different between district vs subscribe

English

Etymology

From French district, from Medieval Latin districtus (“a district within which the lord may distrain, also jurisdiction”), from Latin districtus, past participle of distringere (“to draw asunder, compel, distrain”), from dis- (“apart”) +? stringere (“to draw tight, strain”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: d?s?tr?kt, IPA^(key): /?d?st??kt/
• Hyphenation: dis?trict

Noun

district (plural districts)

1. An administrative division of an area.

   the Soho district of London

2. An area or region marked by some distinguishing feature.

   the Lake District in Cumbria

3. (Britain) An administrative division of a county without the status of a borough.

   South Oxfordshire District Council

Derived terms

Related terms

• districtual

Translations

Verb

district (third-person singular simple present districts, present participle districting, simple past and past participle districted)

1. (transitive) To divide into administrative or other districts.

Derived terms

• redistrict

Translations

Adjective

district (comparative more district, superlative most district)

1. (obsolete) rigorous; stringent; harsh
   • 1563, John Foxe, Actes and Monuments

     punishing with the rod of district severity

Further reading

• district in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• district in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• district at OneLook Dictionary Search

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch district, from Middle French district, from Medieval Latin districtus (“a district within which the lord may distrain, also jurisdiction”), from Latin districtus, past participle of distring?, distringere (“draw asunder, compel, distrain”), from dis- (“apart”) + string?, stringere (“draw tight, strain”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?s?tr?kt/
• Hyphenation: dis?trict
• Rhymes: -?kt

Noun

district n (plural districten, diminutive districtje n)

1. district

Derived terms

• kiesdistrict

Descendants

• Afrikaans: distrik
• ? Indonesian: distrik

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dis.t?ikt/, /dis.t?ik/

Noun

district m (plural districts)

1. district

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from French district, from Medieval Latin districtus (“a district within which the lord may distrain, also jurisdiction”), from Latin districtus, past participle of distring?, distringere (“draw asunder, compel, distrain”), from dis- (“apart”) + string?, stringere (“draw tight, strain”).

Noun

district m (plural districts)

1. (Jersey) district

Romanian

Etymology

From French district

Noun

district n (plural districte)

1. district

Declension

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin subscr?bere. Compare its Germanic equivalent underwrite.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /s?b?sk?a?b/
• Rhymes: -a?b

Verb

subscribe (third-person singular simple present subscribes, present participle subscribing, simple past and past participle subscribed)

1. (ergative) To sign up to have copies of a publication, such as a newspaper or a magazine, delivered for a period of time.

2. To pay for the provision of a service, such as Internet access or a cell phone plan.
3. To believe or agree with a theory or an idea (used with to).

4. To pay money to be a member of an organization.
5. (intransitive) To contribute or promise to contribute money to a common fund.
   • 1913, Theodore Roosevelt, Autobiography:

     […] under no circumstances could I ever again be nominated for any public office, as no corporation would subscribe to a campaign fund if I was on the ticket, and that they would subscribe most heavily to beat me;

6. (transitive) To promise to give, by writing one's name with the amount.

7. (business and finance) To agree to buy shares in a company.
   • 1776, Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations:

     The capital which had been subscribed to this bank, at two different subscriptions, amounted to one hundred and sixty thousand pounds, of which eighty per cent only was paid up.

8. (transitive) To sign; to mark with one's signature as a token of consent or attestation.
   • 1855, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity^[1]:

     All the bishops subscribed the sentence.

9. (archaic) To write (one’s name) at the bottom of a document; to sign (one's name).
   • c. 1510, Thomas More, The Life of Pico della Mirandola

     [They] subscribed their names under them.

10. (obsolete) To sign away; to yield; to surrender.
11. (obsolete) To yield; to admit to being inferior or in the wrong.
12. (obsolete, transitive) To declare over one's signature; to publish.
13. (transitive) To indicate interest in the communications made by a person or organization.

    Please like this video, and subscribe to my YouTube channel.

14. (intransitive, programming) To register for notifications about an event or similar.

    If you subscribe to the MouseClick event, your application can react to the user clicking the mouse.

Derived terms

Translations

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sub?skri?.be/, [s??p?s?k?i?b?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sup?skri.be/, [sup?sk?i?b?]

Verb

subscr?be

1. second-person singular present active imperative of subscr?b?

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /subs?k?ibe/, [su??s?k?i.??e]

Verb

subscribe

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of subscribir.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of subscribir.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of subscribir.