Nomad vs Sedentary - What's the difference?
nomad | sedentary |
A member of a group of people who, having no fixed home, move around seasonally in search of food, water and grazing etc.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)
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Not moving; relatively still; staying in the vicinity.
Not moving much; sitting around.
* Bishop Warburton
* Beaconsfield
(obsolete) inactive; motionless; sluggish; tranquil
* Milton
* Spectator
(obsolete) Caused by long sitting.
* Milton
As a noun nomad
is a member of a group of people who, having no fixed home, move around seasonally in search of food, water and grazing etc.As an adjective sedentary is
not moving; relatively still; staying in the vicinity.nomad
English
Noun
(wikipedia nomad) (en noun)Geothermal Energy, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads , wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.}}
Derived terms
* grey nomad * nomade * nomadic * nomadismAnagrams
* * ---- ==Serbo-Croatian==Noun
Declension
{{sh-decl-noun , nòm?d, nomadi , nomáda, nomada , nomadu, nomadima , nomada, nomade , nomade, nomadi , nomadu, nomadima , nomadom, nomadima }}sedentary
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The oyster is a sedentary''' mollusk; the barnacles are '''sedentary crustaceans.
- Sedentary , scholastic sophists.
- Any education that confined itself to sedentary pursuits was essentially imperfect.
- The sedentary earth.
- The soul, considered abstractly from its passions, is of a remiss, sedentary nature.
- Sedentary numbness.
