Resides vs Remains - What's the difference?
resides | remains |
(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.
What is left after a person (or any organism) dies; a corpse.
Historical or archaeological relics.
(senseid)The extant writings of a deceased person.
All that is left of the stock of some things; remnants.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=Foreword (rare) .
(remain)
As verbs the difference between resides and remains
is that resides is while remains is (remain).As a noun remains is
what is left after a person (or any organism) dies; a corpse.resides
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* ----reside
English
Verb
(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
* * ----remains
English
(wikipedia remains)Noun
(en-plural noun)- The victim's remains were one small piece of bone.
citation, passage=Everything a living animal could do to destroy and to desecrate bed and walls had been done. […] A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.}}
Verb
(head)- We'll go ahead, while she remains here.