Occupy vs Site - What's the difference?
occupy | site |
(label) To take or use time.
# To fill time.
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# To possess or use the time or capacity of; to engage the service of.
# To fill or hold (an official position or role).
# To hold the attention of.
(label) To take or use space.
# To fill space.
# To live or reside in.
#* (Washington Irving) (1783-1859)
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# (military) To have, or to have taken, possession or control of (a territory).
#* 1940 , in The China monthly review , volumes 94-95, page 370 [http://books.google.com/books?id=QqkTAAAAIAAJ&q=%22occupy+but+cannot+hold%22&dq=%22occupy+but+cannot+hold%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=OB6HT4_zC4e68ASF1-jNCA&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAA]:
#* 1975 , Esmé Cecil Wingfield-Stratford, King Charles and King Pym, 1637-1643 , page 330 [http://books.google.com/books?ei=ex2HT9-GK5D69gTJqNjdCA&id=VCwqAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22occupied+but+could+not+hold%22&q=%22occupied+but+could%22#search_anchor]:
#* 1983 , Arthur Keppel-Jones, Rhodes and Rhodesia: The White Conquest of Zimbabwe, 1884-1902 , page 462:
#* 1991 , Werner Spies, John William Gabriel, Max Ernst collages: the invention of the surrealist universe , page 333:
#* 2006 , John Michael Francis, Iberia and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History , page 496:
# (surveying) To place the theodolite or total station at (a point).
(obsolete) To have sexual intercourse with.Sidney J. Baker, The Australian Language , second edition, 1966.
* 1590s , (William Shakespeare), ,
* 1867 , (Robert Nares) A Glossary
*:: These villains will make the word captain, as odious as the word occupy''. ''2 Hen. IV , ii, 4.
*:: Groyne, come of age, his state sold out of hand
*:: For 's whore; Groyne still doth occupy'' his land. ''B. Jons. Epigr. , 117.
*:: Many, out of their own obscene apprehensions, refuse proper and fit words, as occupy'', nature, and the like. ''Ibid., Discoveries , vol. vii, p. 119.
(obsolete) To do business in; to busy oneself with.
* Bible, (w) xxvii. 9
* 1551 , (in Latin), 1516
(obsolete) To use; to expend; to make use of.
* Bible, (w) xxxviii. 24
* 1551 , (in Latin), 1516
(obsolete) Sorrow, grief.
* a1307 , , Chronicle'', read in Thomas Hearne, ''Peter Langtoft's Chronicle'' (1725) as reprinted, apparently in facsimile, in ''The Works of Thomas Hearne, M.A. Volume 3, Peter Langtoft's Chronicle, Volume I , Samuel Bagster (1810)
The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position; as, the site of a city or of a house.
* 1613 , Richard Moore, Silvester Jourdain, William Crashaw, William Castell, ''A Plaine Description of the Barmvdas, Now Called Sommer Ilands: With the manner of their discouerie anno 1609...[full title extends to 77 words], W. Welby,
* 1705 , Robert Plot, The Natural History of Oxford-shire: being an essay towards the natural history of England. The Second Edition with Large Additions and Corections: Also a Short Account of the Author, &c. , Charles Brome & John Nicholson,
* 1785 , Henry Morris, Surgical diseases of the kidney , Lea Brothers and Co,
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* 2006 , Ernest B Abbott , A Legal Guide to Homeland Security and Emergency Management for State and Local Governments , American Bar Association, ISBN 1590315936,
A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation; as, a site for a church.
* 1716 , Samuel Wesley, The history of the Old and New Testament, attempted in verse: And adorn'd with Three Hundred & Thirty Sculptures , John Hooke,
* 1716 , John Mortimer, Th. Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry: or, The way of managing and improving of land. Being a...[full title extends to 70 words]...The Second Volume...The Fourth Edition, with Additions , R. Robinson, and G. Mortlock,
* 2006 , Geoff Surratt, Greg Ligon, Warren Bird, The Multi-Site Church Revolution: Being One Church in Many Locations , Zondervan, ISBN 0310270154,
The posture or position of a thing.
* 1709 , A Preliminary Discourse to the Commonitory of Vincentius Lirinensis Concerning the Rule of Faith, in Defence of the Primitive Fathers'' read in William Reeves, Tertullian, Marcus Minucius Felix, Vincent, Justin, ''The Apologies of Justin Martyr, Tertullian, and Minutius Felix in Defence of the Christian Religion...[full title extends to over 50 words] , A. and J. Churchill,
* 1724 , John Beaumont, Gleanings of Antiquities: containing, I. An Essay for Explaining the Creation and the Deluge, according to the Sense of the Gentiles...[full title extends to over 98 words] , W. Taylor,
:* Maintain site setbacks as far as possible from roadways and other routes providing rapid public access.
A computer installation, particularly one associated with an intranet or internet service or telecommunications.
* 1982 , Jack B. Rochester, Perspectives on Information Management: A Critical Selection of Computerworld Feature Articles , John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0471869244,
* 1991 , V. Yodaiken, K. Ramamritham, Verification of a Reliable Net Protocol'', read in J. (Jan) Vytopil (editor), ''Formal Techniques in Real-Time and Fault-Tolerant Systems: Second International Symposium, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, January 1992: Proceedings , Springer, ISBN 0387550925,
* 2006 , Keith J. Dreyer, Pacs: A Guide to the Digital Revolution , Springer, ISBN 0387260102,
A website.
* 1986 , Penguin Putnam Inc. Online, advertisement inside back cover of Howard Pyle The Story of King Arthur and His Knights , Signet Classic (1986), ISBN 0451524888,
* 1992 , Publisher's notes on relevant web sites, in front of Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre , Wordsworth Editions (1992), ISBN 1853260207,
* 2006 , Doug Addison, Web Site Cookbook , O'Reilly, ISBN 0596101090,
(category theory) A category together with a choice of Grothendieck topology.
Region of a protein, a piece of DNA or RNA where chemical reactions take place.
A part of the body which has been operated on.
(architecture) To situate or place a building.
* 1835 ,
* 1872 , Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, Transactions of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland , Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland,
* 2006 , Mark Jaccard, Sustainable Fossil Fuels: The Unusual Suspect in the Quest for Clean And Enduring Energy , Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521861799,
* 2006 , The Scotsman (15 Dec 06) ,
As a verb occupy
is (label) to take or use time.As a noun site is
site, location.occupy
English
Verb
(en-verb)- The better apartments were already occupied .
- With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied ; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get
- The Japanese can occupy but cannot hold, and what they can hold they cannot hold long, was the opinion of General Pai Chung-hsi, Chief of the General Staff of the Chinese Army,
- Rupert, with his usual untamable energy, was scouring the country — but at first in the wrong direction, that of Aylesbury, another keypoint in the outer ring of Oxford defences, which he occupied but could not hold.
- One of the rebel marksmen, who had taken up position on a boulder, was knocked off it by the recoil of his weapon every time he fired. Again the attack achieved nothing. Positions were occupied , but could not be held.
- Germany occupied France for three years while France struggled to make payments that were a condition of surrender.
- Spain occupied , but could not populate, and its failure to expand Florida led Britain to consider the peninsula a logical extension of its colonial holdings.
II.iv
- God's light, these villains will make the word as odious as the word 'occupy ;' which was an excellent good word before it was ill sorted
- OCCUPY, [sensu obsc.] To possess, or enjoy.
- It is so used also in Rowley's New Wonder, Anc. Dr., v, 278.
- All the ships of the sea, with their mariners, were in thee to occupy the merchandise.
- not able to occupy their old crafts
- all the gold that was occupied for the work
- They occupy not money themselves.
Synonyms
* (to possess or use the time or capacity of) employ, busyDerived terms
* occupier * occupationSee also
*References
*External links
* *site
English
Etymology 1
Probably from (etyl) (compare Norwegian syt).Noun
(en noun)p. 5
Etymology 2
From (etyl), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)p .8,
- A more full and exact description of the Countrie, and Narration of the nature, site , and commodities, together with a true Historie of the great deliuerance of Sir Thomas Gates and his companie vpon them, which was the first discouerie of them.
p. 315,
- However, I have taken care in the Map prefix'd to this Essay, to put a Mark for the Site of all Religious Houses, as well as ancient Ways and Fortifications....
p. 74,
- At the site of its termination in the bladder there was a diverticulum a few centimeters long.
citation, passage=He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site .}}
- With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get
p. 84,
- EA critical first line of defense for entrance to more semi-public and semi-private areas of the site .
p. 192,
- The Town surrender'd soon, the Citadel,/Proud of its Site , do's their Assaults repel/Who e're their Idols cou'd, and them destroy,/For Life he shall the Gen'ral's place enjoy.
p. 208
- Having given you an Account of the Site , Form, and other Ornaments of a Garden: I shall proceed to what remains for the beautifying of it, which is Flowers.
p. 7,
- Our first site was the result of a building project that I am told was the first urban redevelopment initiated by a church since "white flight" began in the community surrounding our church.
p. 179,
- And if this be the Shape, and Site , then the Refraction of the Rays coming from above onto the subjacent Ice, being as about Four to Three, they must when coming out of the superior Ice be as about Three to Four.
p. 11,
- There is an Agreement ammong all their Authors regarding the Names of the said Times, and their Order, and concerning the Number of the Days in general, and of the Order of the Creation ; but concerning the Site of the Times, that is, in what Month, Day, and in what part of the Year they began, it is not so.
- 2006 , Ernest B Abbott , A Legal Guide to Homeland Security and Emergency Management for State and Local Governments , American Bar Association, ISBN 1590315936,
p. 84
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p. 433,
- The data may be divided among a data base system's nodes in several ways. In a fully redundant data base system, each data base site contains a complete copy of the entire data base...
p. 208,
- If the site' is forced to send a mesage against its will,...we make the '''site''' go to an error state, and remain there. Note that the ' site can fail for other reasons.
p. 298,
- The site with the DS3 connection can communicate back to our main network at 45 Mb/s.
p. 398,
- Every month you'll get an inside look at our upcoming books and new features on our site .
p. xxvi,
- Voice of the Shuttle: http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/shuttle/eng-vict.html; general site with excellent links to contextual as well as author-specific material.
p. 248,
- When a new visitor arrives at your site', your web server should log the referring ' site , which is generally either a search engine or another web site.
Derived terms
* construction siteVerb
(sit)- The U.K. government is dusting off an alternative plan to site the center at a military outfit such as Porton Down.
Mining Journal,
- A reassessment of the requirements of the gold mining industry, including uranium production, for the next few years has revealed the urgent necessity for the provision of additional power, and steps have been taken to site and plan a new station.
p. 24,
- For this reason it was found convenient to site pump rooms between groups of cargo tanks.
p. 22,
- It is difficult to gauge current public attitudes to nuclear power in industrialized countries because there have been few efforts to site and construct new plants in the last twenty years.
- Fury at plan to site homeless hostel near top Capital school.
