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DISTRICT
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Traducere în limba română
district I. substantiv
1. district; cartier, sector, circumscripţie; raion; regiune, ţinut;
the Lake District regiunea lacurilor (în nordul Angliei);
electoral district circumscripţie electorală;
(amer.) red-light district cartier cu case de toleranţă.
2. (amer.) circumscripţie electorală;
close district circumscripţie electorală în care victoria a fost obţinută cu o majoritate neînsemnată de voturi.
3. parohie independentă (în Anglia).
district II. verb tranzitiv
(amer.) a împărţi în districte sau regiuni, a raiona.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
Shortly after my marriage I had bought a connection in the Paddington district.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Over a 13-year period, there were nearly 10,000 fires in the Chobe district.
(Land cover change in Botswana savannas: Don't blame the elephants, National Science Foundation)
They speak with the broadest accent of the district.
(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)
The moon was climbing higher and higher, its light began to fall here and there in masses through the more open districts of the wood, and right in front of me a glow of a different colour appeared among the trees.
(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)