Resides vs Inhabits - What's the difference?
resides | inhabits |
(reside)
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 To have a seat or fixed position; to inhere; to lie or be as in attribute or element.
To sink; to settle, as sediment.
(inhabit)
To live or reside in.
* Moore
To be present in; to occupy.
As verbs the difference between resides and inhabits
is that resides is while inhabits is (inhabit).resides
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(head)Anagrams
* ----reside
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(resid)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, […]}}
See also
* abide * dwell * live * stayExternal links
* * *Anagrams
* * ----inhabits
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(head)inhabit
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Alternative forms
* enhabit (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- The Inuit inhabit the Arctic.
- O, who would inhabit this bleak world alone?
- Strange thoughts inhabit my mind.