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Resident vs Merely - What's the difference?

resident | merely |

In obsolete terms the difference between resident and merely

is that resident is fixed; stable; certain while merely is wholly, entirely.

As a noun resident

is person, animal or plant living at a location or in an area.

As an adjective resident

is dwelling, or having an abode, in a place for a continued length of time; residing on one's own estate.

As an adverb merely is

wholly, entirely.

resident

Noun

(en noun)
  • Person]], animal or plant [[live, living at a location or in an area.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.}}
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * permanent resident

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Dwelling, or having an abode, in a place for a continued length of time; residing on one's own estate.
  • resident in the city or in the country
  • Based in a particular place; on hand; local.
  • He is our resident computer expert.
  • (obsolete) Fixed; stable; certain.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
  • stable and resident like a rock
  • * Davenant
  • one there still resident as day and night

    Anagrams

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    merely

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Wholly, entirely.
  • * 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
  • It is not forgot, since the acute and distinct Arminius'' was perverted meerly by the perusing of a namelesse discourse writt'n at ''Delf , which at first he took in hand to confute.
  • (focus) Without any other reason etc.; only, just, and nothing more.
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