<span class="searchmatch">offensive</span> <span class="searchmatch">zone</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">offensive</span> <span class="searchmatch">zones</span>) (ice hockey) The ice between the opposing team's blue line and their end board. attacking <span class="searchmatch">zone</span> defending <span class="searchmatch">zone</span>...
<span class="searchmatch">offensive</span> <span class="searchmatch">zones</span> plural of <span class="searchmatch">offensive</span> <span class="searchmatch">zone</span>...
end board behind the other team's goal. From the other team's point of view the same <span class="searchmatch">zone</span> is called the defending <span class="searchmatch">zone</span>. <span class="searchmatch">offensive</span> <span class="searchmatch">zone</span> <span class="searchmatch">zone</span> in hockey...
guard offensive line <span class="searchmatch">offensive</span> line of scrimmage <span class="searchmatch">offensively</span> <span class="searchmatch">offensiveness</span> <span class="searchmatch">offensive</span> tackle <span class="searchmatch">offensive</span> to pious ears <span class="searchmatch">offensive</span> <span class="searchmatch">zone</span> unoffensive offend offense...
player, on defense, gets into or crosses the neutral <span class="searchmatch">zone</span> during the snap, causing an <span class="searchmatch">offensive</span> player to false start. The penalty is against the defense...
See also: <span class="searchmatch">Zone</span>, <span class="searchmatch">zoné</span>, <span class="searchmatch">zône</span>, <span class="searchmatch">zonë</span>, <span class="searchmatch">zonę</span>, and <span class="searchmatch">żonę</span> From Latin zōna, from Ancient Greek ζώνη (<span class="searchmatch">zṓnē</span>, “girdle, belt”). (General American) enPR: zōn, IPA(key):...
<span class="searchmatch">zone</span> of action (plural <span class="searchmatch">zones</span> of action) (military) A tactical subdivision of a larger area, the responsibility for which is assigned to a tactical unit;...
also: Neutral <span class="searchmatch">Zone</span> neutral <span class="searchmatch">zone</span> (plural neutral <span class="searchmatch">zones</span>) (American football) A <span class="searchmatch">zone</span> between the defensive line of scrimmage and the <span class="searchmatch">offensive</span> line of scrimmage...
on the offensive side (<span class="searchmatch">offensive</span> line of scrimmage) and the one on the defensive side (defensive line of scrimmage). The <span class="searchmatch">zone</span> in between the two lines...
From in- + <span class="searchmatch">offensive</span>. inoffensive (comparative more inoffensive, superlative most inoffensive) not <span class="searchmatch">offensive</span> an inoffensive joke 1765, Catherine Jemmat...