What's the difference between reliant and resiant?

Reliant


Definition:

  • (a.) Having, or characterized by, reliance; confident; trusting.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But without the US business, it will be more reliant on its European business, as well as being less profitable.
  • (2) "The networks would like to be more reliant on their own direct channels and take the same route as Three, but they do too much volume through Carphone" says Matthew Campelli at news site Mobile Today.
  • (3) Why are we so reliant on foreigners when thousands of people are sitting around doing nothing?
  • (4) The EU is equipped with a very solid position for Paris ,” said Miguel Cañete after environment ministers agreed the bloc’s joint position on the climate summit, overcoming objections from coal-reliant Poland.
  • (5) "A pril is the cruellest month": how true TS Eliot's words will ring for millions of low-income working age people reliant on benefits and tax credits as they face a raft of cuts this cold April.
  • (6) Looking less reliant on putting balls in the air toward the box, USA kept the ball on the ground, used short passes to connect up the field and held on to possession.
  • (7) With Ward-Prowse and Jay Rodriguez still missing, Koeman is reliant on a small clutch of attackers including Dusan Tadic, Sadio Mané, Shane Long, Steven Davis and Graziano Pellè.
  • (8) This influence is becoming more pronounced as civilization advances and comes to be increasingly reliant upon depersonalized mechanical and commercial systems.
  • (9) We don't want to be over-reliant [on a single show] because it makes you very commercially vulnerable," he said.
  • (10) Diets were variable among groups; group A primarily ate fruit (81.2% of feeding time) and spent little time eating insects (16.9%), while group C was more heavily reliant on insects (44.3%) and ate less fruit (53.0%).
  • (11) In 2015 the service was short of 50,000 staff, a 6% vacancy rate, and was becoming increasingly reliant on expensive agency staff to plug gaps in rotas.
  • (12) Rat liver inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate [Ins (1,4,5)P3] 3-kinase was purified in high yield by a three-step procedure reliant upon chromatography on heparin and calmodulin agarose.
  • (13) Jury's out, but, any medication can't be good taking it long term, the problem is, especially with insomnia and so forth, you become reliant on them quickly.
  • (14) Many companies in the UAE are heavily reliant on the BB and have used it for years.
  • (15) The paradox is that while Fergus and Judith Wilson can evict 200 benefit-receiving tenants in their Kent buy-to-let empire, confident they will be replaced by working renters, many from eastern Europe, in other places landlords are heavily reliant on benefits.
  • (16) John Baron, a Conservative MP and former army captain, whose urgent question forced Hammond to come to the Commons, said that the new Isaf order threatened "to blow a hole in our stated exit strategy, which is heavily reliant on these joint operations continuing".
  • (17) Prematurely separated from home and family, from love and touch, they must speedily reinvent themselves as self-reliant pseudo-adults.
  • (18) Characterised by large, unwieldy, centralised organisations, the anti-war movement became complacent, overly reliant on rallies and petitions.
  • (19) Then suddenly a horrible drought comes along, and they can’t figure out why they can’t supplicate their gods adequately to prevent it.” It didn’t help that Tikal’s water management system had become increasingly reliant on collecting rainwater in reservoirs, at the cost of groundwater.
  • (20) Vodafone has invested heavily in expanding its own-brand stores, making it less reliant on Phones 4u and Carphone.

Resiant


Definition:

  • (a.) Resident; present in a place.
  • (n.) A resident.

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