What is another word for zoned out?
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What is zoned out in slang?
Stop paying attention, dissociate oneself from a situation. Also, engage in a mindless activity. For example, When Felicia starts talking about her ailments and her friends’ ailments, I totally zone out. This idiom also occurs in the passive, be zoned out.
What is another word for zoning?
In this page you can discover 8 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for zoning, like: city planning, urban-planning, municipal planning, controlled development, administration, plan, and landuse.
Is zoning out is a word?
zone out in American English to lose awareness of one’s immediate surroundings or one’s cares or troubles, as variously from daydreaming, the taking of drugs, etc.
How do you describe zoned out?
zone out. 1. To lose focus or stop paying attention to something, usually unintentionally. The term can be used to indicate that someone has focused on one thing to the exclusion of everything else.
What does zoning out feel like?
You might feel like you’re just going through the motions of daily life, but not really thinking about what you’re doing. Eventually, you emerge from this fog with little recollection of how much time has actually passed or how you got through it.
What is another word for outer space?
In this page you can discover 20 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for outer-space, like: cosmos, infinity, the heavens, deep-space, infinite space, the void, cosmic space, the universe, ether space, intercosmic space and the void above.
Why is it called zoning out?
What causes it? Often, zoning out just means your brain has switched over to autopilot. This can happen when your brain recognizes that you can complete your current task, whether that’s folding laundry or walking to work, without really thinking about it. So you go into default mode.
What’s the difference between daydreaming and zoning out?
Generally, “spacing out” means that you are not in the moment, or that your mind is somewhere else. Daydreaming is the most common kind of spacing out. It is generally nothing to worry about. But there are more serious kinds of spacing out that can be caused by a medical condition.
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полностью потерять концентрацию, сосредоточение; отвлечься, отключиться, думать о совершенно посторонних вещах
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A zone is any area set apart from another area.
Зона — это любая область, расположенная отдельно от другой области.
Zone out
Let’s hear what Anna and Jonathan have to say about this one.
Давайте послушаем, что об этом скажут Анна и Джонатан.
Anna:
So like I was saying, I sent her… Jonathan. Jonathan! What
are you doing?
Так вот, как я говорила, я послала ее… Джонатан. Джонатан! Чем ты занят?
Jonathan:
Oh, sorry Anna. I guess I zoned out for a second there. I was thinking about all the trout I hope to catch on our fishing trip.
О, извини Анна. я, должно быть, на секунду отвлекся. Я думал о форели, которую надеюсь поймать на нашей рыбалке.
Anna:
Well, stop! We have a three-hour drive to the lake. And I have a lot of stuff to talk to you about.
Ну, перестань! Мы будем ехать до озера три часа. И у меня есть много чего разного, о чем я бы хотела поговорить с тобой.
To zone out means that you are not concentrating. Your mind starts to think about other things rather than what you are doing, or you daydream like Jonathan.
«To zone out» означает, что вы не сконцентрированы, не собраны, рассеяны. Ваш ум занят не тем, что вы делаете, а посторонними вещами, или вы начинаете фантазировать, как Джонатан.
He zoned out thinking about all the fish he wants to catch on his fishing trip with Anna.
Он «отключился» (zoned out), думая о той рыбе, которую он хочет поймать на рыбалке с Анной.
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to be so interested in your own thoughts, your brain stops focusing on the reception from your senses. You only snap out of it when, 1) you realize you zoned out and subsequently «come back into the real world», 2) something happens that catches your attention, like say a major movement in front of your face, or 3) someone says your name.
When the principle came into to talk to us about Jacob running away from school on his longboard, I was so bored by that old hag that I had to zone out in five seconds. I snapped out of it when she stopped talking, and guess what I was thinking about? A sandwich.
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1. To be day dreaming and unaware of the things around you. You usually appear to be staring at something, when in fact you are just looking in one place and you are deep in thought, or your mind is blank and you are trying to find yourself. Often people will wave their hand in front of your face and make a huge deal out of getting you to ‘come back to earth’
2.A lot of times people that self-harm will «zone out» before they do it. This simply means that they seem to block out everything around them and can no longer reconize where they are, nor can they feel pain.
1. Becca was so bored in history class that she zoned out, so Tyler started to wave his hands in front of her to make her snap out of it.
2.Emily zoned out before she slit her wrists.
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Spaced out, stoned, unaware, oblivious, unconscious, drugged, narcotized.
Derived from the 70’s phrase «lost in the ozone», which led to the related terms «ozoned», «zoned», and «zoned out».
I got kinda zoned out listening to Green Day and forgot to finish my term paper.
Dubya got zoned out at the Cabinet meeting and decided to invade Iraq without a legitimate cause.
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zone out
1. To lose focus or stop paying attention to something, usually unintentionally. The term can be used to indicate that someone has focused on one thing to the exclusion of everything else. I think I must have zoned out during that lecture, because when it was over I realized I didn’t remember anything the professor said. Jerry kind of zones out when he plays video games, so you have to be really loud to get his attention.
2. To intentionally ignore or block out certain stimuli, distractions, etc. In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be used between «zone» and «out.» When you’re playing, you have to zone out everything except what’s happening on the field. I know Aunt Lula can be aggravating, but she’s only here for a few days, so just try to zone her out.
zoned (out)
In a state of suspended focus, attention, or awareness, as due to boredom, fatigue, or intoxication. A: «Did you catch what the boss said about the policy changes?» B: «Not really. I was zoned out for most of the meeting.» The pain medication the doctors gave me is really strong, so I’ve been pretty zoned all day.
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zoned (out)
1. mod. alcohol or drug intoxicated. What’s the matter with your eyes? Get a little zoned last night?
2. mod. exhausted. After a day like this, I’m really zoned.
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- bump (up) against (someone or something)
- bump against
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- have an accident
- telegraph (something)
- knock someone out
- find (oneself) in the market for (something)