Tarry vs Reside - What's the difference?
tarry | reside | Related terms |
To delay; to be late or tardy in beginning or doing anything.
To linger in expectation of something or until something is done or happens.
To abide, stay or wait somewhere, especially if longer than planned.
To stay somewhere temporarily; to sojourn.
To wait for; to stay or stop for; to allow to linger.
* Shakespeare
* Sir Walter Scott
A sojourn.
Resembling tar.
Covered with tar.
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.
Tarry is a related term of reside.
As verbs the difference between tarry and reside
is that tarry is to delay; to be late or tardy in beginning or doing anything while reside is .As a noun tarry
is a sojourn.As an adjective tarry
is resembling tar.tarry
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (Scotland)Etymology 1
From (etyl) tarien, .Verb
(en-verb)- It is true that the Messiah will come, though he may tarry . (
Hitchens
quoting translated Maimonides)
- He that will have a cake out of the wheat must needs tarry the grinding.
- He plodded on, tarrying no further question.
Synonyms
* (stay or wait, especially longer than planned ): hang about, hang around, linger, loiter * (stay somewhere temporarily ): sojourn, stay, stay over, stop, stop overNoun
(tarries)Synonyms
* (sojourn ): stay, stop, stop-overEtymology 2
Adjective
(er)Synonyms
* (resembling tar) pitchy * (covered with tar) bituminized (treated with tar ), pitchyReferences
* * English heteronymsreside
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, […]}}
