What's the difference between denizen and dwell?

Denizen


Definition:

  • (n.) A dweller; an inhabitant.
  • (n.) One who is admitted by favor to all or a part of the rights of citizenship, where he did not possess them by birth; an adopted or naturalized citizen.
  • (n.) One admitted to residence in a foreign country.
  • (v. t.) To constitute (one) a denizen; to admit to residence, with certain rights and privileges.
  • (v. t.) To provide with denizens; to populate with adopted or naturalized occupants.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Unless psychic rehabilitation is undertaken in tandem with physical rehabilitation, a spinal cord-injured patient is likely to become an unhappy social recluse or denizen of a chronic care facility, rather than an independent productive member of his community.
  • (2) People have lived along the Rogue river for at least 8,500 years but its most famous denizen is probably the author Zane Grey , who wrote more than 90 books about the western frontier.
  • (3) Is "The Chalice" actually the Copenhagen Police Headquarters, affectionately referred to by its denizens as "The Chalice" (could this be "The Chalice"?)
  • (4) The world's universities overflow with economic research proving beyond doubt that contemporary capitalist economies do not function as if their denizens were prehistoric humans trading nuts and berries at the edge of the forest – the great delusion of free market economics.
  • (5) Come New Year's Day, denizens of the Johannesburg hotel could scarcely have dreamed of the horror unfolding upstairs in one of its luxurious rooms.
  • (6) More and more, the new buildings of the super-rich turn their denizens inward, justifying their extortionate prices by offering amenities such as gyms, screening rooms, wine bars and even libraries – and thereby further reducing the street life that any great city depends upon.
  • (7) Cameron has brought him in to review social mobility, and he owes no fealty to Ed Miliband and Ed Balls, denizens of the enemy camp of yesteryear.
  • (8) Whether they are Isis members or not, web denizens are prone to giving away a lot on social networks, but businesses are often guilty of failing to clean up after themselves too.
  • (9) She was wolf-reared in Judd Apatow's tumescent-adolescent boy-zone (none of whose denizens is ever cast for his hair colour), but she can take any of those boys to the woodshed for a rhetorical spanking, rich in obscenity and scatology, in that razor-sharp whine.
  • (10) Both Kung Fu Pandas borrow heavily from Chinese culture, depicting a brotherhood of anthropomorphic characters – the Furious Five – who use martial arts to protect the denizens of the Valley of Peace.
  • (11) We should expect that he and other denizens of talk radio will try to maintain their relevance in the Trump era by continuing to campaign against the last president.
  • (12) What is so special about this tiny, black-and-white denizen of Asian freshwater streams.
  • (13) You can't turn off the internet, nor make its denizens respectable (ask Louise Mensch).
  • (14) The Observer's Mark Kermode is among those who have admitted to a sense of distress that Team Edward, Team Jacob and the army of baseball-playing, Gap model denizens of the undead which seem to accompany them will soon no longer be with us.
  • (15) Most denizens in these realms would be hard-pressed to identify any instances in which they embraced causes or people deeply unpopular within those circles.
  • (16) True, it's not much – and some Slashdot denizens would pride themselves on being able to prevent ads being shown by entirely programmatic, rather than financial means.
  • (17) The sets play up to almost every female stereotype, with lots of pink, handbags aplenty and oodles of lipstick for its denizens.
  • (18) Yet another denizen of the internet calculated that based on Meek and Jeter’s recent performances, “Derek Jeter had a 0.9% chance of doing that naturally last night”.
  • (19) 764 people were surveyed, including 473 aborigines of the north, 207 denizens, and 84 migrants.
  • (20) Momentum , the grassroots movement of Corbyn supporters, will like it no more than the denizens of Rupert Murdoch’s parties, but there come moments in political lives when great politicians have to stand up and be counted.

Dwell


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To delay; to linger.
  • (v. i.) To abide; to remain; to continue.
  • (v. i.) To abide as a permanent resident, or for a time; to live in a place; to reside.
  • (v. t.) To inhabit.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Nango's dwellings are built on skis so can be pulled around the beach, and have a glass roof to view the northern lights.
  • (2) Further, they dwell on the management of these infections and illustrate the properties, toxic effects and other side effects of the antibiotics commonly used in therapy and for the prevention of complications.
  • (3) Current income, highest income, occupation, type of dwelling, years of education, and crowding did not enter the stepwise regression model at alpha = .10.
  • (4) A policy of selective antibiotic prophylaxis is justified and in high risk patients with in-dwelling catheters single dose prophylaxis is highly effective.
  • (5) The dwell-time histogram in each substate was well fitted with a single-exponential function.
  • (6) The frequency of mites in dust from farmers' homes was three times higher and that of pyroglyphids ten times higher than in other dwellings.
  • (7) The typical synanthropic species Glycyphagus domesticus is totally absent from dwellings but occurs in 90% of honey-bee hives.
  • (8) Absence of a functioning velocity storage network in bottom-dwelling teleosts (as in Amphibia) may be related to the sporadic, slow locomotion of these species and the resulting small requirements for continuous gaze stabilization during self-motion at higher velocities.
  • (9) The sample comprised 101 community-dwelling older adults aged 57 to 87.
  • (10) Republicans were under pressure not to dwell on Clinton’s use of a private email server as too zealous an attack could come off as partisan.
  • (11) Approximately 1,056 dwellings were located in the Oberon Shire by the interviewers; household interviews were obtained from 789 of them.
  • (12) A significant seasonal variation of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels was noted in elderly community-dwelling subjects.
  • (13) After displaying the results concerning arrhythmias of 24 hr Holter electrocardiograms recorded in 207 randomized patients who had undergone valvular replacement 15 days before, the authors dwell upon the use of Holter electrocardiography in 82 valvular patients after pharmacological cardioversion and show that major arrhythmias get a clear reduction thanks to rehabilitation.
  • (14) Bucknall, 53, is reluctant to dwell on mistakes that have been made, but admits "it would be odd if after 10 years, we hadn't learned a lot".
  • (15) Second-order factor analyses yielded two comparable sets of three second-order factors: Social Activities and Self-Care Ability, whereas the third factor connected high welfare with age-segregated dwelling (and low welfare with age-integration).
  • (16) The number of years spend in dwellings without central heating was significantly inversely associated with the level of FEV1 and MMEF, and significantly directly associated with closing capacity in per cent of TLC, CC%.
  • (17) A greater loss of proteins overnight was due to longer dwell time as the mean rate of loss was similar for all exchanges.
  • (18) Additional studies are highly desirable to confirm or refute these findings, which, if valid, mean increasing lung cancer hazards caused by a decrease in ventilation in future energy saving unless special measures are undertaken to reduce radon daughters in dwellings.
  • (19) We investigated whether day to day changes in the transport characteristics of the peritoneal membrane to macromolecules in patients treated with CAPD, were related to the levels of interleukin-6 (IL-6) in the effluent of an overnight dwell.
  • (20) Using the assumption that prolonged dwell time indicates intensive processing of visual data, a model was developed for nodule detection that includes four steps: orientation, scanning, pattern recognition and decision-making.