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Adobe vs Residence - What's the difference?

adobe | residence |

As a verb adobe

is .

As a noun residence is

residence (place where one resides).

adobe

English

(wikipedia adobe)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • An unburnt brick dried in the sun.
    • Many people in Texas and New Mexico live in adobe houses.
  • * (rfdate) O’Henry, Cabbages and Kings
    • Stone sidewalks, little more than a ledge in width, ran along the base of the mean and monotonous adobe houses.
  • * (rfdate) O’Henry, Roads of Destiny
    • “Find me a nice, clean adobe wall,” says he, “and send Senor Rompiro up against it.”
  • * (rfdate) Star Wars script
    • The Jawas mutter gibberish as they busily line up their battered captives, including Artoo and Threepio, in front of the enormous Sandcrawler, which is parked beside a small homestead consisting of three large holes in the ground surrounded by several tall moisture vaporators and one small adobe block house.
  • * 26 May 2003 , Roger Angell, in The New Yorker ,
    • The Sangre de Cristos came into view and the first soft-cornered adobe houses, and that night we ate at La Fonda with my Aunt Elsie, who worked for the Indian Bureau, and had Hopi snake dances and San Ildefonso pottery-makers and Mabel Dodge Luhan in store for us in the coming weeks.
  • A house made of adobe brick.
  • * {{quote-news, 2007, March 11, Ralph Blumenthal, Prosecutor’s Ouster Shifts Political Order, New York Times citation
    • , passage=The snow-dusted mesas and million-dollar adobes look enchanting as ever

    Synonyms

    * mudbrick (definition 1)

    Anagrams

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    References

    * adobe, Online Etymology Dictionary English terms derived from Arabic English terms derived from Spanish ----

    residence

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The place where one lives.
  • * Macaulay
    • Johnson took up his residence in London.
  • A building used as a home.
  • The place where a corporation is established.
  • The state of living in a particular place or environment.
  • * Sir M. Hale
    • The confessor had often made considerable residences in Normandy.
  • The place where anything rests permanently.
  • * Milton
    • But when a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all his regal power, he then fights against his own majesty and kingship.
  • subsidence, as of a sediment
    • (Francis Bacon)
  • That which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum.
    • (Jeremy Taylor)

    Related terms

    * reside * residency * resident * residential

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