Denizen vs Dwells - What's the difference?
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An inhabitant of a place; one who dwells in.
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 6
* Sir Walter Scott
One who frequents a place.
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(British, obsolete) A person with rights between those of naturalized citizen and resident alien (roughly permanent resident), obtained through letters patent.
* 1765 , (William Blackstone), (Commentaries on the Laws of England), Book 1, Chapter X, p. 374
(biology) An animal or plant from a particular range or habitat.
(British) To grant rights of citizenship to; to naturalize.
* Dryden
To provide with denizens; to populate with adopted or naturalized occupants.
* J. D. Hooker
(dwell)
(engineering) A period of time in which a system or component remains in a given state.
(engineering) A brief pause in the motion of part of a mechanism to allow an operation to be completed.
(electrical engineering) A planned delay in a timed control program.
(automotive) In a petrol engine, the period of time the ignition points are closed to let current flow through the ignition coil in between each spark. This is measured as an angle in degrees around the camshaft in the distributor which controls the points, for example in a 4-cylinder engine it might be 55° (spark at 90° intervals, points closed for 55° between each).
To live; to reside.
* Peacham
* C. J. Smith
To linger (on ) a particular thought, idea etc.; to remain fixated (on).
(engineering) To be in a given state.
To abide; to remain; to continue.
* Shakespeare
* Wordsworth
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English irregular verbs
As verbs the difference between denizen and dwells
is that denizen is (british) to grant rights of citizenship to; to naturalize while dwells is (dwell).As a noun denizen
is an inhabitant of a place; one who dwells in.denizen
English
(wikipedia denizen)Noun
(en noun)- The giant squid is one of many denizens of the deep.
- The cries of the gorilla proclaimed that it was in mortal combat with some other denizen of the fierce wood. Suddenly these cries ceased, and the silence of death reigned throughout the jungle.
- Denizens of their own free, independent state.
- The denizens of that pub are of the roughest sort.
citation
- A denizen is a kind of middle state, between an alien and a natural-born subject, and partakes of both.''
- Though born in Iceland, he became a denizen of Britain after leaving Oxford.
- The bald eagle is a denizen of the northern part of the state.
Usage notes
As a British legal category, used between 13th and 19th century (mentioned but not used in 20th century), made obsolete by naturalisation – see (denization).Synonyms
* (inhabitant of a place) inhabitant, native, resident * (one who frequents a place) regularDerived terms
* denizationVerb
(en verb)- He was denizened to Ireland after fleeing his home country.
- As soon as denizened , they domineer.
- There were a few islets in the sand and these were at once denizened by various weeds.
dwells
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Verb
(head)dwell
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Noun
(en noun)Verb
- the parish in which I was born, dwell , and have possessions
- The poor man dwells in a humble cottage near the hall where the lord of the domain resides.
- I'll rather dwell in my necessity.
- Thy soul was like a star and dwelt apart.