Abode vs Place - What's the difference?
abode | place |
(obsolete) Act of waiting; delay.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.viii:
(obsolete) Stay or continuance in a place; sojourn.
* 1661 , , [http://archive.org/stream/a615775104worduoft/a615775104worduoft_djvu.txt The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond]
* (rfdate), (Henry Fielding) (1707-1754)
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;
(formal) A residence, dwelling or habitation.
* (rfdate), (William Wordsworth) (1770-1850)
(abide)
(obsolete) An omen; a foretelling.
* High-thundering Juno's husband stirs my spirit with true abodes . -
(label) An area; somewhere within an area.
# A location or position.
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
#* , chapter=5
, title= #* {{quote-book, year=1935, author=
, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=5
, passage=By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.}}
# An open space, courtyard, market square.
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
# A group of houses.
# A region of a land.
#* , chapter=22
, title= # Somewhere for a person to sit.
# (label) A house or home.
A frame of mind.
(label) A position, a responsibility.
# A role or purpose; a station.
#* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington
, title= # The position of a contestant in a competition.
# The position as a member of a sports team.
Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
* Mather Byles
Reception; effect; implying the making room for.
* Bible, (w) viii. 37
To put (an object or person) in a specific location.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=19 * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author=
, title= To earn a given spot in a competition.
To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
(in the passive) To achieve (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.
To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
To arrange for or to make (a bet).
To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job.
As verbs the difference between abode and place
is that abode is (abide) or abode can be (obsolete) to bode; to foreshow; to presage while place is .As a noun abode
is (obsolete) act of waiting; delay or abode can be (obsolete) an omen; a foretelling .abode
English
Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) abod, abad, from (etyl) . For the change of vowel, compare ''abode'', preterit of ''abide .Noun
(en noun)- Vpon his Courser set the louely lode, / And with her fled away without abode .
- During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant
- He waxeth at your abode here.
- of no fixed abode .
- Come, let me lead you to our poore abode .
Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
(head)Etymology 2
* From an alteration with bode and (etyl) *Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* abodement * abodingSee also
* dwellingReferences
place
English
(wikipedia place)Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)- Here is the place appointed.
- What place can be for us / Within heaven's bound?
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.}}
George Goodchild
- Ay, sir, the other squirrel was stolen from me by the hangman's boys in the market-place
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.}}
- Men in great place are thrice servants.
- I know my place as I would they should do theirs.
Keeping the mighty honest, passage=The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account.}}
- In the first place', I do not understand politics; in the second '''place''', you all do, every man and mother's son of you; in the third ' place , you have politics all the week, pray let one day in the seven be devoted to religion
- My word hath no place in you.
Synonyms
* courtyard, piazza, plaza, square * (location) location, position, situation, stead, stell, spot * (somewhere to sit) seat * (frame of mind) frame of mind, mindset, moodDerived terms
* abiding place * all dressed up and no place to go * all over the place * come from a good place * decimal place * dwelling place * hiding place * in the first place * meeting place * out of place * passing place * place card * place-kick * place mat * place name * place of articulation * place of decimals * place of worship * resting place * sticking-place * the other place * give place * take place * workplaceVerb
(plac)citation, passage=Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.}}
Charles T. Ambrose
Alzheimer’s Disease, volume=101, issue=3, page=200, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems— […]. Such a slow-release device containing angiogenic factors could be placed on the pia mater covering the cerebral cortex and tested in persons with senile dementia in long term studies.}}
