Precinct vs Extinct - What's the difference?
precinct | extinct |
(chiefly, in the plural) An enclosed space having defined limits, normally marked by walls.
(UK) A pedestrianized and uncovered area.
(US, law enforcement) A subdivision of a city under the jurisdiction of a specific group of police; the police station situated in that district.
(US) 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.
(dated) Extinguished, no longer alight (of fire, candles etc.)
No longer used; obsolete, discontinued.
* Luckily, such ideas about race are extinct in current sociological theory.
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No longer in existence; having died out.
(vulcanology) No longer actively erupting.
As a noun precinct
is (chiefly|in the plural) an enclosed space having defined limits, normally marked by walls.As an adjective extinct is
(dated) extinguished, no longer alight (of fire, candles etc).precinct
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* (chiefly obsolete)Noun
(wikipedia precinct) (en noun)References
extinct
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Poor Edward's cigarillo was already extinct .
- Indeed the very fact that the English spelling system
writes in there'' as two words but ''therein'' as one word might be taken as suggest-
ing that only the former is a productive syntactic construction in Modern
English, the latter being a now extinct construction which has left behind a
few fossil remnants in the form of compound words such as ''thereby .
- The dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years.
- Most of the volcanos on this island are now extinct .