What's the difference between cohabitant and roommate?
Cohabitant
Definition:
(n.) One who dwells with another, or in the same place or country.
Example Sentences:
(1) After 37 days of treatment with (-)-gossypol, only 2 out of 5 males were fertile, and a further loss of fertility was apparent during the next cohabitation period.
(2) And if you think simply living together rather than marrying will help to keep you healthy, it is worth bearing in mind that research has found that cohabiting couples who separate are likely to be similarly affected .
(3) After controlling for the effects of active and passive exposure to cigarette smoke, problems with the home heating system (odds ratio 9.6; p less than 0.03) and the presence of cohabitants with concurrent headache or dizziness (odds ratio 21.6; p less than 0.0001) were associated with an increased risk of a carboxyhemoglobin greater than 10 percent.
(4) The probability that the initial situation is correct--the proband and the cohabitant's six children are all legitimate-is "practically refuted": W = 0.03%.
(5) In 2 of the other 4 operated patients cohabitation was possible again only with auto-injections of papaverine.
(6) And yet, by spotlighting how very far the brand has travelled under Sarah Burton in the post-Lee years, the Savage Beauty announcement, coming hot on the heels of the Antipodean tour, also flags up the contrasting identities that cohabit the McQueen brand.
(7) Prior hormonal, copulatory, or cohabitation experience did not significantly influence sexual responses between females and unfamiliar male partners.
(8) To determine the risk of cohabitant HCV infection, we investigated the sera of 101 family members of 53 anti-HCV antibody positive chronic liver disease patients.
(9) Extra treatment attention may therefore be justified for non-cohabiting males.
(10) Cohabitation carried a higher risk, most pronounced in the low income group.
(11) Factor analysis grouped the variables considered into 5 factors: the first was associated with veterinary assistance; the second with the animal's function and the presence of whipworms, hookworms and tapeworms; the third with cohabitation, origin and presence of coccidia; the fourth with the presence of fresh meat (cooked, raw or frozen) in the diet, age and positivity for ascarids; the fifth with sex and the presence of gastroenteric conditions.
(12) Cohabitation with a female without mating also did not influence the behavior of wild males toward young.
(13) The intermale social aggressive behavior of male rats cohabiting with a female rat was quantitatively scored weekly in response to the introduction of an unfamiliar intruding male.
(14) The interactive effects of hormones, sexual history and cohabitation on sexual and social behaviors were examined in pairs of ovariectomized female and sexually experienced male prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster).
(15) The family situation (e.g., cohabitation or not) had some effect, although it was not statistically significant.
(16) Sons were more likely to drink heavily if fathers drank heavily and mothers who drank heavily were more likely to cohabit with heavy drinkers.
(17) In any case, far from being strange bedfellows, criminality and politics have always cohabited quite happily.
(18) The average number of sexual partners and frequency of cohabitations had been higher with women in whom UI was to develop later on.
(19) Compared to male subjects, females are more likely to be married or cohabiting, of higher social-economic status, born in places in the Far East apart from Mainland China, and of lower educational level.
(20) After 1988, when youth counseling began, counseling sessions were added as part of cohabitation education.
Roommate
Definition:
(n.) One of twe or more occupying the same room or rooms; one who shares the occupancy of a room or rooms; a chum.
Example Sentences:
(1) But my roommate wasn’t the only one who was victim-blaming; it was a person (or persons) in the jury.
(2) I’m trans-racial, my son’s trans-racial, my roommate is African American,” she said.
(3) He's introduced by his roommates to beautiful, mysterious and emotionally confused Alaska Young, and the story progresses, mostly centered around Miles' life at Culver Creek and his growing attachment to Alaska.
(4) In comparison with control subjects, the roommates of persistently depressed persons displayed a progressive increase in BDI score over the course of the study.
(5) Subjects found compatibility with roommates and money management to be the biggest challenges.
(6) Dysphorics (n = 6) were more inclined to seek unfavorable feedback from their roommates than were nondepressives (n = 16); feedback-seeking activities of dysphorics were also associated with later rejection (Study 3).
(7) There was an altercation with guards, after which the roommate was removed to the Kingfisher isolation unit for three days.
(8) Obama's roommates were Paul Carpenter, a blond southern Californian who occasionally took his friends surfing (bodysurfing, in Barry's case), and Imad Husain, an intellectual Pakistani with a droll sense of humour who grew up in Karachi (though his parents now lived in Dubai) and finished his secondary education at Bedford School in the UK.
(9) This is a woman who was teenage roommates with Christy Turlington and is Nelson Mandela's honorary granddaughter, who has appeared in music videos for Bob Marley and George Michael, and whose ex-boyfriends include Robert De Niro and Mike Tyson.
(10) Measures of interpersonal behaviors exhibited by depressed college students toward their dormitory roommates were cluster analyzed, and this procedure produced 2 relatively distinct subgroups: a dependent, friendly, overgenerous type and an autocratic, competitive, aggressive, mistrustful type.
(11) I wasn’t surprised that this woman took so many wilful leaps past “couple” and landed on “roommates” in her split-second sussing-out of our relationship – it happens literally all the time.
(12) For comparative purposes, BDI scores were also obtained from roommates of individuals who were transiently depressed and from subjects with nondepressed roommates.
(13) Students and roommates were most often those responsible.
(14) "I found Joe on Craigslist and we became roommates by chance."
(15) This study examined the effect of preoperative roommate assignment on the preoperative anxiety and postoperative recovery of 27 male coronary-bypass patients.
(16) When I could actually sit up and move – not frozen lying down – I asked my roommate to take me to the hospital.
(17) The EBV infection rate among exposed and susceptible roommates of known cases was no higher than in roommates not so exposed.Elevations of EBV-specific and total IgM occurred during acute illness and disappeared in late convalescence.
(18) A roommate of Boyne’s denied that she called her that night.
(19) We are platonic adult roommates who hold hands at bars.
(20) Finally, depressed targets perceived their interpersonal impact negatively, whereas their normal roommates perceived their own interpersonal impact as overly positive.