unzone

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ zone

Verb[edit]

unzone (third-person singular simple present unzones, present participle unzoning, simple past and past participle unzoned)

  1. (transitive) To remove from an assigned zone or zoning.
    • 1929, Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court, page 18:
      St. Claude Avenue, from Poland to Delery Street is now zoned and I trust the Council will not unzone it and open it up to picture shows and other business places.
    • 2018, Bertrand Dufrasne, Christian Burns, Wenzel Kalabza, IBM XIV Storage System Business Continuity Functions, page 331:
      The high-level process is to shut down the server, unzone the server from Generation 2, zone the server to Gen3, and then define and activate the data-migration (DM) volumes between the Generation 2 and Gen3.
  2. (transitive, poetic, archaic) To free from a girdle.
    • 1834, William Stanley Roscoe, Poems, page 116:
      To this sad urn the fragrant cypress bring, / With the soft violets of the budding spring; / Breathe the deep sigh, unzone the sobbing breast, / And bid these ashes in sweet slumbers rest;