(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.
Northumbrian
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Northumberland in England.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Northumberland.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Hong-Kong-based businessman's UK Water group will take over Northumbrian, which owns and runs water services in the south of the country through subsidiary Essex and Suffolk Water as well as providing water in its north-east base.
(2) Chairman of Northumbrian, Sir Derek Wanless, said: "The directors believe that, whilst Northumbrian would have a strong future as an independent company, the consortium's offer to Northumbrian shareholders fairly values the current and future prospects of the company.
(3) The Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, which owns 26.8% of Northumbrian, is to vote in favour of the takeover and has ruled itself out of making a counter-offer.
(4) Group managing director of CKI, H L Kam, said: "We attach great importance to the skills and experience of the existing management and employees of Northumbrian and believe they will be an important factor in the continuing success of the Northumbrian group."
(5) Enter the rather improbable figure of Peter Millican, a shy Northumbrian property developer with Hockneyesque horn-rimmed spectacles and a burning ambition to build and run his own London concert hall.
(6) Asian tycoon Li Ka-Shing looked to have won the battle for Northumbrian Water on Tuesday, after the board of the utility recommended his £2.4bn offer .
(7) Li Ka-shing, the Hong Kong billionaire, has agreed terms to buy Northumbrian Water at an all-time high for the share price.
(8) The octogenarian Hong Kong tycoon’s UK portfolio includes the health and beauty chain Superdrug and Northumbrian Water.
(9) His Cheung Kong Group also owns Northumbrian Water, Wales and West Utilities and has a stake in Southern Water.
(10) Including Northumbrian's debt, the deal is worth £4.7bn.
(11) The directors also welcome the statements that the consortium has made with respect to Northumbrian's management and employees, its location of business and its support for the communities it serves."
(12) Northumbrian listed in 2003, and the deal is the biggest takeover of a listed company in the UK this year.
(13) Shareholders in Northumbrian, a FTSE 250 stock, will get 465p a share, and will also be entitled to receive the final dividend of 9.57p a share.
(14) The books tell the story of the bloody battles between the Vikings and Anglo-Saxons led by King Alfred, through fictional character Uhtred, a Northumbrian boy, heir to an earldom, who is captured and raised by the invaders.
(15) Northumbrian cereal grower Colin McGregor, who produces golden extra virgin rapeseed oil under the Olifeira brand, sells it at £6 for a 500ml bottle - the same sort of price tag you might expect on a classy bottle of Tuscan extra virgin olive oil.
(16) Alistair Baker, a spokesman for Northumbrian Water, said the ferocity of some storms was "well in excess of the design capabilities" of their defence schemes, completed last year at a cost of about £2.5m.
(17) Northumbrian shares rose 4.4% this morning to reach 469p, while shares in CKI, listed in Hong Kong, rose 1.5% to an all-time high.
(18) In Tony Parker 's Red Hill , a prose study of a pseudonymous Northumbrian pit village, the tone was of almost unbearable bleakness: a community visited and vitiated by the inscrutable workings of an alien destiny ("I don't see what I'm ever going to do with my life").
(19) Mr Blair had on that occasion eaten celeriac and Northumbrian smoked cheese followed by a fillet of Cowell Peninsula salmon.
(20) The takeover of Northumbrian Water for a proposed £2.4bn shows that, actually, well-run water firms can still make reliable returns – and, what is more, can expect to do so for years to come.