(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.
Uninhabited
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) This is uninhabited, except for scientists, is surrounded by rich fisheries and is the subject of a longstanding dispute.
(2) Japan already controls the uninhabited islands, which it refers to as the Senkaku and China calls the Diaoyu, but announced plans to buy them from their private owners this week .
(3) Their brains enjoy a wide, uninhabited space that emboldens them to come up with and pursue novel ideas.
(4) Everything changed last September when a Chinese trawler rammed a Japanese coastguard ship near the Senkaku islands, an uninhabited but disputed archipelago.
(5) • Laziomar runs regular ferries from Terracina and Formia Santo Stefano Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Silvia Marchetti Today this jet-black rock, the tiniest of the Pontines, is uninhabited, but until 1965 thousands of criminals, mafiosi and anarchists were jailed and tortured here.
(6) The two countries are locked in a long-running territorial dispute over uninhabited islands in the East China Sea , known as the Diaoyu to the Chinese and Senkakus to the Japanese, and China complains Japan has failed to fully atone for its brutality in the second world war.
(7) China’s first space lab was most likely to land in the ocean or in an uninhabited area, Dorman admitted.
(8) Davies kept in play the less polluting options for Heathrow, though a northwest runway would render Cameron's old school, Eton , almost uninhabitable.
(9) Of the three reserves proposed by the coalition of conservationists, the least likely is one around the uninhabited South Sandwich islands because of its proximity to the Falklands.
(10) Government workers with machetes cleared fallen trees from streets while a vast number of uninhabitable houses prompted residents to erect makeshift shelters.
(11) But the hostile body-language between the two men suggest tensions still run deep and not just because disputed claims about uninhabited islands in the east China sea.
(12) China described Japan's decision to buy three of the uninhabited islets, which are thought to be surrounded by huge deposits of natural gas , as a violation of its sovereignty.
(13) Saadiyat Island ("Happiness Island" in Arabic), a once uninhabited stretch of coastal desert close to Abu Dhabi's city centre, is steadily being converted by tens of thousands of migrant workers into a $27bn (£16.5bn) cultural metropolis.
(14) China was backed strongly by the G77 group of 130 countries and the Alliance of Small Island States (Aosis), made up of Caribbean and Pacific countries which expect to be made uninhabitable in the next few generations if a strong climate agreement is not secured.
(15) Zembra is an uninhabited, hardly accessible island, north of the bay of Tunis and is a part of a large, protected zone of natural reserve.
(16) The area is part of a chain of uninhabited barrier islands in the Breton national wildlife refuge.
(17) "Satellites have transformed our knowledge of what is happening to these distant and uninhabited parts of the planet.
(18) The residents were forced to abandon their homes in the hours after the tsunami on 11 March; those living closest to the plant have been told their former neighbourhoods could remain uninhabitable for decades .
(19) But the sale of the house in Chester was held up for several months by a freak accident, a burst water main under the foundations which flooded the ground floor and made it uninhabitable.
(20) Countries can acquire territory by discovering uninhabited land, signing a treaty – as with Khrushchev’s transfer of Crimea to Ukraine in 1954 – or occupying an area peacefully over a long period of time.