Stays vs Dwelling - What's the difference?
stays | dwelling |
(plurale tantum) A corset.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 502:
(stay)
A habitation; a place or house in which a person lives; abode; domicile.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=Foreword
As nouns the difference between stays and dwelling
is that stays is while dwelling is a habitation; a place or house in which a person lives; abode; domicile.As verbs the difference between stays and dwelling
is that stays is (stay) while dwelling is .stays
English
Noun
(head)- Her face was whiter than snow, and her heart was throbbing through her stays .
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*dwelling
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) dwelling, . More at dwell.Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings . The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.}}
- The old house served as a dwelling for Albert.
- Philip's dwelling fronted on the street. -
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* dwellinghouse * dwelling place * lake dwelling: prehistoric structureReferences
*Etymology 2
From .Verb
(head)- I was dwelling in the cave.