Crossword clues for precinct
precinct
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Precinct \Pre"cinct\ (?; 277), n. [LL. praecinctum, fr. L. praecingere, praecinctum, to gird about, to encompass; prae before + cingere to gird, surround. See Pre-, and Cincture.]
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. ``The precincts of light.''
--Milton.A district within certain boundaries; a minor territorial or jurisdictional division; as, an election precinct; a school precinct.
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A parish or prescribed territory attached to a church, and taxed for its support. [U.S.]
The parish, or precinct, shall proceed to a new choice.
--Laws of Massachusetts.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, prasaynt (mid-15c. as precincte), "district defined for purposes of government or representation," from Medieval Latin precinctum "enclosure, boundary line," noun use of neuter past participle of Latin praecingere "to gird about, surround," from prae- "before" (see pre-) + cingere "to surround, encircle" (see cinch (v.)).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context chiefly in the plural English) An enclosed space having defined limits, normally marked by walls. 2 (context UK English) A pedestrianized and uncovered shopping#Noun area. 3 (context US law enforcement English) A subdivision of a city under the jurisdiction of a specific group of police; the police station situated in that district. 4 (context US English) A subdivision of a city or town for the purposes of voting and representation in city or town government. In cities, precincts may be grouped into wards.
WordNet
n. a district of a city or town marked out for administrative purposes
Wikipedia
A precinct is a space enclosed by the walls or other boundaries of a particular place or building, or by an arbitrary and imaginary line drawn around it. The term is often used to refer to a division of a police department in a large city (either to the neighborhood patrolled or to the police station itself). New York City uses the term "precinct" for its police stations. It is sometimes incorrectly used by non-Philadelphians to police stations of that city which are districts.
Usage examples of "precinct".
January 2, she called Detective Hadman at the Nineteenth Precinct, blurting out the details of the back-to-back incidents.
A landscape of brutalist shopping precincts, down-at-heel Tube stations and municipal concrete bunkers is the only sort of scenery I have time for.
Whether the monitory fox was anywhere within the precincts I do not know, but I missed him at that time, and attributed to his absence the lapse from virtue which undermined my previous resolution, and in a moment undid the merits of exemplary years.
An obliging young woman telephoned for a taxi after explaining Lily should visit the pearling museum in the wharf precinct in the centre of the city.
WAS, not so long ago, when a dystopic Future was a scarily enticing precinct, to be entered warily and carefully armed, or at least fashionably dressed: think of the methamphetamine dreamscapes of writers like William Gibson, Samuel R.
Pendray, Monmouth, Gloucester, and Scire, Solicitors, was located just outside the Temple precincts in the City of London.
For though the early and spiritistic interpretations of relativity and the quantum theory had by now accustomed men of science to pay their respects to the religions, many of them were still liable to a certain asphyxia when they were actually within the precincts of sanctity.
All subcontinental precinct stations, pack and transport no less than four thousand grams to the nearest collection point.
Jasper examines the part of the precincts in the shadow of the Cathedral, because he wishes to assure himself that it is lonely enough for his later undescribed but easily guessed proceedings in this night of mystery.
And I hereby proclaim, order, and direct that immediately after the 5th day of September, 1864, being fifty days from the date of this call, a draft for troops to serve for one year shall be had in every town, township, ward of a city, precinct, or election district, or county not so subdivided, to fill the quota which shall be assigned to it under this call or any part thereof which may be unfilled by volunteers on the said 5th day of September, 1864.
And although a new centre has grown up between the university buildings and the railway station, a place of tower blocks and shopping precincts and multi-storey car parks, all this red brick and concrete has been kept well away from the old town which stands, unspoilt, on the banks of the Kingsbrook.
The entrance they came to was a transparent wall and set of doors opening from a wide pedestrian precinct lined by stores and what looked like office units, rows of display cases, and at the far end a battery of stairs and escalators going up to the concourse of a transportation terminal.
It too was a prosperous and fairly large city, dominated by the temple precinct and palace atop a small acropolis, dreaming alongside its wide calm inlet.
With a word or a wink, cups and bowls were swiftly filled and loose order maintained within the rowdy precinct of the inn.
Nor was the charity of Mahomet confined to the tribe of Koreish, or the precincts of Mecca: on solemn festivals, in the days of pilgrimage, he frequented the Caaba, accosted the strangers of every tribe, and urged, both in private converse and public discourse, the belief and worship of a sole Deity.