| 单词 | precinct |
| 释义 | precinct /pree"singkt/, n. 1. a district, as of a city, marked out for governmental or administrative purposes, or for police protection. 2. Also called precinct house. the police station in such a district. 3. Also called election district. one of a fixed number of districts, each containing one polling place, into which a city, town, etc., is divided for voting purposes. 4. a space or place of definite or understood limits. 5. Often, precincts. an enclosing boundary or limit. 6. precincts, the parts or regions immediately surrounding a place; environs: the precincts of a town. 7. Chiefly Brit. the ground immediately surrounding a church, temple, or the like. 8. a walled or otherwise bounded or limited space within which a building or place is situated. [1350-1400; ME < ML praecinctum, n. use of neut. of L praecinctus, ptp. of praecingere to gird about, surround, equiv. to prae- PRE- + cing- (s. of cingere to surround; cf. CINCH1) + -tus ptp. suffix] Syn. 1. ward. 4. territory. 8. compound. |
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