zonelessとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

zoneless (not comparable)

1. Without zones; unzoned.
   • 1983, Robert Pollock, Soccer for Juniors, New York: Scribner, “Tactics,” p. 109,^[1]

     In this style of defense he is the one zoneless player, being able to cross into either of the zones as he is needed.

   • 1988, Aniko Varpalotai, “Ringette: The Sport for Girls,” Orbit, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Volume 19, No. 3, October 1988, p. 10,^[2]

     […] ringette players are agitating for zoneless play which would make the game faster and more demanding.

2. (literary, archaic) Without a belt or girdle.
   • 1749, William Mason, Isis: An Elegy, London: R. Dodsley, p. 7,^[3]

     Clos’d was her eye, and from her heaving breast

     In careless folds loose flow’d her zoneless vest;

   • 1785, William Cowper, The Task, London: J. Johnson, Book 3, p. 94,^[4]

     Thou art not known where pleasure is adored,

     That reeling goddess with the zoneless waist

     And wand’ring eyes, still leaning on the arm

     Of novelty, her fickle frail support;

3. (biology) Lacking bands or rings (particularly with reference to fungi).