neutral zone
Speech parts
1. neutral zone - Noun
2. Neutral zone - Proper noun
Meaning
(American football) A zone between the defensive line of scrimmage and the offensive line of scrimmage.
(ice hockey) A zone on the playing surface between the attacking zone and the defending zone as delineated by the two blue lines.
(cycling) A non-competitive segment of a bicycle race during which competitors have to stay behind the lead vehicles.
(dentistry) That space in the oral cavity where the forces exerted by the musculature of the tongue are equal and balanced with the forces exerted by the buccinator muscle of the cheek laterally and the orbicularis oris muscle anteriorly.
Neutral Zone
(historical) A former area between Saudi Arabia and Iraq, abolished 1991.
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A contest may feature a moat in a neutral zone, usually of mud or softened ground, which eliminates players who cross the zone or fall into it.
Additionally, a player receiving a lateral pass may throw a forward pass if he is still behind the neutral zone, subject to the forward pass rules.
Dach, who turns 20 on January 21, was injured in what looked like a harmless body check in the neutral zone in the third period last Wednesday.
In 1736, Spanish and British officials established a neutral zone from the Altamaha to the St. Johns River in present-day Florida, guaranteeing Native hunting grounds for the deerskin trade and protecting Spanish Florida from further British encroachment.
At ambient temperatures below their body temperatures ( thermal neutral zone (TNZ)), ostriches decrease body surface temperatures so that heat loss occurs only across about 10% of total surface area.
Forty-three years later, Saudi Arabia and Iraq signed an agreement that defined the border between the two countries and provided for the division of the neutral zone between them.