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RESIDE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does reside mean?
• RESIDE (verb)
The verb RESIDE has 3 senses:
1. make one's home in a particular place or community
Familiarity information: RESIDE used as a verb is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Conjugation: |
Past simple: resided
Past participle: resided
-ing form: residing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make one's home in a particular place or community
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Synonyms:
domicile; domiciliate; reside; shack
Context example:
may parents reside in Florida
Hypernyms (to "reside" is one way to...):
dwell; inhabit; live; populate (be an inhabitant of or reside in)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "reside"):
rusticate (live in the country and lead a rustic life)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s PP
Derivation:
residence; residency (the act of dwelling in a place)
resident (someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there)
resident (living in a particular place)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Live (in a certain place)
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Synonyms:
Context example:
he occupies two rooms on the top floor
Hypernyms (to "reside" is one way to...):
dwell; inhabit; live; populate (be an inhabitant of or reside in)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "reside"):
move in (occupy a place)
stay at (reside temporarily)
squat (occupy (a dwelling) illegally)
crash (occupy, usually uninvited)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
residence; residency (the act of dwelling in a place)
resident (someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there)
resident (living in a particular place)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Be inherent or innate in
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Synonyms:
Hypernyms (to "reside" is one way to...):
attach to; inhere in (be part of)
Sentence frame:
Something is ----ing PP
Context examples
Supermassive black holes, with millions or billions of times the mass of the Sun, reside at the cores of most galaxies.
(First-Ever Black-Hole 'Visual Binary' Revealed, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
"Where did you last reside?" he now asked.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The amino acid residing in the last position of a protein or peptide.
(Carboxy-Terminal Amino Acid, NCI Thesaurus)
The WASP-121 system resides about 900 light-years from Earth.
(Hubble Uncovers a ‘Heavy Metal’ Exoplanet Shaped Like a Football, NASA)
Interphase chromosomes are decondensed chromosomes that reside in the interphase nucleus in the form of chromatin.
(Interphase Chromosome, NCI Thesaurus)
It resides in the outer part of the Milky Way, almost exactly in the opposite direction from the galactic center.
(A Space Spider Watches Over Young Stars, NASA)
What happened thereupon resided forever after in her memory as a dream.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
They found that mice that received microbes from non-allergic infants expressed different genes compared to those that did not, suggesting that microbes residing in the gut impact the host’s immune system.
(Gut microbes from healthy infants block milk allergy development in mice, National Institutes of Health)
A patient who is residing in the hospital where he is being treated.
(Inpatient, NCI Thesaurus)
The researchers had 5 healthy men, average age 21 years, reside for 4 months in a clinical research unit.
(Cool temperature alters human fat and metabolism, NIH)
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