Area vs Parish - What's the difference?
area | parish | Related terms |
(mathematics) A measure of the extent of a surface; it is measured in square units.
A particular geographic region.
Any particular extent of surface, especially an empty or unused extent.
Figuratively, any extent, scope or range of an object or concept.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author=
, magazine=(American Scientist), title= (British) An open space, below ground level, between the front of a house and the pavement.
(soccer) Penalty box; penalty area.
* {{quote-news, year=2010, date=December 29, author=Mark Vesty, work=BBC
, title= (slang) Genitals.
In the Anglican, Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic Church or certain civil government entities such as the state of Louisiana, an administrative part of a diocese that has its own church.
* , chapter=7
, title= The community attending that church; the members of the parish.
(US) An ecclesiastical society, usually not bounded by territorial limits, but composed of those persons who choose to unite under the charge of a particular priest, clergyman, or minister; also, loosely, the territory in which the members of a congregation live.
A civil subdivision of a British county, often corresponding to an earlier ecclesiastical parish.
An administrative subdivision in Louisiana that is equivalent to a county in other U.S. states.
(lb) To place (an area, or rarely a person) into one or more es.
* 1917 , Annual Report of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Board of Home Missions and Church Extension, page 70:
* 1972 , Winter's Tales from Ireland , volume 2, page 55:
* 1991', Melissa Bradley Kirkpatrick, ''Re-'''parishing the Countryside: Progressivism and Religious Interests in Rural Life Reform, 1908-1934
* 1992 , Parish and town councils in England: a survey , pages 17 and 21:
* 2011 , Sustainable development in the Localism Bill: third report (ISBN 0215557050), page 5
To visit residents of a parish.
* 1896 , Mrs. Humphry Ward, Sir George Tressady , volume 1 (ISBN 3842496737):
* 1903 , Maxwell Gray, Richard Rosny , page 210:
* 1921 , Margaret Pedler, The Splendid Folly , page 46:
*
Area is a related term of parish.
As nouns the difference between area and parish
is that area is area while parish is in the anglican, eastern orthodox and roman catholic church or certain civil government entities such as the state of louisiana, an administrative part of a diocese that has its own church.As a verb parish is
(lb) to place (an area, or rarely a person) into one or more es or parish can be .area
English
Noun
(wikipedia area)Rob Dorit
Making Life from Scratch, passage=Today, a new area of research that similarly aims to mimic a complex biological phenomenon—life itself—is taking off. Synthetic biology, a seductive experimental subfield in the life sciences, seems tantalizingly to promise custom-designed life created in the laboratory.}}
- (Charles Dickens)
Wigan 2-2 Arsenal, passage=Bendtner's goal-bound shot was well saved by goalkeeper Ali Al Habsi but fell to Arsahvin on the edge of the area and the Russian swivelled, shaped his body and angled a sumptuous volley into the corner.}}
Derived terms
* * area code * area-denial * area of influence * area rug * area rule * Broca's area * combined statistical area * common area * danger area * disaster area * equal-area * free trade area * geographical area * goal area * gray area * grey area * lateral area * metropolitan area * metropolitan area network * notification area * outside gross area * penalty area * Planck area * prohibited area * protected area * rest area * restricted area * Ruhr Area * Schengen Area * safe area * second moment of area * service area * specific leaf area * staging area * surface area * terminal control area * Terminal High Altitude Area Defense * ventral tegmental area * Wernicke's areaSee also
* Imperial: square inches, square feet, square yards, square miles, acres * Metric: square meters/square metres, square centimeters/square centimetres, square kilometers/square kilometres, hectaresAnagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----parish
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) paroche, parosse, from (etyl) paroisse, from .Noun
(wikipedia parish) (es)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=With some of it on the south and more of it on the north of the great main thoroughfare that connects Aldgate and the East India Docks, St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London.}}
Derived terms
* parishioner * parish church * parish registerSee also
* parochialVerb
(en-verb)- Father Malachy, a distant cousin, who was parished somewhere in the depths of Co. Monaghan, sat firmly in the chair in the corner, sipping his tea from a china cup.
- Consequently, approaching half of the non-metropolitan population of England is parished (Table 2.2).
- The South West and East Midlands are also particularly well parished' while the North West, West Midlands and South East are poorly ' parished .
- Dr Whitehead: In your written evidence, you have all in different ways made the distinction between NDOs in parished areas and NDOs in non-parished areas,
- a chair immediately opposite to Tressady's place remained vacant. It was being kept for the eldest son of the house, his mother explaining carelessly to Lord Fontenoy that she believed he was "Out parishing somewhere, as usual."
- "You will take pleasure in parishing'. Mother used to ' parish ."
- "How do you know I like parishing ?"
- "Your uncle said so."
- "Oh! did he?"
- "And you may like the rectory people; it's a fine old house, and often full of visitors."
- "Are you going ‘parishing ’ this morning?" inquired Diana, as she watched him fill and light his pipe.
