What's the difference between housemate and roommate?

Housemate


Definition:

  • (n.) One who dwells in the same house with another.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He was kicked out of a share house after threatening to decapitate a housemate.
  • (2) The show stars Berry as a jobbing actor with vaunting ambition who gets into surreal scrapes, with a supporting cast including Doon Mackichan as his agent and Robert Bathurst as his housemate.
  • (3) That's £1.57 per housemate, which is apparently what we spent on goldfish.
  • (4) Housemate troubles If things get really bad, can you force someone to leave?
  • (5) The big difference today, of course, is that Grace and her housemates have mobile phones and pay at least £20 each on monthly contracts.
  • (6) Ffion Spooner, 20, studying French and Spanish at the University of Southampton "I'd advise new students to pick housemates wisely.
  • (7) It remains to be seen what the programme's producers have in store for the housemates, although it is likely to involve a lot of dressing up.Bercow is not the first Westminster figure to appear on Celebrity Big Brother.
  • (8) Viewers have contacted the regulator over what they saw as alleged racism by housemates Jade Goody, Danielle Lloyd and Jo O'Meara towards Shilpa.
  • (9) Desmond has been closely involved in the show, regularly meeting producers, and is said to have handpicked several of the celebrity housemates.
  • (10) In broadcasting Jade Goody's tirades, Endemol and Channel 4 were not condoning her behaviour, but affording the public the opportunity to evaluate her behaviour alongside that of other housemates and vote to decide who should be allowed to stay in the house.
  • (11) Richard Vardon, representing Nevin at the appeal hearing, said the doting mother had been put in a terrible position by her housemate – and had been devastated to find herself separated from her children and in jail.
  • (12) Since the documentary was filmed, Jayne has died; so have the other two housemates, Ben Leggett and Junior McDonald.
  • (13) The accusations followed claims from the family, housemates and neighbours of Medhanie Tesfamariam Berhe that the 29-year-old had been mistaken for Medhanie Yehdego Mered, a 35-year-old smuggling kingpin supposedly deported from Sudan on Wednesday.
  • (14) Celebrity Big Brother, which featured housemates including Amy Childs, Tara Reid Sally Bercow and former The X Factor contestants Jedward, had an average of 5.1 million viewers between 9pm and 10.30pm, a 21.9% share of the audience.
  • (15) My housemate was an amiable soul named Herbert Pocket.
  • (16) Ashton said: “I’ve shared all my adult life, and have been in my current flat with my lovely housemate, Jannine, for two-and-a-half years.
  • (17) A close friend and former housemate, Rene Pinnell, told the Verge that police had messed up.
  • (18) It lists Princess Superstar as one of the people I care about because in 2007 my friend Josh and I used to laugh about her video Bad Babysitter – we met while I was dog-sitting for his housemates – even though I don’t like her on Facebook and am pretty sure we never discussed it on the platform; it believes I am into the artist Flea because I liked a page for my local flea market.
  • (19) Stan Mason (not his real name) and his six housemates have experience of this scenario.
  • (20) He had been in the house for five days and was one of the favourites for eviction after a series of clashes with housemates.

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.

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