What's the difference between inhabitant and lodger?

Inhabitant


Definition:

  • (n.) One who dwells or resides permanently in a place, as distinguished from a transient lodger or visitor; as, an inhabitant of a house, a town, a city, county, or state.
  • (n.) One who has a legal settlement in a town, city, or parish; a permanent resident.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Plasmid profiling was used to distinguish strains of lactobacilli inhabiting the digestive tract of piglets and the feces of sows.
  • (2) The highest rates were observed where the inhabitants' activities were related to the sea.
  • (3) Staphylococci were the predominant inhabitants of normal skin, whereas micrococci were found only occasionally in this environment.
  • (4) When matched on number of inhabitants per birthplace, no significant differences were found.
  • (5) Specimens of human bone from the site exhibited lower strontium levels and strontium-to-calcium ratios than deer specimens from the same site, reinforcing paleodemographic evidence that the human populations that inhabited this site included substantial amounts of meat in their diets.
  • (6) We can inhabit only one version of being human – the only version that survives today – but what is fascinating is that palaeoanthropology shows us those other paths to becoming human, their successes and their eventual demise, whether through failure or just sheer bad luck.
  • (7) Statistical analysis has shown the following: a) the growth inhibition, which is especially distinct in autumn-spring generation, takes place in the Ist instar larvae 1.76-2.20 mm long inhabiting the walls of the nasal cavity and concha (their average body length at hatching is 1.08 plus or minus 0.004 mm); the inhibition is associated with interpopulation relations and apparently does not depend on the date of its beginning and can last from 6 to 7 months; c) after the growth resumption the development continues uninterruptedly up to the moulting; the inhibition is also possible at the beginning of the 2nd instar and then the development proceeds without any intervals up to the complete maturation of larvae.
  • (8) All organisms inherit parents' genes, but many also inherit parents, peers, and the places they inhabit as well.
  • (9) The material comprised liver and kidney samples collected from inhabitants of the city of Białystok and of its vicinity during anatomopathological examination at the Department of Pathological Anatomy, Medical Academy in Białystok.
  • (10) Today no one can doubt that Ukraine is inhabited by European citizens, just like those in England, Germany or Poland.
  • (11) The public are growing angrier by the day by the antics of those who inhabit this gold plated, red-upholstered Narnia.
  • (12) During the MONICA project, the survey of cardiovascular risk factor prevalence enabled us to measure the thickness of four skinfolds (biceps, triceps, subscapular, suprailiac) in 263 inhabitants of Lausanne (125 men, 138 women).
  • (13) The POL-MONICA Project screened in 1984 1309 men and 1337 women aged 35 to 64 years, inhabitants of Warsaw (the Warsaw centre) and 1250 men and 1472 women aged 35 to 64 years, inhabitants of the Tarnobrzeg province (the Cracow centre).
  • (14) Inhabitants are excluded from other social housing despite many having lived in Italy for generations; a fact the tribunal in Rome cited as evidence of discrimination on ethnic grounds.
  • (15) During the last 3 years the number of prisoners in Finland, has risen, being for the moment 105 per 100,000 inhabitants, one of the highest rates in Europe.
  • (16) A tenacious Anabaena epiphyte was also discovered inhabiting the surfaces of root nodules.
  • (17) There are presently five doctors for a 130,000 inhabitants population, collaborating in the setting up of basic health services.
  • (18) It would leave us facing a world nobody would want to inhabit.
  • (19) In this period, the incidence was highest in the age group 70-79 years for both women and men, with 485 and 410 arthroplasties per 100,000 inhabitants, respectively; the overall incidence was 82 per 100,000 inhabitants.
  • (20) However, the inhabitants of Babaji showed little interest in meeting the British, with compound after mud-walled compound abandoned.

Lodger


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, lodges; one who occupies a hired room in another's house.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ursula Nevin, 24, of Stretford, slept through the riots, but was jailed for five months after admitting handling stolen goods looted by her lodger.
  • (2) But as "excluded occupiers" without tenancies, lodgers have very few rights and can be easily evicted if something goes wrong (the landlord only has to give "reasonable notice").
  • (3) Get a lodger in If it's just your clothes horse that lives in the spare room, consider getting in a real person.
  • (4) Last year his mother, her boyfriend and their lodger were convicted of causing or allowing his death.
  • (5) "The government is advising these families to consider taking in a lodger to make up the financial shortfall, but none of these families have a spare room available because the rooms are already being used.
  • (6) The rise of the landlord-lodger arrangement could help utilise the estimated 15 million unused bedrooms in England alone, giving renters more options and helping squeezed families and retirees cope with the higher cost of living.
  • (7) The idea of taking in a lodger is as old as the hills, but there are now a host of other ways to make a bit of money out of allowing people to stay in your home – on terms that suit your needs and lifestyle.
  • (8) Other support includes advising on handling debt and avoiding payday loan companies; working with the local credit union; looking at ways to increase self-esteem, confidence and employability skills to help residents secure employment; helping vulnerable people fill in forms; and discussing options such as taking in a lodger.
  • (9) A lodger can occupy a single room or an entire floor of your home.
  • (10) According to the latest figures from insurance firm LV=, the number of people renting a spare room has nearly doubled in the past five years: 2.7% of UK homeowners now have a lodger, compared with 1.4% in 2009.
  • (11) The plumber and gas engineer became a lodger in London after splitting up with a girlfriend over a year ago.
  • (12) Theresa May's scheme requiring all private landlords to check the immigration status of new tenants and lodgers has run straight into trouble with the Liberal Democrats , who have voiced concerns that it will increase homelessness and drive migrants underground into the hands of unscrupulous landlords.
  • (13) The last place I was a lodger wasn't a great - a little bit cold and regimental.
  • (14) Housing charity Shelter is backing calls to raise the threshold to £7,500 to match the reality of today's rents (the average annual rent for a room let to a lodger stands at £5,593, rising to £7,667 in London).
  • (15) Homeowners will be able to receive as much as £7,500 in rent from lodgers without having to pay tax, compared with the current ‘rent a room’ limit of £4,250.
  • (16) The family is planning to use the loft area as an extra bedroom for a lodger to raise money.
  • (17) Yet a growing number of homeowners are enjoying a tax-free income boost by taking in a lodger.
  • (18) A woman who spent a week in prison separated from her two young children after she handled a pair of shorts looted from Manchester city centre by her lodger during the riots has been freed on appeal.
  • (19) Opening the case, Michael Morley said Nevin – who has no previous convictions – had the "misfortune" to have Gemma Corbett as a lodger.
  • (20) This means that just over 70% of your before-tax salary would be going on mortgage repayments which doesn't leave much change for other bills even taking into account rent from a lodger and possible maintenance payments for your children from your ex.