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Reside vs Visiting - What's the difference?

reside | visiting |

As verbs the difference between reside and visiting

is that reside is to dwell permanently or for a considerable time; to have a settled abode for a time; to remain for a long time while visiting is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun visiting is

the act of someone or something that visits.

reside

English

Verb

(resid)
  • To dwell permanently or for a considerable time; to have a settled abode for a time; to remain for a long time.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
    • , title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=6 citation , passage=The men resided in a huge bunk house, which consisted of one room only, with a shack outside where the cooking was done. In the large room were a dozen bunks?; half of them in a very dishevelled state, […]}}
  • To have a seat or fixed position; to inhere; to lie or be as in attribute or element.
  • To sink; to settle, as sediment.

    • Related terms

    * residence * residency * resident * residential

    See also

    * abide * dwell * live * stay

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    visiting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of someone or something that visits.
  • * Shakespeare, Macbeth
    • Come, you spirits
  • * 2003 , Joseph A. Conforti, Imagining New England (page 107)
    • Instead, he found the Sabbath in North Carolina "generally disregarded, or distinguished by the convivial visitings of the white inhabitants, and the noisy diversions of the negroes."