different between reside vs visiting

English

Etymology

From Old French resider, from Latin reside? (“remain behind, reside, dwell”), from re- (“back”) + sede? (“sit”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???za?d/
• Rhymes: -a?d
• Hyphenation: re?side

Verb

reside (third-person singular simple present resides, present participle residing, simple past and past participle resided)

1. To dwell permanently or for a considerable time; to have a settled abode for a time; to remain for a long time.
   • , [Act III, scene i]:

     […] And the delighted ?pirit / To die in fierie floods, or to recide / In thrilling Region of thicke-ribbed Ice […]
2. To have a seat or fixed position; to inhere; to lie or be as in attribute or element.
   • , [Act I, scene ii]:

     […] for Cogitation / Re?ides not in that man, that do’s not thinke […]

3. To sink; to settle, as sediment.
   • a. 1729, William Congreve, “The Birth of the Muse”, in The Works of Mr. William Congreve, volume III, London: J. and R. Tonson and S. Drape, published 1753, page 222:

     […] The madding Winds are hu?h’d, the Tempe?ts cea?e, / And every rolling Surge resides in Peace.

Related terms

• coreside
• residence
• residency
• resident
• residential

Translations

See also

• abide
• dwell
• live
• stay

Further reading

• reside in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• reside in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• reside at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• desier, desire, eiders, eresid, redies

Latin

Verb

resid?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of reside?

Portuguese

Verb

reside

1. third-person singular present indicative of residir
2. second-person singular imperative of residir

Spanish

Verb

reside

1. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of residir.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of residir.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?z?t??/

Verb

visiting

1. present participle of visit

Noun

visiting (plural visitings)

1. The act of someone or something that visits.
   • 1606, William Shakespeare, Macbeth

     Come, you spirits […] make thick my blood, / Stop up th' access and passage to remorse / That no compunctious visitings of nature / Shake my fell purpose […]

   • 2003, Joseph A. Conforti, Imagining New England (page 107)

     Instead, he found the Sabbath in North Carolina "generally disregarded, or distinguished by the convivial visitings of the white inhabitants, and the noisy diversions of the negroes."