Resident vs Capital - What's the difference?
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Person]], animal or plant [[live, living at a location or in an area.
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A bird which does not migrate during the course of the year.
A graduated medical student who is receiving advanced training in a specialty.
A diplomatic representative who resides at a foreign court, usually of inferior rank to an ambassador.
Dwelling, or having an abode, in a place for a continued length of time; residing on one's own estate.
Based in a particular place; on hand; local.
(obsolete) Fixed; stable; certain.
* Jeremy Taylor
* Davenant
(uncountable, economics) Already-produced durable goods available for use as a factor of production, such as steam shovels (equipment) and office buildings (structures).
(uncountable, business, finance) Money and wealth. The means to acquire goods and services, especially in a non-barter system.
(countable) A city designated as a legislative seat by the government or some other authority, often the city in which the government is located; otherwise the most important city within a country or a subdivision of it.
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, title= (countable) The most important city in the field specified.
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(countable) An uppercase letter.
(countable, architecture) The uppermost part of a column.
(uncountable) Knowledge; awareness; proficiency.
of prime importance
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Chief, in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation.
(British, dated) excellent
Involving punishment by death.
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* Milton
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uppercase
Of or relating to the head.
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As nouns the difference between resident and capital
is that resident is resident while capital is capital.As a verb resident
is .resident
English
(wikipedia resident)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* permanent residentAdjective
(en adjective)- resident in the city or in the country
- He is our resident computer expert.
- stable and resident like a rock
- one there still resident as day and night
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English
(wikipedia capital)Alternative forms
* capitall (obsolete)Noun
The new masters and commanders, passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.
- Hollywood is the film capital', New York the theater '''capital''', Las Vegas the gambling ' capital .
Usage notes
The homophone capitol refers only to a building, usually one that houses the legislative branch of a government, and often one located in a capital city.Synonyms
* (An uppercase letter) caps (in the plural), majusculeAntonyms
* (An uppercase letter) minusculeAdjective
(-)- a capital article in religion
- whatever is capital and essential in Christianity
- London and Paris are capital cities.
- That is a capital idea!
- many crimes that are capital among us
- to put to death a capital offender
- Some 1,600 priests were deported, for example, while the total number of capital victims of the military commissions down to 1799 was only around 150.
- One begins a sentence with a capital letter.
- Needs must the Serpent now his capital bruise / Expect with mortal pain.