What's the difference between dwell and dwelt?

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.

Dwelt


Definition:

  • () of Dwell
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Dwell.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Words like "trivialisation" and "stunt" were bandied about, especially after the Channel 4 documentary that dwelt as much on the players as the results.
  • (2) His weekly column for Yedioth Ahronoth also dwelt on "middle Israel" subjects: the high cost of living, political corruption and the "unequal sharing of the burden" – ie the exemption of ultra-Orthodox Jews from military service.
  • (3) Unlike the latter neurones, which were mainly located in supragranular layers, association cell bodies overwhelmingly dwelt in layers V and VI and were less numerous in layers II and III.
  • (4) The increasingly polarised situation in South Africa after the 70s led to the semi-allegorical and strained July's People (1981), a revisiting of the master-servant relationship upon which so much of her work dwelt.
  • (5) Knowing its substance, and the fact that he started it before they met, she had wondered if it might have dwelt on the changes their relationship had brought to his life, but she did not find that in the book.
  • (6) The pre-synaptic compound action potentials N11 and N21 dwelt on the ascending slope of N13 and N24 respectively.
  • (7) This fact is dwelt upon to stress that although there are differences, say, between the two inhabitable islands, such differences are very small.
  • (8) The first experience in using CT-stereotaxic neutron brachytherapy with californium sources on the ANET-B apparatus for the treatment of 6 patients with malignant glial tumors of the brain is dwelt on.
  • (9) The connection of the concepts of structure and function with categories and laws of materialistic dialectics is dwelt on.
  • (10) I have dwelt on the nature of the analytic relationship with patients suffering from narcissistic character pathology.
  • (11) But neither of them dwelt on the impact on the EU of the Tory win.
  • (12) It was a decision she has dwelt upon since Luke’s death, she told the inquest at Melbourne Coroner’s court on Tuesday.
  • (13) Michail Antonio dwelt on the ball 30 yards from goal and was caught in possession by Brady.
  • (14) The prosecution, unsurprisingly, dwelt on the fact Shayler had been paid nearly £40,000 by the Mail on Sunday.
  • (15) Optimization of the activity of assistants, their skilled handiwork, and the skill in teaching and learning surgery in the interest of a sick person are dwelt on.
  • (16) Previous studies of coronary artery ontogeny have stressed early development and therefore have dwelt mainly upon the origin of the endothelium of the nascent coronary artery stem.
  • (17) A classification of cholangitis and the clinical signs of the disease are dwelt upon.
  • (18) Harry, in his pomp, was the great northern news editor of the (ex-Manchester) Guardian while the Guardian's greatness still dwelt in the north.
  • (19) The authors dwelt upon the relationship between light damage and the incidence of SMD.
  • (20) Creating something that might curdle, burn or collapse is so all-encompassing and immediate that you are forced to tear yourself away from any other problems you might have dwelt on.

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