What's the difference between dwelling and mansion?

Dwelling


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dwell
  • (n.) Habitation; place or house in which a person lives; abode; domicile.

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.

Mansion


Definition:

  • (n.) A dwelling place, -- whether a part or whole of a house or other shelter.
  • (n.) The house of the lord of a manor; a manor house; hence: Any house of considerable size or pretension.
  • (n.) A twelfth part of the heavens; a house. See 1st House, 8.
  • (n.) The place in the heavens occupied each day by the moon in its monthly revolution.
  • (v. i.) To dwell; to reside.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Anti-corruption campaigners have already trooped past the €18.9m mansion on Rue de La Baume, bought in 2007 in the name of two Bongo children, then 13 and 16, and other relatives, in what some call Paris's "ill-gotten gains" walking tour.
  • (2) Rather than an off-plan Oxshott monster-mansion, he moved his family to an elegant Eaton Terrace townhouse in south-west London.
  • (3) Real Labour would not just meddle with a cosmetic charge on rich London mansions .
  • (4) In a statement the Los Angeles County department of public health said: "Though legionella bacteria was identified in a water sample taken from the Playboy Mansion, this bacteria has not been determined as the source of the respiratory outbreak.
  • (5) Never had I heard anything about what I saw documented so unsparingly in Evan’s photographs: families sleeping in the streets, their clothes in shreds, straw hats torn and unprotecting of the sun, guajiros looking for work on the doorsteps of Havana’s indifferent mansions.
  • (6) The Lib Dems have campaigned for a "mansion tax" on properties worth more than £2m, to pay for the poorest workers to be lifted out of the tax system.
  • (7) Here I am sitting in Hampstead, looking at a mansion tax coming towards me and I might not like it, but that’s the deal,” he said.
  • (8) The party has set out plans to make work pay by introducing a new 10p tax rate to be funded by a mansion tax on properties worth more than £2m.
  • (9) His home, an hour from Athens, is a mansion replete with large statues, candelabras, paintings on every wall in every room and many images of Jesus.
  • (10) He hailed the party's commitment to lift low and average earners out of tax, and rounded on those who criticised the Lib Dems' proposed "mansion tax" – a tax on properties worth over £2m – as an attack on "ordinary middle-class owners", saying: "You wonder what part of the solar system they live in."
  • (11) As the Lib Dems came under their most sustained scrutiny in years, their proposal for a 1% a year "mansion tax" on properties worth more than £2m was questioned by the Institute for Fiscal Studies, which warned that the policy might backfire and raise £330m less than the £1.7bn annually that the party claims it will raise.
  • (12) But in the Round Room of the Mansion House there must have been at least two thousand others in an improvised Strangers' Gallery.
  • (13) How Balls achieves his £1.2bn from a mansion tax is a mystery.
  • (14) Banda's predecessor Bingu wa Mutharika made himself the country's biggest landowner, built a vast mansion with suitcases of cash stashed under the bed, went on two-week-long holidays to Macau and appointed his brother as foreign minister.
  • (15) A bomb scare on Wednesday prompted a large security operation to be launched on Thursday to protect the former president as he travelled from his mansion on the outskirts of Islamabad.
  • (16) In his last speech as governor of the Bank of England, King told the Mansion House audience: "I welcome your announcement that Lloyds Banking Group will be returned to private hands soon.
  • (17) The mansion tax uses Balls’s £3,000 limit up to £3m and charges 0.25% of value thereafter.
  • (18) A wealthy Russian recently summoned the capital's best commercial lawyers to a Mayfair mansion to bid "for what could potentially be the biggest case of their careers".
  • (19) They would rather talk about a clodhopping, low-revenue mansion tax that is unlikely to happen than a fair, easy and lucrative extension of council tax, over which they would have less control.
  • (20) He only had eyes for the Post mansion and Palm Beach.