kola Peninsula - formerly a military zone .
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Discussion of the plant's problems was impossible whilst the area was a military zone .
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Curfews were imposed on the Strip and the area was declared a closed military zone .
neutral
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Otherwise the neutral zone can become an utterly bewildering array of possibilities.
red
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In the red zone we stop them.
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The red zone scoring was a disappointment.
special
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As the special economic zones expanded, the scope of the market expanded.
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The wartime allies had distinguished Berlin as a special zone of occupation, divided into four sectors.
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The base has been made a free port and special economic zone .
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The Pars special energy zone is one of the biggest projects being run under this scheme.
temperate
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Rodomonte hardly noticed the magnificent, unearthly architecture preserved so beautifully away from the squalls of the less temperate zones .
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Most aquarium plants come from tropical and subtropical areas, with a few from the warmer parts of the temperate zone .
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The epidemiology, at least in temperate zones , is similar to that of Ostertagia in ruminants with seasonal hypobiosis a feature.
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Its distribution ranges from the tropics to the warmer areas of the temperate zone of both hemispheres.
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The epidemiology in subtropical areas is basically similar to that in temperate zones , except that the seasonable timing of events is different.
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Altogether there are four similar species known from he tropics and the temperate zones .
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The life cycle varies, but some species from temperate zones have an annual cycle.
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The length of the day changes in the temperate zone with the change of seasons.
western
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As relations with the Soviet Union deteriorated the Western zones began to be seen as a potential ally against Soviet expansion.
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Du sseldorf, by contrast, is one of the most prosperous cities in the country's western zone .
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With few exceptions the territories of the new Länder in the Western zones were completely different from those of the Weimar Länder.
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Its emergence was to be a key factor in the establishment of democracy in the Western zones .
■ NOUN
battle
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Below us was the battle zone , 464 square miles of urban decay, whose every street was a border to some one.
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Voice over More recently the Hercules has again headed for a battle zone .
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For two hours, they're packed together as the Hercules fly low above the make believe battle zone .
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Migrants flocking in panic from the battle zone provided a useful veil of confusion.
buffer
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In this buffer zone around the park, people survive through subsistence farming and cash crops such as cotton.
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These buffer zones would be similar to the quiet zones around hospitals.
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Martin Smith is correct about increasing the buffer zone to four shots.
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Severe obesity represents a buffer zone between you and the world.
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Each park will be bordered by a buffer zone where environmentally friendly farming will be encouraged.
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All the people Fletcher surveyed have a buffer zone , usually somewhere between 3 and 5 pounds.
combat
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She was actually in the combat zone now and she noted uneasily that once again she was placed firmly beside the count.
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You may think so too, Michael, when you ride a Huey into combat zone .
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Yuletide in Walford is traditionally a combat zone with crackers, but the soap excelled itself this year.
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Later, I found out there were worse duties in a combat zone .
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Jean-Pierre said the doctors were considered too valuable to be sent into the combat zone .
comfort
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The team were still wrapped together in the comfort zone of a four-year period when each had cosseted and protected the other.
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Many investors struggle to get past the comfort zone of mutual funds.
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The width of the comfort zone can then be taken as 4 degrees, i.e., from-2 to.
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The Chargers took the Raiders out of a lot of things, including their comfort zone .
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The easiest thing in this situation is to do nothing and rest miserably in the comfort zone of doing something predictable.
danger
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So I believe we could be entering a danger zone now.
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It is just a danger zone , a boundary beyond which all is lost.
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The staff at Usher were advised to leave the danger zone .
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I sent my son, Danny, far out of the danger zone .
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With the volume level edged up to the danger zone , Rattle's conception clicks into place.
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He worked inside Karelin's danger zone and frustrated him.
end
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What is that guy doing out there, diving into the end zone ?
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A wide receiver does the same dance in the end zone and draws a penalty.
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Elvis Grbac took the snap, tucked his body into a tight C and dropped it into the end zone .
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Then, in a new twist, the Raiders actually reached the end zone .
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But as Rice tumbled into the end zone , he landed awkwardly.
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Pope intercepted in the end zone .
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A super job would have been to go down and put it in the end zone .
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As the clock ran down to zero, Harris ran down the sideline into the end zone .
enterprise
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Between 1981-2 and 1985-6, total public costs associated with enterprise zones amounted to a gross figure of almost £400 million.
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An important debate surrounding the concept of enterprise zones has been the question of displacement.
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We have only their failed policies and an enterprise zone in Inverclyde.
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First, the rhetoric of deregulation has not matched the reality: enterprise zones and Freeports have largely proved mundane.
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On the other hand, a substantial minority considered that infrastructural investment was a significant factor for location within an enterprise zone .
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In recent years, property within enterprise zones has also enjoyed relief.
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Firms within enterprise zones would not pay rates for ten years, local government being reimbursed for lost revenue by the Treasury.
exclusion
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The Braer was outside a ten mile exclusion zone when its engines failed.
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Morris Thomas, 61, runs an old people's home deep in the exclusion zone .
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Within two hours officials had set up a five-mile exclusion zone round Burdon Farm.
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In thirty minutes he substantially re-established his parliamentary position and announced a 200-mile naval exclusion zone around the Falklands.
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The Government said that strictly controlled licences would be awarded to farms outside the foot and mouth exclusion zones .
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A six-mile exclusion zone was ordered around the ship while a tug towed the casualty further offshore.
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Dozens of towns and villages were abandoned as 135,000 people and 35,000 cattle left the exclusion zone .
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The exclusion zone approved by the Home Secretary bans any procession or convoy of vehicles in the area.
relegation
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Meanwhile Hereford's great escape from the relegation zone is going to plan - four games now without defeat.
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Oxford began the night teetering on the brink of the relegation zone and pulse rates soared as early as the second minute.
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They are treading unfamiliar ground in the relegation zone and have failed to keep a clean sheet this season.
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Brandon slipped into the relegation zone in midweek after both Shildon and West Auckland collected points to move above them.
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Only 4 points between them and the dreaded relegation zone .
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Rick James and Alison Gower also recorded a win in the 6-2 result which sees them clear of the relegation zone .
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Nomads have been hovering near the relegation zone all season while Colchester are chasing second promotion spot.
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Despite their improving results, United are still in the relegation zone .
security
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In a large fenced-off security zone , drums pile up to the level of a two storey house.
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Meanwhile, Sharpness Docks themselves became an annual security zone after the dockside cranes had been occupied by opponents of the dumping.
strike
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Glossary of popular terms Ball: called by the umpire when a pitch misses the strike zone .
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After all, Greg Maddux enjoyed the same strike zone and struck out nine in seven innings.
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The strike zone shall be determined from the batter's stance as the batter is prepared to swing at a pitched ball.
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Gregg was called into the postgame interview room and asked about his strike zone .
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I never thought there was a question how low a strike zone is.
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Better be ready to expand that strike zone , Robbie.
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He expects to profit from the high strike mostly when he throws his overhand curve which breaks late into the strike zone .
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How about starting with the strike zone , fellas?
time
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He finished his prayers, rapidly rethought his assumptions, and woke up Jesuit colleagues in several different time zones .
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This is now a league of nine active teams spanning six states and three time zones .
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Like Rolex watches from a different time zone .
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The time zone changes as we went west further increased our sensation that time was no longer a hard fact.
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The severity of jet-lag, however, is dependent upon the number of time zones crossed rather than the length of flight.
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Teams form over national boundaries and across multiple time zones .
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However, the world is not flat and we have time zones .
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Our four children and their families live in four different time zones .
trade
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Free trade zones already established at Kish Island, Queshm and Chabahar will be developed.
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They have agreed to form a free trade zone in 2000.
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Maybe there would be just a simple name change, or the establishment of a free trade zone .
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The free trade zone failed in various incarnations, and investment has been only sporadic.
twilight
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Ashanti are Ireland's latest voyagers into this strange twilight zone .
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It was strictly the twilight zone .
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Check your preconceptions at the door, for you are entering the twilight zone .
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Why is there a large twilight zone in Glasgow - the area where many buildings are being demolished and new ones erected?
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It's like the twilight zone , as if you're travelling back to the depression of the 1930s.
war
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If they stayed in the war zone they would face almost certain death.
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Pusan was the only region that was not in an active war zone .
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Work with Royal Logistics Corps plays a crucial role in getting supplies and troops in and out of the war zone .
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One cautious council member thought the parish would be asking for trouble by starting a sister-parish relationship in a war zone .
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In Kitwe city centre normality ceased altogether and the area resembled a war zone .
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The school is in the thick of a war zone between two rival gangs.
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The Rift Valley, the scene of the clashes involving Moi's minority Kalenjin people, was described a war zone .
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A war zone is a dangerous place to be even in the ab-sence of combat.
■ VERB
create
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All 68 major-league umpires went through orientation sessions this winter and have vowed to create a uniform strike zone .
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The lower federal court created both the 15-foot zone around the clinic entrances and the floating zone.
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Various guarantees create zones of privacy.
declare
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A hospital spokesman said the wards had been declared election-free zones .
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One of its first acts was to declare a 200-mile zone within which all foreign vessels need licences to fish.
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The government maintained pressure on the rebels by declaring an exclusion zone around Bougainville and blockading all supplies to the island.
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Many have been left homeless and the region was declared a disaster zone .
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And the seafront of the Humberside resort of Bridlington was declared an exclusion zone by police after similar havoc.
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Curfews were imposed on the Strip and the area was declared a closed military zone .
divide
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The six data bits of a character are divided into two zone bits and four numeric bits.
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He divided his operational zone into twelve districts for the sake of flexibility.
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Oceanographers traditionally divide the oceans into zones .
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The body is divided into zones , each one of which relates to a corresponding zone on the underside of the foot.
enforce
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Military experts think more than 50 fighter jets would be needed to enforce the zone .
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S.-\#enforced no-fly zone .
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However, those ships can not enforce the no-fly zone .
enter
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In effect only cars transporting food or medicine would be able to enter or leave sealed zones , he said.
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Again, this might be the result of entering an unusually cloud-free zone .
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As the tyre rolled, each point on it would enter the contact zone .
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The MiGs had also entered the zone 20 minutes earlier, but fled to safety when asked to identify themselves.
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Only strike out if the attacker enters your personal safety zone .
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Check your preconceptions at the door, for you are entering the twilight zone .
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Any car that does enter such a forbidden zone will lose all power, and remain until the traffic-warden arrives.
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The majority of rejected photographic claims are due to impatience - the photograph is taken before entering the zone .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
buffer zone
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Do you really expect us to believe, as you say, that many people feel the buffer zone should be scrapped?
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Each park will be bordered by a buffer zone where environmentally friendly farming will be encouraged.
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Severe obesity represents a buffer zone between you and the world.
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These buffer zones would be similar to the quiet zones around hospitals.
smoke-free environment/zone etc
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New laws to create a smoke-free environment at work and in public places.
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The freedom of the individual is important; everyone is entitled to a smoke-free environment.
temperate climate/zone/region etc
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Altogether there are four similar species known from he tropics and the temperate zones.
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Here I review these data and their implications for a temperate climate.
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Its distribution ranges from the tropics to the warmer areas of the temperate zone of both hemispheres.
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Most aquarium plants come from tropical and subtropical areas, with a few from the warmer parts of the temperate zone.
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Rodomonte hardly noticed the magnificent, unearthly architecture preserved so beautifully away from the squalls of the less temperate zones.
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The epidemiology in subtropical areas is basically similar to that in temperate zones, except that the seasonable timing of events is different.
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The epidemiology, at least in temperate zones, is similar to that of Ostertagia in ruminants with seasonal hypobiosis a feature.
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The length of the day changes in the temperate zone with the change of seasons.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Half of the community lies in a flood zone .
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Most of the town centre is now a pedestrian zone .
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The government has set up a special economic zone in the south for private enterprises.
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This is a residential zone -- no commercial buildings are allowed.
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UN troops are unwilling to enter the battle zone .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A fine Highland rain, like the spray from a plant mister, was falling in the wrong meteorological zone .
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All the people Fletcher surveyed have a buffer zone , usually somewhere between 3 and 5 pounds.
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However, because of the hysteresis, there is still an intermediate zone - one in which either behaviour may occur permanently.
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It looks like a war zone tip here, and perhaps it is.
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It was rubbing up and down as if he were titillating an unseen erogenous zone .
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Maybe there would be just a simple name change, or the establishment of a free trade zone .
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Subduction zones are also responsible for some of the Northwest's most dramatic natural features, including Mount Rainier.
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This may shed light on Soviet views of such zones.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Abrams' land is currently zoned for residential use.
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What? Oh, sorry - I was just zoning out there for a minute.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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More than three-quarters of the province has now been zoned.
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Rita Ranch was zoned industrial long before homes started sprouting there.