What's the difference between district and precinct?

District


Definition:

  • (a.) Rigorous; stringent; harsh.
  • (n.) The territory within which the lord has the power of coercing and punishing.
  • (n.) A division of territory; a defined portion of a state, town, or city, etc., made for administrative, electoral, or other purposes; as, a congressional district, judicial district, land district, school district, etc.
  • (n.) Any portion of territory of undefined extent; a region; a country; a tract.
  • (v. t.) To divide into districts or limited portions of territory; as, legislatures district States for the choice of representatives.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Furthermore, their distribution in various ethnic groups residing in different districts of Rajasthan state (Western-India) is also reviewed.
  • (2) The district’s $110bn of economic activity went up by 22% since 2007, outpacing city growth by 9% during the same period.
  • (3) Photograph: AP Reasons for wavering • State relies on coal-fired electricity • Poor prospects for wind power • Conservative Democrat • Represents conservative district in conservative state and was elected on narrow margins Campaign support from fossil fuel interests in 2008 • $93,743 G K Butterfield (North Carolina) GK Butterfield, North Carolina.
  • (4) There was a negative connection between the measure of total induced abortions in 1986 and the relative increase of abortions in the districts during 1986-87.
  • (5) Fifty-four cases were analysed, and a two-fold excess of clustering within one year was observed, both within single districts and between adjacent districts.
  • (6) The District became a byword for crime and drug abuse, while its “mayor for life” lived high on the hog and lurched cheerfully from one scandal to the next.
  • (7) Asked if his donation to Filner, who has a district about 2,500 miles from where Sharif lives, was because of his position on Iran and the MEK, Sharif said that it was.
  • (8) A nutritional field survey was undertaken in 11 rural districts of Kwazulu.
  • (9) Cheers, then, to an apparent alliance of the NME, a few people in London's trendy E1 district and some dumb young musicians, because "New Rave" is upon us, and there is apparently no stopping it.
  • (10) In north-west Copenhagen, among the quiet, graffiti-tagged streets of red-brick blocks and low-rise social housing bordering the multi-ethnic Nørrebro district, police continued to cordon off roads and search a flat near the spot where officers killed a man believed to be behind Denmark’s bloodiest attacks in over a decade.
  • (11) "Today a federal district court put up a roadblock on a path constructed by 21 federal court rulings over the last year – a path that inevitably leads to nationwide marriage equality," said Sarah Warbelow, legal director for the Human Rights Campaign.
  • (12) We suggest that sick districts can be affirmed on the basis of the total amount of fluoride intake, the prevalence rates of dental fluorosis, bad incomplete teeth, milk-teeth and the mean output of urinary fluoride between 8 and 15 years of age.
  • (13) In 10th district of Budapest a longitudinal, epidemiological examination was started in 1975 with the aim of analysis of the objective factors influencing the population screening and determination of possibilities of screening effectiveness.
  • (14) Under Lynch, the eastern district is currently prosecuting at least five cases relating to the prostitution of US minors or sex trafficking – more active prosecutions than any other US attorney’s office in the country, according to knowledgeable observers.
  • (15) After sterilisation of mentally diseased patients had been legally enforced and finances were restricted, family care stagnated, promoting instead a type of family care that was independent of psychiatric hospitals and was carried out on a "district" basis.
  • (16) Iraqi police have also executed detainees in Tal Afar and government-allied militias opened fire on a mosque in the Khanaqin district northeast of Baghdad killing 73 men and boys, Pansieri said.
  • (17) Almost one quarter of all deaths among residents of Camberwell District Health Authority during 1990 occurred without the district ('transferable deaths').
  • (18) There is a wide range of performance at state and district level.
  • (19) Michael Garcia, the former New York district attorney appointed to investigate the 2018 and 2022 votes, will deliver his report in seven weeks.
  • (20) The aim of this study was to compare the predictive power of a simple illness severity score (Clinical Sickness Score) to that of APACHE II in a District General Hospital intensive therapy unit.

Precinct


Definition:

  • (n.) The limit or exterior line encompassing a place; a boundary; a confine; limit of jurisdiction or authority; -- often in the plural; as, the precincts of a state.
  • (n.) A district within certain boundaries; a minor territorial or jurisdictional division; as, an election precinct; a school precinct.
  • (n.) A parish or prescribed territory attached to a church, and taxed for its support.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, the Iowa Democratic party decided to shift one delegate from Sanders to Clinton on the night and did not notify precinct secretary J Pablo Silva that they had done so.
  • (2) Raeisha Williams with the Minneapolis NAACP told the AP protesters plan to stay at the precinct until the names of the officers involved are released.
  • (3) But you could also help swing an entire precinct for Hillary’s opponent with a protest vote or by staying home out of frustration.
  • (4) Police and protesters clash during Jamar Clark protests as NAACP plans response Read more Tents, fire pits and stools have been set up outside the Fourth Precinct, in the heart of a predominantly black section of the city and just blocks from where Jamar Clark was shot early last Sunday after police responded to an assault complaint.
  • (5) Criminal complaints to the police in the ARTC area were not reduced as compared to surrounding precincts.
  • (6) We weren’t trying to satisfy the demands of that day.” It has hosted Britain’s first multiplex cinema, first peace pagoda and almost certainly its first public infinity pool Rather than create a centre from buildings like other new towns such as Cumbernauld with its hulking concrete shopping precinct, CMK was designed as a centre of broad boulevards edged in expensive Cornish granite and lined with London plane trees.
  • (7) Trump and his allies have repeatedly suggested that voter fraud took place in cities such as Philadelphia and Chicago in 2012, citing as evidence the fact that Mitt Romney failed to win a single vote in 59 almost wholly black precincts of Philadelphia’s 1,687 total.
  • (8) Marian Dalton (@crazyjane13) Emmo: We will provide $46m for Sunshine Coast health learning precinct.
  • (9) Some of the candidates have struggled to find enough precinct captains to get their voters out but Paul's campaign has released details of its network, saying it has 1,480 precinct captains.
  • (10) In Grinnell Ward 1, the precinct where elite liberal arts college Grinnell College is located, 19 delegates were awarded to Bernie Sanders and seven were awarded to Hillary Clinton on caucus night.
  • (11) The results of its investigation suggests a continuum between Guantánamo interrogation rooms and Chicago police precincts.
  • (12) By 2.30am, when all precincts had reported, Trump had a remarkable 45.9% of the vote.
  • (13) As Silva explained it, the Iowa Democratic party’s formula for apportioning delegates left no method of dealing with one delegate in the precinct.
  • (14) But those hopes have been dashed with 23,221 of 24,491 precincts in the state reporting votes.
  • (15) They can't even be photographed in the precincts of the building in which the court is held, although this law has been broken on a daily basis ever since security cameras were first installed.
  • (16) Cluster sampling helps to compensate for the inability to sample every precinct in the state, but the errors of each precinct add together to form a larger state error.
  • (17) He was forced to shout over the din of several hundred people from 12 precincts in the school cafeteria, where all but the loudest speakers were drowned out.
  • (18) Five protesters were injured in the Monday night shooting at the Minneapolis police department’s 4th Precinct, where protesters have been conducting a sit-in since the shooting of 24-year-old Jamar Clark on 15 November.
  • (19) Protesters also continue to occupy the front door and space surrounding the Minneapolis police fourth precinct building.
  • (20) Similarly, John McCain failed to win votes in Chicago and Atlanta precincts in 2008.