different between census vs redistrict

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin c?nsus, from c?nse?. See censor.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s?ns?s/

Noun

census (countable and uncountable, plural censuses or censusses or census)

1. An official count or enumeration of members of a population (not necessarily human), usually residents or citizens in a particular region, often done at regular intervals.
2. Count, tally.

Related terms

Translations

Verb

census (third-person singular simple present censuses or censusses, present participle censusing or censussing, simple past and past participle censused or censussed)

1. (transitive) To conduct a census on.
2. (intransitive) To collect a census.

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin census.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?n.z?s/
• Hyphenation: cen?sus

Noun

census m (plural censussen)

1. A census.

   Synonym: volkstelling

2. (historical) A tax that one has to pay to receive the right to vote in jurisdictions with census suffrage.

   Synonym: cijns

Derived terms

• censuskiesrecht

Related terms

• censureren
• censor
• censuur
• cijns

Descendants

• Afrikaans: sensus
• ? Indonesian: sensus

Latin

Etymology

From c?nse?.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ken.sus/, [?k??s??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?t??en.sus/, [?t???nsus]

Noun

c?nsus m (genitive c?ns?s); fourth declension

1. census, a registering of the populace and their property
2. A register resulting from a census.
3. (poetic) Rich gifts, presents, wealth

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Descendants

All are borrowed.

Adjective

c?nsus (feminine c?nsa, neuter c?nsum); first/second-declension adjective

1. registered
2. assessed

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

References

• census in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• census in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• census in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• census in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• census in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• census in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

English

Etymology

re- +? district

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i??d?st??kt/

Verb

redistrict (third-person singular simple present redistricts, present participle redistricting, simple past and past participle redistricted)

1. To adjust the borders of districts of a state or other governmental or administrative entity.
2. (US, politics) To redraw the borders of the districts represented by legislators or other elected officeholders in accord with changes in population as shown in the decennial census.