zone vs drop zone

drop zone vs zone

zone and drop zone both are nouns.

zone is a verb but drop zone is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
zone	Yes	No	Yes	No
drop zone	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, drop zone is a hyponym of zone; that is, drop zone is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than zone:

zone: an area or region distinguished from adjacent parts by a distinctive feature or characteristic
drop zone: an agreed area where military supplies are dropped to ground troops

Other hyponyms of zone include buffer, buffer zone, combat area, combat zone, danger zone, demilitarized zone, DMZ, dropping zone, kill zone, killing zone, strike zone, tidal zone, promotion zone.

zone (noun)	drop zone (noun)
(anatomy) any encircling or beltlike structure	an agreed area where military supplies are dropped to ground troops
a locally circumscribed place characterized by some distinctive features
an area or region distinguished from adjacent parts by a distinctive feature or characteristic
any of the regions of the surface of the Earth loosely divided according to latitude or longitude

zone (verb)	drop zone (verb)
separate or apportion into sections
regulate housing in; of certain areas of towns

Difference between zone and drop zone

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